On this episode of The Rebel News Live Stream, host David Menzies and co-host Sheila Gunn-Reed talk about National Prom Day, Joe Biden's recent comments about transgender people, and why they should all go to the prom.
00:20:34.460And then the Department of Health, it gets ridiculous.
00:20:37.360The Department of Canadian Heritage paid $22,000 for tweets observing Canada Day, in case you
00:20:42.340didn't know that it was coming up on July 1st.
00:20:44.940Another $120,000 was paid to promote ice carving contests in Charlottetown, Corner Brook, Fort St. John, Halifax, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg.
00:20:57.640So anyways, my point in all of this is, they don't even drill down to how ridiculous this was about how much money was spent to promote ice carving contests.
00:21:10.620Like, I can't even imagine what this person was paid to take a picture in front of that sign for.
00:21:26.660But my point is, this was broken in Black Locks a week ago.
00:21:30.700Then it was written up by True North and the Western Standard, who appropriately gave credit in their coverage to Black Locks for originally reporting the story.
00:21:43.000CTV reports it a week later, eight days later, I guess, and, like, says that they've done in-depth analysis on this.
00:21:52.140And everybody in the conservative sphere already knows about this story.
00:21:56.580This just shows how terrible the mainstream media is at doing their job.
00:22:01.120But as you rightly point out, it doesn't matter because they get money to be bad at their job.
00:22:15.400And I'm sure they will be in the sights of this liberal government if and when Bill C-11 passes because they're not playing ball, you know, with the rest of the media, much like us and True North.
00:22:31.880So, yeah, so good on Black Locks for that.
00:22:34.260And, you know, I've got to say, Sheila, you know, I talked about NBC neglecting history and now repeating it.
00:22:41.320And you know what this kind of reminds me of what I'm getting a vibe of, Sheila, is the early 90s.
00:22:47.040Remember the sponsorship scandal, right?
00:22:50.480And when you think about it, and that was under the Kretchen liberal government, how is this any different, you know, in a way?
00:22:57.860I mean, giving our hard-earned taxpayer money to so-called influencers, to people I've never heard of, peddling things like staycations, which it's a fact of life.
00:23:12.700If you're unvaxxed, you can't leave the country anyways, and it'll probably be that way for years.
00:23:19.520Like, where is the ROI, the return on investment?
00:23:24.080Or I don't think they even bother tracking that, do they, Sheila?
00:23:28.920Yeah, I'm old enough to remember a Gomri inquiry over this kind of stuff, and now it's perfectly acceptable.
00:23:35.260This is just the cost of doing business in the social media age, that you pay people who already draw a salary from the government-subsidized CBC to promote the government talking points.
00:23:46.220And they're like, yep, yep, this is good value for the Canadian taxpayer buck.
00:24:42.820He was released yesterday afternoon from jail.
00:24:45.840They moved him back from Edmonton to Calgary so that he was at least released to his own community instead of just swinging the doors open in Edmonton and saying, okay, skedaddle.
00:24:57.140So he was released in Calgary yesterday.
00:25:04.300However, see how far away this shot is?
00:25:07.080And that's Nathaniel, I think, hugging Pastor Ardor as he came out.
00:25:11.200And journalists and supporters, journalists, as though there were other journalists there, but Adam.
00:25:17.200Ed supporters, they were kicked off, basically, away from where Art would be released by the jail guards and people who work at the jail.
00:25:29.780There's Nathaniel waving to, must be Adam, maybe Mocha.
00:25:34.340But they couldn't even properly report.
00:25:37.060And I'm not sure that that is something that they can do.
00:25:38.920However, it is on jail property, so they're sort of in charge.
00:25:42.500But from what I understand, Art did not look well.
00:25:46.000Looks like he lost a ton of weight, aged 10 years.
00:25:48.980But as Art is, he was more upset, not about being kept in prison for 51 days, but that he left behind people he felt needed his ministry and his support and his compassion.
00:26:03.460Well, Sheila, forgive me for being so repetitive, but what in blue hell is Premier Kenney thinking with this vendetta?
