Kellie-Jay Keen — better known online as Posie Parker — has spent years campaigning for women's rights against transgender extremism. She is also, unapologetically, alive to the threat posed by radical Islam in Britain. That combination has made her a repeat target of the Metropolitan Police.

A few days ago, officers phoned Keen to invite her in for a "voluntary interview" over tweets from 2013 and 2015 and a speech she gave at Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally. Keen had the presence of mind to record the entire six-minute call, then turned it into a Lego-animated video so the public could watch her own government read her tweets back to her like evidence in a show trial.

"It's about the intention of the tweets," an officer told her. "So we need to evidentially ask you some questions in regards to your intention when you made those comments."

Hey guess what? The police want to speak to me about my speech at @TRobinsonNewEra Unite The Kingdom rally and a couple of tweets. Malicious communications and public order threats.... come and arrest me, lads.
I'm on holiday which makes the video a lot more fun. pic.twitter.com/sVzqc3UOMF

— Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) August 11, 2026

This makes her offence less of a word crime and more of a thought crime, pointed out Ezra. He drew the parallel to his own 2008 hauling before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for republishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons. Same question: What were your intentions?

The two also discussed Britain's roughly 80 Sharia courts, unprosecuted female genital mutilation cases, and what Keen calls a "Muslim network" inside the Crown Prosecution Service shaping enforcement of malicious communications law.

As always, Ezra reminded viewers that what happens in the UK should serve as a "grim warning" to those of us across the Atlantic. 

"What happens in the UK today will happen in Canada within five years," he said, "and in the United States within ten."

GUEST: British activist Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker).

Professor Jason Arday, once hailed as the youngest Black professor ever appointed at the University of Cambridge, was found dead in Battersea, south London, on Friday — just a week after he resigned amid a swirl of plagiarism allegations.

In Ezra's view, this is a story about far more than one man, a story about an entire way of thinking about race, institutions, and who gets a pass and why.

Arday was hired at Cambridge in 2023 to widespread fanfare. University officials could barely contain themselves.

"We are so lucky to have you," the Board of Electors reportedly told him.

Cambridge's website, at the time this report was written, still described him as a "highly respected scholar of race, inequality and education," at 37 the youngest Black person ever appointed to a professorship at the university. His personal story was extraordinary on its own terms: diagnosed with autism at age three, unable to speak until 11, unable to read or write until 18. 

But the story kept getting more extraordinary, past the point of belief. The Atlantic's recent investigation into Arday's memoir found claims that strained credulity: that he'd once run 300 miles in three days for charity, then on another occasion 600 miles in six days — a near world-record feat that, as it turned out, never happened as described. He later told The Guardian the 600-mile run actually took 12 days, with rest periods.

Then there was the story about the boys who mugged him at a bus stop as a teenager, whom he allegedly asked the judge not to punish. Years later, Arday wrote, two of them turned up as his students at a London university, so moved by his mercy toward them that they'd turned their lives around and were now mentoring at-risk youth themselves. One, he said, asked him to be his child's godfather. The Atlantic found his book proposal told the same story with different dates, different details, and different ages for the attackers.

His memoir claimed he'd survived two brain tumours. His book proposal said testicular cancer. Neither illness appears in the other document.

Ezra draws the comparison to Jussie Smollett, the actor who claimed he was jumped in Chicago by MAGA supporters carrying a noose at 4 a.m., a story nobody with common sense believed for a second.

The deeper scandal, in Ezra's telling, isn't the tall tales but what Cambridge was willing to overlook to keep its perfect specimen. When Jack Grove, a reporter for Times Higher Education, emailed Arday questions about his academic record, Scotland Yard got involved. Officers reportedly told Grove to stop contacting the professor, citing his mental health. Arday's law firm, Carter Ruck, suggested to Times Higher Education that the scrutiny "may be racially motivated."

The Metropolitan Police spent four months on the harassment complaint before closing the case in February with no action taken.

The Met now says a 41-year-old man was found unresponsive at a property in Battersea on Friday afternoon and pronounced dead at the scene. His death is being described as unexpected but "not believed to be suspicious," with next of kin notified. Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Deborah Prentice called it "tragic news."

Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor, has been found dead.
Mr Arday was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea, London, on Friday afternoon and later pronounced dead at the scene.

🔗 https://t.co/gM6vNStTFb pic.twitter.com/HAuDpuw3qu

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 14, 2026

Whether Arday took his own life has not been officially confirmed in the reporting so far. But Ezra says that's the clear implication — and that if it is true, Arday didn't get there alone.

"He was built up into a superman, an impossible thing," Ezra said. "The more he embroidered, the more beloved he was."

The value Cambridge prized, in Ezra's view, was never really the scholarship. It was the optics: the youngest Black professor, the dreadlocks swishing across the quad, proof positive that Cambridge was tolerant.

When the plagiarism questions surfaced, and the conflicting stories collapsed, Ezra says there was nothing left to hold the myth up.

"It is a tragedy what happened to him," Ezra said, "but it didn't just happen by his own hand. In a way, the whole system pushed him to that."

GUEST: Jack Hadfield on the new Labour PM's plan to house migrants in a small village, whose residents are now speaking out against the proposal.

It’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s in an Access to Information file.

Heritage Minister Marc Miller was scheduled for confidential meetings with UK officials to discuss Labour’s “social cohesion” action plan, according to an ATIP memo reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

Miller says that never happened.

Maybe if it were true, but it isn’t. I met with a Scottish Cabinet Secretary and the First Minister. We discussed nothing of the sort, although I did cheer on our amazing athletes at the Commonwealth Games. The most controversial thing I did was drink an Irn-Bru. https://t.co/qjo62xqe6k

— Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ Mikotsikaa (@MarcMillerVM) August 13, 2026

“Maybe if it were true, but it isn’t,” he wrote, saying he met with a Scottish cabinet secretary and the First Minister but discussed nothing of the sort. The most controversial thing he did, he joked, was drink an Irn-Bru.

The problem is that the memo says additional meetings were scheduled during Miller’s July trip to Britain, including discussions about Labour’s action plan, “Protecting What Matters”. It also describes Britain as “an important partner in online safety.”

The plan is about more than vague concerns over social harmony. Labour wants new powers to disrupt organisations it says spread extremism, hate or threats to public safety. It also warns about “digital grifters” and “politicians of grievance”.

That raises an obvious question: who decides who qualifies?

A politician of grievance could simply be a politician who believes something is wrong and wants to change it. A digital grifter could mean almost anyone making money from online media.

The concern is not that governments should ignore genuine extremism or foreign interference. It is what happens when those legitimate concerns are bundled together with political dissent and independent media.

And that language is already familiar in Canada.

Miller has repeatedly used the concept of “social cohesion”. During a committee hearing, Conservative MP Rachael Thomas pressed him to explain what he meant. Miller responded that in an age of disinformation, people encounter both “legitimate and illegitimate” sources of information.

That distinction matters. Who gets to decide which media is legitimate?

Another government memo described the CBC as “a pillar of our cultural identity” and connected the public broadcaster to social cohesion. A separate note warned about foreign efforts to drive social division, the spread of disinformation and the amplification of “divisive content” online, which it said could threaten Canada’s information sovereignty.

There is a legitimate debate to have about foreign interference. But governments have increasingly blurred the line between foreign influence, misinformation and political disagreement.

Once dissent is labelled foreign interference, and once certain media outlets are declared illegitimate, censorship can be sold as a matter of public safety.

That is why the British plan matters to Canadians.

The Edmonton police campaign over “non-crime hate incidents” is one example of how far this thinking can extend. Police encouraged people to report conduct including offensive jokes. In Britain, The Times has reported around 30 arrests a day over speech.

dystopian https://t.co/XdYfYAPwsw

— tobi lutke (@tobi) August 13, 2026

The Blacklock’s story quickly gained attention. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke responded to the report with one word: “dystopian.”

Miller responded by repeating his denial.

But the central issue remains the paperwork. The ATIP memo says the meetings were scheduled to discuss Britain’s social cohesion action plan. The plan itself calls for new powers to disrupt organisations deemed to spread extremism or hate, while grouping “digital grifters” and “politicians of grievance” alongside hostile states.

So who exactly are they talking about?

Britain’s own history offers a warning about where the language of social cohesion can lead.

After the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, a tweet circulated suggesting that abused girls should keep quiet for the sake of diversity and social cohesion. Labour MP Naz Shah liked and retweeted it before being forced to answer for the endorsement.

That is the danger when governments claim the authority to define social cohesion, decide which media is legitimate and determine which voices threaten social stability.

Social peace should not mean silencing people with grievances.

It should not mean allowing the state to decide which arguments citizens are permitted to hear.

Guest: Canadian independent researcher, Andy Lee, on her work uncovering Liberal MP's Shaun Chen's suspicious travel to China.

Socialist extremists led by Antifa are using children as human shields in Melbourne today, with coordination from the Greens via Senator Mehreen Faruqi, who has publicly urged students to skip school and join the protest against Pauline Hanson and the “rise of the far right”.

Adult organisers have been distributing materials inside schools, recruitment scripts, posters for lockers, and group chats, to pull teenagers out of class and send them to the State Library.

The organisers brand One Nation “racist”, “homophobic” and “anti-worker”, and claim Hanson is building an “authoritarian, hate-filled society”.

This comes as One Nation continues surging in the polls and after Hanson announced Victorian upper-house candidates for the November State election.

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On this episode of The Gunn Show, I’m joined by Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, to discuss the controversial RCP8.5 emissions scenario and its enormous influence on climate policy.

RCP8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5) assumes extremely high future greenhouse gas emissions, including massive increases in coal consumption and no innovation. But it became a frequently used scenario in climate research and helped produce projections of roughly four to five degrees Celsius of warming. It was a doomsday scenario. 

Scientists have been warning for years that those underlying assumptions were unrealistic. Even recent research from scientists involved in developing emissions scenarios for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has similarly described such high-emissions pathways as increasingly implausible.

Yet Harris says research relying on these extreme scenarios continues to appear and is used to craft everything from government policy to financial risk for banks, lenders, and insurance companies. 

Tom and I discuss how RCP8.5 became embedded in climate research, government policy and public debate, and why Canadians were sold costly climate policies using worst-case projections that were never particularly likely to happen.

GUEST: Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition.

Shaun Chen, a Liberal backbencher representing a riding in the Greater Toronto Area, announced his resignation, citing a car accident that left him physically unable to continue. The state broadcaster dutifully repeated the line.

But police sources are telling a very different story — that the crash was a minor fender bender, so gentle that both drivers simply drove away. No ambulance was called, nor was a police report filed, and Chen was present to vote in the House of Commons the very next day.

Chen was hardly a fixture in Parliament to begin with. According to records, Chen rose to speak in the House exactly once in an entire calendar year. Sitting MPs from other parties have said online that they'd never heard of him until now, let alone seen him in Ottawa.

So where was he? Well, independent journalist Andy Lee has uncovered a trove of videos and images, circulating on WeChat — the Chinese "super app" that combines the functions of Twitter, Amazon and TikTok — showing Chen living it up inside the People's Republic of China. 

Shaun Chen enjoys some ice cream in a video posted on March 25th in China.
Voting records show Shaun Chen voted electronically six times in the House of Commons on March 25th.@EthicsCanada

Credit to @TheReclamare for providing voting records. https://t.co/9W4eLEd8xs pic.twitter.com/NRLrg4jNFB

— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) August 12, 2026

Every MP's location and travel is tracked by their party whip, whose entire job is knowing exactly where caucus members are in case of a vote. Which raises the obvious question: how did the Liberal whip not know what Chen was doing, and why did nobody stop it?

Now, the Liberal Party is scrambling to contain the story. Journalist Glen McGregor has been deployed to run counter-journalism against Andy Lee, rather than hold power to account. Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington's piece on the affair briefly hit number one on the paper's site, before it was pulled without explanation.

The questions for the Prime Minister's Office are simple: What was your MP doing spending more time in China than in the House of Commons, and why did he really resign?

This story is just beginning to unfold. Stay tuned.

GUEST: Caryma Sa'd on her latest Antifa reporting on the ground in Toronto.

For years, America’s two major parties shared a core vision. They sparred over details but both backed capitalism, the Constitution, borders and Western allies. That agreement is gone. A radical movement now runs the Democratic Party. The fringe once laughed out of the room has taken over the primaries and is calling the shots.

This did not happen overnight. A full generation has been steeped in woke dogma from kindergarten through university and into the workforce. Those ideas, once late-night campus rants, now control the media, courts, boardrooms and politics. Add unchecked mass immigration and this coalition is not just hungry for power. It is getting it.

DSA says“It’s a requirement now” for their candidates to support dismantling the US Government pic.twitter.com/R3A0c8TbCI

— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) August 5, 2026

Consider Zohran Mamdani, now mayor of New York City. One of his first moves was proposing government-run grocery stores. He champions third-world radicalism and has threatened to arrest Israel’s prime minister if he sets foot in New York. He is not an isolated extremist. He is the opening act.

In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed just clinched the Democratic primary. His radicalism is so blatant he would not praise the elimination of one of Iran’s most notorious ayatollahs. He has made his politics largely about Jews and Israel, spoken fondly of sharia, and asserted Muslims hate America, all while running for the U.S. Senate. His wife wears a hijab. He has mocked parts of his own state and dismissed American football as “toxic masculinity.” At the same time he runs a jester tour, singing and clowning so voters write him off as harmless. The act is camouflage.

Canada has its version inside the NDP. Jagmeet Singh kept it deliberately harmless, tanking his own party so it would not split the left from Justin Trudeau. He was probably the worst NDP leader in its history and the most useful Liberal ally of the same period. His successor, Avi Lewis, is different: smart, a policy wonk. With five seats he will not govern. But imagine if the NDP actually got power. That is exactly what is happening with the DSA, the radical wing of the Democrats. They are no longer a fringe pressure group. They are inside the machine, and the machine is bending.

Today’s Democratic Party offers not just progressivism but outright socialism, hostility to the West and a rejection of American values. The Democratic Socialists of America demand amnesty for illegal immigrants, abolishing the Senate and Supreme Court, scrapping ICE and America’s borders, and handing key industries to the government. They want to defund the military and the police.

DSA Members: "The most important thing we can do is take America down from within" pic.twitter.com/phicruCxKe

— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) July 8, 2026

This is not campaign rhetoric. DSA Watch has caught members admitting their goal: “The most important thing we can do is take America down from within.” It is now a litmus test. When pressed on who will arrest rapists if the police are gone, they dodge. Frances Gill simply calls it a “hypothetical.”

Francesca Hong describes having a half white son as "being in proximity to whiteness." pic.twitter.com/Ix0j0nisnF

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 3, 2026

The hypocrisy is endless. Francesca Hong labels her own mixed-race son “proximity to whiteness” and slams the service industry as “rooted in white supremacy.” One day she demands the cancellation of Thanksgiving; the next she says she loves it. DSA co-chair Megan Romer says they believe in “taxing the hell out of millionaires,” then stumbles when asked what that actually means. On Israel they do not even pretend. Romer says she “probably would have” joined marches the day after Oct. 7 and calls the massacre “largely inevitable.” Mamdani claims the “boot of the NYPD” is “laced by the IDF.” Anti-Israel bigotry is not an accident. It is the core of their movement.

Zohran Mamdani: "We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF." pic.twitter.com/SHz6PKuEca

— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) July 24, 2026

This is the starkest proof of America’s cultural divide. A generation raised on grievance and indoctrination is seizing the levers of power. Without a reckoning, unless ordinary citizens stand up, this radical fringe will not just keep winning primaries. They will soon control the whole country.

GUEST: Franco Terrazzano of the Taxpayer Federation on why polls show Canadians oppose upcoming gas tax hike

The bill passed the Lower House without objection, but the real fight is happening today in the Legislative Council.

Expect a fiery debate as crossbench MPs who have relied on the system fight for their political survival.

Then comes the vote.

If the bill passes, it will mark a historic change to Victoria’s electoral system after our Free Palestine Party threatened to turn the system against those who benefited from it.

This was always our ultimate goal, but we never imagined it would actually work. We thought we’d have to play their game and funnel the preferences of the useful idiots through the very system they created.

But if this passes, we won’t need to.

One Nation will now receive every vote and preference it earns through the democratic will of Victorian voters, without those votes being redirected by backroom preference deals.

Join us LIVE as we watch history being made.

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A couple of weeks ago, Ezra travelled to Morinville, Alberta, a small city north of Edmonton, to cover a protest against a massive new data centre being built nearby. About 200 people showed up on a Sunday, and Ezra was struck that most of them weren't professional protesters — just ordinary, genuinely concerned Albertans.

A data centre, Ezra explained, is really just a building packed with tens of thousands, maybe a hundred thousand, computer chips. That computing power doesn't just run your Netflix account or your Facebook feed — it's the engine behind artificial intelligence itself. And it didn't take long standing among the crowd in Morinville for Ezra to realize that's what actually had people rattled. The talk of water use, land use and power consumption was really a stand-in for a deeper unease about AI itself.

The instinct is understandable. We've all had our own moments of longing for the days before smartphones, before the constant pull to check a screen every 30 seconds. But wishing a technology away has never worked, from the original Luddites to Ted Kaczynski, and Ezra doesn't think it will work this time either. He compares the moment to the Cold War space race: if the United States had refused to go to the moon on principle, the Soviet Union would have gone anyway. Today's equivalent, in his telling, is China versus America on artificial intelligence — and Ezra would rather see AI developed under the rule of law than handed to the People's Liberation Army.

But none of that actually settles whether a data centre belongs on this specific patch of land in northern Alberta. So after hearing the protesters out, Ezra went and found the man responsible for getting the project approved: Nate Glubish, Alberta's Minister of Innovation and Technology.

The project itself belongs to Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, and represents a $13-billion investment. Alberta won it thanks to a cooler climate, available industrial land, and, according to Glubish, a regulatory system that actually moves. Ezra says what floored him most in the interview was the timeline: from conception to shovels in the ground, just two years. It's hard to think of a single major project in Canada built that fast. After all, pipelines take decades if they get built at all — proof, in his view, of what happens when the federal government stays out of the way.

Ezra met Glubish right at the construction site itself: a boggy, swampy field being prepared for building, ringed by refineries and upgraders. It is not, Ezra notes, "some pristine mountain glade with Bambi frolicking nearby." It is arguably the most industrial patch of ground in the country, which is exactly where a project like this belongs.

Ezra also flags a comment that came up in his reporting on the protest: futurist Yuval Noah Harari's talk of a future "useless" underclass sedated by drugs and video games because AI has replaced their work. That's the fear driving the opposition, Ezra says, and he believes proponents of AI owe the public a hopeful, positive vision to answer it.

GUEST: Nate Glubish, Alberta Minister of Innovation and Technology.

The Edmonton Police Service touched off a firestorm over the weekend when their campaign urging the public to report "hate" — not hate crimes, just hate, the feeling — exploded across social media. The EPS eventually deleted the offending tweet. But the campaign, and the online complaint form behind it, is still fully operational.

The tweet featured a video built around a string of rude comments, followed by the line: "You typed it. Someone lived it. Online hate isn't ‘just a comment.’ It hurts real people and harms real communities. Hate has no home here."

None of that would raise an eyebrow coming from a typical taxpayer-funded PR shop. But this wasn't Crime Stoppers, the government-organized non-governmental organization that fronted the original 2024 launch. This was a police force — an institution with the power to arrest, charge and, in extreme cases, use lethal force.

The video closed with a call to "report hate." Hate is an emotion. It cannot be policed any more than love can be ordered to switch off. What can be policed is conduct — and conduct, whether or not it's motivated by hate, is already covered by the Criminal Code. If someone murders another person and does so because of racial animus, that's rightly classified as a hate crime. But "crime" is the noun. "Hate" is only the adjective.

The 2024 launch video, still posted on the EPS YouTube channel, ran over 20 minutes and featured Alberta's Minister of Public Safety, Mike Ellis, alongside Edmonton police officials and a city councillor. Ellis, a former police officer, told the room: "Every Albertan deserves to feel safe, respected and valued." Fine words — but respect, unlike safety, isn't something government can hand out on demand. It has to be earned. And disrespect, however unpleasant, has never been a policing matter.

Facing public backlash, Ellis posted that Alberta's policing priorities "continue to be cracking down on violent crime, theft, illegal drugs and vandalism."

We are committed to supporting and respecting everyone's right to free speech. We have duty to uphold these rights and freedoms, regardless of an individual's religious or political beliefs.
Alberta's government does not condone hate speech or violence, but we believe law…

— Mike Ellis (@MikeEllisUCP) August 4, 2026

Premier Danielle Smith went further, declaring free speech "a foundational Alberta value" and warning against "policing unpopular or religious-based statements even if they are controversial."

Free Speech is a foundational Alberta value. We don’t believe in policing unpopular or religious-based statements even if they are controversial. That’s a slippery slope other countries have fallen into and we can’t go down that road.

Our Minister of Public Safety and Emergency… https://t.co/C6ZmgCUZnR

— Danielle Smith (@ABDanielleSmith) August 4, 2026

Welcome words. But if you check EPS's online hate-reporting portal today, you'll see that it remains fully active, describing a "hate-motivated incident" as a "non-criminal action" that can include "verbal insults (name-calling, offensive jokes) and slurs." The broader EPS hate-and-bias webpage is also untouched. Only the single tweet and its embedded link are gone.

Nor is Edmonton unique. Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, York Region, Peel Region, Halton, Hamilton, Montreal's SPVM, Halifax Regional Police and the RCMP all operate near-identical online hate-incident reporting systems. Regina police pre-emptively deployed officers to a press conference over a local mosque's call to prayer, announcing in advance they were prepared to lay charges. Plus, remember when our big beautiful billboard truck was pulled over for a "hate crime" investigation only weeks ago?

Ezra has personal experience with this style of enforcement. Two decades ago, he was investigated for 900 days by the Alberta Human Rights Commission for publishing the Danish cartoons of Muhammad — a case so widely condemned that then-prime minister Stephen Harper later repealed the equivalent federal censorship provision. The provincial version, Section 3 of the Alberta Human Rights Act, remains law, stating it is illegal to publish anything "likely to expose a person or a class of persons to hatred or contempt."

Ezra is calling on Ellis to order all Alberta police services, including the RCMP detachments under provincial contract, to halt hate-incident data collection, destroy existing databases, and redirect the associated funding and staff elsewhere. He is also calling on the Alberta government to repeal Section 3 of the Human Rights Act outright — a fight, he'd argue, an overwhelming majority of Albertans would support.

For now, congratulations are in order for the political pushback. But nothing has actually changed. Sure, they took down a tweet. Everything else — in Edmonton, and across the country — is still running.

GUEST: Unreleased footage from Alexa Lavoie's on-the-ground reporting in Ceuta, Spain.

The windswept fields north of Edmonton are no strangers to industry. But on this day in Morinville it wasn’t smokestacks or heavy machinery that drew the crowd. It was Silicon Valley’s next frontier. Meta is already breaking ground on a $13 billion data centre, promising thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent positions. The project sits in Alberta’s industrial heartland and has ignited a protest that is anything but typical.

This is not untouched wilderness. The site lies where Edmonton, Strathcona County and Sturgeon County meet, land zoned for heavy industry for about 15 years. It was earmarked for upgraders and major oil projects until the bottom fell out of the oil industry, leaving it idle and waiting for the next big thing. Meta’s arrival is that thing, and the objectors are not the usual suspects alone.

At the demonstration, Ezra was joined by fellow Rebel News reporter and local resident Sheila Gunn-Reed, who noted the unusual makeup of the crowd. Climate activists mixed with hardline anti-capitalists, including members of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The protest’s organizer, 20-year-old student Ben Burrill, first flagged in a St. Albert Tribune article, was eager to engage with media, including Rebel News. That openness is rare at Canadian protests these days.

What’s fuelling the outrage is clear. On one side the economic case is straightforward: thousands of jobs on land already zoned and waiting for its next industrial purpose. On the other, a coalition of critics raises deeper concerns about the infrastructure of artificial intelligence itself: water use, energy demand, and the sense that Alberta is being drafted into an AI race dominated by tech billionaires. Meta cites the region’s cool climate, water access, and the ability to support the facility with its own natural gas plant as the logistical reasons it chose the site.

The strategic question hung over the debate. If Alberta blocks the data centre, the computing power does not vanish. It simply gets built somewhere else, including in China. China is not slowing its own AI development, and the choice is whether Western countries will shape the technology or leave the field to regimes already using it for surveillance and control.

Protesters voiced broader fears about the influence of global tech titans and whether Alberta’s future will be dictated by their needs or by the communities that actually live there. Some worried that water and energy would be diverted to AI servers rather than local people. The presence of anti-capitalist activists added an ideological edge, mixing environmental anxiety with open skepticism of Big Tech motives and calls for “workers’ control.”

And yet, for all the radical slogans and revolutionary banners, the protest was civil, conversational, and surprisingly open to opposing views, a rare enough combination that it itself became part of the story.

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A decade later, he's still fighting; he's found out who his friends are (ME!), but now the battle is over Alberta's energy future in coal.

