Alleged Assault on Pastor Art, Quebec's COVID Curfew
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Pastor Artur Pawlowski is the latest victim of Canada's censorship machine, and he's not alone. The mainstream media, law enforcement, the justice system, and the general public are all out to get him.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
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It would seem that on some days it is Pastor Arthur Pawlowski versus the world.
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Bylaw, law enforcement, the justice system, the media party, all have targeted Arthur.
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But recently the pastor was physically assaulted at a store by a random wild Karen.
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Oh joy, Quebec has finally lifted its laughable COVID curfew.
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But why was there a curfew in place in the first place?
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Is the Wuhan virus actually able to tell the time?
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Our Montreal correspondent, Yankee Pollack, has been covering the curfew circus in La Belle Provence since day one.
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And you had plenty to say about Hockey Hypocrisy Night in Canada.
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Namely, last Saturday the Montreal Canadiens were able to host a playoff game,
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assuming one was able to afford those exorbitantly priced tickets, that is.
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Yet the question arises, why are multi-millionaire NHL players allowed to play hockey,
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but hundreds of thousands of kids across Canada remain shut out from doing so?
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Yet more weird science vis-a-vis the COVID-19 file.
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Those are your Rebels, now let's round them up.
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Adam Slaus here for Rebel News, and I'm with Pastor Artur Pawlowski once again.
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We were going to try and leave you alone for a day or two, but obviously things continue to happen.
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You've been the subject of quite a bit of malice.
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I'm sure some less than nice messages have been sent to you.
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You were out with your daughter after a baptism, I think, getting a cake.
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And we walked inside, and of course, minding our own business.
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And this gentleman, well, he's not a gentleman, he started to attack us.
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I mean, right in the store for me, for not wearing a mask.
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You know, I have my exemption, and I cannot wear a mask, and I will not wear a mask.
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And we walked outside, and he just came charging.
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And, you know, at that moment, I realized this is all on politicians and the mainstream media.
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Because what they're creating, they're creating hate.
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They're creating this situation when people are actually snapping.
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Like, one and a half year almost, and the people are really, really snapping.
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So he comes to me so close, and boom, he punches me in the head for nothing.
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Maybe he recognized me from the TV, from newspapers.
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Maybe he heard Jason Kenney, our wonderful premier, saying,
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Maybe he wanted to help our wonderful minister of justice, Madhu.
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I'll crush Pawlowski's, and here, I'm going to help you out.
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You know, what happened with the nice Canadians?
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All around the world, people always thought Canadians are nice.
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You know, we're losing humanity because of the politicians and because of the mainstream media.
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My daughter doesn't know what's going, you know, what's happening right now.
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I placed my groceries on the ground and I went to take a picture of the guy.
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I mean, no, I'm not going to get, you know, I'm not going to let him get away with this.
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They cannot just keep, you know, smashing people's heads like this.
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And when I went to take a picture, boom, he charges again.
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And I thought to myself, if I'm going to react, you know, I can really hurt this man, especially with my skills.
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Well, the Pastor Arthur Pawlowski saga continues.
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Last month, he was brutally arrested on an active highway, no less.
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His crime, well, simply improving the lives of those who are a wee bit down on their luck.
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And now a random wild male Karen recently violently assaulted him.
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And this comes on the heels of some thugs who tried to burn down his property.
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Well, joining me now for the latest chapter regarding the Pastor Pawlowski saga is the man who's been following this from the beginning.
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Adam, I couldn't help but notice that headline in your report.
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It was for a Calgary Herald story about the pastor.
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Neighbors of Street Church Terrorized by Anti-Mask Preacher and Followers.
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And it's just getting ridiculous at this point.
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Like, when media outlets do show up, they might interview one person who's attending the event.
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Then of the four people who are protesting against it, they'll talk to three of them.
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There was no real coverage of the fact that a couple weeks ago a few hundred people gathered outside the church, sung prayers together, had worship, had this wonderful time outside, and then left the area without incident.
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The only article covering it, the only reporting on the event, was this article citing terrorism, or that they were terrorizing the neighborhood.
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They're the ones swearing at the top of their lungs when children are playing in the playground daycare facilities right there.
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And to say that the peaceful worshipers, sure, maybe the music was a little loud and a nuisance at most.
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But to call them, to say they're terrorizing the neighborhood, it's ridiculous.
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But again, not surprising when it comes to the mainstream media.
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But, you know, Adam, this was very disturbing when the pastor, he's just going about his own business, shopping, and this actual physical altercation happens.