00:26:11.940I have no idea, but Ms. Producer whispers in my ear that we have Art's Facebook video that he filmed as he was driving away with Nathaniel, his son.
00:26:26.320So, friends, just after two months of a journey, put it this way, I have an opportunity to come back home to my family, my wife, my son Nathaniel.
00:26:46.080And my dad is waiting, as you can see, and the kids, so I give the phone to Nathaniel and hug my father.
00:27:14.780They didn't see each other for two months, but I saw you through the window of my cell only for a minute, because then I was snatched by the guards again into a solitary, because that's what they were doing to me all the time.
00:33:59.800And if people want to see all of Adam's coverage of Pastor Art and even going back two years to Pastor Art's first run in with the law when he was feeding the homeless outside on a bitterly cold Calgary March day.
00:34:14.380I think it was like minus 30, minus 25 that day, and he was feeding the homeless, the people who fall through the cracks of the system in Calgary because they are oftentimes so in the thralls of mental illness or drug addiction that they can't be in a shelter.
00:34:31.640Those are the people that Pastor Art helps.
00:34:34.940He got tickets for illegal public gatherings, handing out sandwiches to starving people and freezing people.
00:34:41.540So we've been helping him through the Democracy Fund since then.
00:34:47.900And if you'd like to support his legal battle against the government for free speech and freedom of religion, you can go to SaveArcher.com.
00:34:56.460And the good news is all your donations there qualify for a charitable tax receipt through the partnership with the Democracy Fund that I just mentioned.
00:35:04.640But you'll also find all of our stories about him, too.
00:35:06.880And Adam had a great sit-down with Art and his family last night.
00:35:11.680They were very generous with their time with Adam yesterday.
00:35:16.960Even though Art had just gotten out of jail, he still wanted to make sure that people could hear his story about what it was like for him and his family.
00:35:26.260So stay tuned for that. It's coming up.
00:35:27.940You know, Sheila, something you said about one of the reasons he was convicted or incarcerated,
00:35:33.840illegal public gatherings for feeding a handful of homeless people down on their luck.
00:35:40.660And yet at the height of the pandemic, summer of 2020, we're talking about Black Lives Matter gatherings in which thousands of people take part, including law enforcement, bending the knee.
00:35:56.460No illegal public gathering there, folks, because, you know, that that's on the right side of social justice, weirdoism.
00:36:11.420And by the way, speaking of Calgary, we should get to this, you know, notation, because right now, Calgary,
00:36:17.560the Calgary Police Service is really giving the Montreal Police Service and the RCMP a run for its money in terms of worst police service in Canada.
00:36:29.080And here we have them more outrageous political correctness.
00:36:35.600The Calgary Police Commission said that in the interest of racial harmony, officers will be expected to stop wearing the crest.
00:36:45.280And I imagine that is the thin blue line patch, which is, I guess, now taking on the equivalency of, I don't know, the Confederate flag, the swastika.
00:36:56.700No, or the Canadian flag, if you listen to these people.
00:37:00.960Yeah. I mean, who, who is making this kind of claim that this is somehow racist, especially if you see officers of color wearing this patch, Sheila?
00:37:23.940Like, again, this is one of those things that I don't really understand because I don't think like these people.
00:37:29.720How is a thin blue line like that off that, you know, that's sort of the thing that protects society a lot of times from unraveling as the people who are willing to put on a uniform and defend our civil liberties.
00:37:45.300Yeah. For me, I look at this and I see, OK, we've got the social justice, political cops bowing down to the defund the police people, the people who think that there should be no cops at all.
00:37:58.240Depending on the actions of the police service, I'm willing to hear their arguments.
00:38:01.880But these are actually the good cops and they're doing their best to run them out.
00:38:08.580And so what do you have left with nothing but the social justice cops who are willing to beat down peaceful protesters to appease the defund the police people?
00:38:23.520The banners of this thin blue line imagery, they don't even understand why they're banning it.
00:38:28.940Remember back in November, we went to that young fellow, great guy, has friends and family in law enforcement, and he was suspended for three days from his school because at the back of his pickup truck, he had a flag with the thin blue line.
