DAILY | Quebec's never-ending emergency; Trudeau's push for censorship
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In this episode of the Rebel News Daily Live stream, I am joined by the one and only Alexa Lavie Lavoei, a trans-athlete, swimmer, writer, and all-around badass, to discuss all sorts of topics related to the Qebec swimmer Leah Thomas and her recent win at the Canadian Cross Country Swimming Championships, as well as her transition from male to female, and her thoughts on competing in sports as a trans woman.
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good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the rebel news daily live stream my name is
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dakota christensen and today i am joined by the one and only alexa lavoie alexa how's it going
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hello how are you i'm doing pretty well it's friday the world isn't you know actually burning so i'm
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doing all right you know could be could be yeah the weather is pretty good i don't know for you
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but the weather is good oh yeah weather's been great yesterday it was beautiful almost 20 degrees
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out so that i don't even know what that is fahrenheit for anyone who doesn't do celsius
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20 degrees out though sunny went for a nice long run yesterday sat outside enjoyed the sun it was
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great okay me i was really happy to see two degrees this morning yeah i think right now it's something
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like 10 or 12 degrees here in toronto so it's still pretty nice for uh i guess i guess we're getting
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towards late march spring is on its way i'm excited about that weather is nice relatively no matter
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what's going on in the world summer and spring are on their way so yeah we can feel it yeah exactly
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whatever you have to say and essentially alexa what do you say we dive right in start talking about
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what's going on in this crazy world of ours oh my god do you want to start with quebec yeah i think
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the province yeah because again we definitely have a lot to talk about from your end i'm very interested
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to hear everything you have to say about quebec i think the first thing we're going to talk about
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on the dog up here is leah thomas the trans swimmer winnings has been all over the internet right now
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the fact that leah thomas has won the ncaa championship i believe yeah first trans woman to
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win ncaa title which is uh wild stuff there's so much to dive into here i mean we ourselves have
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picked through this quite a bit at rebel news um we have this past year we released the book on
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sporting uh talking about trans uh women or you know biological men competing in women's sports and
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the all of the issues relating to that but i mean what are your thoughts alexa as a woman on this if
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you're competing in sports i know you're a bit of an athlete yourself in a few areas um how would you
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feel if you were competing on a swimming team here and you have this biological male come in formerly
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william leah thomas as the swimmer now identifies as leah how would you feel being beat out by this
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biological male and you know losing all hope of uh competing as you would i mean i i feel really badly
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myself for all these female athletes who some of them lost their chance their you know the top spot
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was taken by someone who has a very clear biological advantage i would say
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i don't want to say that women are less powerful but is it is a fact like we our bodies made that uh we
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have less muscle and we all for some are some of the women are incredible they are really strong and
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everything so i don't want to put everybody in the same package but for most of the women
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our our body is not as strong and as powerful as a man body so uh of course we need to work
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way more to reach that level of um performance so maybe i would say it's kind of unfair but in the same
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time i'm happy for that person because he probably worked a lot and probably suffered from critic and
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everything so it's good for this person because it's actually reaching what he wanted in in life
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so i cannot be mad at that person but in the same time i just find that a little bit unfair for the
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other woman who worked so hard and think that they were all compete like do a competition for
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all the woman who was a man arrive and of course you have like an advantage on
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these women so i don't know i don't know i'm a little bit like skeptical about all of this uh what
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about you yeah i mean like when you look at some of the some of the other details there like the fact
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that leah thomas previously well still william thomas competing in men's swimming for three years
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was i think like 400th in the in the league there so like you go from being 400th in the men's division
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then you transition you identify as a woman and then you go and compete with in the women's league and
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you immediately are taking you know championship titles it seems like such an issue there and the
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person who came second she was like a silver medalist in the olympics and you know like i as far
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as i see it she is the real champion there whoever became second there can be beating out everyone
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else by a margin of more than five seconds and you know after placing 400th in welcoming with the men's
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like you know not even to dive into any like real trans issues in that but i just i i think it's super
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unfair to all of the women to have you know because we carve out this space right we say this is for
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women to compete this is you know the female space where they have to actually compete amongst
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themselves and as soon as you start letting in biological men in their competing i mean you know
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regardless of any other you know trans issues there it's just you know you cannot deny biological facts
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there and it just seems so unfair to these women and you see all these people who otherwise would be
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hardcore feminists right saying you know we need to stand up for women's rights who are then saying oh well
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we need to stand up for trans rights here and let this person compete but then it's kind of
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destroying this space for women so the way i see it if we let this continue women's sports is not
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going to exist in the way that will that it you know has leading up to now if we continue to let
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that happen because then all of the the women's champions will be trans women and you know that's
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a very dicey issue i'd say oh my god it it's really tall as well yeah
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picture really does say a thousand words but you know like it's it's not for nothing that on some
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sport like for they are doing a range of weights a range of by criteria for not giving advantage to
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one or another one so they try to put like the same level of of performance together that is fair play
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but now it's just like you have like a a champion from a league joining another champion league
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but for lowest level because it's a woman level yeah exactly it's yeah serious serious issues there
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so i mean that's uh that's what's been you know kind of front page of the internet this morning is just
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kind of how crazy this is going on here that uh because i mean leah thomas has been in the news for a
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little while now but finally reaching the top spot in the double nca uh ncaa pardon me but uh
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yeah so that's kind of crazy but hey that's the crazy world we're living in exactly uh well
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yeah so i mean moving forward now i know you had so much to talk about when it comes to quebec
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and all of the stuff going on there there are a few headlines you were sending me this morning
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so i mean tell me what is what is going on here what's what you know what should people being be
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paying attention to right now as far as things going on with quebec because i know the rest of
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canada there's kind of that language barrier it's almost like this blank curtain over quebec and it's