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Or was this simply somebody that recognized him, doesn't agree with his stance or his politics, and thinks he's somehow entitled to shut him down with fisticuffs?
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How this started, ultimately, I think that when push comes to shove, it's going to show that irresponsible reporting, government policies, and a lot of malice directed towards Pastor Arthur Pawlowski has gotten people riled up.
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And because of these lockdown restrictions, people are already at a breaking point.
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So you have these incredibly tense people, maybe people dealing with mental illness, and then you have Jason Kenney or other media parties saying, well, it's because of people like this, and they show Arthur Pawlowski, that you aren't free, that things aren't back to normal.
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So get rid of this guy, get rid of anyone who agrees with him, and make sure you get your vaccines, then you can have your normal life back.
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What's most concerning about this, though, to be honest, though, is, let's say, Arthur was out with his brother or with a couple of guys, and there was an altercation, fisticuffs, whatever.
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This, though, he was with his 12-year-old daughter shopping for a birthday cake and a baptismal celebration cake.
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He's got a medical exemption, so he wasn't wearing a mask.
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But he's buying a cake with his daughter, and someone starts shouting at him.
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Yeah, you know, and more than shouting, actually getting handsy with him.
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And, you know, I'm always shocked, and certainly myself, other rebel reporters, we've encountered this in the field where we've been physically attacked.
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And I think, you know, we see on the left there's that phrase that they cling to to justify physicality, which is punch a Nazi.
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But what I'm getting at, Adam, is that, well, unless you're hellbent on world conquest and you're carrying out a genocide, the idea that somebody with a contrary opinion to you is a Nazi,
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it actually completely demeans what happened 80 years ago in world history, they have taken it to, if somebody has a differing opinion,
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well, not only can you yell at them, not only can you use profanity, you can actually get physical.
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Whatever happened to the loving, tolerant left, Adam?
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And then the second they have the opportunity to get someone alone, they'll shout at them, tear at them.
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I think the big problem, though, and it's the irony being they're saying that you're Nazis, and then they're violently enforcing their own policies.
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But when you talk to these people one-on-one, within about five minutes, they start to become disarmed, and then you start to have a real conversation.
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The problem is when they get together, whether it be in their online forums or in person, they get together, and then one person says something,
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the next person steps it up a notch, and they radicalize each other.
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So people who might otherwise disagree with you but kind of be respectful or maybe at the very most swear at you,
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they get together in a group, and suddenly there's this mentality of we need to act, and violence is justifiable, which is just wrong.
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I mean, and they seem blind to the perverse irony of it all, Adam.
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That's a contraction for anti-fascism, and yet they employ all the tactics of fascism.
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But one other thing I wanted to get to, we saw a screen capture of the individual that was assaulting Arthur,
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and I couldn't help but notice that he had his mask on below his nose.
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So really, he's preaching about COVID-19 safety protocols.
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If he went into one of the shops that were in that mall, he'd get yelled at for not wearing his mask properly.
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There's people counter-protesting Grace Life, and they had a sign, and it said something to the effect of what would Jesus do,
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Well, that violates the Alberta health restrictions guidelines at most times.
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When you were in the LCBO, they wouldn't give you your liquor bottle.
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There's a clear sign on the door that says that part of the whole conflict there was you didn't put a mask on at the start,
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and then they're in a room that says no more than two people.
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And the worst example of all, as these pastors are being arrested,
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conversely, people are being let into hockey games or whatever,
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but Jason Kenney's up on the Sky Palace sitting with his friends drinking and eating
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They say you're supposed to target no more than two families.
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They had like five, six different households sitting at one table.
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I guess Premier Kenney is delighted the Oilers were ousted in the first round by the Winnipeg Jets.
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That way he doesn't have to do a hard decision to let some people come into the building,
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One last question, Adam, as we head into the weekend.
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What is the very latest in terms of Arthur Pawlowski and his ongoing battles, of which there are many?
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So last week, because of the restrictions being slackened to some extent,
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on May 27th, Dina Hinshaw actually sort of threw an amendment on to our lockdown restrictions,
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and it was basically to allow political protests.
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And it basically said you can gather in unlimited numbers as long as you have masks on and you aren't feeding people.
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So what most people took that to mean is like a pro-Palestinian or a political protest.
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But the kitchens where they're feeding homeless people who are still hungry, those aren't going to be allowed.
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But so last weekend, Pastor Arthur, he stayed distanced from people because he really doesn't want to jeopardize his court thing.
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But with these new measures, he was actually able to baptize his daughter and be around his family and be out for baptism.