00:38:47.920Now, I reached out to the principal, a coward of a man, and he told me to go to the school board and speak to the trustees, which I did.
00:39:37.940I smell an unconscious bias training contract in the works here because they're going to have to twist themselves into knots to figure out why Indigenous police officers have this symbol of white supremacy on them and why Sikh police officers, who are wearing their turbans on duty, who are also wearing this little badge, this little crest, are also victims of, I don't know, unconscious white supremacy.
00:40:01.900Someone's going to have to twist themselves in knots to figure that out, but, boy, you better believe it.
00:40:07.700There's a racism training consultant just waiting to cash some checks.
00:40:11.820And, Sheila, the answer to your question is simply this.
00:40:15.160If you are a visible minority and your opinions lean right of centre, you're not a so-called real visible minority.
00:40:23.800You are a fake, despite your skin colour.
00:40:29.340Just listen to the white elitist liberals tell you that.
00:40:34.880Joe Biden will tell you you ain't black.
00:40:51.920You know, before we move on, I just want to touch on this one thing.
00:40:54.980And I know it's not on the list, but I want to spring it on you because I was working on this.
00:41:00.040This is what I was working on when I should have been preparing for this call.
00:41:05.420So for some reason, and it never, ever goes away, there's this big pipe dream in Alberta that we're going to have this, like, high-speed rail system between Edmonton and Calgary.
00:41:16.880And this is the, it's the most boring drive on the face of the earth.
00:41:22.220So I'm, again, willing to hear arguments about why this could be possible.
00:41:27.280But as Ezra points out, I just don't think there are enough people making that drive all the time to spend billions upon billions upon billions on this high-speed Japan-style train, especially when you have people living in just cities in Japan that have more than the entire population of the province of Alberta.
00:41:50.940There are 4 million of us, and, you know, the two major municipalities are Edmonton and Calgary.
00:41:56.880We don't really have the population to support this.
00:41:59.400But that doesn't matter because this is a legacy builder for somebody.
00:42:04.040And there's this project called TransPod.
00:42:08.380And it's supposed to go at 1,000 kilometers an hour.
00:42:11.240They signed a memorandum of understanding back in 2020 with the province of Alberta.
00:42:16.860Thank God there was no financial commitment from the province of Alberta at the time.
00:42:20.080But it is supposed to cut the three-hour commute down to 45 minutes.
00:42:28.580Yesterday they secured, no, yesterday, what's today, two days ago, they secured financing for half a billion dollars U.S.
00:43:27.560The most important part here is China East Resources and Import Company.
00:43:32.320That is a wholly owned subsidiary, or sorry, that's a wholly owned state company from China.
00:43:38.740This is a Chinese communist owned company who will have, I guess, an ownership stake or at least a financial stake in a piece of critical infrastructure here in Alberta.
00:43:52.040And I'm old enough to remember in 2020 when Jason Kenney was sort of in, I mean, he got rebuked by the consulate in Calgary for saying that there will be a reckoning
00:44:02.040for the Chinese communist run state for what they did to the entire world through their handling of the coronavirus
00:44:10.260and their obfuscation and lies at the beginning of the pandemic that did not allow other economies to be prepared for what was about to come their way.
00:46:33.660I think the Chinese government played a significant role in devastating public health and economic damage that is being experienced in the entire world.
00:46:40.960And I do not think we should just forget this and walk past it.
00:46:46.480There must be some kind of reckoning and there must be some accountability.
00:46:51.200And that's why I don't think they should be allowed to partner in these critical infrastructure projects that I'm sure, I'm sure there's going to be some sort of bump in the road where the Alberta government's like, you know what?
00:47:01.940You guys need a billion dollars to get this over the hump.
00:47:16.600So, Sheila, when this high-tech choo-choo train from China starts rolling and every year there's an annual deficit, who's picking up that tab?
00:47:45.400There's, by the way, there's no, like, when you get to Edmonton or Calgary, there's not a ton of commuter rail infrastructure once you get there.
00:47:53.200So that's why I always drive, even though Ezra's like, oh, you know, like, you could fly to Calgary sometimes.