As celebrities and environmental activists ramp up campaigns against the proposed Grassy Mountain coal project, Picard has become one of its most outspoken defenders, arguing the mine represents jobs, Indigenous partnerships and economic opportunity for southern Alberta.

Today on The Gunn Show, Robbie joins me to talk about surviving cancellation before "cancel culture" was even a household phrase, what he learned about loyalty and friendship when the outrage mob came for him, and why he's putting himself in the line of fire to defend Grassy Mountain and the jobs of the Crows Nest Pass.

GUEST: Robbie Picard, energy advocate.

This week, the Wall Street Journal, arguably the second most influential newspaper in the United States behind only the New York Times, published a hard-hitting piece on Canada's antisemitism crisis. The coverage did not pull punches — something Canadians rarely get from their own press, with critical reporting on Canada more often found in outlets like the New York Post or London's Daily Mail than in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, or on the government-funded CBC.

The American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, has also argued recently that Canadian Jews have reached the point where they should be considered refugees.

The whole discourse is reminiscent of Donald Trump's earlier decision to admit Boer farmers from South Africa as refugees, because they are being targeted for elimination by racist, radical parties in that country. The think tank's suggestion is that Canada's Jewish community could be next in line. 

After all, this population is already English-speaking and economically self-sufficient, and would no doubt represent a net benefit for the United States both economically and culturally, compared to other, less assimilable migrant populations.

Then came a third development. A member of the Trump administration — the State Department's antisemitism envoy, whose mandate is to identify antisemitism around the world — publicly singled out Canada for the first time. His attention had previously been focused on other countries.

All three developments trace back to American sources. Ezra points out that this is now a recurring pattern. Canada downplays a problem, and Canadian institutions decline to cover it, until American attention forces the issue into the open.

He raises the possibility that Donald Trump or Secretary of State Marco Rubio could formally extend refugee consideration to Jewish Canadians, and poses the question of what, precisely, they would be fleeing — suggesting the answer fits the United Nations' own definition of a refugee: someone facing real danger because of a particular characteristic, in this case being Jewish.

How ironic that Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has offered little beyond sympathetic statements while the United States now treats Canada's antisemitism crisis as a serious foreign policy concern.

GUEST: Featuring a compilation of the best (or worst) of Rebel News' latest coverage of antisemitism in Canada.

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Picture rolling fields, hand-built barns and a way of life largely untouched by modernity. Around two and a half hours west of Toronto, Amish communities continue to farm using animal and human power, rejecting electricity, automobiles and most modern technology.

For the Amish, this is not simply a lifestyle choice. It is a religious practice rooted in their Christian faith. Their communities live much as they have for generations, keeping a low profile, avoiding conflict and turning to a simpler way of life.

That changed during the COVID pandemic hysteria.

Amish families regularly crossed the Canada-U.S. border for family, religious and everyday reasons. When returning to Canada, they were asked the same question as other travellers: had they downloaded the ArriveCan app?

For the Amish, the question created an impossible situation. They do not use smartphones, and their faith prevents them from adopting much of the modern technology required by the app.

Without realising it, Amish families were issued fines that eventually totalled hundreds of thousands of dollars across the community. Some only discovered what had happened when liens were placed on their farms, threatening properties that had been passed down through generations.

Around 40 farms were affected, leaving Amish families facing a legal battle they never expected to fight.

The Democracy Fund stepped in to challenge the cases, with lawyers Marc Joseph and Adam Blake-Gallipeau working to reopen the convictions. So far, 24 families have had their cases reopened and stayed, removing the immediate legal threat. However, eight families were denied that relief and are continuing their appeals through the Ontario courts.

The cases have highlighted the challenges faced by a community that avoids conflict and does not use modern communication systems, yet found itself navigating a complex legal process involving courts, paperwork and technology.

The legal fight continues, with the remaining families seeking to have their cases reconsidered through the appeals process.

CEUTA 🇪🇸: This is the reality on the ground here, many illegals watch you from the hills and mountains as 50k+ crossed into Spain over the last several days.

I filmed many of the eyes staring at the iconic beach front area. Exclusive report @RebelNewsOnline pic.twitter.com/nRHKV7j63v

— Efrain Flores Monsanto 🇨🇦🚛 (@efloresmonsanto) August 3, 2026

While establishment media either ignore or downplay the magnitude, Rebel News has sent chief of video Efrain Oswaldo Flores Monsanto and Rebel News reporter Alexa Lavoie to witness it firsthand. Their journey from Madrid through Seville and across to Ceuta wasn’t easy or cheap, but it’s clear why it mattered. The streets are still filled with migrants, some hiding in hills and bushes along the beachfront, waiting and watching, while police and military convoys attempt to round them up and return them across the border. Even then, there are reports and video of migrants leaping from the trucks and escaping straight back into the wild.

The hostility on the ground is real. While Lavoie was interviewing illegal Moroccan migrants beside the Spanish border, a rock was thrown directly at her, apparently from others watching above. They tried to intimidate her. It didn’t work.

💥CEUTA, SPAIN 🇪🇸: A ROCK WAS THROWN DIRECTLY AT ME while I was interviewing illegal Moroccan migrants beside the Spanish border—apparently from others watching above.

They tried to intimidate me.

It won’t work.

I will not be threatened, silenced, or chased away from reporting… pic.twitter.com/JYG9h7cmkP

— Alexandra Lavoie (@ThevoiceAlexa) August 2, 2026

This is not just a local problem. Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez has called the crisis an attack on territorial integrity, but words are cheap when the images show reality on the ground. Residents are left to fend for themselves as the political class debates and the consequences fall on ordinary citizens: property damage, disruption and a permanent sense of unease. Why did so many come? One young migrant told Lavoie he crossed the border because Spain’s president promised migrants citizenship. The blame, then, lands squarely on Spain’s political leaders for creating an open invitation.

While military convoys crisscross Ceuta’s border zone, the real story is who is telling it. Mainstream outlets are silent or spinning, leaving citizens in the dark. That’s why independent journalism matters, why it’s vital to have eyes and cameras in places the legacy press won’t go. The cost to get there, to stay, to report honestly is not insignificant. But what’s the cost of not knowing? That is the clearest illustration of the cultural and political divide now splitting Western societies.

Pauline Hanson is in Melbourne today to unveil One Nation’s candidates for the Victorian Parliament ahead of the November state election.

Full details will be shared at todays press conference, with the party expected to present a new team positioned to challenge the major parties. Hanson has already signalled a strong focus on holding Labor to account and offering Victorians a clear alternative.

The announcement will take place during today’s livestream.

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Spain knows invasion. Around the year 720, Muslim armies swept across the Iberian Peninsula, conquering nearly the entire region. For more than 700 years, parts of Spain remained under Muslim rule, with the last stronghold, Granada, only reclaimed in 1492. The Reconquista took centuries, a reminder that territory can be lost far faster than it is regained.

That history is impossible to ignore today. In less than a day, Spain's North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla were overwhelmed as an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 Moroccan migrants crossed the border in coordinated waves. According to reports, the overwhelming majority were military-aged men, not families seeking refuge. Videos appearing online showed thousands pouring across the frontier while buses and trucks on the Moroccan side allegedly continued transporting more people to the border.

NEW: Spain is now deploying its military after thousands of military-aged men stormed over the border into Ceuta, Spain.
Ceuta authorities are calling on Madrid to declare a national emergency after the border "totally collapsed."

"The situation is absolute chaos. It’s not… pic.twitter.com/Mpe5Lc1xlK

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 30, 2026

But this story is still unfolding. Rebel News is already mobilising. Starting tonight, reporters Alexa Lavoie and Efrain are making the long journey to the Spanish enclaves, flying into Madrid before continuing by train and ferry to Ceuta, where they'll speak with ordinary Spanish residents and the migrants themselves. Their reporting will be available at MigrantReports.com.

So how did Spain reach this point? The answer lies not just in geography but in political decisions made in both Rabat and Madrid. Moroccan authorities have been accused of emptying prisons and directing inmates towards the Spanish border, while reports also point to high youth unemployment and rumours that migrants who reached the enclaves would not be immediately returned.

Those rumours were fuelled by a recent Spanish Supreme Court ruling that made it more difficult to immediately turn back migrants intercepted while attempting to reach Ceuta and Melilla. Critics say the decision, combined with Spain's existing immigration policies, encouraged the unprecedented rush.

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Sanchez has also faced corruption allegations, with his wife reportedly under investigation, while critics have raised questions about his relationship with Alex Soros, son of George Soros. There are also allegations of Iranian influence surrounding Sanchez's government, alongside what he describes as an increasingly anti-American and anti-Israel foreign policy.

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Those criticisms extend beyond immigration. Sanchez's government has drawn scrutiny after refusing US requests to use American military bases in Spain to refuel aircraft, a move that reflects a broader shift away from Spain's traditional Western alliances.

History offers uncomfortable reminders that even great civilisations can decline. Constantinople was once the richest and most influential Christian city in the world before falling to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 and becoming Istanbul. More than two centuries later, Europe narrowly avoided another turning point when Ottoman forces were defeated at Vienna. These moments are reminders that history does not always repeat itself in the same way, but it often echoes.

The storming of Ceuta and Melilla has also drawn comparisons to the Mariel boatlift, when Fidel Castro emptied Cuban prisons and sent criminals to the United States among waves of migrants. Critics argue Morocco may be employing a similar tactic, using migration as leverage while offloading domestic problems onto Europe.

The consequences extend well beyond Spain. With the Schengen system allowing free movement across much of Europe, critics fear migrants who entered through Ceuta and Melilla could eventually make their way to countries including France, Italy, Germany and beyond, turning a Spanish border crisis into a continental one.

The scenes unfolding in Spain are more than another migration story. They are a warning that Spain has faced conquest before, and a reminder that nations which fail to defend their borders risk learning the same lessons history has already taught.

When the story of the Freedom Convoy is told, one name keeps surfacing at the centre of the storm: Tamara Lich. In the winter of 2022, as vaccine mandates and lockdown rules stretched into a third year, she was at the forefront with the truckers who drove on Ottawa and parked there. She became a symbol of resistance not because she sought it, but because the system made her one.

And the system still isn't letting go.

Crown's case against Tamara Lich rests on 'mean' tweets@LichTamara's case was being heard again in an Ottawa courtroom on Wednesday, where she was seeking a variation to her bail conditions. Specifically, Tamara was seeking more freedom to travel across Canada and into the… pic.twitter.com/CIzSRdCXGT

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) July 23, 2026

Fresh from the longest mischief trial in Canadian history, indeed in the entire Commonwealth, Lich's case was back before an Ottawa court. There is a live application before the court seeking to vary her sentence so she can travel more widely to work for Rebel News. Ezra Levant filed an affidavit describing the work she has done over the past six months. The Crown's response? Three prosecutors, not one, not two, but three, lined up to cross-examine him on it. That is how far things have come: a journalist made to seek the court's permission simply to travel for her job, and three government lawyers dispatched to argue about it. 

Step outside the Ottawa bubble and the picture changes entirely. Earlier in the month, Ezra and Tamara spent more than twelve hours driving through southern Alberta, from Okotoks to Lethbridge to Medicine Hat. Crowds gathered not because the press told them to, but because they wanted to. People came out in the heat when they could have been doing anything else, just to say hello.

I can’t tell you how many people I’ve met who were left broken as a result of the unconstitutional, unlawful, and unscientific measures taken by governments around the world based on Fauci’s fake science.
This woman sobbed uncontrollably on my shoulder after telling me she was… pic.twitter.com/amJ0hqh1Hc

— Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 (@LichTamara) July 29, 2026

That is the clearest illustration of the cultural divide. While prosecutors pursue Lich through the courts, Albertans greet her with warmth and gratitude. For more than four and a half years, as she says, that support has never wavered. People remember what the mandates cost them, and they remember who was willing to say so out loud.

It is no longer just about the Freedom Convoy. It is about the right to dissent, to work, to travel, to live without a prosecutor around every corner. 

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A timely reminder of that period of disastrous leadership around the world played out on the day this interview was recorded. Anthony Fauci appeared before a United States Senate committee and, by Lich's count, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than a hundred times. Listening to senators list the damage done by the lockdowns, Lich says it became clear to her that the truckers were right, and that they were on the right side of history all along.

Four and a half years on, the case against her grinds forward while the case for what she did keeps getting stronger.

The support only grows. The people of Alberta and the broader Rebel News community are not easily cowed. They see what is at stake: not just one woman, but free expression itself.

As the court weighs whether Tamara Lich can travel more freely for her work, a verdict of another kind is already being delivered, by the people who keep turning out, undeterred by heat, distance or intimidation.

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Instead of accepting every new restriction from Ottawa without question, Saskatchewan has been using the authority it does have to protect hunters, farmers, ranchers, sport shooters and other licensed gun owners who have done nothing wrong. Beaven explains how the province is challenging the federal approach, why Saskatchewan believes licensed firearms owners are being unfairly targeted, and what other provinces could learn from its example.

Can provinces actually push back against Ottawa's gun agenda? What powers do they have? And is Saskatchewan showing the rest of Canada a path forward?

If you're tired of seeing lawful gun owners treated like criminals while violent offenders get a slap on the wrist, you'll want to hear what Beaven has to say.

Watch my full interview with Saskatchewan's Chief Firearms Commissioner Blaine Beaven on this week's episode of The Gunn Show.

What’s actually happening in New York City? Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office is floating a plan for taxpayer-funded grocery stores that will sell everything from steak to eggs at 30 per cent below cost. Not a discount, a permanent fire sale, subsidised by tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Unlimited, every day. Who stops people from simply clearing the shelves, reselling the goods, or gaming the system? The city’s 10,000 small bodegas could buy the cheap stock and flip it for profit. How does any real business compete with that?

City officials will claim there are limits: five steaks per person, or something similar. But what happens when a family of four walks through one after another, or returns several times in a day? New Yorkers have always been better at outmanoeuvring bureaucrats than the reverse. The real winners will be insiders, friends of staff, and anyone willing to pay cash under the table. Call it corruption or call it arbitrage. Either way, you cannot break the laws of supply and demand forever. It is a money pit, and everyone knows it.

Immigrant-led business group votes to sue NYC over Mamdani's taxpayer-funded grocery stores, alleging unfair competition https://t.co/nmKob2KT5W pic.twitter.com/FeEkarE892

— New York Post (@nypost) July 28, 2026

That is why the bodega industry is not merely complaining. It is preparing to sue, arguing this is textbook unfair competition bankrolled by taxpayers and designed to crush small business.

Here is the real kicker: none of these stores are scheduled to open for years, if they open at all. Delays and cancellations are the safer bet. Five stores are planned, one in each borough, and even that looks optimistic. When (or if) they appear, they will almost certainly resemble the failed Kansas City prototype.

Zohran Mamdani promises food that's 30% cheaper at his $70M government-run grocery stores.
Here's how a government-run grocery store worked out in Kansas City:

"There's no meat, there's no vegetables, there's no nothing."

If the shelves are empty, it doesn't matter how cheap… pic.twitter.com/tU0NvadAlm

— Lance Gooden (@Lancegooden) July 28, 2026

Which raises an obvious question: if these stores are unlikely to exist anytime soon, why make them such a centrepiece of the political agenda?

Because this was never primarily about groceries. The point is not simply to feed eight million people. It is about psychology. It is about changing what people think New York is, who belongs in it, and where it is headed.

New York built its identity on finance, entrepreneurship and the belief that anyone could make it through ambition and hard work. Mamdani’s rhetoric increasingly targets that identity.

Jordan Schachtel has cut through the polite analysis: the affluent class still thinks this is some kind of negotiation or shakedown. That is a total misread. Mamdani does not want to negotiate. He wants the people who built and financed the city to leave. He is willing to make their lives difficult until they do.

There's an interesting disconnect between the super affluent class in NYC and their perception of what Mamdani wants. They think it's some kind of negotiation or shake down, but it's a total misread of what's obviously happening.

The mayor wants all of you to leave as soon as…

— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) July 29, 2026

Watch the pattern. A foreign policy speech condemning Benjamin Netanyahu in a city that was once the most pro-Israel, pro-Jewish city in North America, despite Mamdani having no foreign policy authority. A personal attack on Ken Griffin, a major philanthropist, followed by a published list of wealthy residents and their addresses for a proposed wealth tax. An 18-lawyer advisory committee for selecting judges that somehow contains not a single Jew in a city where nearly half the lawyers are Jewish. These are not isolated controversies. Together, they signal a rejection of the New York built on Wall Street, entrepreneurship and open ambition.

Versions of the same campaign are visible in Canada. Toronto is the most obvious example, with sustained pro-Hamas protests alongside violence against Jews and Jewish institutions. Even cities like Edmonton show similar currents.

The goal is not primarily policy outcomes. It is about changing what people think their city and country are, and who belongs in them.

The grocery scheme is simply one visible front in that campaign. It echoes what Yuri Bezmenov described decades ago as demoralisation: convincing people that their city is no longer theirs, that the rules they once trusted no longer apply, and that resistance is futile. Then the people with the means to leave quietly do so.

In Canada, the new NDP leader, Avi Lewis, has proposed something eerily similar to that of Mamdani in New York, with plans for taxpayer-funded, government-run grocery stores on a larger scale: $300 million a year and fifty stores.

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This is not a local spat over food prices. It is one theatre in a broader campaign to reshape how people think about cities like New York, and by extension countries like Canada. The stores may never open. The message is already being delivered.

GUEST: Ross McLean, former Toronto police officer on the rise of violent crime across Canada amid terrorism against the Jewish community.

We beat the left’s desperate attempt to hijack the name and stop us funnelling preferences to One Nation.

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The timing is perfect. Yesterday Jacinta Allan was forced out. Today Labor is in chaos under new leader Ben Carroll — yet they’re still rushing the bill through Parliament tonight to scrap Victoria’s group voting ticket system.

Funny how they only decided it needed abolishing after we showed them exactly how it could be used against them.

This took serious money, lawyers and months of grinding work. It didn’t come cheap.

Join us LIVE from 6:30pm tonight as we watch history being made.

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Zohran Mamdani is not just another American mayor with big ideas. He’s a radical with a record of singling out Jews and a clear appetite for left-wing social experiments.

In a city where roughly half the lawyers are Jewish, Mamdani just announced an 18-member judicial advisory council without a single Jewish appointee. The odds of that happening by chance are one in 250,000. That isn’t oversight. It’s deliberate exclusion.

Israel-hating Mamdani shuns Jews from important judicial advisory committee: 'Deeply disappointed' https://t.co/mDPyKtMT4s pic.twitter.com/WFDXcvV4rF

— New York Post (@nypost) July 28, 2026

Jewish legal organizations, the Queens Brandeis Association, Jewish Lawyers Guild, Brooklyn Brandeis Society, and Bronx County Jewish Bar Association, have united in a joint letter accusing him of orchestrating a purge from an essential civic process. Mamdani claims the panel is “truly reflective of New York City.” 

A coalition of New York City’s Jewish bar associations is accusing Mamdani of excluding Jews from his new Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.
In a letter, the attorneys say the omission follows a “troubling pattern” that has left many Jewish New Yorkers feeling marginalized.… pic.twitter.com/NVPw7lH7MR

— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) July 28, 2026

This is part of a pattern. Mamdani has repeatedly denounced Israel and even threatened to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while remaining silent on dictators in China and terror regimes in Iran and Qatar. The focus is always on Israel. That level of fixation rarely exists without deeper antisemitism, and as so often happens, a parallel strain of anti-Americanism.

But even this record pales beside his latest announcement: Soviet-style, government-run grocery stores.

Mamdani promised a network of municipal supermarkets selling food at a supposed 30 percent discount. He held up bananas costing about 20 cents each as proof of the idea. Fresh tropical fruit, picked thousands of kilometres away and sold for 20 cents, is not a miracle of city hall. It is the miracle of global supply chains and free enterprise.

Mayor Mamdani Holds Press Conference on Municipal Grocery Store Announcement
https://t.co/520B9LtowT

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) July 27, 2026

Grocery stores operate on margins of about 2 percent. The only way to deliver a 30 percent discount is with taxpayer subsidies. Consider a $20 steak. How does it become $14? Someone has to absorb the missing $6. That someone is the taxpayer.

Mamdani’s own plan makes this explicit: the city will cover rent and property taxes, fund the build-out, and then provide direct subsidies so food can be sold below cost. There is no free lunch.

New York already has one of the most competitive grocery markets in the world, roughly 1,000 full-size stores and 10,000 bodegas. If 30 percent profits existed, those competitors would already have undercut each other. They haven’t, because the margins aren’t there.

When government abolishes the price signal, other forms of rationing take over: long lines, early-morning rushes, insider access, and black-market reselling. Entrepreneurial New Yorkers will clean out the discounted steaks and resell them. Bodega owners, many of them immigrants, will be forced to compete against stores that don’t pay market rent or cover their own losses, while subsidizing that competition through their taxes.

This has been tried before. Kansas City launched a similar project with the same promises. The result was empty shelves and demands for more funding.

Mamdani has never run a business. Yet he is prepared to spend tens of millions, $70 million in capital costs alone, a figure that will almost certainly rise, on a project whose first store is not scheduled to open until the end of 2029. Three years to open a grocery store.

New Yorkers are about to receive an expensive education in supply and demand, one they will pay for whether they shop at these stores or not.

GUEST: Melanie Bennet on the latest suspected domestic terror shooting in Toronto.

Over the weekend, two locations of the Jewish-owned Kiva's Bagel Bar were targeted. One was shot at, with gunfire shattering the front window of the Yonge and St. Clair shop. Another location at Bathurst and Steeles had its window smashed. Thankfully, no one was hurt. But a bullet through the window of a Jewish business sends a message, and everyone in that neighbourhood understood it.

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For more than a day, not a word from the prime minister, perhaps he couldn't fit it in amongst his posts about the Commonwealth Games in Scotland. His much-touted antisemitism council was equally silent, occupied instead with celebrating the opening of a bridge.

This has become the new normal. When violence is directed at Jews, Canada's political class barely manages a whisper.

Now compare that with  Berlin. On July 25, a man drove a van into the city's Pride parade before getting out and stabbing people. One woman was killed and dozens were injured. The suspect, 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, is a German national reportedly linked to ISIS. Our prime minister found time to promptly comment on that attack, while carefully avoiding any mention of who the attacker was or the ideology that motivated him. Apparently, those details only matter when they fit a preferred narrative.

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Berlin's Pride organisers responded by urging people not to "politicise" the attack. The hypocrisy is astonishing. Had the perpetrator fit a different profile, many of the same voices would have been shouting from the rooftops.

The cowardice isn't limited to Canada. You can find examples of it all around the world. Even after an Islamist terrorist attack, political leaders, activists and much of the media often refuse to name radical Islam for what it is. Instead of confronting the ideology behind attacks like these, they shift the conversation elsewhere, treating any discussion of Islamist extremism as more controversial than the violence itself. That's how deep the denial runs.

I sincerely hope these perpetrators are brought to justice for these despicable acts.
Canada has a serious antisemitism problem and the government needs to get SERIOUS about it.

Everyone needs to wake up. Attacks like this are the canary in the coal mine. The attackers are… pic.twitter.com/K1kFvDBNrz

— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) July 26, 2026

So who was prepared to speak plainly? Not Canada's leaders. It took U.S. Senator Rick Scott of Florida to state the obvious: Canada has a serious antisemitism problem, the government must get serious about confronting it, and attacks like these are a canary in the coal mine for Judeo-Christian values. That kind of clarity is conspicuously absent north of the border.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow did condemn the attacks on Kiva's, calling them vile and unacceptable. She thanked Toronto Police and pledged to stand with the Jewish community. But standing with the Jewish community requires more than words. After the latest attack on the U.S. consulate, she reached for the same explanation she offered following the Salsa on St. Clair shooting two weeks earlier: illegal American guns. Blaming firearms for a targeted campaign of antisemitic violence is like blaming cars for a vehicle-ramming attack. It's the reflex of leaders unwilling to identify the real problem.

👀 In response to the 2nd U.S. Consulate shooting this morning, @MayorOliviaChow says she called @Gary_SRP to "remove the illegal American guns off our street," the same response she gave 2 weeks ago, after the Salsa on St. Clair shooting.

A passerby yells "Olivia Chow sucks." pic.twitter.com/XH0Y4hCGxr

— CCFR/CCDAF (@CCFR_CCDAF) July 27, 2026

The following day, Mark Carney finally issued a statement. He said he was appalled by the attack on Kiva's, reaffirmed his commitment to combating antisemitism and expressed full support for law enforcement. Fine words. But we've seen this script before: condemnation without action, platitudes without specifics, and no willingness to confront the ideology driving these attacks. In practical terms, nothing changes.

I am appalled by the targeting of two Kiva’s Bagel Bar locations — fixtures of Toronto’s Jewish community that have long served as places for people to gather and connect.

Jewish Canadians should be able to live, work, and worship free from fear, intimidation, and hate. Canada’s…

— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) July 27, 2026

Then Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree offered his "full support" to Toronto Police following the consulate shooting, as though moral encouragement were the missing ingredient. By the end of the day, he had returned to posting about internet censorship. That seems to be where his priorities lie.

