The Regina Police Blocked Rebel News — We’re Fighting Back!

Why did Regina Police block Rebel News?

Why are the Regina Police blocking me and Rebel News on X, formerly called Twitter? Why are they targeting me and interfering with our ability to do journalism? By the way, it’s illegal for a government agency to do that — I’ve gone to court four times and won all four times against other government agencies. Keep on reading and I’ll show you the letter my lawyer just sent to the Regina Police.

I think I know why they blocked me. Because two weeks ago I went to Regina to cover a downtown mosque that announced its aggressive plans to blast the Muslim call to prayer on loudspeakers, loud enough to be heard for half a mile in every direction.

The mosque loudspeaker controversy

The Regina Police are deeply involved in the whole mosque loudspeaker thing — which is really weird. It hasn’t been debated at City Hall. There has been no public consultation, as you might except in a democracy. Regina Police have made the decisions. That’s how it works in a place like Pakistan or Somalia, not Sakatchewan.

And the weirdest thing was that Regina Police put out a tweet about the mosque, threatening to arrest anyone who disagrees with it in the wrong way — they literally, in advance, said they’ll prosecute you for hate crimes.

What is going on with Regina Police?

A police service already under scrutiny

They’re still recovering from a shocking scandal just a few months ago, where they fired their chief of police, a Mr. Farooq Sheikh. He was caught sending inappropriate secret messages to commissioners designed to enrich himself. They fired him without severance so it must have been really bad. But they continued with their DEI appointments, hiring the HR lady as the new chief. Nice one. Pretty clear they’re about politics, not fighting crime.

So when I went to Regina to cover a press conference at the mosque, I wasn’t surprised to see a bunch of police cars there. And, being my friendly self, I went up to one of the cops and asked what they were doing and if there would be someone from the police I could speak to. They didn’t seem to like that:

Well, I finished my work and made a one-hour video about it, which a lot of people watched.

And when I went to the Regina Police twitter account for a follow-up story — I discovered I’ve been blocked!

Government agencies cannot censor journalists

Now being blocked on social media is a tool that everyone can and should use so you don’t have to put up with abusive people or people you don’t want to hear from. I block hundreds of people who are threatening or who are extremely rude. But I’m a private person. The Regina Police are a government agency. And their Twitter account is a public service, run by people paid for by taxpayers. It’s part of the government. Of course I haven’t said anything abusive to the police. They’ve blocked me, it appears, simply because I criticized them and pointed out their weird role in this whole mosque thing.

But you can’t do that. The government can’t ban a Canadian citizen from getting a public service just because you don’t like them. I have the right to see what the Regina Police are saying on Twitter, or X as it’s now called, and to reply to them, and send them messages, and interact with them, and join the online debate on their social media platforms — that’s a government service, just as much as calling a government phone number or going to a government website or walking into a government office. You can’t deny me those rights just because I published a news report you don’t like. A private citizen could block me. But not a government agency bound by public laws, including freedom of the press.

The legal demand sent to Regina Police

So this week, I had our crack lawyer, Chad Williamson, send a demand letter to the Regina Police. You can read the whole thing right here:

Twitter is called X these days, but I still use TwitterLawsuit.ca because it's the website I’ve used before when I sued the previous bullies who also blocked me from their Twitter accounts — Steven Guilbault, Ya’ara Saks, Karina Gould, Marcy Ien, etc. You can see those cases here, too. We spent years fighting Guilbault — he probably cost taxpayers $250,000 defending his vendetta against me. Anyways, on the eve of trial, he panicked, and settled with us — agreeing to unblock me for the rest of his career as an MP, and to pay me $20,000. As you can probably guess, he made taxpayers pay the fine — he refused to. What a little weasel.

Anyways, that’s the law in Canada. If this were years ago, before we beat Steven Guilbault for doing this exact thing, I suppose someone could have the excuse of not knowing. We’ve beaten him, and a bunch of others. It’s pretty much a precedent. And it’s common sense: To ban someone from a government account, run with government money and government staff is against the law. It just is. So it’s sort of gross that the Regina Police are breaking the law, but there it is.

Here’s a taste of the scorching letter our lawyer Chad sent:

To avoid an immediate application in the Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan, you must take the following steps on or before Friday, July 17, 2026:

Immediately unblock @ezralevant and any associated Rebel News accounts from @reginapolice, fully restoring interactive access, and confirm the same in writing.
Provide a written undertaking that neither Regina Police Service nor anyone acting on its behalf will block or restrict interactive access for Rebel News or its journalists on any official social-media account operated by the Service.

So we’re giving them more than a week.

If they don’t, we’re going to sue them. It’s that simple.

I know they don’t like me, I know they don’t like my coverage of this mosque loudspeaker thing, but that’s not an excuse to break the law. And by the way, if they’re doing this to me, you better believe they’re likely doing to other people, too. They’re bullies — not a surprise, given who has been running the Regina Police lately.

If you think this is a legal battle worth having, please help by reading our entire letter to the police, and if you support us, please help me pay our legal bills. Unlike the Regina Police, we take no tax money. We rely on you.

The Regina Police are trying to bully Reginans over this mosque loudspeaker and they’re trying to bully reporters like me. It’s time to fight back, and I could use your help. Thank you.