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There will be worship on Saturday, again, as always, at Pastor Art's Church.
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Similarly with Pastor Tim Stevens, they are going ahead with worship.
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Pastor Arthur has been staying away from worship.
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Now, we don't know for this Saturday for sure, or at least I can't share, exactly what may go down.
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But with the slackened restrictions, there is always that possibility that we might get an appearance from one of our famous pastors at worship on Saturday.
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Well, I know I'm just so disturbed by what you said just a moment ago that you can have a pro-Hamas rally where anti-Semitic rhetoric is tossed around like confetti at a victory parade.
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But don't you dare feed homeless, hungry people.
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I just wonder when we're ever going to get back to normal.
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But in the meantime, thank you for all your hard work in covering the pastor's plight, because we certainly know the mainstream media is no friend of his, right?
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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But it's been a long five months of a lot of police harassment, police giving tickets to people, police running after people for the crime of being out on the street after a certain hour.
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They're like, well, technically there's still curfew.
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And some people were willing to come on camera.
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But let's do a little recap of the city of Montreal.
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I've been covering it for approximately the last five months.
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How do you feel about the curfew and tonight being the last night?
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Oh, it brings, it's very cold tonight in Montreal.
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So it brings back the memories from January when this whole thing started.
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So it's just unbelievable that we've been so long locked up and we're finally getting out of jail.
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As you can see, we are in the back of Cheskiv and 2265, one of the famous Jewish stores here in the quarter.
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Basically, where we're standing here right now was the action for the last five months.
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So basically, we would have had here cops stopping, ticketing people.
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Basically, just making miserable the lives of every normal individual for no good damn reason.
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Well, to be honest, I was out every night either way.
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It's just that, at this point, it's just that I can drive and I see a cop and I can, I have the peace of mind to drive around in my communist country.
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But the curfew, thank God that it's, that I'm over it.
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I'm just a guy, you know, trying to make his world.
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And the curfew was actually entirely a detriment to my life.
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But to be honest, I anticipate it's going to happen again in three weeks.
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Well, let's all pray that this fellow is wrong.
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But would it surprise anyone if the curfew does get reinstated?
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After all, during COVID, one thing has become abundantly clear.
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Canada's premiers have proven that nobody is better when it comes to the fine art of flip-flopping.
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And joining me now from Montreal is the man who was watching the watchers from day one of the curfew.
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And that would be none other than Yankee Pollack.
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Well, OK, so, Yankee, the curfew was rescinded exactly a week ago and good riddance to it.
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But, Yankee, why was there a curfew put in place in Quebec in the first place?
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I mean, can the Wuhan virus actually tell the time?
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And sometimes it says it's 8 p.m. and sometimes it's 9.30 and it keeps on changing back and forth.
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I'm pretty convinced that it could, in fact, see time.
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And when you change the daylight savings time, it knew that as well.
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As a matter of fact, the curfew in part is back starting tonight in downtown Montreal, the Old Port.
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There will be a curfew from, I believe it's midnight to 6 a.m.
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Now, what is the ostensible policy reason for that, Yankee?
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I know sometimes in the Old Port area of Montreal you have young people celebrating.
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The last time it was for the Montreal Canadiens, no surprise there, defeating the Leafs.
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But in a sense, I can't blame young people for wanting to get out in beautiful weather, burn off some steam,
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because they can't go to clubs, they can't go to restaurants unless it's a patio.
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But what's the problem that the authorities have with this?
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Well, me and Mocha were out last weekend when it happened,
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when all the young people were out there celebrating, having fun.
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And I guess the Montreal police or the city of Montreal, I'm not sure exactly who was implementing it,
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and had enough, and just are implementing a curfew starting tonight at midnight.
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And there's no end date for it, but it will be every day until 6 a.m.
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So there's still a curfew going on, young people having fun.
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It's probably the only places in Montreal where there's a big, not the only,
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but it's one of the places where there's a lot of space for people to be out and have fun
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And that being shut down, instead of handling the crime,
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they're just shutting everything down, putting a blanket on everything.
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But, you know, Yankee, going back to when the major curfew was in place in Montreal,
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and I came out a couple of times to meet you on the streets with the rest of our team,
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what I found disturbing was, you know, Friday, Saturday nights,
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members of the Jewish community being specifically targeted by the Montreal Police Service.
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One was for violating the curfew, but, like, really, where's the danger?
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It's a family unit of, I think it was three or four people.
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And secondly, another ticket, I believe, for not having their identification papers.