That is the cultural divide in miniature. The political establishment pays lip service to fighting hate while refusing to have an honest conversation about who is committing these attacks and why. The only people speaking candidly are commentators, independent journalists and, increasingly, American politicians. Until Canada's leaders find the courage to identify the threat they are confronting, Jewish Canadians will continue to receive little more than empty promises and shattered glass.

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But what if they're quietly eroding the very freedoms they're supposed to protect?

A new report from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms argues Canada is rapidly becoming a surveillance state, with a growing web of laws that allow governments to collect more personal information, lower the threshold for accessing private data, and increase monitoring of Canadians' online lives.

The report, Privacy Roadmap: Halting Canada's Surveillance State, lays out an eight-step legislative plan to restore privacy protections by repealing or amending a series of federal laws.

Among its recommendations are rolling back provisions of Bill C-8, rejecting the proposed Lawful Access Act, opposing Bill C-34—the Safe Social Media Act—and strengthening privacy protections around financial records, border searches of electronic devices, and government access to personal information.

The report argues that privacy isn't simply about secrecy—it's the foundation of freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, and freedom of association. When people believe they're being watched, they inevitably censor themselves.

Joining guest host Sheila Gunn Reid is John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

We'll discuss why the Justice Centre believes Canada is drifting toward a surveillance state, how recent legislation has expanded government access to Canadians' personal information, and what Parliament can do to restore meaningful privacy protections before they're lost for good.

GUEST: John Carpay president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

When a political message on a billboard truck is enough to trigger a hate-crime investigation, it raises serious questions about where public debate is heading.

In downtown Toronto, our Rebel News billboard truck carrying a message from the Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar) became the subject of a police investigation after a passerby complained about the advertisement.

The message was simple: women and girls deserve safety on the field, privacy and dignity in the locker room, and fairness on the podium.

The truck had been driving around Toronto for days, including during a busy downtown soccer event where the message was widely seen by passersby. But after driver Mark parked legally near St. Clair Avenue and briefly stepped away, everything changed.

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When he returned and attempted to leave, an officer approached and told him the truck had to remain in place because it was being investigated for a hate crime.

Mark had not been parked illegally. He had not been accused of causing any disturbance. He was not asked for his licence or ID. He was simply told police needed to investigate a complaint about the message displayed on the truck.

A second and then third police vehicle arrived as officers dealt with the complainant, who had objected to the advertisement and claimed he felt “unsafe.”

When Rebel News reporters arrived and began filming, the complainant turned his camera toward them, questioned why they were recording him, and again told police he felt unsafe. Officers ultimately confirmed the journalists had every right to film in public.

After speaking with the complainant, police determined the billboard was a political statement, not a hate crime. No charges were laid, no ticket was issued, and Mark was allowed to drive away.

That is the real story: not just the complaint, but how quickly a political disagreement escalated into a police response.

The officers ultimately handled the situation properly. But the fact that a message about women’s safety and fairness was enough for someone to call police and trigger a hate-crime investigation should concern anyone who values free expression.

The truck will keep rolling. In fact, we will keep it on the road even longer as a reminder that free speech cannot depend on whether everyone agrees with the message.

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The Rebel News truck is available to rent for advocacy campaigns or for commercial advertising campaigns! We will work with you to develop a campaign plan including video content for the truck.

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We talked about what we were seeing on the ground, the momentum behind the movement, and why so many Albertans are getting involved.

The 12-hour telethon raised approximately $150,000 for independence-focused third-party advertiser groups ahead of the referendum campaign.

Have a watch, and let me know what you think!

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Some background, for readers catching up. Lich, the spiritual leader of the Freedom Convoy, was sentenced more than six months ago to house arrest. Both sides are appealing: her lawyers want an acquittal, and the Crown — Doug Ford's prosecutors, not Ottawa's, remember that — wants her to spend actual time behind bars. Today's hearing was narrower than either appeal. It was a bail variation hearing, to decide something that should be simple: can Lich, while under house arrest, keep working her job for Rebel News, including the travel that job requires?

I will take the witness stand today in support of @LichTamara and her right to earn a living. Doug Ford’s prosecutors want to remove her ability to do journalism across the country, even though the law expressly allows her to work. My colleague @ThevoiceAlexa will live-tweet!

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) July 22, 2026

House arrest in Canada comes with a standard exemption for work. Chris Barber, Lich's co-defendant, is a long-haul trucker and drives across provincial and international borders as part of his sentence, without controversy. Nobody objects. So we sat down with Lich's probation officer in Alberta months ago and worked out, line by line, an arrangement that let her keep doing journalism for us: speaking at conferences, writing a follow-up to her bestseller Hold the Line, travelling for interviews. It was agreed to. It worked, for almost a dozen assignments.

Then Lich attended a July 4th event at the residence of the U.S. ambassador, and the regime media lost its mind. The CBC ran with it. Even the New York Times weighed in. And within days, the travel exemption that had been working fine for months was quietly clawed back. When we planned to have Lich do some reporting on Parliament Hill today, since she was already going to be in Ottawa for the hearing, the probation officer said no — not just no international travel, no travel outside Alberta at all.

So we swore out an affidavit explaining exactly what Lich's role at Rebel News involves and why a national media company cannot employ a journalist who is barred from leaving one province. And because we swore to its contents, the Crown had the right to cross-examine us on it. Ezra took the stand today, prepared to answer questions about Tamara Lich's work.

Instead, roughly 95 percent of the Crown's questions were about us. Our Twitter account. Our criticism of the judge. A T-shirt Rebel News sells that reads "Convicted of Freedom." At one point, the Crown suggested we treat Lich "as a product to sell." None of it had anything to do with whether Lich has complied with her sentence — which, by every account, she has. It was an attempt to make the judge angry enough at Rebel News that she takes it out on Lich's travel privileges instead.

We'll say plainly what Ezra said in that courtroom: we believe in the right to criticize judges, and we're not going to apologize for having done so. The judiciary is a branch of government like any other, and it does not get a pass from scrutiny because it wears a robe. If the Crown's entire case rests on how sharp our tweets were, that tells you everything about how thin their actual argument is.

🚨My personal thoughts following today’s cross-examination of Ezra Levant regarding his affidavit in Tamara Lich’s appeal to vary her bail conditions:
Crown prosecutor Michael Purcell focused heavily on Ezra’s political opinions by reading various posts and commentary from X…

— Alexandra Lavoie (@ThevoiceAlexa) July 22, 2026

Alexa Lavoie, covering the hearing from the gallery in Ezra's stead, noted the judge let out an audible reaction at one point and overruled defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon's objection to admitting the tweets at all. Whether that means anything, we don't know yet. The matter is adjourned to August 14 for further argument.

Consider the imbalance here. This was already the longest-running mischief trial in Canadian history — roughly 50 days of court time, at the Crown's own choosing, prosecuting a woman for a peaceful protest. Meanwhile, actual rape trials and home invasion cases get dismissed across this country for lack of prosecutorial resources. Four Crown prosecutors spent two years on Tamara Lich. And now they want her barred from doing her job, and want more prison time on top of it.

We don't take government money, which is exactly why we're able to say all of this without flinching. But that also means covering Lich's legal costs, and now a half-time producer whose entire job is helping her navigate the terms of her sentence, comes out of what readers like you give us.

If you'd like to help keep Tamara Lich working, and keep us in that courtroom, please visit TheTamaraProject.com. It's the website the Crown spent an unusual amount of today's hearing fixated on. Make of that what you will.

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Donald Trump has lobbed another round of tariffs at Canada, and the reaction from Canada’s political class has been as predictable as it is pointless. Instead of serious negotiations, Canadians get the same tired theatre: loud threats, anti-American sentiment, and a game of political hot potato with western jobs as collateral damage.

There’s no question that dealing with Trump is a challenge. Every country faces it, including China. Yet even America’s great rival manages to cut deals and keep business moving. Canada is supposed to be the closest ally, and we have far more to lose. So what’s our excuse? Why can’t we get a deal done when everyone else seems to manage? Our leaders seem more interested in grandstanding than in serious negotiation.

Ford: "We are an energy powerhouse, and we could dismantle the U.S. if we wanted to ... They need to feel the pain rather than us constantly feeling the pain." pic.twitter.com/B3L9JdYbFz

— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson_) July 21, 2026

Doug Ford has responded to Trump’s latest tariffs by threatening Alberta’s oil patch and Saskatchewan’s potash industry. Instead of fighting for Canadian jobs at the table, his answer is to put western jobs on the chopping block. Is that really his to sacrifice? It’s political theatre, pure and simple, and it’s western workers who pay the price.

Despite Danielle Smith prioritizing her relationship with the Trump Administration, they just announced 50% tariffs on Canadian exports. Albertans are paying the price while she puts her political interests first.https://t.co/AgMqM8Z4KD

— Alberta NDP (@albertaNDP) July 20, 2026

It’s not just Ford. The Alberta NDP is busy blaming Danielle Smith for prioritising her relationship with the Trump administration, claiming Albertans are “paying the price.” But the new tariffs do not target Alberta’s main exports. In fact, Alberta may be getting the best deal of any province while the rest of the country sinks under the weight of its own bad policies. The NDP would rather see performative insults than protected jobs.

The fixation on performative anti-Americanism is politically useful. Stirring up resentment against the Americans plays well for central Canadian politicians desperate to distract from their own failures. Mark Carney was once sold as the “Trump whisperer.” He has completely failed. There has been a decade to learn how to handle this president. The same mistakes keep getting repeated. At this point it is fair to ask whether some of these leaders even want a deal, or whether they prefer the political benefits of a weaker economy and constant anti-American noise.

This opportunism is not limited to Ford. David Eby, stuck at 31 percent in the polls, is seizing on anti-Trump rhetoric to rally the Trump-haters in his base. Wab Kinew, who previously implied Trump was a rapist, has stayed quiet this week. His past comments still say plenty about the level of the debate.

Premiers have no constitutional authority to conduct foreign trade policy, yet they keep inserting themselves. Scott Moe has shown more restraint, simply urging a deal. Bizarrely, Jason Kenney has taken Ford’s side, twisting himself into defending Quebec’s dairy protections while giving Ontario a free pass to threaten the West.

https://x.com/USTradeRep/status/2079590642754170943?s=20

The real issues, according to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, are clear: the dairy cartel, provincial liquor restrictions, and autos. Why should Canadians across the country pay double for milk and cheese so Quebec can maintain massive tariffs on American dairy? Provincial booze bans aimed at “hurting” Trump are empty gestures that only hand the Americans more ammunition. And threatening to dismantle the U.S. economy while importing tens of thousands of Chinese electric vehicles a year is not a serious position.

These are unserious men in serious times. Mark Carney has not told the premiers to stand down. He has not defended Alberta oil or Saskatchewan potash either. Western Canada is left to pay the price.

GUEST: Sue-Ann Levy on her latest op-ed: Canada burns, Carney pays everyone else

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, by the end of next year Britain's electricity suppliers will be able to remotely turn down heat pump central heating whenever the grid comes under strain. The instructions will come from a quango — a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization — overseen by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), the department Ed Miliband has run since Labour took power.

We've looked at what a heat pump actually is, and the honest answer is: not much. It isn't a proper furnace, and it isn't a proper air conditioner. It's a subsidized, government-favoured appliance that performs poorly in real winter cold — utility company videos themselves note it starts losing effectiveness below minus twenty degrees — and that very few people would buy without a taxpayer-funded rebate worth thousands of dollars. It exists because governments have decided it should exist, not because consumers are asking for it.

Now Britain wants to make sure that even the heat pumps that are installed can be dialled down on command. Under the proposed Smart Secure Electricity Systems scheme, licensed providers such as Octopus Energy and British Gas would be able to restrict heat pump output over the internet. There are more than 223,000 heat pumps already installed in existing British buildings, and Mr. Miliband has set a target of 450,000 installations a year by 2030. Since April of last year, every new heat pump installed in the U.K. must be capable of being connected to the internet.

It doesn't stop at heating. The government's own impact assessment of the plan states that energy suppliers "will be able to remotely control significant amounts of electrical load through EV charge points, heat pumps etc." Translation: if your car is electric and connected, that too could be switched off when the grid decides it needs the power more than you do.

Officially, the system — called load control — will only apply to households that opt in, in exchange for discounted rates. But the direction of travel is unmistakable. Britain's electricity supply is under growing strain in winter cold snaps precisely because net zero policy has pushed demand from gas onto electricity, while supply becomes more dependent on wind and solar. The shortage is a predictable result of the policy.

We'd ask whether Mr. Miliband expects British Gas to ever throttle the heat in his own house, or whether the incoming senior minister, Andy Burnham, will face the same discount tariff and the same remote dial. We suspect not.

Europe offers a preview of where this leads. During a recent heat wave, the European Commission's own Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels was forced to shut down air conditioning from the first to the seventh floors — while President Ursula von der Leyen and her commissioners, housed on the eighth floor and above, kept their air conditioning running. Meanwhile, in Germany, the newly built cardiac unit at Düsseldorf University Hospital reportedly hit 38 degrees Celsius, with staff asking relatives to bring ice packs from home for patients undergoing heart surgery, according to a widely circulated report.

This is what energy poverty looks like when it's applied unevenly: rationing for the public, comfort for the people who wrote the policy.

None of this will meaningfully reduce global emissions, since China, India and the major oil-producing states face no comparable restriction. What it will do is give utilities and governments a permanent, internet-connected switch over how warm or cool your home is allowed to be. Donald Trump has repeatedly told European leaders to get control of their energy policy and their borders. So far, they've refused — largely out of spite toward him.

The question worth asking in Canada is simple: what's our excuse?

GUEST: Noah Jarvis, Ontario director of the Taxpayers Federation.

Rebel News reporters get attacked more often than journalists from any other outlet in Canada — and the most frustrating part is that police, often standing right there, do nothing. It happened at the Hamas protests in Toronto. It happened to reporter Alexa Lavoie in Montreal, who was attacked while officers stood by and watched.

It is, without exception, people on the left. There is no comparable record of right-wing mobs doing this. None.

Just the other day, Nova Scotia's premier was swarmed — his car stomped on, jumped on, smashed — and only one charge was laid, later dropped. A few months earlier, a Christian pastor performing a prayer service in a Montreal church watched an Antifa extremist throw incendiary devices inside and walk out. That man, Gabriel LePage, turned out to work for the Canadian Forces. More than 100 churches across Canada have been vandalized or torched, including a major cathedral in the heart of Toronto. Synagogues too.

Then there's transgender activist Jonathan Yaniv, whose repeated freak-outs against Rebel News journalists never seem to result in charges — until, remarkably, they finally did, presumably because his politics made him briefly inconvenient to protect.

And a couple of weeks ago, Montreal had a shooter whose own manifesto laid out his politics in black and white: a Marxist who praised Mao and Stalin by name. The regime media buried that part of the story entirely.

Every single incident described here is a left-wing act of violence in Canada that has been ignored, minimized, or excused by the institutions meant to stop it.

The same pattern exists in the United States — except now, Washington is doing something about it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited 60 senior officials from around the world to a summit confronting left-wing terror. Canada, we understand, sent a junior staffer.

Rubio's basic premise — that protecting citizens is a state's first duty — ought to be uncontroversial. But these days, you have to restate the obvious, given that even the definition of a woman is apparently up for debate. And everything Rubio said is actively undermined by a left that wants to erase borders, militaries, police, and the very concept of citizenship.

Rubio also flagged what he called a blind spot: a pseudo-academic industry obsessed with cataloguing right-wing threats — the Proud Boys, incels, the manosphere, even the theory that working out is a "gateway" to the right — while offering no equivalent scrutiny of the hard left. The Southern Poverty Law Center was recently indicted for funding fake hate hoaxes, after years as a media darling. Canada runs the identical playbook, ignoring left-wing threats while funding academic cover for it.

Then there was George Floyd. Politicians across Canada and the U.K. took a knee over what was, at bottom, a local American policing matter — and in doing so, gave licence to real violence, including riots in Montreal. To this day, Canada gives left-wing violence a pass.

Rubio connected Islamist violence and Antifa-communist violence as increasingly collaborative, not just in Europe but here too. He noted that violence is a tool of the left, pointing to the stabbing of then-candidate Jair Bolsonaro weeks before his election in Brazil. Assassination is a tool of the left, too.

It's worth noting Rubio himself descends from Cuban exiles — the same island prison two Rebel News reporters, Efrem Monsanto and Alexa Lavoie, documented undercover as tourists, capturing the real state of communist Cuba.

Rubio went on to detail how organized gangs hunting ICE agents function, in his words, as nothing less than domestic terrorist cells. Canada has the same phenomenon, and police look the other way.

He was equally right, both theoretically and aesthetically, that when the hard left says it wants to demolish the West, it means it literally. That impulse has seeped into the Canadian government — stripping historical figures from currency, tearing down statues, rebranding Canada "Turtle Island," land acknowledgments, calling citizens "settlers," and labelling the country a "genocidal state" — language reserved exclusively for the West and Israel, never for actual authoritarian regimes.

Communism, once dismissed as a relic, is back — and back with violence. Luigi Mangione stands accused of murdering a healthcare executive, and there is a real fashion on the left for this brand of political violence. At anti-Israel marches in London, the loudest voices weren't just Third World anti-Semites — they were white British communists, making common cause with any revolution going, however contradictory. That's how "Queers for Palestine" exists, even though anyone gay in Gaza would be thrown off a building and killed immediately. Every revolution, in the end, serves the same project of undermining the West.

By contrast, Rubio's talk of achievement calls to mind Elon Musk — genuine optimism, technical ambition, a man trying to get humanity to Mars and possibly succeeding. That spirit of building is the opposite of communism's grievance culture, which insists labour and capital, men and women, whites and minorities must always be at war, oppressor against oppressed.

Canada is in the thick of the foreign dimension, too. Members of Canada's own security establishment have discussed roughly 700 Iranian agents operating domestically, alongside known Chinese interference. Toronto councillor Michael Rather, whose ward hosts weekly Hamas protests, has cited CSIS and police evidence suggesting these are not organic demonstrations but foreign-directed operations — exactly what Iran, North Korea, or China would want: division and unrest in the West, engineered from abroad.

And notably, George Soros's son Alex has been active in Canada. His father built a fortune as a hedge fund trader and investor, then spent it meddling in politics. The son does nothing but politics. What exactly is he doing here, and who is he funding? Canada's incurious media has let the question pass without comment.

Other speakers at the summit included White House aide Stephen Miller. The open question is whether Canada will follow Washington's lead at all. Given that Doug Ford, Mark Carney, and Wab Kinew's regime media reflexively oppose anything Trump does — if Trump said the sky was blue, they'd insist it was pink out of spite — the smart money says no. Beyond simple Trump Derangement Syndrome, there's also self-interest: Antifa functions as this establishment's street enforcement arm, its way of striking back at outlets like Rebel News. Ottawa isn't inclined to crack down on its own muscle.

More broadly, Canada shows little appetite for cracking down on anything — foreign gangs operate freely, Antifa operates freely, and Iranian money flows freely. There's no reason to expect that it will change on its own.

The trouble is simple: if Canada doesn't change course, the United States may eventually decide to harden the world's longest undefended border.

GUEST: Lawyer and independent journalist Caryma Sa'd.

Naheed Nenshi was once known as a political bridge-builder. Now, the Alberta NDP leader is apologising for appearing in a photo with Israel’s ambassador at a Calgary Stampede event.

What was once a routine act of diplomacy has become politically toxic. After the image went viral, Nenshi said he was “so sorry for the harm it caused” and echoed many of the talking points pushed by anti-Israel activists, accusing Israel of violating international law and highlighting civilian deaths in Gaza and Lebanon.

A message from Naheed Nenshi pic.twitter.com/VARwsRW20Q

— Naheed Nenshi (@nenshi) July 16, 2026

The episode reveals a much larger transformation taking place inside the modern left.

The New Democratic Party was originally built around farmers, factory workers and organised labour. It was a party rooted in the concerns of working people.

But that political base has changed. Across North America, the centre of gravity of the left has moved away from unions and toward universities, activist groups and identity-based movements.

The result is a more confrontational politics shaped by the idea that society is divided into oppressors and oppressed. When politics becomes a moral battle between good and evil, compromise becomes impossible. The goal is no longer persuasion, but defeating the enemy.

That is the environment Nenshi now finds himself navigating.

Canada's Muslim Brotherhood front group is very pleased with Naheed Nenshi.
Just like the Chinese Communist Party is.

We know the CCP has given financial benefits to Nenshi.

Has the Muslim Brotherhood? https://t.co/24o3s5xXXr

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) July 16, 2026

Alberta’s Muslim population has grown significantly, with more than 200,000 Muslims recorded in the 2021 census and likely more today. Danielle Smith won the last provincial election by fewer than 150,000 votes. For a party looking to rebuild, those numbers matter.

Combine that with the NDP’s traditional base of government unions, progressive activists, university students and NGOs, and the political incentives become clear.

The same shift is happening federally.

Avi Lewis, the federal NDP leader, represents a dramatic change from previous generations of the party. His father and grandfather were NDP leaders who supported Israel. Lewis has taken a far more aggressive position, becoming one of Canada’s most outspoken critics of Israel.

Under Lewis, the NDP has doubled its vote from the six-per-cent result of the last election. A major part of that resurgence has come from embracing the activist politics dominating parts of the modern left.

The same pattern is visible in the United States, where figures such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani have embraced a more radical political agenda centred around anti-capitalism, identity politics and revolutionary rhetoric.

For many activists, Gaza has become the defining cause of this new movement, replacing issues that once dominated the left such as unions, economic policy and even climate change.

That is why Nenshi’s apology matters.

In his statement, Nenshi referenced what he described as Israel’s actions in Gaza, including famine, civilian deaths and bombing in Lebanon. He claimed at least 20,000 children had been killed and said southern Lebanon was being bombed as part of a “sustained campaign.”

But critics point out what was missing: any mention of Hamas’ October 7 attack, the Israelis murdered and taken hostage, or Hezbollah’s role in southern Lebanon.

The criticism is especially sharp given Nenshi’s repeated trips to Communist China, including a visit to Tiananmen Square, while now lecturing others about human rights and international law.

The broader issue is not just one photo or one apology. It is the transformation of the political movement Nenshi now leads.

The old left was built around workers, unions and economic issues. The new left is increasingly shaped by campus activism, identity politics and a worldview that divides society into oppressors and oppressed.

Nenshi’s apology is a reflection of that shift.

Whether or not he personally holds anti-Israel or antisemitic views, critics argue he is leading a party increasingly shaped by those forces.

And politically, he appears willing to follow where they lead.

Wilson also provides an update on the CCFR's newly launched class-action lawsuit in Saskatchewan, which seeks fair compensation for gun owners whose legally acquired firearms were prohibited by the federal government.

The conversation also covers the CCFR's successful gun rights rally in Winnipeg, where supporters packed the event despite blistering summer temperatures, sending a message that opposition to the federal gun ban remains strong.

We also discuss former Reform Party MP Inky Mark, who recently found himself in regulatory trouble over paperwork related to the sale of firearms, raising fresh questions about the complexity of Canada's firearms regulations and the challenges facing lawful retailers.

Finally, Wilson weighs in on comments from Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, who has repeatedly acknowledged that licensed firearms owners are not responsible for the gang violence plaguing Canada's largest city, pointing instead to criminals using illegally obtained firearms.

Watch the full interview as Tracey Wilson explains what's at stake before the Supreme Court, outlines the Saskatchewan compensation lawsuit, discusses the Winnipeg rally, and weighs in on the latest developments affecting Canada's law-abiding firearms community.

GUEST: The CCFR's Tracey Wilson. 

Toronto used to be called "Toronto the Good." That nickname is long gone. At least twelve shootings took place across the Greater Toronto Area over the weekend, capped off by chaos at a downtown Salsa Festival that left two people murdered and several others injured.

Cellphone footage circulating online shows festival-goers scattering in panic as gunfire broke out. In one clip, a bystander is heard voicing apparent support for the shooter — seemingly under the mistaken impression the assailant was carrying out an act of terrorism rather than a gang hit.

While an active shooter scenario was unfolding at the Salsa Festival in Toronto, the attendees were laughing and even saying “good for them.”
These are the people who vote for exactly what they’re asking for. pic.twitter.com/P0ZB8MIyry

— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) July 12, 2026

While the city reeled, Mayor Olivia Chow was seen dancing at a separate street festival. We have repeatedly documented the mayor's preference for photo-ops over policing, and this weekend was no exception. 

In contrast, Toronto city councillor Mike Colle, a Liberal who has spent years pushing for a tougher policing response, did not hold back in comments to reporters on the scene. Colle has previously told Rebel News that pro-Hamas demonstrations in the city are foreign-financed and foreign-directed, and that Toronto's gang violence crisis requires more than a municipal police response.

Here is what should confuse no one: Canada already has strict federal gun control. Handguns and prohibited firearms are illegal for civilians to carry, with narrow exceptions. Yet street gangs continue to arm themselves regardless of the paperwork rules Ottawa passes, because — as it turns out — a person prepared to commit murder is generally not deterred by a firearms licensing regime.