00:47:58.620And I'm like, no, I'll drive because for me, by the time I get to the airport, then clear security, then get in the air, then land on the other side.
00:48:11.560It doesn't make sense to be sort of driving, parking, going.
00:48:16.240Three hours is sort of like you're – that's the right time frame, right, where it makes more sense to drive than fly.
00:48:23.500I just can't see once – because there's not a ton of commuter rail infrastructure to get around the city on the other side, wherever you're going.
00:48:34.240And if there's anyone out there that can confront me with, you know, data to the contrary, do you know a single government megaproject that came in under budget and on deadline?
00:48:50.720I mean, I look back to in this city, Skydome, $150 million it was supposed to cost.
00:48:56.560The off-the-lot price was $600 million.
00:48:58.600And then in the scam of the century, Rogers Communications buys it in 2003, I believe, for $25 million.
00:49:14.240The only piece of Toronto real estate in 25 years that depreciated by more than 90% as opposed to tripling in value.
00:49:25.140This is government freakonomics at work, Sheila.
00:49:30.140So I think the taxpayers of Alberta, they're in for a bad surprise with this rail line.
00:49:38.240And I'm telling you, maybe on opening day, maybe for the novelty in the weeks ahead, you'll see attendance because people just want the thrill of riding.
00:49:48.820This is kind of like a new roller coaster at the theme park.
00:49:51.940But after the novelty wears off, you're going to see empty trains, you mark my words, going down that track.
00:50:00.840Well, it's funny you should bring that up because the Green Line is a LRT project in Calgary.
00:50:07.800And every year, it's like a mushroom cloud.
00:50:10.860The budget just keeps going up and up and up.
00:50:13.040And they get so far into these projects that they can't back out and abandon them.
00:50:16.200So they just keep throwing good money after bad.
00:50:18.980The Green Line is now at $5.5 billion for just an LRT extension in Calgary.
00:50:30.300And it is way, way, way, way over budget.
00:50:36.020It's to the point where they don't even think this thing can be finished or built.
00:50:38.960So, you know, I can't see that this experimental high-speed rail is going to be any different.
00:50:47.300Sheila, believe me, you are preaching to the converted when it comes to LRT lines.
00:50:51.160Not too far away from Rebel World Headquarters is the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.
00:50:58.560There are sections of it that haven't changed in a decade.
00:51:01.720I don't even know what the hell they're doing.
00:51:03.800I've actually got to bet with somebody what's going to occur first, the Leafs winning the Stanley Cup or the LRT being completed on Eglinton Avenue.
00:51:19.000And, you know, the thing is, and John Tory, when he was running for mayor originally, and we're going back to 2014,
00:51:26.400he was saying that under his stewardship in Toronto, because he was doing a press conference and I was there where I was working for Sun News at the time,
00:51:37.180we were in front of Union Station, the renovations of which are still not completed.
00:51:42.500He would say this will not be tolerated.
00:51:57.140The LRT line, like that green line you were mentioning, is just this albatross that just, they just rag the puck forever and ever and nothing gets done.
00:52:08.580I have no idea what year that will be done.
00:52:11.240And you know what's really sad, Sheila, and we've reported on this, how this has devastated neighborhoods such as Little Jamaica around Eglinton and Marley.
00:52:21.860It's a wonderful place, the barbershops, restaurants, most, many of which are out of business now.
00:52:41.660If you drive past these LRT projects, usually the road next to the LRT project, the thing that people actually use to get around, is so bad that it's like knocking the fillings out of your teeth.
00:52:51.860You look at the median and it's like a hubcap graveyard because the potholes are so bad.
00:52:57.440But everybody's focused on this LRT project that will never be finished, never be fully capable, and never be used at capacity.
00:53:05.660And the road you're driving on is like ruining the alignment on your vehicle.
00:53:10.160But the focus is always like, oh, we have to get away from cars because we're an anti-car society now all of a sudden.
00:53:17.080Yeah, indeed, except for the elites like Justin Trudeau that show up to pressers with seven SUVs, keep the engine running.
00:53:26.140And they're not hybrids or plug-in hybrids or electric, folks.