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And I thought the optics of this, people with guns going up to Jews and saying,
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I mean, I thought, what is this, Montreal in 2021 or Munich in 1933?
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In the end, he only received the one ticket, although he was threatened, I believe, with two,
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And, yeah, it's just, you know, going up to people.
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And I have video of them going into people's houses because they needed,
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because someone was walking in the street and didn't have their ID,
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so they ran after him to his house and walked after him and then walked into his house to get his ID and papers.
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Sheila had a story where they brought one guy home from the synagogue in cuffs in front of his children.
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You know, it's ridiculous and outrageous what they have done, you know,
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running after people for the crime of being out after a certain hour.
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I thought it's a free country, but, you know, turns out it isn't.
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And there's no way, scientifically or medically speaking, that is a super spreader event by any means.
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But, Yankee, with the Montreal Police Service, and I have seen a police service like,
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they blow any bad police force I've encountered right out of the water with the way they behave.
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Would it, is it fair to say there might even be an undercurrent of anti-Semitism with this police force
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in terms of not only how they were targeting the Jewish community, but you yourself,
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you were accused at one point of being with Jew media.
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Whatever that means, what's your take on that, Yankee?
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Now, I don't like labeling people anti-Semitic.
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Like, I do know that some cops at least are, and some cops made very strange and weird Jew remarks.
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They asked if Ephron and Mocha and Lincoln are Jews at one point.
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And they also, I've heard them telling people, oh, don't, you know, at one point I filmed them saying,
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Like, it was very weird how some officers are, you know, making weird Jew remarks.
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But they're just there, and they continue working, and especially in the Jewish area,
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and it's like, you know, it's just a disaster waiting to happen.
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They don't like the people they're working with.
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What I've seen during COVID, and especially during the curfew,
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Now, it's kids just don't care what the police have to say.
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The years of building a community policing, and now it's all thrown out of the window
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because what Francois Lagos said, it's too dangerous to walk after a certain hour.
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Yeah, no, it really was damaging, and I think it was a self-inflicted wound
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If there was police officers, and not all of them, of course, let's be fair,
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but if they were asking Mocha and Afrin and Lincoln and so on,
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are you a Jew, what the hell is the relevance to that?
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Who cares if that person with the camera or the microphone
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is Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, you name it?
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I mean, I don't understand where that thought process is coming from.
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But I guess more importantly, you're tied into the Jewish community there,
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and the same community the police were having these patrols.
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What is the reaction to people in that community?
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How do they feel about how they have been treated these last few months
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with these, I don't know, curfew quota expeditions the Montreal Police were going on?
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I could tell you from speaking to people, they are not happy.
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People that like police, respect the police, are now like, what's going on?
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There is no issues with the police in that neighborhood.
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Police officers have no issue walking down the street over there.
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But, you know, they came in full force, showing, like, who is boss,
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showing that they control the city, the biggest mob.
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And I think it will have long-term effects on the community.
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As I said, the kids in the community do not respect the police anymore.
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Growing up, I was taught to respect the police, and I do respect the police.
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At some point, a police officer asked me why I don't bag the blue,
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The Montreal police is not part of the blue, in my view.
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You know, if you're going to target people, harass people for no reason,
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I mean, I think this was a lose-lose situation.
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On one hand, it was as though Montreal had no serious crime going on at nighttime
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in other areas of the city, be it gun crime, human trafficking, burglary, you name it.
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And secondly, the sheer amount of the resources being put into this,
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to write up tickets to families that there was no health issue,
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if we ever run into yet another wave where things have to get shut down,
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if you had the ear of the Montreal police chief,
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And hopefully that will be the case going forward.
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that Montreal police service is like none I've ever seen.
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And Yankee, I want to thank you on behalf of everybody here and our viewers.
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You are doing incredible work going out night after night documenting this.
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Because the mainstream media, they sat this one out, didn't they, my friend?
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Yeah, I was actually surprised how nobody else was out.
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There was no other media outlet out there at night filming.
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They were only reporting what the police report said.
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Every Monday, the Montreal police tweets how many COVID infractions there were,
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how many tickets were given, and how many phone calls, snitch line, snitches they got.
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I want to show you what's actually going on, the real stories.
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Half of these tickets that were given were given to people that had the papers you were supposed to have.
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And they were still, the people still got it because the cops decided not to take the curfew exemption notes,
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So a lot of these tickets, and that's why we're fighting these tickets, if I defy it,
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because these tickets are outrageous and ridiculous.
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Well, Yankee, you are often a one-man gang out there, and we thank you for it.