None of that, however, was the story the CBC chose to run with. Instead, the taxpayer-funded broadcaster turned its attention roughly 2,000 kilometres away, to Dauphin, Manitoba, population 8,000, and a 78-year-old retired member of Parliament named Inky Mark.

According to CBC's report, RCMP seized 439 firearms from Mark's rural property during a July 7 search, including what police described as an antique cannon and ammunition. Mark was subsequently charged with a dozen weapons-related offences.

He told CBC he has been a registered collector since the 1970s and does not dispute that some pieces in his decades-old collection are no longer legally compliant, though he denies any trafficking. "I broke the law," he acknowledged to the broadcaster, while maintaining his collection was built openly and legally over half a century.

Mark, who was born in China and has no prior criminal record, told CBC he spent two days in custody following the raid — an experience he described as deeply upsetting for a man his age with no history of violence. We would ask: What possible flight risk does a 78-year-old collector in Dauphin, Manitoba, pose that requires two nights behind bars?

CBC's report also noted that a sign reading "Trudeau confiscating all your guns" had once stood near Mark's property, visible in a 2024 Google Street View image, but was no longer there when reporters visited this week. The irony, of course, is that it was not Justin Trudeau but Mark Carney's government continuing the same firearms confiscation policy that ensnared Mark's collection.

It doesn't take a genius to realize that a cannon is not an easy weapon to conceal at a street festival. It is difficult to imagine one being smuggled into the kind of gang shootings that tore through Toronto this weekend. Yet it is Inky Mark, not the gunmen behind twelve separate shooting incidents, who is now facing a lengthy prosecution.

The pattern is not new. When violent crime becomes too visible to ignore — video evidence, dead bodies, a public street festival turned warzone — the state broadcaster finds a paperwork case elsewhere to lead with instead.

After all, it's a great deal easier to go after a senior citizen's antique collection than to confront the gang networks, including reports of an organized criminal network numbering in the thousands operating across the country, that are actually driving the bloodshed.

The CBC receives roughly $1.5 billion annually in public funding. This weekend is a reminder of what Canadians are getting for that money.

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A data centre is not just a warehouse of blinking lights. It is the core of everything digital. Every Netflix binge, every photo in your cloud, every tap on your phone runs through these modern factories. From eBay to hospitals, from tax departments to government agencies, nothing works in the digital age without them. With artificial intelligence rapidly expanding, demand for these massive computer hubs continues to rise.

New York becomes the first state to impose a data-center moratorium. 'The bottom line is: Progress shouldn't arrive with a higher utility bill, depleted water supplies, or noise pollution,' New York Governor Kathy Hochul said https://t.co/9DvlhZuiZU pic.twitter.com/kmSCFh4sbU

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 14, 2026

That is why New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s year-long moratorium on new data centres is such a self-defeating move. Citing higher utility bills, water use, and noise, she is freezing the infrastructure of the future while New Yorkers keep using data every single day. You cannot ban New Yorkers from streaming movies, using social media, banking online, or making Zoom calls. The data still has to go somewhere. Blocking new builds does not stop demand. It just hands the advantage to competitors.

Months ago, my AI data center moratorium bill was called a radical idea.
Today, New York became the first state to enact a moratorium and a majority of voters nationwide support it.

AI must benefit ALL of humanity, not just a handful of Big Tech billionaires.

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 14, 2026

Left-wing politicians quickly piled on. Senator Bernie Sanders, turning a technical issue into class warfare, cheered the ban. He boasted that his own moratorium idea, once called radical, is now mainstream. He insists AI must benefit all of humanity, not just a handful of Big Tech billionaires. Never mind Sanders’ own multimillionaire lifestyle with three homes. In practice, this approach means less investment, fewer jobs, worse services, and American innovation falling behind.

China wins. 🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/tTiMwxPNaq

— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) July 14, 2026

Senator John Fetterman cut through the noise in two words: China wins. That is the real cultural divide. While American progressives obsess over perceived threats from tech success, Beijing is ready to seize the lead. Data does not respect state borders. If New York or anywhere else bans the factories of tomorrow, the digital economy will simply move elsewhere.

Contrast that with Alberta, where Meta is investing more than $13 billion in a new AI-optimized data centre, its first in Canada. The project will create thousands of construction jobs, hundreds of permanent high-paying roles, and tens of millions in local infrastructure upgrades. It will run on 100 percent renewable-matched power with a closed-loop liquid cooling system that uses zero operational water. Alberta is not wringing its hands over lost opportunities. It is positioning itself as a winner in the global tech economy.

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Meanwhile, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew abruptly cancelled a major data centre project over vague, conspiratorial fears about surveillance. There is no evidence, just paranoia. Shutting down the building where processing happens will not stop cookies, terms of service, or online tracking. It is like blaming the farm because your steak was undercooked. The real result is lost investment, lost jobs, and a missed chance for the province.

At the federal level, the Liberals, with Mark Carney pulling strings in the background, have been silent. No congratulations on the Alberta win. No push for innovation. Just indecision while the world advances.

Legitimate concerns exist around AI, including job displacement and privacy. History offers optimism. Two hundred and fifty years ago, 90 percent of North Americans worked on farms. Today it is around 2 percent. The rest found new work that was unimaginable then. We should be techno-optimists while managing real risks.

But much of the opposition falls into three groups: hardcore anti-industry activists who oppose any development, natural skeptics wary of Big Tech’s power and past mistakes, and those who simply want the West to lose ground to China. The last group is not against data centres. They are against American and Canadian success in this space.

Meta’s Alberta project addresses many practical concerns with its own power generation, minimal water use, and community benefits. Legitimate issues around zoning and transparency can be solved without conspiracy theories or economic surrender.

The choice is clear: build, create, and compete, or hand the future to adversaries because politicians are distracted by scare campaigns and class envy. Where leaders welcome investment, data centres bring jobs, opportunity, and technological strength. Where they yield to activists or petty politics, competitors abroad win. That is not progress. It is surrender.

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Police in Northern Ireland have arrested a man for exactly that.

Northern Ireland — the six counties that remain part of the United Kingdom — has been in the news for a string of difficult reasons lately. Last month, a Muslim migrant to Northern Ireland attacked a man on the street, trying to behead him in the medieval style. That led to full-blown riots across the province. There were riots a few months before that, too, after other migrants were accused of raping a young teenager, as reported by the CBC.

Northern Ireland, like the Republic of Ireland, still carries a strong ethnic-religious identity, one that hasn't been diluted by mass immigration, at least not yet. It's one of the most ethnically conscious corners of the West, still recovering from decades of sectarian violence known as the Troubles. Cramming thousands of migrants into that mix, just one generation on, is a curious policy choice, to put it mildly.

There are more than 100,000 migrants in Northern Ireland today, and more than 5,000 asylum seekers, many of whom crossed from France in dinghies before walking straight across the unguarded border into the Republic. The Sudanese man charged in the attempted beheading did it in reverse: flew into Dublin, then crossed north.

One of Northern Ireland's oldest traditions is the July bonfire. Towering structures built from wooden pallets, decorated with the symbols each side despises, then set ablaze at night for a dramatic spectacle. Mostly a Protestant tradition, though Catholic versions exist too. The Union Jack burns. The Irish tricolour burns. Even the Star of David has gone up in flames on some of these pyres — not a comfortable sight, but a three-hundred-year-old tradition of burning your opponents' symbols rather than your opponents themselves.

This year, one bonfire in Moygashel, Co. Tyrone, carried a replica mosque, parade-float style, with a message attached: secure the borders, end the threat of radical Islam. Not so different, really, from the centuries-old Catholic-versus-Protestant barbs traded on bonfires up and down the province — or from last year's bonfire message, "veterans before refugees, stop the boats," a line even the UK's Labour Party has echoed on occasion, as the BBC noted.

But this time, the man responsible for the mosque was arrested. Brian Conrad Neill, 56, appeared in handcuffs on Friday at Dungannon Magistrates' Court, charged with incitement to hatred. District Judge Barney McElholm refused him bail, saying the display reflected "an agenda full of hate and bigotry towards others," according to the Irish News. Neill will now sit in custody for a month.

Bail is ordinarily granted even to accused murderers. It exists to keep someone from fleeing or from harming the community before trial. Neither concern applies to a man who built a papier-mâché mosque. Yet he sits in a cell, while every other faith, flag, and monarch on those bonfires goes up in smoke without a single arrest.

It calls to mind Regina, Saskatchewan, where the Lord's Prayer was pulled from public schools a generation ago as offensive to non-believers. Into that same void, the Arabic call to prayer has since arrived in some Canadian schools without objection.

It's bonfire season in Northern Ireland. Every religion gets mocked, every flag gets burned, every historical grievance gets aired in fire and effigy — except one. Criticize Islam, even with the qualifier "radical" attached, and it's a jail cell, not a bonfire, waiting.

GUEST: Marc Morano, founder of Climate Depot.

Canada has few homegrown technology giants. Most entrepreneurs with big ideas move south to the United States, drawn by financing, a deep talent pool, lower taxes and a culture that rewards risk-taking. Elon Musk once called Canada home before deciding it no longer suited him.

One major exception is Shopify, the Ottawa-founded e-commerce platform used by millions of businesses and close to a billion customers worldwide, including Rebel News. With a market capitalization above a quarter of a trillion dollars, Shopify is now the third-largest company in Canada, trailing only the Royal Bank and TD Bank, and outranking both national railways and every oil company. Its leaders, Harley Finkelstein and Tobi Lütke, have said repeatedly that they stay in Canada out of genuine affection for the country.

That affection was tested again this week. At Startupfest in Montreal, Finkelstein was on stage discussing entrepreneurship alongside mixed martial arts champion Georges St-Pierre when a man, identified online as Yves Engler, stormed the stage and began shouting accusations at him, branding him a genocidaire — someone who murders. The event had nothing to do with Israel or politics; Finkelstein is a Canadian businessman, not a soldier or an official of any kind. Video of the confrontation circulated widely online.

Shopify president Harley Finkelstein squirmed when questioned about his financial & ideological support for genocidal Jewish supremacy. Former UFC champion George Saint Pierre also looked visibly uncomfortable today when I challenged him to stand up for Palestinians pic.twitter.com/9opN2kXZm8

— Yves Engler (@EnglerYves) July 8, 2026

Finkelstein wrote afterward that it was the third such incident in two years, including one at the opening of a Jewish community centre, and that his parents were in the front row to witness it. He said the room booed the man down and cheered as he was removed.

The incident lands against a backdrop of shifting demographics and hardening attitudes. Ottawa-Carleton's public school board now counts Muslim students as its largest religious group, growing roughly one percent annually. During a recent World Cup match, large crowds in downtown Ottawa were heard cheering loudly — not for Canada, which had lost, but for Morocco.

Polling adds further context. A Pew Research survey found 44 percent of Muslim Americans hold a favourable view of Hamas. A separate British study cited by the Henry Jackson Society found only one in four British Muslims believes Hamas committed murder and rape on October 7, while 46 percent said they sympathize with the group. Separately, a video circulated of soccer fans chanting for the death of Jews.

Finkelstein's willingness to keep Shopify headquartered in Canada is being tested repeatedly, at a moment when similar pressures have already pushed Jewish communities out of parts of Europe.

Even if you’re not Jewish, when the last Harley Finkelstein leaves, do you really think it will be any better for the Christian or post-Christian people who remain?

Egypt was once a Christian country. So was Lebanon. Both are now Jew-free. How are they doing?

GUEST: Sam Cooper, Bureau News Founder, on the latest regarding Canada's fentanyl crisis.

Here’s something you haven’t seen in Canada for a long time, a colossal industrial investment that didn’t come with a government handout. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is putting $13 billion into a new data centre in Sturgeon County, Alberta. Not in Ontario, not in Quebec and not with a single federal minister claiming credit. No billions in taxpayer subsidies. Just private capital, real jobs and a bold new stake in the digital economy.

One of the largest private sector investments in Canadian history is coming home to Alberta.@Meta has chosen Alberta for its first Canadian AI data centre, a historic $13 billion investment that will create thousands of jobs, strengthen our economy, and help position our… pic.twitter.com/f8iDO7M7tE

— Danielle Smith (@ABDanielleSmith) July 8, 2026

Contrast that with what’s become the norm in Canada. Under Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney, industrial projects have meant government projects, taxpayer-funded battery plants and wind farms, mostly in Ontario and Quebec, with politicians demanding their cut of the credit. Tens of billions shovelled into factories that only exist because governments paid them to. That’s not progress. That’s crony capitalism.

But Meta’s announcement flips that script. This isn’t a backroom deal cooked up in Ottawa. There’s no major projects office smoothing the path, no prime ministerial intervention. Instead, what Alberta has built is a climate for investment, tax cuts, regulatory reform and a pro-business attitude that says if you want to build, build. And build they have. Meta’s data centre will mean 3,000 construction jobs at the peak, more than 300 permanent roles and $60 million in local infrastructure upgrades. Not a cent of it paid for by taxpayers. In fact, the money that governments are bragging about is tax revenue and salaries, not outflows but inflows.

David Knight Legg, who helped shape Alberta’s investment strategy, spells it out: Alberta’s approach is paying off. Private investors are coming back. Meta isn’t alone. Dow, Linde Corporation and Air Products have all chosen Alberta recently, drawn by the same formula: low taxes, stable regulation and abundant energy. Alberta has done what the Irish Development Agency did for Ireland, turning the province into a magnet for global capital with policy, not handouts.

This is the clearest sign yet that Canada can compete when government gets out of the way. Meta’s centre isn’t just another warehouse of servers. It’s a next-generation, AI-optimised hub, one gigawatt of power, fully matched by renewable energy and designed for zero operational water consumption. It’s the 33rd in Meta’s global fleet but the first in Canada and the largest outside the United States. This is exactly the kind of project politicians say they want, high-tech, green and future-focused. Only this time, they didn’t write the cheque.

What those advocates for government-led industrial policy won’t tell you is this: When you let the market work, when you set the right incentives and when you stop treating business as a cash cow, real investment follows. Alberta is proving it. And Meta’s $13 billion bet is just the start.

GUEST: David Knight Legg - Energy/Security/Economic Development. Advisor to governments, energy, finance & tech firms. Chairman of Elements Capital Advisors, Chairman IQ2

So rather than leave you hanging, we're doing one of my favourite kinds of episodes: viewer comments.

And honestly, sometimes you folks are funnier, sharper, and more insightful than the people we're reporting on. That's admittedly a pretty low bar in Canadian politics these days, but still.

Today, we're diving into three stories that had the keyboard warriors working overtime.

First up is David Menzies' report from Wainfleet, Ontario, where homeowners are staring down millions of dollars in fines over an Airbnb. Because apparently crushing ordinary people with life-altering penalties is what passes for "proportional enforcement" these days.

Then we'll tackle the media's latest manufactured outrage after Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich attended the U.S. ambassador's Independence Day celebration in Ottawa. Judging by some of the headlines, you'd think she'd been appointed Secretary of State instead of accepting an invitation to a barbecue.

And finally, we'll head to Lampman, Saskatchewan, where Lise Merle spoke with a mother fighting to keep school washrooms and change rooms separated by sex. Once upon a time, that wasn't a controversial position. Now, merely saying boys and girls deserve private spaces is apparently enough to trigger an emergency meeting in a newsroom somewhere.

So let's see what you had to say. The comments section is often where the real conversation happens, and unlike much of the legacy media, you don't need an editor's permission to have an opinion.

Richard Martel, the Conservative MP for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, Quebec, has been appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Mark Carney. That means a byelection will open up in his riding, and it will most likely go to the Liberals.

This is not the will of the people in that riding. It is not the output of Canada's democratic process, messy as that process is.

Call it a Rube Goldberg machine, if you like — one of those goofy contraptions that, in a very complicated way, accomplishes a very simple task. Canadian democracy is exactly that messy. Parties hold nomination battles. Candidates go door to door. They sign up members and convince them to pay the fee to join the party, then make sure those members turn out on nomination day.

Ezra, who briefly ran for office in Calgary South about 30 years ago, knows the process well: the door knocking, the memberships, the turnout operation, the constant balancing of conscience against duty to the riding and to the party. It is complicated, noisy and imperfect by design. Authoritarianism, by contrast, is faster, easier and simpler. But that busyness is the stuff of democracy, and it is also an excellent test of the candidate.

That messy process elected Martel in his riding eight years ago. He first won in a 2018 by-election. He rose to become the party's Quebec lieutenant. Just one week ago, he accepted a position in the shadow cabinet. Instead of any of that continuing, there was simply a bribe.

What was offered is not publicly known. Money? Power? Influence? Access? Donations? Nobody has said. What is known is that Mark Carney ran a secret, parallel process that delivered his desired result without going anywhere near the Rube Goldberg machine of actual democracy — no door knocking, no memberships, no messy business at all. Get to the Senate, and the rest takes care of itself.

The delight among Canada's regime media over this outcome has been universal, and the person they are busy criticizing is not Mark Carney. It is Pierre Poilievre.

The Globe and Mail's headline on the story: "The humiliation of Pierre Poilievre continues."

The Globe called the move a smart one by Carney, noting it shrinks the Conservative caucus by one while opening a by-election in a Quebec riding the Tories held by only a handful of votes over the Bloc in the last general election. Given recent by-election results elsewhere in Quebec, the paper suggested Carney has a good shot at adding another Liberal seat.

The Globe went on to needle Poilievre further, noting that despite winning support from more than 87 percent of delegates at a leadership review in January, he has since lost two floor-crossers and watched a Liberal majority form. The suggestion in the article is that Poilievre is holding on for dear life.

That is how it reads from the Globe and Mail's newsroom in Toronto. It does not reflect how party members actually see it. Parliament is not treated as a game by most Canadians the way it apparently is by the commentariat at the Globe and Mail, who find bribery a source of amusement rather than a subject for scrutiny.

Speaking of bribery, Section 119 of the Criminal Code of Canada is not something Canadians are likely to see cited on the CBC, CTV, Global, or in the Globe and Mail. It reads, in full:

Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years who… being the holder of a judicial office, or being a member of Parliament or of the legislature of a province, directly or indirectly, corruptly accepts, obtains, agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, for themselves or another person, any money, valuable consideration, office, place or employment in respect of anything done or omitted or to be done or omitted by them in their official capacity, or directly or indirectly, corruptly gives or offers to a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or to any one for the benefit of that person, any money, valuable consideration, office, place or employment in respect of anything done or omitted or to be done or omitted by them in their official capacity.

In plain terms: if someone promises another person a political office — such as a Senate appointment — in exchange for doing something else — like resigning a seat — that can be treated as a bribe under Section 119. Whether that happened here is a fair question. The optics, at minimum, invite it.

Martel landed one of the richest appointments available in Ottawa: a Senate seat until age 75, fully paid, with no further elections and none of the demanding work of building a riding organization ever again. Martel is only 65, meaning a full decade of power and pay without further campaigning. In exchange, he stepped down from the House of Commons, clearing the way for Mark Carney's Liberals to contest the byelection.

But of course, all of that slips the mind of the media establishment. After all, several factions have an interest in undermining Poilievre right now.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has floated the idea of becoming prime minister himself; premiers do not typically bring television cameras to the Calgary Stampede unless they are positioning for a bigger job. Ford's allies have reason to chip away at Poilievre's standing.

Then there is the media itself, including the conservative-branded panellists who appear on CTV, CBC and Global. Decades ago, a Newfoundland lobbyist named Tim Powers appeared regularly on television as a conservative strategist despite having no real connection to the Reform Party of the day and disagreeing openly with its leader, Preston Manning. Networks billed him as the voice of the right anyway. Lobbyists like him appear on air less to represent a party's views than to advertise their own access and influence to prospective clients. The pattern has not changed: conservative-branded pundits, Doug Ford's camp and Toronto's editorial boards can all land on the same anti-Poilievre note, and it will look, on television, like consensus.

It is not the consensus. It is the inside track — the Parliament Hill people, the lobbyist class, the Laurentian elite — talking to itself. Meanwhile, in Alberta, this is exactly the kind of story that reinforces the sense that the rules Ottawa enforces on ordinary people do not apply to its own political and media class.

Rebel News will continue following the byelection call for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord and whether any authority examines Richard Martel's Senate appointment under the provisions of the Criminal Code written specifically for cases like this one.

GUEST: Lorne Gunter of the Edmonton Journal.

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Birring took part in a May 30 protest at the intersection of Old Yale Road and University Drive, where video showed him and another man spray-painting over the rainbow crosswalk while a third man held a sign. Birring has defended the protest as an act of political expression, arguing that rainbow crosswalks are not neutral public art but what he describes as propaganda being promoted through public spaces.

A week later, Birring was arrested and released on conditions. On June 26, both Birring and 67-year-old Errol Povah were charged with one count each of mischief over $5,000 by the B.C. Prosecution Service. The day after the charges were approved, Povah returned to the same crosswalk, where police say it was defaced again.

Save your children from pedophilia. pic.twitter.com/NCCMuhkbzc

— Amrit Birring - What's life without Freedom! (@abirring) May 31, 2026

The incident was quickly condemned by politicians, activists and Surrey Pride organisers, while Birring was labelled "far-right" by establishment media and left-wing activists. The broader question is whether this is simply a battle over political ideology, with views outside the progressive mainstream being labelled "far-right", or whether it reflects a deeper demographic shift and mass immigration reshaping Canada’s cultural outlook and what is considered acceptable in public life.

Whether spray-painting a crosswalk amounts to political protest or criminal vandalism will now be decided in court. But the case has opened a much larger debate about the cultural changes taking place across Canada.

Recent reports that the Ottawa school board cancelled Pride events and transgender story hours have often been attributed to pressure from so-called far-right activists. Another explanation being raised is the impact of demographic change.

Canada has welcomed millions of migrants from countries including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia. Many have settled in large communities and cultural enclaves in places such as Mississauga, Brampton and Surrey, where they maintain strong connections to the traditions and social values of their countries of origin.

As these communities grow, differing views on religion, gender, sexuality and public life are increasingly shaping political and cultural debates across Canada. The opposition to Pride events and gender ideology is no longer limited to traditional conservative movements, but is also emerging from culturally conservative immigrant communities.

The debate also extends to concerns about social cohesion and imported conflicts. Rising antisemitic incidents have raised questions about whether Canada is absorbing tensions from overseas conflicts alongside increased migration. Regardless of one’s views on immigration, the consequences of rapid demographic change have become an increasingly central part of Canada’s political debate.

The phrase "demographics is destiny" reflects the argument that changing a country's population eventually changes its culture, language, laws and political priorities.

Cities such as Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal were shaped over generations by particular histories, traditions, languages and legal frameworks. As the population changes, so too will the cultural and political landscape that defines them.

The broader debate raises a larger question: whether Canada can continue to dismiss clashes over changing social values as nothing more than "far-right" vs progressive left-wing ideology, or whether it must acknowledge the transformative role demographic shifts and mass immigration are playing in reshaping the country’s cultural landscape.

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On Saturday, Rebel News attended the U.S. ambassador's annual 4th of July celebration at his official residence in Ottawa. It was, by any normal standard, an unremarkable diplomatic event — fighter jets overhead, a garden full of guests, and an ambassador happy to talk to reporters.

But nothing involving Rebel News is ever treated as normal by Canada's legacy press.

Rebel News secured roughly 20 minutes with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra for a wide-ranging interview about the character of the American republic on the occasion of its 250th year.

What generated the real controversy, however, was who else was on the guest list: Tamara Lich, the Freedom Convoy organizer from Medicine Hat. Her attendance was cleared with the ambassador's office in advance, out of respect for his decision. He knew exactly who she was, and he invited her anyway.

By the time the show that evening had wrapped, the CBC had already filed a story on Lich's attendance, and an inquiry had landed from the New York Times. Two of the most powerful newsrooms on the continent are apparently very interested in a guest list at a garden party.

Why? Because this is not really about a party. It is about who gets to decide that a Canadian citizen — one whose Emergencies Act conviction has already drawn skepticism from four judges — is permanently unwelcome in polite company. Lich led the largest peaceful protest movement in a generation. That is precisely what her critics cannot forgive.

By every account from the event, Lich carried herself with grace, thanked the Americans warmly, and caused no disruption whatsoever. Those trying to have her un-personed are the ones who ought to be embarrassed.

There is a broader point here that goes beyond one party. Rebel News has been able to interview Canadian federal cabinet ministers only once in recent memory — at Davos, Switzerland, where local police had no jurisdiction to remove Rebel's reporters. Justin Trudeau's government, and now Mark Carney's, has simply refused to engage with this outlet at home. Yet the American ambassador extended an invitation, sat for a substantive interview, and allowed a guest list of his own choosing to stand.

That contrast says something about which government actually believes in a free press.

GUEST: Rebel News contributor Tamara Lich.

What is feminism? Merriam-Webster says "belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests,” and that’s just so cute it should be in a museum. That’s not what feminism means — at least not in 2026.

Equality of the sexes? We blew by that a generation ago. 60-70% of those in medicine and law are women. 72% of judges in France, for example. There’s no more “equality,” there’s “equity,” which really means whatever a judge or a politician thinks is fair.

Speaking of which, a new report from the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women, titled Confronting Antifeminist Ideologies in Canada, has landed — and, unsurprisingly, it is not really about equality at all. 

The report opens by declaring that "antifeminist ideologies" are "gaining prominence" in Canada, and that these ideas contribute to violence against women and "undermine progress" on gender equality.

Nowhere in the document does the committee grapple with the numbers that complicate its thesis. Men in Canada are four times more likely to be murdered than women, twice as likely to be the victim of a violent crime, three times as likely to be charged with an offence, and 15 times more likely to end up in prison. None of that made the recommendations.

Instead, the committee's 14 recommendations call for public awareness campaigns aimed at "young men and boys," new legislation to regulate online platforms and require "stronger moderation" of content, increased funding for women in STEM and the trades, and separate funding to steer men toward "health, education, arts, literacy, and sport." The report also urges more support to recruit women into politics, specifically.

A section on the "manosphere" treats ordinary interests such as fitness and self-improvement as a pipeline to extremism. One witness, Jean-Michaël Dubé-Rousseau of Partage au Masculin, told the committee that expecting a man to be strong and to avoid showing weakness reflects "toxic masculinity." The phrase appears throughout the report but is never defined.

The committee also took aim at the so-called "tradwife movement," with one submission describing women who embrace homemaking as promoting "misogyny" and "patriarchal roles." Choosing a traditional family life, in this framework, is treated as a betrayal of feminism rather than a personal choice.

Elsewhere, the report floats the idea of video game voice chats that automatically mute players when "toxic or harmful words" are detected through voice analysis, and calls for "prebunking" campaigns to inoculate the public against ideas the government has decided are wrong before they encounter them.

The report's co-chair is Marilyn Gladu, elected as a Conservative MP before crossing the floor to join the Liberal government.

What began, a century ago, as a fight for the vote and basic legal rights has become, in this document, a plan to regulate speech, ration opportunity by sex, and instruct boys on how to feel. Equality is nowhere in it. Control is.

GUEST: National Firearms Association Vice President Blair Hagen speaks out against media bias in using the Montreal attack as a way to push more gun control in Canada.

It is now halfway through 2026, and the latest viewership figures are in. Rebel News has shattered expectations with 496 million views and impressions in just the first six months of the year. That already surpasses the entire 2025 total of 433 million. No government subsidies, no corporate advertising blitz, just citizen journalists delivering a message the establishment cannot drown out.

A recent Pollara poll, no friend of independent media, confirms the scale. Eight per cent of Canadians tune in every day, with another 14 per cent watching occasionally. That means 22 per cent of Canadians, millions of people, now make Rebel News a regular part of their media diet. Not bad for an outlet that started in a living room just over a decade ago.

The momentum is especially strong among younger Canadians. Fourteen per cent of Gen Z watch Rebel News daily, matching the reach of the Globe and Mail in that demographic. Trust levels are nearly identical too. Seventy-two per cent of Rebel News viewers say they trust the outlet, compared to 74 per cent of Globe and Mail readers who trust theirs. Legacy media can no longer claim an unquestioned advantage, despite all their taxpayer funding and institutional backing.

But polls tell only part of the story. The real proof is in the engagement. In the past week alone, Lincoln Jay's report on drug addiction in Hamilton surpassed 275,000 YouTube views. An hour-long investigation from a Regina mosque has already attracted more than 90,000 viewers, an impressive audience for a documentary-length report. Across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other platforms, the numbers continue to climb.

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Using Hootsuite analytics, which tracks performance across every major platform, Rebel News has seen explosive growth. Shares have already exceeded 2.8 million this year, compared with 2.2 million across all of 2025. Reactions and comments have reached 18 million in just six months, up from 12.4 million last year. At this pace, Rebel News is on track to surpass one billion views and impressions in 2026.

This kind of growth is unsettling for Ottawa's political class. As independent media surges, Mark Carney's government is pursuing sweeping hate speech legislation and proposals for mandatory internet identification. Critics argue the measures would make it easier to monitor online activity and suppress dissenting voices.

Independent outlets are not merely an inconvenience for the political establishment. They challenge the narratives that legacy media and governments have long dominated. That is why Rebel News, along with contributors such as Tamara Lich, continues to find itself in the crosshairs. Meanwhile, outlets such as the CBC and the Toronto Star are not simply competing for audiences. They continue to advocate for greater regulation of the online space while their own audiences decline.

Canadians are voting with their eyes and their clicks. The question is no longer whether Rebel News can thrive without government funding. It is whether independent media can continue to thrive as governments seek greater control over the digital public square.

The battle over Canada's digital future has never been more consequential.

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You know it is only a matter of time until Carney comes for us. He thinks he has got a billion reasons to.

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That's according to John Carpay, founder of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, who joined Ezra from Calgary to walk through what he calls a methodical, bill-by-bill construction of a Canadian surveillance state. The latest entry, the so-called Safe Social Media Act, would bar teens under 16 from social media. Carpay says the policy sounds reasonable and works nothing like it's advertised.

"We're moving towards a communist China social credit type system," Carpay said, "where the government has access to where you are and who you communicate with and what you do."

Carpay laid out the full inventory: the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11), handing internet authority to the CRTC; the Online News Act, which killed news links on Facebook; the Cybersecurity Act, letting cabinet ministers order companies off the internet; the Combating Hate Act (Bill C-9); and the Lawful Access Act (Bill C-22), which has already pushed Signal and Telegram toward the exits. The Safe Social Media Act makes six.

Each bill alone looks modest. Together, Carpay argues, they form a machine: a Digital Safety Commission with the power to fine platforms up to $10 million or three per cent of global revenue, and a 24-hour takedown window that guarantees companies will censor first and ask questions never. Enforcing an age ban, he notes, requires proving everyone's age — which means a national identity check every time an adult opens a browser.

Australia already tried this. Carpay cites a 70 percent circumvention rate within months, with teens using fake IDs, borrowed logins and printed photo masks. Ottawa is charging ahead regardless.

Carpay also flagged a case in which the BC Human Rights Tribunal fined X $100,000 for failing to block content from American users — a Canadian tribunal attempting to police speech in another country entirely. It's the kind of overreach these new commissions will be built to replicate, at scale.

The one check left may come not from Ottawa but from Washington. The Trump administration's under-secretary of state for free speech, Sarah Rogers, has been pressing allies directly on the issue, and Canada's auto sector gives the U.S. real leverage the moment these bills start functioning as trade irritants.

"Governments never take away rights and freedoms without offering a nice-sounding pretext," Carpay said. Six bills in, Canadians are still waiting for Ottawa to explain why safety keeps requiring the surrender of everything else.

GUEST: Long form with John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. 

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For the first time ever, One Nation has overtaken both Labor and the Coalition in Victoria. Meanwhile, Premier Jacinta Allan's approval rating has plunged to a historic low, with a bombshell new poll suggesting Labor is on track to be turfed out at November's state election.

On today's live show:

• One Nation Overtakes Labor, Liberals in Victorian Polls• Karl Stefanovic sacked by ARN after sudden exit from Nine
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The Sycamore Gap tree stood for more than a century beside Hadrian’s Wall as a living symbol of British history and natural beauty. Its distinctive silhouette drew photographers, newlyweds, and tourists from around the world. It was more than a tree. It functioned as a destination, a landmark, and a piece of Britain’s shared heritage.

Viewers may remember the story from three years ago, when the tree was deliberately cut down.

It returned to headlines today for another dispiriting reason. One of the saplings grown from the original tree, planted at Wray Castle as a symbol of renewal after the vandalism, has now been stolen. Even the replacement was not spared.

Sycamore Gap sapling stolen from castle grounds https://t.co/ZRoaLjBEpM

— BBC North West (@BBCNWT) June 30, 2026

In 2023 two professional tree surgeons secretly filmed themselves felling the irreplaceable tree in the middle of the night. According to the evidence presented, they were not acting out of political conviction or environmental activism. There was no stated cause or ideological message. The act was carried out in a spirit of recklessness, with the ensuing outrage and attention treated as part of the spectacle. In the aftermath, an innocent teenager was wrongly accused before the true offenders were identified and convicted.

Justice Christina Lambert ultimately sentenced both men to four years in prison, a decision that made headlines across Britain. For destroying what was, at its core, a tree, the courts imposed a significant custodial sentence.

Whatever else can be said about the individuals involved, they were widely regarded as thoroughly unpleasant and clearly deserving of punishment.

What stands out on revisiting the case is the context in which it occurred.

The offenders were white British men operating in rural northern England. The judge was British. The victims, in a broader sense, were Britons who valued their history, countryside, and national heritage. There were no cross-cultural sensitivities at play, no concerns about multicultural tensions, and no perceived need to navigate questions of identity politics. It was, in effect, Britain dealing with its own internal wrongdoing without external sensitivities shaping the response.

Where there is no political sensitivity, the system appears capable of acting quickly and decisively. The Sycamore Gap case was straightforward: deliberate criminal damage to a well-known landmark, public outrage, swift identification of the offenders, and custodial sentences that reflected the seriousness of the act.

But in other cases where politics, identity, or cultural meaning enter the picture, the response is often less consistent.

The grooming gang scandals in places like Rotherham exposed long-standing failures to act on repeated warnings. Investigations later pointed to delays, missed opportunities, and institutional caution, with concerns about community relations and accusations of racism often raised as factors in the reluctance to intervene earlier. Even where convictions were eventually secured, sentences have often been described as modest relative to the scale and duration of harm described in victim accounts.

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Even in cases closer in nature to the Sycamore Gap tree, the response is far less uniform. The toppling of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol sits alongside other instances of monument removal linked to “decolonisation,” which have been handled in completely different ways depending on the political climate at the time, sometimes through official approval, sometimes through quiet administrative decisions rather than enforcement. Elsewhere, statues such as Winston Churchill have been vandalised in plain sight, while figures like John A. Macdonald have had monuments boxed up or removed entirely, with the response shifting depending on who the target is, and what the target represents. 

The pattern is not about whether laws exist, but how consistently they are applied.

When cases are politically uncharged, enforcement appears clear and forceful. When they intersect with ideology or identity, the response becomes more uneven, more cautious and more contested.

That is the contrast at the heart of the Sycamore Gap case. Not just a tree, but what it demonstrates about the two-tier justice system in Britain, where the state is decisive about what is clearly punishable, and where that certainty begins to fade.

Guest: Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), on why the CTF is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to confirm taxpayers will not cover any shortfall if the 24 Sussex Drive fundraising campaign falls short.

The call declares, in Arabic, that Allah is the greatest and that there are no other gods but him. Across the downtown core. On loudspeakers. Every week.

Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra and Rebel News videographer Lincoln flew to Regina on short notice to report on it firsthand. 

The mosque isn't even the most remarkable part of this story. The most remarkable part is who's cheering it on.

The Anglican church directly across the street has a priest who is genuinely thrilled that a loudspeaker is now broadcasting a declaration of Islamic supremacy — in Arabic, every Friday — into the very neighbourhood his congregation worships in. Ezra spoke with him. He's delighted.

The Global News reporter covering the story was wearing a hijab. And when we tried to ask the imam legitimate questions, the mainstream media journalists in the room heckled us. 

Then there's the Regina police, who responded to public backlash not by enforcing the city's noise bylaw — but by warning citizens that criticism of the loudspeakers could land them in court under Mark Carney's new hate speech law, Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act.

The city granted the permit. Then the police threatened the people who complained.

Canada was founded as a Christian country. For generations, Saskatchewan schoolchildren began their school day with the Lord's Prayer. Then, in the 1990s, a judge ordered it stopped after activists complained it violated their freedom of religion. Christianity was pushed out of the public square — quietly, legally, and permanently.

Now that void is being filled by loudspeakers pointed in all directions across a Canadian downtown, and the Anglican priest across the street is celebrating it.

When a foreign religious broadcast is imposed on a city, when the noise bylaw is selectively enforced, and when police threaten citizens for objecting — that isn't multiculturalism. That's something else entirely.

On June 19th, Prime Minister Mark Carney posted a glowing message to X, declaring — with evident pride — that his government had just passed landmark legislation to, among other things, "strengthen bail and sentencing" and "bring justice to those impacted by intimate partner and sexual violence."

A big week for Canada, he called it. Stronger. Fairer. More just.

A big week for Canada.  
Landmark government bills just became law — to build more affordable homes, protect vulnerable communities, safeguard our democracy, strengthen bail and sentencing, and bring justice to those impacted by intimate partner and sexual violence. 
 
We’re…

— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) June 19, 2026

Then, on that very same morning, the Toronto Sun published a story about Medhani Yohans. And suddenly Carney's pithy prose started to curdle.

Yohans, 37, is an Eritrean refugee who pleaded guilty earlier this month in a Guelph, Ont., courtroom to — wait for it — breaching bail. Again. He was sentenced to nine months in jail, minus time served, which means he'll be a free man come August after roughly 70 days behind bars.

Justice Matthew Stanley called Yohans' criminal record "aggravating" and barred him from downtown Guelph for three years. A three-year probation order was also handed down.

Now, about that probation order. The last one Yohans received — issued in February — prohibited him from being within 100 metres of where an unnamed individual lives, works, or is known to frequent. Yohans violated that condition in precisely one hour after his release.

Needless to say, the over/under on how long it takes him to breach the new order isn't exactly keeping oddsmakers up at night.

And what exactly is in that aggravating criminal record? His rap sheet, dating back to January 2023, includes sexual assaults on two strangers. Police have issued multiple public bulletins describing him as a high-risk offender with a history of violence.

Oh, and Yohans is not a Canadian citizen. He originally arrived in Canada as a sponsored refugee from Eritrea — via Europe, somehow — despite what one might charitably describe as a colourful background.

Here's the kicker. A Canada Border Services Agency source confirmed to the Toronto Sun that a deportation order does exist for Yohans. So why is he still here? Because, as a sponsored refugee, he is classified as a "protected person." The only mechanism that overrides that status is something called a danger opinion — a designation issued when an individual poses a major risk to the Canadian public.

You'd think a violent, repeat sex offender with documented assaults on strangers and a one-hour probation violation record might qualify.

The CBSA source told the Toronto Sun that frontline agents did attempt to pursue a danger opinion for Yohans. Headquarters shot it down. Apparently, sexual assault convictions aren't sufficient grounds. One can only wonder what would be.

So let's briefly take stock of who Medhani Yohans is: an illegal entrant, subject to a deportation order, convicted of violent sexual assaults, expected by authorities to re-offend, assessed by police as a high-risk offender, and declared untouchable by CBSA brass. His defence lawyer has argued that returning him to Eritrea would place him in a "volatile situation" back home. Good grief.

Law-abiding Canadian citizens with valid passports get grilled at customs upon returning from a family holiday, while Yohans slipped into the country and has made himself quite comfortable at taxpayer expense — complete with a court interpreter, naturally, since he does not speak either official language.

Mark Carney says Canada is getting tougher on crime. Medhani Yohans says otherwise — and he says it one probation breach at a time.

The latest example? New tariffs on some imported canned vegetables. And despite the government's preferred terminology, tariffs are taxes. Those taxes don't stay with importers or manufacturers. They get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices at the grocery store.

For families already stretching every dollar, that means pantry staples used in everything from spaghetti sauce to chilli are becoming even more expensive.

📣 Feds just slapped a new tax on FOOD💰
🥫Carney government is putting a tariff on some imported canned vegetables

Huh!?

Tariffs are TAXES

Taxes make things cost MORE

We need food to cost LESS!

🍝 Spaghetti sauce & chili just got more expensive

This makes ZERO sense

📺⬇️ pic.twitter.com/KfxWq660KZ

— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) June 23, 2026

At the same time, Conservatives are proposing to scrap the GST on used vehicles, arguing Canadians shouldn't be taxed again and again on the same product every time it changes hands. With used vehicle prices having nearly doubled since 2019, eliminating the GST could save Canadians thousands of dollars when buying a family vehicle.

It's a striking contrast in priorities. 

One side is proposing tax relief on a necessity that many families rely on to get to work and take their kids to school. The other is imposing new taxes that make basic food items even more expensive.

We'll ask Kris why governments seem so determined to squeeze more money out of ordinary Canadians, why these policies hit low-income families the hardest, and whether Ottawa has completely lost sight of the affordability crisis facing millions of working people.

GUEST: Kris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

A horrific attack in Montreal has shocked the city and the country, but the way the media has framed the story is almost as disturbing as the crime itself. In a Jewish neighbourhood of Montreal, a police officer was murdered in the line of duty. A Jewish civilian was also killed in the chaos, while the terrorist gunman was ultimately shot dead by police. The attack was captured on viral cellphone footage, making the tragedy impossible to ignore. Yet the true motivations behind the violence are being carefully hidden from the public as authorities and their media allies curate the narrative.

READ HIS MANIFESTO: The Montreal murderer was a Jew-hating Communist censor
The murderer in Montreal has been named: Seth Hatfield, from Alberta. He murdered a policeman in a shooting spree in a Jewish neighbourhood in Montreal.

Soon afterwards, government journalists at the… pic.twitter.com/wux4Kl2Q9D

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) June 23, 2026

The accused killer left behind a 104-page manifesto. This was not some short, incoherent internet rant. It was a sprawling, detailed document packed with explicit antisemitism, seething anti-Zionist conspiracy theories, and a deep well of communist, anti-capitalist ideology. The shooter also vented grievances commonly associated with the online incel movement, lamenting his isolation and blaming society's dating norms for his failures.

Authorities and the mainstream media initially refused to release the manifesto. Instead, CBC, Canada's state broadcaster, obtained early access to the document and publicly labelled the killer an incel. One word. That was the entire framing pushed to Canadians: a misogynistic loner driven by personal resentment who lashed out in violence.

Why did CBC, with privileged access to the document, choose to withhold the full story from the public? Why did it focus on the incel angle while ignoring the clear evidence of antisemitism and radical far-left politics? This is perhaps the clearest illustration of the media's agenda at work. The focus on misogyny and the incel label is not accidental; it is a deliberate attempt to frame the crime as a byproduct of a supposed right-wing, male-driven social crisis while burying the uncomfortable reality of left-wing antisemitic extremism.

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Even police say they have not yet determined a motive for the attack. That is not because the evidence is absent; it is because the evidence remains hidden from public scrutiny.

This is not a matter of speculation. The manifesto, which Rebel News has made available in full in the interests of transparency and public accountability, contains page after page attacking Jews, Zionists, and capitalism. It rails against Israel and echoes rhetoric commonly heard in Marxist academic circles. The manifesto's contents have also been confirmed by multiple independent journalists, including Juno News and Jesse Brown, who have verified the document's length and the ideological themes it contains.

The reporting about Montreal's incel shooter misled the public into thinking this killer was a Minassian-style woman-hater looking to kill as many women as possible. Not true.
1/x

— Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) June 23, 2026

What many mainstream media commentators have failed to emphasise is that the shooter's worldview was not rooted in a single grievance. It was a toxic cocktail of radical ideologies, combining traditional antisemitism, modern far-left Marxist resentment, and the despair of an alienated young man. The pattern is clear, but only if one is willing to examine the facts, and much of the media appears unwilling to do so.

In the end, two innocent people are dead: police officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane and civilian Michael Mizrahi. Their families deserve to know the truth about why their loved ones were killed. The public deserves to know what motivated this attack. Yet the gatekeepers in the press and the authorities have decided that Canadians cannot be trusted with the facts. They have chosen narrative over truth and ideology over transparency.

That is the real scandal here: not merely a murder, but the concealment of its meaning. The culture war over truth and information is playing out in real time, and the casualties are not only the victims but the very idea of honest journalism.

GUEST: John Lott, an economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate, weighs in on Canada’s crime crisis.

If you want the world's news before the world knows it, go to Donald Trump's social media platform. Yesterday, Trump announced on Truth Social that Keir Starmer had confirmed he was stepping down — and sure enough, today it became official. The final humiliation from a man who had basically been at political war, moral war, and social media war with Starmer from the very beginning.

Starmer's successor is already in place. Andy Burnham — the former mayor of Manchester, who won a by-election just one week ago — has been universally anointed by the Labour Party to take over. No general election, just an internal party process. It really is almost identical to how Mark Carney took over from Justin Trudeau here in Canada. 

Now, just as Trudeau was awful, Keir Starmer was awful. But what is remarkable is how quickly he fell. It took Trudeau years to crater that badly in the polls. Starmer did it in two. He always seemed plastic and fake — nothing real underneath there. He looked sort of stunned the whole time, as if he was simply waiting for things to blow over. They didn't blow over.

He ended up with the lowest approval numbers of any recorded British prime minister. And on his way out, he wept. Not for any of the tragedies that happened on his watch. For himself.

Here is a short list — call it ten things — of what Keir Starmer leaves behind.

First, he destroyed the Royal Navy. Obviously this decline did not happen entirely in the last two years, but the Royal Navy once ruled the world. There was a time when British law required the Royal Navy to have more ships than the next two navies combined. Today, only one ship was seaworthy enough to be dispatched during the recent conflagration in the Mediterranean and the Gulf — and it broke down. Two cabinet ministers responsible for the military resigned not in disgrace, but in protest, saying it would be a disgrace to stay on.

Second, the two-tier justice system. Because of the growing Muslim demographic in the UK, there is a proposal to make it illegal to criticize Islam. Cousin marriage is being legalized. Sharia law already operates in many communities. And the rape gangs — the industrial-scale rape of working-class British girls by Pakistani Muslim networks — were covered up for decades, in part by Keir Starmer himself, who as head of the Crown Prosecution Service did his best never to prosecute those cases, while suing into submission any conservatives who dared criticize the Islamification of society.

Consider the contrast: a mother named Lucy Connolly briefly posted, after children were stabbed by a Muslim extremist, that she wouldn't care if a migrant hotel burnt down. She wasn't calling for it. She said she wouldn't care. The post was up for an hour before she deleted it. She was sentenced to years in prison. Meanwhile, men who beat police officers — including a woman — at Manchester Airport faced a very different kind of justice. Two tiers. Two sets of rules.

Then there was the Chagos Islands scandal. In some bizarre fit of Third World-ism, Starmer moved to hand over a key NATO military base — used by American B-1 bombers — to a foreign country, and pay them billions of dollars for the privilege. There was even talk of slavery reparations from the British Empire — the same British Empire that actually abolished the slave trade.

He proposed internet ID cards, claiming it was to protect children from social media, while simultaneously supporting gender surgery for minors. Thirty Britons a day were arrested for things they wrote on Facebook or Twitter — 30 a day, according to the Times of London. That is a larger number, on the public record, than what is known in Russia or China.

He declared a war on farmers through inheritance taxes that would force families to sell the land their parents built. He banned fracking. He invested in uneconomic windmills. He presided over some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. He cut fuel subsidies for pensioners in winter. And just days before his resignation, he proposed killing hundreds of wild ponies.

Boats full of economic migrants cross from France every day. France is not an unsafe country. Under international refugee law, asylum must be claimed in the first safe country reached. But Starmer, the lawyer, insisted the European Convention on Human Rights gave him no choice. That is simply not true. And while Hamas still held hostages in Gaza, he declared British recognition of Palestinian sovereignty — just as Mark Carney did here.

Keir Starmer will be forgotten as quickly as he rose. A man who left no imprint on society other than making the world's problems a little bit worse. His successor has inherited a country that is harder to defend, more divided, and considerably poorer than the one Starmer was handed two years ago.

The British people deserved better. They know it. That is why he's gone.

GUEST: British independent journalist Jack Hadfield.

Whether that survives the editing room is another question. But in the room, at least, it felt like something had shifted.

The campaign's tagline is simple: Alberta's done waiting. It is a direct rebuke to a very long line of Alberta leaders — Preston Manning, Peter Lougheed, Jason Kenney — who argued that the province's grievances could be resolved from within Confederation. They tried. It didn't work. The argument Wilson is making is that there is no lack of solutions to the problems Alberta faces. There is a lack of power to implement them. The system itself is the problem.

A Global News reporter asked two good questions. He couldn't help himself, though — he took a shot at Tamara Lich when he introduced himself. Tamara responded.

The independence campaign now heads into summer, with the Calgary Stampede a few weeks away and the October referendum question on the horizon. For the next two months, most Albertans will be thinking about pancake breakfasts and barbecues. But the fall is coming. And when it does, this question will be on the front page.

Alberta's done waiting. Whether the rest of Canada is ready to hear that is a different matter entirely.

Imagine being told you have diabetes. Suddenly, life becomes a constant audit of food labels. Sugar is everywhere, so pervasive that ketchup might as well be liquefied doughnuts. Over time, discipline begins to pay off: blood sugar stabilises, some weight is lost, and it is achieved without pharmaceutical shortcuts. But for some in medicine, that is not enough. The push for faster, easier, more dramatic results leads man these days to the latest so-called miracle drug: Ozempic.

Ozempic, officially prescribed for diabetes management, has become a mainstream tool for weight loss. For many, it has little to do with diabetes at all. It is about shrinking the number on the scale, whatever the cost. And yes, it can work at first. Appetite is heavily suppressed, meals shrink dramatically, and even alcohol cravings can fade. For a moment, it feels like a win: fewer calories, less drinking, more money saved.

But that sense of control does not always last.

In my own experience, the side effects arrived quickly and with force, and what initially felt like progress soon became something far more difficult to manage.