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Have a good weekend, my friend, in Montreal, and don't get any more jaywalking tickets either, okay?
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Thanks for coming out, and thanks for the team for having my back in Toronto,
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And yeah, I will try not to get any more jaywalking tickets.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Hey, listen, we're just wondering, are you looking forward to the game today?
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Why can the professional hockey players play, but the kids in Canada can't play hockey?
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I'm going to let our authorities answer that question.
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Sir, can you tell me, it's great that there's some fans coming into the building, but why
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is it that my kids, your kids, everybody else's kids, they can't play hockey, but millionaire
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We live in a world that has to do with greed, right?
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But why can't our kids play hockey right now at the same time?
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I mean, the professionals have been playing all winter long in the regular season, right?
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And do you know how I know they're old school, folks?
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When was the last time you saw some hockey equipment with that on?
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We've been told this virus has been dictated by the science, by medicine, but maybe when
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it comes to the elites, when it comes to money, there's an exemption.
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Millionaires can watch them play hockey, but hockey moms, hockey dads, they're shut out
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Well, folks, I'm standing outside the Bell Centre.
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In two hours, Game 6 of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens series will resume.
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Leafs, Canadiens on a Saturday night, a playoff game, no less.
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I don't think it's your typical lunch bucket fan.
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Have you seen the tickets that are for sale, folks?
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Oh, and by the way, you have to buy them by the pair.
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So, imagine that, $24,000 for a pair of the top tickets to see this game.
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I think that's a price of a Honda Civic, if memory serves me.
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But, really, in the next couple of hours, when the puck drops, are we going to see an example of hockey play out?
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After all, who has that kind of money during a pandemic to spend on three hours of hockey?
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I don't think the vast majority of our audience does, either.
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And, really, what happened, all of a sudden, to those COVID-19 protocols?
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You know, socially distancing and keeping crowds down far lower than what you see right now.
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And, what's going to be in the building, 2,500 fans, when the puck drops.
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Why is it that, suddenly, the very same elitists and insiders who have been preaching to us for the last 14 months,
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that we're all in this together, and to stay home, and to socially distance?
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Why is it that millionaire NHL players can play hockey here tonight,
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and, presumably, millionaires and multi-millionaires can somewhat fill the stands?
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And yet, for more than a year now, your kids, my kids, all our kids, hundreds of thousands of kids,
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Well, that was the scene last Saturday evening in Montreal, prior to the Leafs-Canadians playoff game.
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Oh, spoiler alert, just in case you recently got out of a Justin Trudeau quarantine hotel,
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the Leafs surprised nobody by losing last Saturday's game and, later, the entire series,
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because, hey, that's how we've been rolling when it comes to hog-town hockey since 1967.
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Anyway, it just seemed odd that, suddenly, all the COVID-19 rules regarding everything from the curfew to social distancing evaporated just in time for the puck to drop.
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In any event, you had plenty to say about this most recent example of Wuhan virus rules changing on the fly.
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I am a huge Habs fan, but until our children can play sports again, I'm not having anything to do with professional sports.
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And anyone wearing sports apparel, you're part of the problem.
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Jessica, I think that's called taking a principled stance.
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It would be nice if the NHL and the health bureaucrats also had it in them to take a principled stance as well.
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So hockey games can be attended, but small businesses stay closed?
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Well, you know, I know you're being sarcastic, Worst Case Ontario,
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But really, nothing, and I mean nothing, has made sense during this pandemic.
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I'd rather watch the Peewees play hockey than the useless NHL.
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Hey, I'm with you, Rick, but clearly money talks and BS skates.
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My heart breaks for the hundreds of thousands of kids who have been shut out of house league hockey across our nation.
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Absolutely shameful and with no science to back up such a strategy either.
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Boycott this until the kids can go out and play hockey.
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Oh, Jerry, when a pair of tickets goes for the price of a new car,
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I think I've got much better things to do than to watch or listen to the Leafs lose yet again in June.
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Ontario science magically changed from last night to today.
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Fans suddenly OK with the Leaf home game on Monday.
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Indeed, Lovebirds, funny how in the space of 21 hours,
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Premier Triple F, that would be flip-flop Ford,
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went from stating that no way would any fans be allowed into Toronto's Scotiabank Arena
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or as it turns out, health care bureaucrats in certain instances.
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Oh, and they must also be fully vaccinated or else no dice.
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That's right, folks, Monday was a historic event here in Toronto.
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It was Hogtown's first vaccine passport event ever.
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.