Severe gastrointestinal pain left me curled up in discomfort, with little relief from standard remedies. Persistent nausea turned eating into a gamble. Rapid weight loss also came with muscle loss, fatigue, and weakness. There were neurological symptoms too, including a constant ringing in the ears. The result was not just weight loss, but a broader physical toll that outweighed any benefit.

All of this came from a relatively new drug now widely used beyond its original purpose. That raises an unavoidable question: how much is truly known about its long-term risks, and how much is still being uncovered in real time?

History offers a warning. Thalidomide, once marketed in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a safe treatment for morning sickness, caused devastating birth defects worldwide. It remains a stark example of how medical optimism can outpace caution.

Ozempic is not thalidomide. And for some, it is an effective and manageable tool. But the experience for me was different: what was sold as a solution ended up feeling like a trade-off where the cure was far worse than the condition it was meant to address.

The pattern is familiar: new drugs are rolled out quickly, early results are highlighted, and the full risk profile often emerges only after widespread use.

The lesson is not to reject medical progress, but to approach it with scrutiny. Transparency, long-term evidence, and caution matter before turning promising treatments into mass solutions. Because when unintended consequences appear, they are borne not by institutions, but by patients.

GUEST: Ezra Levant interviews Billboard Chris about his recent arrest in Spain

That raises an unavoidable question: If these firearms are truly the "weapons of war" the Liberals have spent years warning Canadians about, why have their licensed owners been allowed to keep them for seven years? Governments do not typically grant repeated amnesties for items they genuinely believe pose an immediate threat to public safety.

Joining us to discuss the latest delay is Tracey Wilson of the CCFR. We'll examine what the Supreme Court challenge means for gun owners, the legal arguments before the court, and why the confiscation scheme remains bogged down years after it was announced.

We'll also discuss how licensed firearms ownership continues to grow despite years of political attacks on lawful gun owners, and the reality of what is actually being surrendered under the program. Among the most common firearms turned in are pink-stocked .22-calibre rifles, a detail that sits awkwardly alongside years of government rhetoric about removing military-style firearms from Canadian communities.

Seven years later, the government's gun grab remains stalled, challenged in court, and increasingly difficult to justify.

GUEST: The CCFR's Tracey Wilson. 

Indian Road in Kingston, Ontario, has been Indian Road for a very long time. The people who live on it love it. They said so. Repeatedly. To their councillors, to reporters, to anyone who would listen. They are proud of the name. Some of them have indigenous heritage themselves and feel no shame whatsoever in the word "Indian." In fact, residents argued over the past year that forcing a change was paternalistic — their word.

It didn't matter. Kingston city council voted 8 to 5 on Tuesday night to rename the street Aki Road, after the Ojibway word for land or earth. The adjacent Indian Road Park will become Old Amino Park. Two brand new names that almost no one in Kingston had ever heard before Tuesday.

A local man who actually canvassed the street — who went door to door and listened — was blunt about what he found. Residents are angry. They feel unheard. They are building resentment. He called the outcome a step in the wrong direction.

He also directly disputed a claim, floated at a council meeting the year before, that the majority of people on the street wanted a new name. He said that the claim was far from the truth.

So why did it happen?

One of the advocates for the change, the executive director of the Kingston Native Centre, explained the rationale plainly during the council meeting: “Changing a road name won’t change history, but I think it’s a clear signal to Indigenous folks that not only the city cares, but council does."

That is the entire argument. Not that the name was hateful. Not that residents demanded it. Not that it would improve anyone's life in any measurable way. The argument is that it sends a signal. That it proves someone cares. And if the people who actually live on the street have to update their mailing address, their driver's licences, their business cards — well, that's just the price of the signal.

The CBC, predictably, has been enthusiastic about this outcome. They have been building toward it for some time, framing opposition to the change as retrograde and quietly cheering the activists pushing for it. The taxpayer-funded broadcaster knows whose side it's on.

This pattern is not unique to Kingston. Across British Columbia, municipalities have been renaming streets and landmarks at a steady clip. In Toronto, Yonge-Dundas Square was rechristened Sankofa Square — after a Ghanaian concept — because Henry Dundas was deemed insufficiently enthusiastic about abolishing slavery, despite the fact that he was a reformist who did eventually support abolition. The irony that the Sankofa people of West Africa were themselves deeply involved in the slave trade was, of course, not discussed.

Sir John A. Macdonald was stripped from the ten-dollar bill. His statues have been toppled. Queen Victoria was pulled down outside the Manitoba legislature. A Champlain statue is reportedly next in Quebec. Each removal is framed as progress, as healing, as reconciliation. But the people being asked to accept these changes — the residents of Indian Road, the Kingstonians who voted against this at every opportunity — don't feel reconciled. They feel overruled.

There is a Washington Post poll worth recalling here. The Post — not a conservative outlet by any measure — surveyed Native Americans on the Washington Redskins name controversy. Nine in ten said they were not offended by it. Nine in ten. And yet the team was renamed anyway, to the Washington Commanders, a name that inspires no one and belongs to nothing.

The people who demanded these changes were not, by and large, the people the changes were supposedly made for. They were activists, grant-funded organizations, and media outlets looking for a cause. The actual communities in question — whether indigenous residents of a Kingston street or Native Americans surveyed by a major American newspaper — were mostly fine with the names as they were.

The question that never gets asked is a simple one: if you genuinely cared about improving the lives of indigenous Canadians, wouldn't you start with the Indian Act? It is still called the Indian Act. It has been called the Indian Act since 1876. It establishes different rights and restrictions based entirely on race. It has done more harm to indigenous communities than any street name in any city in this country.

But reforming the Indian Act is hard. It requires legislative effort, political will, and decades of follow-through. Changing a road sign is easy. It costs almost nothing — except to the residents who live there, who have to fight their own city council to be heard, and who lose anyway.

It is about the performance of caring, done at someone else's expense.

GUEST: Peter McIlvenna on Rupert Lowe's rape gang inquiry report. 

GUEST: Gage Haubrich, Prairie Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation on the Saskatchewan Heritage Fund]]> Elon Musk and the clash between masculine ambition and feminized institutions People criticize Musk because he represents a set of values — building, risking, competing, ignoring consensus when consensus is wrong — that a particular institutional culture has spent decades trying to replace. People criticize Musk because he represents a set of values — building, risking, competing, ignoring consensus when consensus is wrong — that a particular institutional culture has spent decades trying to replace. Ezra Levant https://assets.nationbuilder.com/therebel/pages/153771/meta_images/original/ELS-JUN-15-SOCIAL.jpg?1781567567 2026-06-15T20:04:00-04:00 https://www.rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_show_june_15_2026 ezra_levant_show_june_15_2026 Zjbqk5jY CrII5gCw+U9tF5RsT News:News AnalysisShow:Ezra Levant ShowNews:TOP STORYRegion:CanadaBeat:LifeElon MuskNews:Video-35:29 Article by Rebel News staff

Here is an actual headline published by Canada's self-declared newspaper of record, the paper we are all apparently supposed to treat as the gold standard of serious journalism: "Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here's how to properly hate him."

After a full day of being mocked mercilessly, the Globe quietly changed the headline and issued a brief note: "The previous headline on this article did not meet The Globe's editorial standard. It has been replaced." It took them an entire day to figure that out. They weren't sure. That tells you everything.

Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him https://t.co/qAQVdquwCP

— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) June 11, 2026

The new headline asks: "SpaceX is set to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Is that a bad look for capitalism?" The word "hate" was swapped for "despise" inside the article itself. The Globe apparently decided that "despise" is more respectable than "hate." It isn't.

The article is an embarrassment on the facts, too. It gives examples of billionaire excess — super-yachts, conspicuous consumption — but the examples aren't of Elon Musk, because he doesn't have those. He doesn't own a yacht. He dresses plainly. All he seems to do is work. So to make sure readers come away with the appropriate contempt, the Globe talked about other rich people's excesses and hoped no one would notice the bait-and-switch.

Then there is the claim that Musk "bought" political power and sits "at the centre of government." Really? Which part of government? Musk helped launch DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency — which found a significant amount of fraud before being wound down in less than a year. It was never a cabinet position. Total staffing never got much above 100 people, in a federal government of two million. When Musk complained publicly that his ideas weren't being followed, President Trump dismissed him immediately. That is not what it looks like when someone is "at the centre of government."

As for the accusation that Musk gorges on government contracts — he sells services to the government. He sends more cargo into space than every other space company or country combined, times ten, at a fraction of the cost because he pioneered reusable rockets. Without Musk, China would be the dominant space power on Earth, unchallenged. NASA knows it, and has resented him for it for years.

Now, consider who is delivering this lecture. The Globe and Mail is owned by the Thomson family, Canada's wealthiest dynasty, worth more than $80 billion. And how did the Thomsons earn their billions? They inherited them. From a grandfather who built something. Today's Thomsons, whose sole accomplishment was being born after their grandfather rather than before him, are the ones telling you to despise a man who just completed the largest IPO in history — money raised not from manipulated politicians, but from ordinary investors who believed in what he built.

That IPO, by the way, made the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan roughly $11 billion in a single day. 

And the Thomson family's newspaper — despite being backed by one of the richest fortunes in the country — still collects annual media bailout subsidies from the federal government because it cannot run a newspaper profitably. Their grandfather made money in newspapers, and now his descendants need Liberal handouts to keep the lights on. These are the people explaining how capitalism is a bad look.

Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain https://t.co/ArBReYYGsv

— Financial Times (@FT) June 12, 2026

The Financial Times joined in as well, calling Musk a "real-life Bond villain" and accusing him of "stoking racial hatred in Britain." The FT has long billed itself as the newspaper of UK business. Going woke and despising the man who just did the biggest IPO in history is a curious way to serve their readership.

This is nothing more than envy. And, given the climate in which a health care executive was assassinated on the streets of New York City as part of an explicit murder campaign against millionaires, whipping up personal hatred of wealthy individuals is not merely stupid. It is dangerous.

GUEST: National Firearms Association Executive Vice President Blair Hagen to speak on the Liberals' extension of their gun ban.

GUEST: Northern Irish journalist Richard Inman on the fallout after the attempted beheading by a Sudanese man in Belfast]]> Honouring the worst of government: Kris Sims breaks down the 2026 Teddy Waste Awards The Teddy Waste Awards may have winners on paper, but in reality, the losers are always the same: hardworking Canadians. The Teddy Waste Awards may have winners on paper, but in reality, the losers are always the same: hardworking Canadians. Sheila Gunn Reid https://assets.nationbuilder.com/therebel/pages/153375/meta_images/original/META-THUMBNAILS-1200X628-Re026.jpg?1781131859 2026-06-10T21:00:07-04:00 https://www.rebelnews.com/the_gunn_show_june_10_2026 the_gunn_show_june_10_2026 Bhn5vDZw CrII5gCw+WxOFtVKD Region:CanadaNews:News AnalysisNews:TOP STORYShow:The Gunn ShowBeat:EconomyNews:Video-28:35 The federal government says it's tightening its belt. Canadians know better.

There is a giant soccer tournament underway in North America right now, with international teams and referees descending on cities across Canada and the United States. One of those referees is Omar Artan, a Somali official who was supposed to travel to Florida for a pre-tournament training camp.

He was blocked at the border. American authorities denied him entry.

The reason? The United States says Omar Artan has ties to al-Shabaab — the Islamic terrorist organization responsible for mass killings across the Horn of Africa and beyond.

So what did Canada's political class do with that information?

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says Omar Artan, the Somali referee who was denied entry to the U.S. ahead of the World Cup, would be welcome to officiate in Toronto.
“Toronto believes in fairness, inclusion, and giving talent the opportunity to shine. He would be welcome to referee… pic.twitter.com/bhabrdwLHl

— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) June 10, 2026

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow immediately issued a public statement saying Artan would be welcome to officiate in her city and pledging to write to FIFA on his behalf. Within hours, British Columbia Premier David Eby offered an identical message. Two senior Canadian politicians, racing to the microphone to vouch for a man the United States just flagged as having terrorist connections.

It gets worse. The Republic of Somaliland — a breakaway state that has actively distanced itself from Somali Islamist extremism — went through Artan's old social media posts and translated them. In one post, he wrote that Jews target Muslims and Arabs and suck their blood.

Why would Western countries take people who are affiliated with terrorists, who are violent, who are antisemitic, or hostile to any other group? It's hard to say, but that seems to be the Canadian way.

GUEST: Rebel News' extended coverage of last weekend's Walk With Israel in Toronto. 

While it is being sold as a child protection measure, critics ask whether it is another Trojan horse for broader internet control, censorship powers and digital ID frameworks.

Reports indicate the legislation will impose new restrictions on social media access for users under 16, alongside the creation of a federal digital regulator tasked with setting online safety standards and determining which platforms are compliant. Platforms that meet those requirements would be allowed to operate under the new framework, while others would face penalties or restrictions.

As always, the pitch is simple: it’s for the kids.

That's the thing about making kids under 16 prove their age.
It's a back-door way to make everyone over 16 provide their ID, too.

Canada's authoritarian government wants to track everything everyone does online.

They're just pretending it's about kids. https://t.co/Nx5V8MLkvt

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) June 8, 2026

This has become a familiar pattern. Previous attempts to regulate online speech in Canada have bundled child protection measures with broader powers over content moderation and so-called online harms. The effect is to make criticism politically toxic. Question the censorship framework and you are positioned as being against protecting children.

The tactic is not subtle. It is effective because it shifts the debate away from the scope of government power and toward moral accusation.

There is no serious dispute that parents are concerned about children spending too much time on social media or being exposed to harmful content online. Those concerns are real and widely shared. But the existence of a concern does not automatically justify federal control over how the entire population accesses the internet.

The practical issue is enforcement. A ban on under-16 users cannot function without age verification systems. That means platforms must find a way to determine who is allowed to access their services, which in practice pushes toward identity checks for all users. What begins as a restriction on children quickly expands into a requirement for everyone to prove who they are before participating in online spaces.

That shift is not incidental. It is the central consequence of the policy.

It also raises the obvious problem that age-based restrictions online are already easy to circumvent. Teenagers have been misrepresenting their age on digital platforms for as long as those platforms have existed, and there is little reason to believe that will change because of new regulatory obligations imposed on companies.

🇦🇺 Meanwhile in Australia on the U16 Social Media Ban

Little Girl:- “It’s a bad idea because we’re gonna find alternates anyways”

Tyrannical WEF Shill Oz PM Albanese:- “yeh that will get found out too” pic.twitter.com/dmzTWwsDQZ

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) December 11, 2025

Parents already have access to extensive tools to manage their children’s online activity. Screen time limits, app restrictions and content controls are built into every major device ecosystem. The government is not introducing a missing capability. It is stepping into a space where parental tools already exist and reframing it as a matter requiring federal oversight.

At the same time, the legislation is expected to expand into broader requirements for platforms to mitigate harmful content and address risks associated with artificial intelligence systems. While there is a legitimate debate to be had about how emerging technologies such as AI should be handled, these measures also extend regulatory reach further into how digital communication is structured and governed.

‘A massive surveillance undertaking, and it should alarm people.’

Deputy Editor at Spiked, Fraser Myers, believes Keir Starmer’s proposals to technology companies, including a potential social media ban for under-16s, could lead to restrictions for adults. pic.twitter.com/fRAlRbCpBO

— GB News (@GBNEWS) June 9, 2026

GUEST: Independent journalist Caryma Sa'd on the policing this past weekend at the Walk With Israel

It started with journalism. For two weeks, Ezra Levant and the team at Rebel News have been exposing a straightforward contradiction: Tim Hortons publicly claims to be prioritizing Canadian hires, even launching a splashy PR campaign to rebrand itself as a homegrown institution ahead of Dunkin' Donuts' planned expansion into Canada. Yet at the very same time, the chain was actively posting listings for Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) on the federal government's own job board — 93 locations, by Rebel News' count.

So, we visited Tim Hortons locations still advertising for foreign workers and asked managers to explain the discrepancy. One manager denied any knowledge of the TFW postings — while Ezra held the restaurant's own government listing in hand.

Shortly after, the chain issued a nationwide ban on Rebel News journalists entering any of its properties. Tim Hortons' lawyers sent Rebel News a formal threat letter warning that any further questions asked of managers or franchise owners would result in trespass reports to police and the pursuit of "all available remedies, including charges under the applicable act and civil action."

But we kept reporting, just from public sidewalks. Tim Hortons called 911 three times. Police attended each time and took no action, since we were well within our rights on public property.

Now Tim Hortons has opened a new front. The chain's legal team filed a trademark complaint against Rebel News with Shopify, seeking to have our merchandise store suspended from the platform.

The item at issue is a satirical T-shirt: "Make Tim Hortons Canadian Again." The shirt does not use Tim Hortons' fonts or official branding, and no reasonable consumer would mistake it for an official product.

In Ezra's view, the complaint has no legal basis. Under Canadian trademark law, criticism and satire are expressly permitted uses and do not constitute infringement. Passing off — the actual offence trademark law is designed to prevent — requires intent to deceive consumers into thinking they are purchasing the genuine article. A T-shirt criticizing a corporation plainly does not meet that threshold.

Nonetheless, Shopify's complaint process required Rebel News to retain trademark counsel and respond within 48 hours, or face having its store suspended — and potentially its entire account shut down.

Tim Hortons is owned by Restaurant Brands International, which is controlled by 3G Capital, a Brazilian private equity firm. Despite the chain's Canadian marketing, it remains the single largest user of the federal Temporary Foreign Worker program among Canadian restaurant chains.

A lobbying letter sent by Tim Hortons to Immigration Minister Marc Miller, which has since become public, acknowledged that the chain's business would "struggle immensely" without access to international workers, and called for higher TFW caps, expanded work hours for international students, and a permanent foreign labour pipeline — all for entry-level positions that have historically served as first jobs for young Canadians.

We have launched a five-part response campaign. Rebel News reporters will continue their on-the-ground coverage of Tim Hortons' labour practices. Meanwhile, we're building a legal defence fund to fight the trademark complaint and any further litigation the chain pursues.

We are also on the lookout for tips from workers, franchise employees, and anyone with knowledge of human rights violations or immigration abuses involving the TFW program at Tim Hortons locations, which can be sent to [email protected].

We will keep fighting these bullies until they stop lying and live up to their false promise to hire Canadians.

To sign the boycott petition or donate to Rebel News' legal defence fund, visit TimsBoycott.com.

GUEST: Ezra reports from Walk for Israel in Toronto.

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Jon Domanko, Vice-President of Legal for The TDL Group Corp. — the corporate entity that licenses and controls Tim Hortons restaurants across Canada — has sent Rebel News a letter accusing its personnel of "demonstrating a pattern of attending Tim Hortons restaurant premises and confronting team members and guests on camera, without consent and without warning."

Except that has never happened. When Ezra Levant visited a North York Tim Hortons recently, he immediately identified himself, stated who he was with, and asked to speak to a manager. When asked to leave, he left. David Menzies did similarly.

After receiving the notice, Tamara Ugolini visited a Tim Hortons location while remaining entirely off the property — and the company still called the police. Officers responded promptly, assessed the situation, and left without interfering. Because nothing illegal was happening.

None of that mattered to Tim Hortons' lawyers. The letter now permanently bans Rebel News Network and all persons acting on its behalf from every Tim Hortons restaurant, drive-thru, parking lot, distribution facility, and corporate office in Canada.

And not just for journalistic purposes. David Menzies is apparently banned even from buying a coffee.

The letter also contains this remarkable line: "Legitimate inquiries about Tim Hortons can be directed to our communications team at any time." So Tim Hortons' corporate lawyers have appointed themselves the arbiters of what constitutes a "legitimate" journalistic inquiry. Questions about TFW hiring practices apparently do not qualify.

Here is what does qualify as legitimate: at least 90 Tim Hortons locations are still actively recruiting Temporary Foreign Workers, according to the federal government's own job bank. Some of those postings are for entry-level positions. Some are for management roles. This is happening at the same time Tim Hortons ran a public relations campaign announcing it was committed to hiring "local" workers — a word that, notably, carries no immigration status definition whatsoever.

Meanwhile, youth unemployment in Canada has climbed to nearly 15 percent. Tim Hortons' brand is built almost entirely on Canadian identity — the flag, the history, the mythology of hockey rinks and double-doubles. The gap between that marketing and its actual hiring record is exactly the kind of story that journalists are supposed to investigate.

Rebel News has now sent Tim Hortons 17 detailed questions, including how many TFWs and international students the company currently employs, who is responsible for placing those government job postings, when Tim Hortons last lobbied the federal government and what it lobbied for, and whether the company intends to take down its remaining TFW job ads.

The customers on the street in North York had no problem answering a simpler version of the question: every single person asked said they believed Tim Hortons should be hiring Canadian workers instead.

Rebel News will continue to report on this story. A legal threat is not an answer, and "no comment" is not a press strategy that holds up when the public is watching.

GUEST: Western Standard's Cory Morgan on the backlash against his billboard.

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The records raise an uncomfortable question: Why was city hall treating the NCCM coalition as its primary stakeholder while appearing to give far less weight to Edmonton's Jewish community?

The controversy began after Driechel participated in a professional development trip to Israel alongside other North American police leaders. The trip focused on public safety, emergency management, cybersecurity and counter-terrorism.

Almost immediately, the NCCM, the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities and more than two dozen affiliated organizations launched a campaign against the chief, demanding answers and ultimately suggesting that, absent satisfactory responses, Driechel should resign.

Behind the scenes, the newly released records show Mayor Knack repeatedly directing police leadership toward NCCM.

"The best starting point for organizations to engage with is the letter sent by NCCM which lists out many organizations," Knack wrote to the police chief and police commission chair.

Knack did not merely pass along the coalition's concerns. He endorsed them.

"I think the three questions that community have raised are reasonable questions to be answers," he wrote, referring directly to the demands contained in the NCCM-led coalition letter.

The mayor also offered city hall's assistance in arranging a meeting between the activists, the chief and police leadership.

"Finally, NCCM would like to meet with Council and both of you all together. Our office is more than willing to help coordinate," Knack wrote, adding that "this would be hosted by NCCM" and that "they would be leading the meeting."

Knack went even further, recommending NCCM-connected figures as advisors to police leadership.

"Both were formally involved with the Edmonton and/or National parts of NCCM and have been taking calls and meetings non-stop since Tuesday and would have some excellent insight if there is interest," he wrote.

The contrast with the treatment of Edmonton's Jewish community is striking.

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The ATIP package contains extensive correspondence from the NCCM coalition, including letters signed by more than two dozen organizations and repeated communications pressing for accountability from the chief.

By comparison, the records contain a message from the Jewish Federation of Edmonton supporting Driechel and warning that "a small group of extremists" was targeting him simply for participating in a professional development mission to Israel. The federation also warned that antisemitic extremism frequently exploits anti-Israel activism as a vehicle for radicalization and the justification of violence.

Yet nowhere in the disclosed records does Knack direct police leadership to use the Jewish Federation as a "starting point." Nowhere does he describe the federation's concerns as "reasonable questions." Nowhere does he offer to coordinate meetings led by Jewish organizations or recommend Jewish community leaders as advisors to police leadership.

That omission is particularly notable given the broader context.

Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Jewish schools, synagogues and community centres across Canada have faced an unprecedented wave of threats, vandalism and violence. Police services across the country have repeatedly acknowledged rising levels of antisemitic hate crime.

Despite that reality, the documents show city hall's attention focused overwhelmingly on the concerns of organizations objecting to a police chief visiting Israel, rather than on the concerns of Jewish organizations defending him.

Driechel ultimately refused to apologize. Speaking publicly, he defended the trip as a legitimate professional development opportunity and rejected the notion that activist groups should dictate where police leaders can seek training and operational knowledge.

The newly released records suggest that while the chief was standing his ground, Edmonton's mayor was treating the NCCM coalition as the primary voice guiding city hall's response to the controversy.

Guest: Daniel Pipes on the US House vote on the Iran war

I tried to ask Prime Minister Carney if we’re in a recession on his way out of the event today, but did not succeed. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/sxxC7GuLc1

— Laura Stone (@l_stone) June 1, 2026

That's simply the economist's term for a recession caused by two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. The qualifier doesn't make it any less painful for families struggling with rising costs, stagnant wages and shrinking opportunities. And it certainly doesn't change the fact that Canada is now the only G7 country in recession.

REPORTER: Do you think Canadians blame Carney or Trump for the recession?
POILIEVRE: You mean the fact that we're the ONLY country in the G7 that's in a recession? 🤨

REPORTER: Yes. 🤡

Proof that TDS either stems from low IQ or causes low IQ. pic.twitter.com/78J56Q5qPA

— Kat Kanada 🏴 (@KatKanada_TM) June 2, 2026

Joining me tonight is Kris Sims of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. We'll discuss the Liberals' latest media bailout scheme, why taxpayers are still on the hook despite the streaming tax retreat, and whether Ottawa's attempts to rebrand a recession are fooling anyone outside the political bubble.

GUEST: Kris Sims, from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

There is a quirk of the British legal system that serves nobody except the people who want horrific crimes buried. In the United Kingdom, publication bans on criminal proceedings remain in effect until a trial is concluded and a sentence handed down. Reporters may sit in the gallery and take notes, but those notes stay in a drawer. No pressure on the system while it does its work — or fails to.

That is how the murder of Henry Nowak managed to grip the entire United Kingdom all at once, like a wave crashing without warning.

Henry Nowak was 18 years old — half Polish, half English, a British university student with his whole life ahead of him. Last year, he crossed paths with a man named Vickrum Digwa. There was an altercation. Footage surfaced of Henry, jokingly, calling Digwa a "bad man." Digwa responded: "I am a bad man."

What happened next is not entirely clear. But what is clear is that Digwa stabbed Henry to death with a kirpan — the ceremonial dagger carried by observant Sikhs — and Henry Nowak bled out on the ground.

The Digwa family immediately moved to cover it up. His mother allegedly hid the knife. His father told the arriving police that Henry had simply fallen over a fence. His brother had called emergency services and claimed they had been racially assaulted — by Henry. The white man dying in the street was cast as the aggressor.

"We've just been attacked by someone racially, this [REDACTED]... we've been attacked racially by some white person."
GB News has just posted the 999 call from Vickrum Digwa's brother. By framing innocent Henry Nowak as the white aggressor, it sets up the entire police response! pic.twitter.com/HbA6duyHdv

— Jack Hadfield 🇬🇧 (@JackHadders) June 1, 2026

And the police believed it.

The bodycam footage released this week, following Digwa's guilty verdict on Monday, is something that has now been seen by millions. Henry Nowak, bleeding out, handcuffed, told the arresting officer: "I've been stabbed. I've been stabbed."

The officer's response — words that have since ricocheted around the world — was: "I don't think you have been, mate."

Digwa was convicted and handed a life sentence with a minimum of 21 years — then had two years knocked off because of his age. He is 23.

The parallels to George Floyd are impossible to ignore and have not gone unnoticed. Both cases hinge on police conduct. Both carry as their tragic final words, "I can't breathe." Both have ignited a nation. The difference, of course, is the direction of the double standard.

Floyd's death — the death of a man with a serious criminal record, who was extremely intoxicated — was treated as a civilizational reckoning. Politicians across the Western world took a knee. Justin Trudeau, during a pandemic lockdown, attended a Black Lives Matter rally in Ottawa and knelt on the pavement.

Henry Nowak's death, where the victim was white and the perpetrator was not, is being treated very differently by the same institutions.

The British police are an anti-white institution. They circle the wagons to protect their own every time an officer acts contrary to the law.

It is far more crucial to put our efforts into ending anti-white thought within them, instead of laser-focusing just on a kirpan ban! pic.twitter.com/Jc0wGnC7VS

— Jack Hadfield 🇬🇧 (@JackHadders) June 3, 2026

Jack Hadfield was blunt about what that difference reveals: all of the anti-racist policies implemented by British police have only ended up being anti-white. 

He pointed to a cascade of institutional documents — the Casey Report, the Hampshire Police's Race Action Plan — that, in his assessment, explicitly direct officers to treat minorities better than white Britons. 

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party, has since called out the two-tier policing by name. The New York Times, as of recording, had published nothing on the case. The BBC has, predictably, focused its coverage on framing the subsequent protests as violent far-right disorder, rather than engaging with the substance of what the bodycam footage actually shows.

Britain’s police are obsessed with DEI.

White people are not being treated fairly or equally under the law.

We must end two-tier policing. pic.twitter.com/JW5gTzrt37

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) June 3, 2026

Hadfield was at the Southampton protest, which drew three to four thousand people and marched peacefully from one police station to another.

Vickrum Digwa is going to prison. That much is settled. But the words spoken to a dying 18-year-old — "I don't think you have been, mate" — are not going anywhere. 

Britain is looking into that mirror now. What it sees there will define the next election.

GUEST: UK-based independent journalist Jack Hadfield. 

In a tightly scripted, carefully stage-managed speech at a synagogue on Monday, Carney finally said the quiet part out loud. "Across our country," Carney said, "antisemitism has surged to levels not seen in the post-war period." He admitted Jews make up just one per cent of the population yet face more than two-thirds of all religion-motivated hate crimes. 

For a moment, it sounded like a Prime Minister preparing to act. Carney painted a grim picture of a country where Jewish schools are shot at, synagogues are firebombed, and Jewish students are driven from campus.

Then reality set in. The speech wasn't broadcast live in full, wasn't delivered in Parliament, and wasn't open to media scrutiny. Reporters, including Rebel News, were locked out while a hand-picked audience watched another carefully managed Liberal production.

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Instead of stronger enforcement, tougher prosecutions, or naming who is responsible, Carney delivered bureaucracy. He bragged about six new pieces of legislation, including Bill C-9. But Canada already has laws against violence, vandalism, trespassing, stalking, harassment, threats, intimidation, and disturbing religious worship. The problem has never been a lack of laws. It is a total lack of enforcement.

Jewish leaders have begged for protection. Police say they are stretched to breaking point. Municipalities are pleading for help. Yet Ottawa’s response is not decisive action, but more committees, more consultations, and more bureaucracy, despite already having the powers needed to act.

Which brings us to Carney’s big announcement: a new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion, chaired by none other than Marc Miller. Yes, that Marc Miller. The same minister whose government got tangled in the Laith Marouf scandal, handing public money to a vicious antisemite.

Even though the speech was framed around antisemitism, this council’s mandate is far broader: fighting racism and hate in all their forms. Not antisemitism specifically. Everything. So a crisis hitting one community gets buried in the usual progressive laundry list of grievances.

Mark Carney outlined four priorities: reassess the drivers, coordinate responses, improve research and data collection, and measure outcomes. In other words: study, coordinate, research, and evaluate. After bullets, firebombs, and campus intimidation, the government’s answer is more paperwork.

The composition is even more revealing. Just one Jewish Liberal voice, Senator Marc Gold, stacked alongside figures like former cabinet minister Omar Alghabra and lawyer Avnish Nanda, who has defended pro-Palestinian campus encampments. If this is truly an emergency, why build a panel designed to balance political interests instead of laser-focusing on protecting Jewish Canadians?

INSANE.
Mark Carney’s combatting antisemitism committee includes the Islamist Omar Alghabra, who called for terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah to be legalized. It also includes notorious lawyer for Jew-haters, Avnish Nanda.https://t.co/7DjDIyEg0y
pic.twitter.com/R3Utza5wBp

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) June 1, 2026

Most telling of all: Carney condemned antisemitism repeatedly but refused to name the source. He never identified the radical ideological movements, the university encampments, the street protests, or the aggressive anti-Israel activism that so often turns into outright Jew-hatred. Instead, he lumped it in with Islamophobia, transphobia, and attacks on churches in a vague, feel-good lecture about hate.

Carney correctly diagnosed the disease. He just does not have the courage to name the cause or the guts to fight it.

This committee is not a solution. It is the problem. It dilutes a specific crisis against Jews into a broader political project, produces reports instead of real enforcement, and proves this government would rather manage optics and balance interests than confront the actual people attacking Jewish Canadians.

Jewish Canadians are being told the government understands their fears. What they are still waiting for is proof this government is willing to confront the people causing them.

GUEST: James Manson, JCCF lawyer. He recently testified with Lisa Bildy and Mark Joseph on Mark Carney’s Bill C-9 and its threat to freedom of expression.

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Just over three weeks ago, Ezra was banned from flying to London, where he had planned to cover Tommy Robinson's "Unite the Kingdom" rally. He received a cold, unsigned email from the UK Home Office — the kind you cannot reply to. His ETA, the electronic travel authorization that allows citizens of friendly countries to enter Britain without a full visa, was cancelled. No reasons given. No right of appeal.

Ezra did what any reasonable person would do: he took the Home Office up on their own suggestion and applied for a proper visa. He paid the thousand-pound super-priority fee, which is supposed to produce a decision within 24 hours. That was more than three weeks ago. Two emails have arrived since — both confessing the Home Office is running "a little late."

The legal challenge to the ban continues. Ezra has retained counsel in the UK and believes the Home Office's conduct is unlawful.

But here is the weekend update: the UK has now banned two more people. And this time, the press is paying close attention.

Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur were both blocked from entering Britain. They may not be household names in Canada, but in the United States they are prominent voices of the radical left. Both are of Turkish ethnicity, both are Muslim, and they are relatives — Piker is Uygur's nephew. Piker runs a streaming channel. Uygur's television programme is literally called The Young Turks.

Piker made headlines recently for travelling to Cuba to produce a propaganda video for the Castro regime, dressed in thousands of dollars' worth of designer fashion. Upon returning to the United States, he was charged with failing to register as a foreign agent on Cuba's behalf. He has also been publicly and proudly vocal about his enthusiasm for political violence against his opponents. He does not attempt to hide it.

Uygur, for his part, has a documented and obsessive fixation on Jewish people as a political scapegoat. He is also straightforwardly anti-American — which makes what happened next rather remarkable.

Both men took to social media within hours of receiving their ban notices. And both said the same thing: Israel did this.

the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel. the west is betraying "liberal values" for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel. https://t.co/UqQG1dogOI

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) May 31, 2026

Piker declared that the UK had revoked his visa "at the behest of Israel," and called it a betrayal of liberal values by a "genocidal, fascist foreign government." Uygur said he had been banned "for criticizing Israel." Suddenly, both men — who have spent years expressing contempt for Western values, cheering on its enemies, and mocking anyone who defends it — were draping themselves in the language of Western liberty.

Here is the problem with their theory. The person who signed those ban letters — Ezra's included — is Shabana Mahmood, the UK's Home Secretary. She is a pro-Palestinian Muslim politician. She attends anti-Israel rallies. She is, by any honest accounting, about the last person on earth who would be carrying water for the Israeli government.

Ezra received the same vague, infuriatingly non-specific letter that Piker and Uygur received. No specific reason was given. But for Piker and Uygur, Jewish people are the universal explanation for everything that goes wrong.

What makes this episode truly revealing is the press reaction. When Ezra was banned, along with roughly a dozen journalists, speakers, and associates of Tommy Robinson, the coverage was minimal. The general sentiment from legacy newsrooms was: those are just Tommy Robinson's crowd. 

Now that Piker and Uygur have received the same treatment, it is a five-alarm crisis. The "Israel did it" line is being repeated without scrutiny.

Two-tier outrage. The same selective indignation that produces two-tier justice.

To be clear: Ezra is not in favour of banning people for their ideas. Censorship is generally immoral and almost always counterproductive. Banning someone with a bad idea typically turns a boring bad idea into a dangerous, glamorous one. The same dynamic will likely work in Piker and Uygur's favour now.

If Piker has committed a crime — and a federal charge suggests he may have — then let him be charged, tried, and judged accordingly. That is not what a travel ban is. A travel ban is the government deciding, without due process or transparency, who is permitted to speak and where.

Ezra knows something about that firsthand.

GUEST: Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, on Newfoundland and Labrador dropping its court challenge against the federal equalization program.

Canada is officially in a recession. That means the economy has shrunk for two consecutive quarters (six months). GDP is shrinking.

The regime media are calling it a “technical recession,” as if that somehow makes it better — or not a real recession. That’s not surprising, given that it’s never a real recession for the CBC; they’ll receive more money this year than ever before in history, courtesy of the “private sector” media bailout.

In reality, Canada has been in a recession for years on an individual basis. GDP per capita has been falling since 2022. That’s one of the reasons Trudeau — and then Carney — went wild with immigration. By bringing in millions of people, the total size of the economic pie got a bit bigger, even though each of us got a smaller slice.

But now we’re in a real recession on a total GDP basis. It’s so bad that even mass immigration can’t hide it anymore.

How is this possible? You can’t go a week without Carney and his cronies announcing some massive new “investment.” Unfortunately, they’re just moving money around — from productive people to unproductive people. That’s not going to grow the economy.

When was the last time you saw a good news story about the economy — an actual company using its own money to invest and grow in Canada? Not a government scheme, but someone choosing to do business here instead of somewhere else?

It’s hard to think of one. In fact, Mark Carney is about to drive billions of dollars in tech investment out of the country by insisting on Bill C-22, which would allow the government to spy on any social media app.

But at the same time as the recession news, we got some good news from the oil and gas industry.

Pipeline company South Bow announced in a press release that its proposed pipeline has been fully booked, meaning enough customers have pledged to use the pipeline for it to be commercially viable. South Bow’s pipeline would run along the same route as Keystone XL, which was first proposed more than a decade ago.

They’re ready. Their customers are ready. The only thing left is politics — Mark Carney, and Liberal judges who like to invent new rights for Indigenous activists, including the right to stop 300,000 people from signing a petition.

The final go/no-go decision on the South Bow pipeline will be made in mid-2027. One year to live or die.

Will Carney kill it? What do you think he’s going to do?

GUEST: Mark Milke, founder and president of the Aristotle Foundation, on the Alberta separatism debate they hosted between pro-separatist lawyer Keith Wilson and former Alberta premier and pro-federalist Jason Kenney.

Was pretty bleak pic.twitter.com/LXKfxhBJMc

— Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) May 28, 2026

In Toronto, a once-grand civic fountain now sits clogged with debris and covered in “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza” graffiti, including the red Hamas triangle. Nobody cleans it. Nobody protects it. The decay is not only tolerated. In some circles, it is quietly celebrated.

This is not an isolated incident. The same pattern is repeating in cities across Canada, the United States, and Europe. The West is starting to resemble a civilization after a war, except no war ever occurred. No bombs fell. No foreign army invaded. This decline is entirely self-inflicted, driven by political choices, activist pressure, and a profound loss of will.

The statue most valued historic leaders Sir Winston Churchill has been defaced by far left pro Pally types.
On same day Green Party won a parliamentary election by appealing to a foreign block vote.

It is spiritual, as well as telling.

We will take back our country. ✝️🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/RA7aXM7H7T

— Rikki Doolan (@realrikkidoolan) February 27, 2026

Compare Detroit’s once-magnificent Michigan Central Station, abandoned and left to rot for decades with no external disaster, to Hiroshima. After the atomic bomb flattened the city in 1945, Japan rebuilt it into a clean, modern, and thriving metropolis. Even Pripyat near Chernobyl shows the clear result of a genuine catastrophe. Western cities today have no such excuse.

Weekly reminder: Decline is a choice. pic.twitter.com/LeFsjFqg3R

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 28, 2026

In Canada, the destruction often feels deliberate. For years, the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald at Queen’s Park was boxed up as if it posed a danger. Toronto renamed Yonge-Dundas Square after activists declared historical figures morally unacceptable. Statues have been removed in Winnipeg, monuments vandalized in Victoria, and even Winston Churchill’s statue outside the British Parliament has been repeatedly defaced.

The goal is consistent: erase the symbols, erase the history, and sever people’s connection to their own civilization, then point to the resulting collapse as evidence that the old system failed.

What has replaced civic pride? More disorder, more crime, and more chaos. Public spaces are surrendered to encampments and vandalism, while courts increasingly treat such disorder as protected rights. Ordinary citizens are losing access to safe, clean parks and streets.

Activists from Antifa circles to Hamas sympathizers to the “decolonize everything” movement view Western civilization itself as the enemy. In their eyes, vandalism becomes activism, and maintaining order is portrayed as oppression.

This is not compassion. It is surrender.

Not every country has accepted this path. In Washington, D.C., monuments are being restored and public spaces cleaned, thanks mainly in part to U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗝. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝟱.𝟮𝟴.𝟮𝟲 𝟬𝟮:𝟱𝟱 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧

President Trumps posts image of how the new reflecting pool will look after his improvements pic.twitter.com/si93SP4k8K

— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) May 28, 2026

The difference is simple: enforce the law, protect public spaces, punish vandalism, and take pride in your country instead of apologizing for it.

The West does not need a war to destroy its cities. It is achieving that through weak leadership, ideological activism, and a loss of civilizational will. The choice ahead is clear: protect what belongs to everyone, or watch it disappear forever.

Instead, the debate has been hijacked by celebrity opposition campaigns led by musicians like Corb Lund and George Canyon, whose province-wide citizen initiative petition seeks to override the wishes of the local community through a referendum driven largely by outside activists.

Picard argues this fight is about more than coal. It’s about whether rural Albertans still have the right to shape their own economic future without being steamrolled by urban activists, celebrities and political pressure groups who parachute in for the headlines and leave locals to deal with the consequences.

If “local voices matter” is more than just a slogan, why are the people of Blairmore being ignored after already voting overwhelmingly in favour of the project?

And why is Alberta’s resource economy subjected to veto campaigns, while the communities that depend on these projects are treated like their opinions don’t count?

Robbie Picard joins me to discuss the growing backlash from rural Albertans who are tired of being talked down to by people who don’t live there, don’t work there and won’t suffer the economic fallout if these projects are killed.

GUEST: Robbie Picard, energy advocate and founder of Oil Sands Strong.

It’s pretty common for social movements to score a victory — and then push things too far.

For the LGBTQ+ movement, that turning point came after victories on gay marriage, gay adoption and Pride Month, before moving on to the much less popular frontier of transgenderism. Now, support for the movement is declining. They just don't know when to quit. 

In Canada, the local movement that has gone too far is that of Indigenous rights. While most Canadians believe, to some degree, that we have a moral obligation to address the social ills and dysfunction affecting Indigenous communities — at the very least because they are Canadians, and our citizens should come first — it’s fair to say the truth and reconciliation movement has overplayed its hand. We can see this most clearly in British Columbia, where land acknowledgments went from a feel-good way to show respect to First Nations to literally giving them the land back. 

Recent cases in British Columbia have raised doubts about whether homeowners in Canada can actually count on owning their land. For many people, their home is their only investment. And now Canadians who've done nothing wrong to indigenous people are at risk of losing their homes to people who have had nothing wrong done to them. 

Now consider Wab Kinew, the first First Nations premier in Canadian history. In some ways, he's wonderful; he's got that big smile, a jovial personality, and he says he loves Canada. Early in the trade dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump, Kinew responded to Trump’s taunts by saying, “We’ll never be your 51st state, but we’ll be your number one best friend.”

He's likable, and for a time, Ezra couldn't help but think he would be an important part of real reconciliation in Canada. 

But, as it turns out, there is another side to him.

The other day, the premiers of the western provinces gathered, and one of the issues raised was Alberta’s referendum debate. Danielle Smith was asked about the court ruling.

Premier Smith explains her view that a judge's decision to block an independence petition for failing to consult with First Nations groups is "anti-democratic" before Premier Kinew jumps in to reprimand her, saying her belief is wrong. pic.twitter.com/7uRzoG4mwI

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) May 26, 2026

Smith handled the question professionally, but Kinew used the opportunity to try to correct and embarrass her over the issue of Indigenous consultation in the process.

At the end of the day, if you support overriding the will of 700,000 Canadians — who have signed petitions on both sides calling for a referendum — in the name of Indigenous rights, there’s a good chance that your movement will begin taking on water in the same way the LGBTQ+ movement has over transgender issues.

For Ezra, Wab Kinew remains a difficult figure to pin down. He likes that Kinew is premier, but dislikes the fact that he’s an NDP socialist with an occasional childish streak. At the same time, Ezra still hopes Kinew will seize the opportunity to become a genuine healer of racial divisions in Canada.

Barack Obama had a similar opportunity, but squandered it by embracing the radical ideology of Black Lives Matter.

Wab Kinew might do the same thing if he continues to endorse Indigenous vetoes over the democratic process.

GUEST: Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, to discuss Mark Carney's exorbitant in-flight menu.  

After years of pushing some of the most radical and economically destructive policies in Justin Trudeau’s government, one of the worst cabinet ministers Canada has seen in modern times is finally on his way out. But don’t pop the champagne just yet. This could just be classic Liberal stagecraft.

Steven Guilbeault to resign as Liberal MP over the government's environmental policies https://t.co/O8FLRbqIG7 pic.twitter.com/5nDDb7hmCc

— National Post (@nationalpost) May 26, 2026

Guilbeault built his reputation as a professional activist. In 2001, he was arrested after climbing Toronto’s CN Tower as part of a Greenpeace stunt. In 2002, he joined activists who scaled the roof of Alberta Premier Ralph Klein’s home to install solar panels, an arrogant provocation aimed at the province that powers Canada’s economy.

As Trudeau’s environment minister, and later minister of Canadian identity and culture, Guilbeault embodied the most extreme wing of Liberal environmentalism. He combined sky-high spending, endless international junkets and a deep enthusiasm for censorship. While forests burned and the economy struggled, Guilbeault jetted off to climate summits. That included COP30 in Brazil in late 2025, even after leaving the environment portfolio.

🚨BREAKING: We just crushed Trudeau’s minister Steven Guilbeault in court.
He illegally blocked us on Twitter. Today he was ordered to unblock us & pay $20,000 to Rebel News.

His lawyers tried to get me to keep the details secret.

Read the facts here: https://t.co/do3KQzDseW pic.twitter.com/3fkZzo71B4

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) September 11, 2023

Guilbeault was also deeply involved in Trudeau’s censorship agenda, backing bills that threatened free speech online. One of his more infamous moments came when he suggested politicians should not be criticised. It provided a clear window into his authoritarian mindset and ego, one that Rebel News actively resisted and pushed back against.

Media reports are framing Guilbeault’s departure as a dramatic split with Prime Minister Mark Carney over energy policy. In November 2025, Guilbeault quit Carney’s cabinet after the government signed a memorandum of understanding with Alberta.

That deal included progress toward a new bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s coast. It suspended the proposed oil and gas emissions cap and eased clean electricity regulations. Guilbeault called the Alberta deal “the last straw,” claiming Carney’s changes would make Canada’s climate targets impossible to meet.

But this “resignation” has been rumoured for months. And the idea that Guilbeault and Carney are ideological opponents is mostly fiction.

The two have worked together for years. In a 2022 speech, Guilbeault proudly noted that six major Canadian banks had joined the Net-Zero Banking Alliance under the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), an organisation chaired by Mark Carney. The alliance represented more than $130 trillion in assets.

In 2023, Guilbeault joined a high-level roundtable in New York alongside Carney, then serving as GFANZ co-chair, along with Bloomberg Philanthropies and other global climate actors to accelerate the global phase-out of coal. The overlap is not incidental. It is ideological.

Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, simply plays a smoother game. He talks about “too much regulation, not enough action.” He promotes carbon capture technology. He cuts deals with Alberta. But the end goal remains the same: net zero, capital reallocation away from conventional energy, and tighter climate controls.

Guilbeault was the blunt, hectoring activist. Carney is the polished financier who makes the same agenda sound reasonable to business audiences. Their public disagreements help the Liberals create the illusion of moderation, especially as they try to rebuild support in Alberta and among Canada’s energy sector.

This resignation allows Carney to distance himself from the most unpopular parts of the Trudeau era without changing course. It is political theatre designed to make him look like a pragmatic capitalist while the underlying GFANZ-driven agenda marches on.

Canadians should not be fooled. Whether it is Guilbeault or Carney behind the wheel, the destination remains the same: higher energy costs, constrained resource development and greater centralised control over the economy. Guilbeault’s rumoured exit changes the face of the government, but not its failed direction. The real solution is not a new Liberal in a better suit. It is rejecting the entire net-zero-at-all-costs ideology that has damaged Canada for years.

Important news for snackers across the country: Dunkin’ Donuts is returning to Canada. The U.S.-based chain has been popular internationally for years, with more than 14,000 locations across 40 countries. Now it’s making a major comeback north of the border, with plans for more than 700 Canadian locations.

At the same time — purely by coincidence, apparently — Tim Hortons has had a revelation. In a carefully crafted message leaked to The Globe and Mail, the company announced that it is moving away from — “moving away from,” not firing — temporary foreign workers and launching a campaign to hire up to 10,000 local workers.

The Globe and Mail notes that this marks a “stark reversal from its previous tenor,” considering Tim Hortons has been “one of the biggest proponents of the TFW program.”

Restaurant Brands International Inc. (RBI), Tim Hortons’ parent company, has also discovered the importance of preserving jobs for Canadian youth. According to The Globe and Mail, the company has pledged “to stop lobbying the federal government to expand the Temporary Foreign Workers program, citing the high youth unemployment rate.”

Their message is clear: they want you to know they care — and that it has absolutely nothing to do with Dunkin’ coming to town.

But, in reality, this is little more than propaganda.

Keep in mind that RBI has only said it is not lobbying anymore — and only for now. Its exact words were:

“We have not lobbied the government since last year and we won’t be lobbying them on TFWs any time soon given our commitment to hire locally everywhere possible,” said Duncan Fulton, chief corporate officer of Restaurant Brands.

Given how carefully that statement is worded, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that it isn’t true.

A search of the Lobbying Registry of Canada shows RBI CEO Joshua Kobza listed as recently as May 18, 2026. The subject matter: immigration.

They were lobbying seven days ago. They were lying. And now they’ve lied again.

But there’s more.

In a memo sent to the Liberal government in 2024 — obtained through an access-to-information request — RBI lobbied to increase the cap on the number of hours international students could work from 20 hours per week to 28–30 hours.

Do you see what they were trying to do?

There are already more international students working at Tim Hortons than temporary foreign workers, and international students are, in effect, a source of temporary labour that does not show up in temporary foreign worker stats.

So what difference does it make if Tim Hortons announces it is scaling back its use of temporary foreign workers while quietly positioning itself to hire even more international students?

Whoever is making these decisions to put foreign labour first has destroyed something that was once uniquely Canadian.

As you know, Tim Hortons was a real person. If he were still alive today, he would likely demand that his name be removed from this gross, deceptive and incredibly un-Canadian company.

GUEST: Juno News' Melanie Bennet on her latest reporting. 

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It was Margaret Thatcher who famously said, "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

That's what's happening right now with Zohran Mamdani in New York City, where plans for free everything are already driving away wealthy taxpayers. But what happens if you're a country small enough to avoid the consequences a little longer — and wealthy enough to keep funding bad ideas?

Well, that describes Ireland.

With a population of just over five million people, Ireland has become the European headquarters for countless major American corporations. While many maintain offices and staff there, the country's low-tax environment is a major draw. It's the same principle that led our own Prime Minister, Mark Carney, to structure Brookfield Asset Management's holdings through jurisdictions such as Bermuda and the Isle of Man to reduce tax burdens.

On paper, Ireland is one of the richest countries in the world, boasting a GDP of more than $160,000 per person. Unfortunately, that wealth has helped delay the consequences of a series of poor policy decisions, from government overspending to embracing mass immigration with few limits.

These issues are front and centre as Ezra reports from the city of Galway, where voters in Galway West are heading to the polls in a by-election today.

Interestingly, Ireland's current president once held this parliamentary seat. The by-election was triggered by her departure, and several intriguing candidates are now vying to replace her, including a number of independents known to be dissidents on those core issues. 

One of those candidates is Noel Thomas. Formerly a member of a mainstream party, he was expelled after criticizing mass immigration policies. Over the past two decades, Ireland has welcomed roughly one million newcomers. Today, approximately one in five people living in the country was born abroad — a remarkable demographic shift for a nation that fought so hard to preserve its distinct identity, including through rebellion against the British Empire.

Since leaving the political mainstream, Thomas has embraced a more anti-establishment message, recently standing alongside truckers and farmers protesting high fuel prices across the country.

The thing about by-elections is that they're so localized, and usually have such low voter turnout, that people feel more comfortable voting for a more radical or idealistic candidate. After all, they know a single seat isn't going to change the direction of the whole country. It's the perfect opportunity to send a message.

So will candidates like Noel Thomas — or some of the other freedom-oriented contenders — become vehicles for that message in Galway?

Unfortunately, after talking with people on the street, Ezra found that the views are pretty much unanimous: socialism, globalism, and open borders. From their perspective, if the country is wealthy enough, why not be generous? Why not align yourself with foreign migrants? It is, after all, a form of virtue signalling.

In the end, Galway is a great town, a beautiful tourist area... and an absolute slam dunk for the left-wing parties. That's Ireland in 2026.

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Now Cory is updating the handbook to answer the questions more Albertans are asking every day: What would sovereignty actually look like? And why are so many establishment politicians suddenly panicking about the debate?

We’ll also talk about our new collaboration, Alberta Fact Check, a new project from Rebel News built to push back against the flood of misinformation coming from Liberal politicians, activist academics, and the taxpayer-funded CBC about Alberta’s future.

The moment Albertans started seriously discussing independence, the spin machine kicked into overdrive. So Cory Morgan, Ezra Levant, and I decided it was time to build something fast, factual, documented, and unapologetically Alberta-first.

If you’re tired of being told what Albertans think by people in Ottawa and Toronto, you won’t want to miss this conversation.

GUEST: Cory Morgan, from the Western Standard.

And what does that mean for us in Canada? After all, Europe can sometimes feel like a kind of dystopian time machine. What happens in places like Marseilles, Paris, or London today may well be what happens in Canada in five years: mass migration, censorship, and related social pressures.

Ireland is a particularly fascinating case. It is a small country of about 5 million people that, until recently, was relatively economically poor. Today, it is among the wealthiest countries in the world, leading several economic indicators, while simultaneously leaping ahead on problems related to mass immigration and censorship.

Ezra has grown fond of Ireland, having visited at least half a dozen times in recent years, and has watched grassroots movements there push back against mass immigration. But unlike the United Kingdom, where political pressure has been partially translated into electoral momentum, and figures like Nigel Farage, Ireland has seen little meaningful political translation of those concerns.

That makes Ireland a potential preview of what Canada could look like in the not-so-distant future — and a reason to pay attention now. And who better to help us understand Ireland than today’s guest, Dr. Eoin Lenihan, author of Vandalizing Ireland.

Dr. Lenihan will help us answer the question: Is the wonderful Emerald Island being vandalized, and can it be saved?

GUEST: Long-form interview with Dr. Eoin Lenihan on the state of Ireland.

Normally, Ezra would be preparing to board a flight to London, England, for Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally. Unfortunately, there has been no communication from the Home Office since yesterday.

The reasons for Ezra's ban remain unclear. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer went on a rant today, declaring that far-right agitators and extremists are not welcome in his country — though by that standard, he seems to mean just about anyone who criticizes him even slightly.

It appears Starmer is trying to manufacture a January 6-style moment around tomorrow’s rally. His public support is crumbling, and perhaps he believes a manufactured crisis — God forbid, one involving some kind of violence — could put him back on the political map. More likely than not, the attempt will fail.

The good news is that the Free Speech Union has now taken up Ezra's case. In its press release, the group points out that Ezra is a supporter of Israel, and that this may have factored into the decision to bar him from entering the country.

And while Ezra may be absent, Alexa Lavoie is more than capable of delivering excellent on-the-ground reporting from the rally, as she has done in the past.

GUEST: Lorne Gunter on Mark Carney's latest meeting with Premier Daniel Smith about pipelines.

A man with a clean record, no criminal history, not even a parking ticket, is now deemed “not conducive to the public good.” Think about that for a second. While small boats packed with fighting-age men cross the English Channel every single day with barely a shrug from the authorities, a journalist with a microphone and a camera from a fellow Commonwealth nation is treated like a national security threat.

This isn’t about Ezra. This is about what Britain has become under Keir Starmer.

As his Labour government haemorrhages council seats, over 1,500 and counting, they refuse to fix the borders, the streets, or the collapsing trust in institutions. Instead, they ban the reporters asking the questions voters are screaming about.

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And it’s not just reporters. Multiple political activists, commentators, and even sitting members of the European Parliament have been denied access to the UK. The birthplace of parliamentary democracy is now in the business of silencing political dissent it finds uncomfortable.

Back home in Canada, the pattern is identical. A Trudeau-appointed judge just invented a brand-new procedural hurdle to block over 300,000 Albertans from even petitioning for an independence referendum, a barrier that was never imposed on Quebec. Same playbook: when the people start demanding accountability, the institutions simply move the goalposts.

Over 700,000 Albertans have now signed various petitions about the province’s future. This includes more than 300,000 who signed a petition calling for a referendum on independence, and roughly 400,000 others who signed a petition earlier this year expressing their desire to stay in Canada. While their reasons don’t always align, a growing number of Albertans clearly feel disenfranchised by Ottawa and want real change. This includes greater control over immigration, resources, and their justice system, or simply having a direct say on Alberta’s future through a referendum.

GUEST: Keith Wilson, King’s Counsel, breaks down the Alberta court ruling and what Danielle Smith and the province must do next.

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On tonight’s show, I’m joined by Tracey Wilson of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights to break down the bombshell documents exposing the Liberals’ baseless gun grab and what it means for lawful firearms owners across Canada.

We’ll talk about why Ottawa keeps targeting licensed gun owners instead of tackling repeat violent offenders, border smuggling, and catch-and-release bail policies, and why taxpayers are now staring down a multibillion-dollar boondoggle with no proof it will reduce crime.

And while we’re at it, don’t forget the CCFR AGM is happening in Mississauga on May 23, where yours truly will be delivering the keynote address. If you care about property rights, civil liberties, and pushing back against bad policy disguised as public safety, you won’t want to miss it.

GUEST: CCFR's Tracey Wilson.

Both women were targeted by the CBC because they reject the view that John A. Macdonald was genocidal, instead viewing him as a nation-building hero.

So the CBC launched an elaborate sting operation: creating fake companies, assigning staff fake names, and attempting to get close to Shepherd and Widdowson under false pretenses. They misled them into believing they were allies, all while secretly filming and provoking them in hopes of capturing an incriminating reaction.

I found out recently that I was deceived by social activists in an elaborate scheme dating back to January. A production group with what I now know has a fake name and fake identities gave me a friendly interview about my book A Day with Sir John A, and about Sir John A… pic.twitter.com/ncLB0rABzt

— Lindsay Shepherd (@NewWorldHominin) May 12, 2026

These are not powerful figures who need to be “held to account.” In Lindsay Shepherd’s case, especially, she is a journalist, but mostly a quiet young mother. Frances Widdowson is also vulnerable; during a recent university appearance, where she was discussing Indigenous relations, she was physically attacked. Imagine watching an elderly woman being assaulted and concluding that she still needs to be taken down a peg.

This was a stunt designed to embarrass them, humiliate them, and deceive them. Widdowson sensed something was wrong and recorded part of the interaction on her cellphone with the main provocateur. The entire spectacle is as disturbing as it is embarrassing.

My interrogation of "Mr. Smarmy" (Igor Vamos) - a set-up by a made up company called "Forge Media", which pretended that I would be doing an interview for a "docuseries". This outfit is evidently connected in some way to @CBC. pic.twitter.com/4xwbT03kfd

— Frances Widdowson (@FrancesWiddows1) May 11, 2026

Not to mention the cost. By the look of it, hundreds of thousands of dollars may have gone into this operation. Nearly 25 people appeared to be involved.

If this was supposed to be comedy, it was deeply unfunny.

Some people, like Sacha Baron Cohen, are famous for elaborate and genuinely humorous hoaxes that target wealthy or powerful public figures — people like Donald Trump, for example.

But what happens when the targets are not billionaires or world-famous politicians? The CBC instead went after a professor who was fired and routinely threatened, and a young mother with children. At that point, the joke stops being funny.

And then when you remember that this was paid for by the government, it's not funny at all.

GUEST: The Democracy Fund's Mark Joseph discusses an independent investigation into Canadian church burnings and synagogue attacks. 

The ATIP request asked Public Safety Canada for “all analysis from the department on the efficacy of the assault style firearms compensation program and its effect on crime rates/public safety.”

The department’s response was pathetic in its honesty: “Please be advised that no information related to your request exists within Public Safety Canada.”

Despite the lack of evidence supporting the program’s effectiveness, Ottawa has already committed at least $742 million toward the confiscation scheme in Budget 2025. Independent estimates suggest the final cost to taxpayers could exceed $6 billion once collection, compensation, storage, destruction, administration, and enforcement costs are fully accounted for.

“If the government can’t show taxpayers this program will work, then taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for it,” said Canadian Taxpayers Federation Prairie Director Gage Haubrich. “Ottawa needs to listen to police officers who say the gun ban and confiscation won’t work.”

The Fraser Institute has warned the cost of the confiscation scheme could rival or exceed the long-gun registry fiasco, which ballooned from an estimated $85 million to nearly $2 billion. Fraser Institute senior fellow Gary Mauser estimates the total cost of the current gun confiscation program could range between $2.6 billion and $6.7 billion.

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The report also notes Ottawa had already spent more than $67 million on the program before collecting a single firearm.

Meanwhile, violent firearm crime has continued increasing since the Liberals introduced the ban in 2020. Statistics Canada data cited by the Fraser Institute shows firearm-related violent crime rose from 12,614 incidents in 2020 to 13,937 incidents in 2022.

Police organizations across the country have repeatedly questioned the effectiveness of the program.

“We know that the gun buyback program is going to have, essentially, zero impact on the crime in Toronto,” said Clayton Campbell, president of the Toronto Police Association.

The National Police Federation, which represents RCMP members, has also criticized the confiscation scheme as a “misdirected effort when it comes to public safety.”

Dozens of police forces have declined to participate in the federal program, while every province except British Columbia and Quebec has refused involvement.

Critics argue the Liberal government is targeting licensed firearms owners because they are easier to regulate than violent criminals.

Licensed gun owners already undergo mandatory background checks, safety training, secure storage requirements, and continuous RCMP eligibility screening. By contrast, most firearm crime in Canada involves illegally smuggled guns and repeat offenders already known to police.

Even Statistics Canada has acknowledged that firearms used in homicides are “rarely legal firearms used by their legal owners.”

Critics say Ottawa is choosing the path of least resistance: targeting lawful owners instead of reforming bail laws, securing the border against gun smuggling, and keeping repeat violent offenders behind bars longer.

The Liberal government maintains the confiscation program is necessary to improve public safety, despite admitting it possesses no internal analysis proving the program will achieve that goal.

And that should be enough to end this expensive madness.

GUEST: Sam Cooper of the Bureau joins the show to discuss his latest op-ed on foreign interference.

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Nate is the MP for a Toronto riding called Beaches–East York, which is, demographically, one of the whitest districts in the city. He decided, as the whitest MP in the whitest riding, to run for the leadership of the provincial Liberal party under the endorsement of Mark Carney. He assumed his political success would extend to a place like Scarborough Southwest, which, according to the 2021 census, is just 37% white.

Scarborough Southwest, today’s the day. Voting opens in 30 minutes, and closes at 4:00 pm. Come out and vote at Birchmount Collegiate Institute, 3663 Danforth Ave. Thank you for your support. pic.twitter.com/HcgWeB3pzX

— Nate Erskine-Smith (@NateForOntario) May 9, 2026

Nate went full Trudeau-style, playing cultural dress-up, but that kind of performative diversity doesn’t work when white people make up only a third of the riding’s population. As it turns out, migrants don’t look up to you as some kind of benefactor for giving them a nod and a wink. They wonder what the hell is wrong with you — and then they run themselves, which is exactly what happened.

10 years of celebrating the Bengali New Year in our shared East End. Shuvo Noboborsho! pic.twitter.com/ONOisHHSOI

— Nate Erskine-Smith (@NateForOntario) April 20, 2026

Nate’s rival, Ahsanul Hafiz, was an entrepreneur who allegedly owns 30 pizza franchises — which, if true, means he’s done more economic building in Ontario than Nate has done destroying.

In the nomination vote, Nate ran up against 718 supporters backing Ahsanul. He could only muster 699 people.

He was stunned. Listen to him, in shock, moments after the results:

NEW: Nate Erskine-Smith, in a rainy scrum, says he needs to do a “full debrief with his team” about the voting process. Said those in the room told him they “had never seen anything like it.”Says he wants to talk to his team to see if there is a legitimate reason to challenge. pic.twitter.com/cTZbu0S0Pu

— Laura Stone (@l_stone) May 9, 2026

Nate happily voted for a decade of mass immigration, bringing in more than five million people — some with very few skills, many with no cultural affinity to Canada. But he always assumed they were beneath him; they would be servants, Uber drivers, and delivery boys.

But in reality, once they were here, there was no need for him anymore. Why have an errand boy when you can take the power yourself, as Ahsanul Hafiz did?

Until now, the only people who suffered from replacement immigration were young Canadians, who have been pushed out of entry-level jobs by temporary foreign workers and international “students.” It never seemed to cross Nate’s mind that replacement immigration might affect his job too.

Nate Erskine-Smith thought he’d be on top — that the millions of migrants he, Carney, Trudeau, and Harper brought in would remain below him in the pecking order. 

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

Many of these crimes might appear to be random, but they are far more than one-off opportunities. These are planned, terrorist-style events. After all, there are 700 members of the IRGC that the government of Canada knows about in this city. That’s not including pro-Hamas activists and other latent antisemites who have arrived through Canada’s open-door mass immigration policies.

Unfortunately, Mark Carney has simply done the math. There are about 350,000–400,000 Jews in Canada, and about 2 million people who hate Jews in Canada. It’s clear which side his bread is buttered on.

Toronto, for so long, was such a hospitable place to be. Jews were truly part of the fabric of this country and this city in particular. But now, those days appear to be coming to a close.

During a wide-ranging discussion with British commentator Jack Hadfield, the growing fragmentation of UK politics is impossible to ignore. What was once a contest between Labour and Conservatives has become a chaotic struggle involving Reform UK, the Greens, independent Muslim candidates and a rapidly declining Tory establishment.

One of the most striking developments is the emergence of explicitly Muslim political activism independent of Labour. In areas with large Muslim populations, candidates are increasingly running under openly sectarian or Gaza-focused platforms rather than relying on traditional party brands. According to Hadfield, Labour’s long-standing electoral coalition is beginning to fracture as many Muslim voters abandon the party for independent candidates or the Greens.

At the same time, Britain’s migration crisis continues spiralling. Illegal Channel crossings have surpassed 200,000 arrivals, while public confidence in the government’s ability to control the border has evaporated. Even Labour’s attempts to appear tougher on migration have produced little tangible success.

The vacuum created by this instability has fuelled the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Once dismissed as outsiders, Reform now increasingly appears to be the primary vehicle for voters angry about immigration, cultural change and political elites.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Green Party has become an unlikely coalition of radical left activists, pro-Gaza campaigners and socially conservative Muslim blocs united largely by hostility toward Israel and opposition to the political establishment. This alliance is deeply contradictory and unlikely to hold together long-term.

What happens next in Britain matters beyond its borders. For Canadians watching from afar, the UK increasingly looks less like a foreign political drama and more like a warning about where unchecked demographic change, political cowardice and cultural fragmentation can ultimately lead.

GUEST: Jack Hadfield joins Ezra to discuss the state of UK politics.

The controversy has caused leftist tears to flow from pro-Palestinian activists, especially after Yemini suggested preferences from the party could ultimately benefit right-wing populist parties like One Nation led by Pauline Hanson.

Is it political satire? Electoral gamesmanship? Or a brilliant exposure of a system the left was perfectly happy to exploit until someone on the right learned how to play too?

Avi breaks down the backlash, the strategy, and whether this political grenade could actually reshape Australian politics.

GUEST: Rebel News contributor Avi Yemini.

The clip is about New York City, but really, it's also about the state of Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal, and other cities in Canada too. It's about young people and ebbing support for capitalism and free enterprise, as people under 30 grapple with being shut out of the housing market on one hand and being trapped by student loan debt from useless degrees on the other. 

It’s also about Zohran Mamdani, the city’s newly elected mayor, who drew support from both the Marxist vote and, as a Muslim immigrant, the foreign-born vote. Mamdani presents himself as speaking for the poor and the working class, but he is himself wealthy; his father is a professor at Columbia University, and his mother is a Disney filmmaker.

The clip features Mamdani’s announcement of one of his latest economic policies: a new tax on the very wealthy, unveiled directly in front of local billionaire Ken Griffin’s home.

The tax is unlikely to raise enough money to deliver what he promised in his campaign, such as abolishing transit fares or opening government grocery stores. The purpose of this tax, like the purpose of the attack ad on Griffin, is punishment, demonization, and an appeal to resentment.

It is his way of pandering to those young people who believe capitalism is not for them and that it has given them nothing.

But moves like this risk driving businesses out of a city en masse. Ken Griffin himself has already responded by doubling down on his intention to relocate his business to Miami.

Zoran Mamdani risks damaging New York City — not only through the tax itself, but through the signal it sends to wealthy job creators, builders, investors, and developers that they are unwelcome, hated, and will be targeted and demonized in his city.

Unfortunately for him, they will take the message to heart, and they will leave — and much of New York City's prosperity will go with them. 

GUEST: The National Post's Tristin Hopper on his latest regarding Canada's failure to track illegal immigrants in the country.

Arbour’s career spans the Supreme Court of Canada and the United Nations, where she served as High Commissioner for Human Rights. For many, that global pedigree is impressive. For others, it’s a red flag. Her time at the UN in particular is being scrutinized, not just for what she did, but for what she appeared willing to overlook.

There's a noticeable pattern: praise for regimes widely considered repressive, paired with harsh condemnation of Western democracies. Arbour publicly commended Cuba’s “positive engagement on human rights” at a time when the country remained one of the most restrictive in the Western Hemisphere. Meanwhile, she labelled the United States a “torture country” over its use of waterboarding, despite that practice being legally reviewed domestically.

That contrast reflects a broader ideological tilt rather than balanced judgment.

Her record on Israel has also drawn renewed attention. Arbour supported an Arab human rights charter that ridiculously described Zionism as racism. She also defended the idea of academic boycotts of Israeli institutions as legitimate “public debate,” while simultaneously expressing concern about speech that might offend religious beliefs, a double standard that continues to fuel debate.

All of this matters because the governor general’s role is not to shape policy or push ideology. It is to represent the Crown, currently King Charles III, and act as a stabilizing, non-partisan figure within Canada’s constitutional framework. The office is unelected and carries significant symbolic authority, which makes neutrality not just ideal, but essential.

At a time when public trust in institutions is already under strain, this appointment risks deepening the divide.

GUEST: Keith Wilson joins the show to discuss the state of Alberta since the petition drop off yesterday.

While three hundred thousand signatures is a significant effort, as previously stated, it still represents only about 17% of those who voted in the last election. It’s enough to start the job, but not enough to finish it.

As you know, last week our third-party group, Act for Alberta, commissioned a large 3,000-person poll on this very question. About 60% of respondents said they would vote to stay in Canada, while only 28% said they would vote for independence. Another 12% were undecided.

There is still a great deal of persuading left to do.

In the meantime, the success of the petition — 300,000 signatures collected by grassroots people with no big money, no big media, no major political backing — is sure to mobilize activists in Ottawa, including the media.

Don’t be surprised if federal institutions begin releasing a steady stream of warnings and position papers about the risks of independence.

Look for the CPP to warn seniors they’ll be cut off, as if you have to live in Canada to get your CPP benefits.

You’ll have banks warning about higher interest rates.

You’ll have the military threatening to shut down bases in Alberta — as if the Liberals haven’t been doing that for years already.

Some Albertans have grown comfortable with the status quo. After all, while Alberta may have been knocked down by Ottawa, it is still performing better than most other provinces.

We'll see. And we'll be there to tell the other side of the story.

GUEST: Marc Morano, Climate Depot founder, speaks on King Charles' rebuke of Trump. 

That was nearly a decade ago now. Since then, Rebel News has had countless run-ins with Yaniv, which have involved his assault of close to half a dozen Rebel News reporters — most recently Drea Humphrey.

A few years back, Yaniv even attempted to sue Rebel News in civil court. That case was dismissed as a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation), and Yaniv has since been wise enough to stay out of the real courts.

However, more recently, he's returned to his roots: the activists of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, perhaps the stupidest — or most cunning — quasi-judicial tribunal in Canada.

Recently, Yaniv has filed a spate of vexatious complaints with the Tribunal against any media that criticize him or his views on transgenderism. Who knows — maybe Yaniv has been emboldened by the fact that the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has been on a roll lately, including its decision to fine former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld $750,000 for his criticism of gender ideology in schools. 

Targets of Yaniv's complaints include outlets such as the Western Standard, Juno News, Rebel News, and our friend Barbara Kay from the National Post, who joins the show tonight. 

GUEST: Barbara Kay, columnist for the National Post. 

If a referendum were held today, separation would fail. Not narrowly, either. The data shows roughly 60% of Albertans would vote to remain in Canada, while just over 28% would choose to leave. Even among those sympathetic to independence, hesitation is obvious. Support softens when the question becomes real, immediate and consequential.

But that gap tells a deeper story: this movement hasn’t yet answered the questions that matter most.

Concerns about pensions, borders, trade and mobility aren’t fringe worries, they’re central. And right now, too many voters feel those questions are either unanswered or brushed aside. Compare that to Quebec, where sovereignty debates have been refined, tested and publicly dissected for decades.

But the problem isn’t just policy, it’s presentation.

The faces and voices leading the charge haven’t connected beyond a narrow base. Whether it’s overly aggressive rhetoric or questionable strategic decisions, the campaign has struggled to resonate with mainstream voters, particularly the suburban and undecided demographics that ultimately decide referendums.

Yet focusing only on the headline result misses the bigger picture. Because beneath the rejection of independence lies something far more potent: frustration.

Nearly half of Albertans believe they are treated unfairly by the federal government. Similar numbers want greater provincial control over immigration. A significant portion also supports taking charge of criminal justice issues.

This isn’t a province content with the status quo, it’s a province looking for leverage and that’s where the independence movement may be misreading its own opportunity.

Framing separation as a fully-formed, immediate nation-building project invites scrutiny, doubt, and fear. But framing a referendum as a democratic pressure tool, a way to send a clear, unmistakable message to Ottawa, changes the equation entirely.

Quebec understood this. Even without achieving independence, their referendums forced concessions, recognition and political weight.

Alberta could do the same.

Because for many voters, this isn’t about creating a new country tomorrow. It’s about demanding respect today. And if that’s the message,  not utopia, but leverage, the numbers might start to look very different.

GUEST: Cosmin Dzsurdzsa on his latest for Juno News where he received leaked Canadian Armed Forces files revealing a Quebec officer training platoon had 83% permanent residents. The program descended into ethnic infighting between West African factions, "lack of respect" for women and a 48% grad rate.

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