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a lot more difficult for those of us who aren't in english speaking canada to actually pay attention
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to everything because not everything makes it through sort of that language wall and actually gets
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published in english newspapers so what are the big issues of the day right now in quebec fill us in
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you have a lot where do we start where to begin um take a headline of course
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they removed the vaccine passports uh recently on the 12th of march and they are talking about
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removing maybe the mask as well in april but now they talk about lifting the emergency stay but
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with a bill with a bill of course and this bill is horrible all the opposition say that is actually
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uh the worst cam um that the the premier tried to do it's actually a bill who um
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who actually wants to keep the power he wants to keep the power of the emergency but he and when the
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health minister sorry i'm just trying to have it in front of me so i can actually talk to you better
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about it yeah um but when the health minister say oh we um so the measure that we will remove
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we cannot come back to it do that make sense to you like this he say oh but if we remove the mask
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during that law we cannot go back and put it back yeah yeah like actually the legislation the emergency
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powers right yeah but he say that this law will keep the the power until december 31 of december
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but the measure the law is really well not well right so what he's saying like it's like all the
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measure that is there when the law will pass they will be effective until the 31 of december
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but if they remove one of the decree as the mask they cannot put it back after they remove it
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hmm okay interesting but they keep the the fact that if you don't follow the rule
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they can find you thousand to six thousand dollars and wow you need to you need to uh permit all the
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minister and the government to have access to all information if they ask for you all your information
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it can be in anything like bank um anything okay and if you don't agree you can be charged for a
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thousand to six thousand dollars fine too and you know that in quebec they want to install but actually
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the bill has passed the bill six that now is the lord of erica for the cyber um cyber security and numeric
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so they want to like now begin like that everybody have a numerical uh identity so you can pay uh and
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you will have your wallet just with your face you don't need like any paper on you anymore so that
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make me a little bit scared when you know that you need to give your information or you will be fine
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yeah so okay so just so i have this clear in order to put an end to the current state of emergency and
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an end to all the current restrictions quebec is introducing a new bill that is saying that as
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they're ending this they're giving the government additional powers and if you don't comply with
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government requests to breach certain privacy issues like if you don't give them your information
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or sign up for certain things then you yourself can be fined further and so essentially they're giving
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themselves additional powers in a separate area as sort of a trade-off as they get rid of the current
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pandemic restrictions and the state of emergency do i have that right yeah and as well they give them
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the right to give uh again on tendered contract yeah um yeah that's a big issue because now they just
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find out that um they just give during the pandemic 13 billion of dollars of on tendered contract in
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quebec yeah and that was so that's all throughout the pandemic right yeah okay so that's great so 17
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the headline here 17.4 billion dollars in contracts without calls for tenders so essentially giving it
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handing out government contracts to whoever they want without the normal bidding process of people
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having to compete for these contracts they're just unilaterally handing out billions of dollars
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of the contracts to whatever vendors they want that's and so so that's great and before before like
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the cac that cac it's coalition avenir quebec it's the lego government yeah before it get elected it was
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about 1.4 billion that the maximum that they saw before that's nothing like to compare now
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wow yeah that's pretty incredible so to sum up that right now so as far as things are going in quebec
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you have sort of teasing the end of things but at the same time bring in new legislation to give the
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government additional powers there's still threat of incredible fines under extraordinary emergency
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like powers and at the same time they're trying to make permanent this ability to just hand out
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on tender you know like uh hand out government contracts without competing for them so just
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unilaterally handing out government contracts to whomever they would like and also trying to really
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further implement a digital id to track people uh i saw something about students there that was in
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there was that something else like trying to like track students as they go on the bus and that sort
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of thing like you like tell me more about that digital id things i saw you talking about that
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earlier so a lot of people are really angry because now a new uh pilot project it's giving qr code to
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uh children that they will have on them and um when they will enter in the bus they have like camera
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and scan and they will scan the qr code of the children and so like now the parent will be allowed
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like they can be tracking their children on their phone and see where they are going but that is a
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pilot project for what they say that is for the safety of the children i don't think that the safety of
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the children is trapped on inside of the bus it's when they wait for the bus outside or they are going
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outside of the bus that maybe you can have a danger but when you are inside and you're sitting in the bus
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where is the danger of the children there and so so the government is essentially telling everyone
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do not get rid like the qr code is not ending even though we're not enforcing a vaccine passport
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still keep that on your phone because we're still going to use that for you to check in in places and
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make sure the government can track you i mean like it sounds you know it's like well if the government
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wanted to track us they can track us anyway through our phones but i mean the use of the qr code like
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going no matter what and they're going to continue using it for other purposes specifically for
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government check-ins and tracking people and having it all on one system so they actually just specified
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to don't uh delete the qr code and they are talking about the fact that maybe in the fall we'll probably
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have a sixth wave and uh we need to be able to handle it and i'm just asking like they were saying like
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oh if we want the vaccine passport back we need to activate again the emergency state power but i'm
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actually pretty sure everything is there everything is in place like you know all the app is there
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the qr code is there i don't know why they don't want people to just erase it and destroy all the
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information related to the qr code yeah i see so they're poisoning they're completely they're keeping
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everything in place essentially saying oh well you never know six wave could come they're ready to crack
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back down i mean yet whether it's you know covid or not so basically everyone is celebrating right
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now they're either distracted by a war going on russia ukraine or there's and simultaneously
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celebrating the fact that restrictions are all coming to an end when it looks like we're going to be
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hit again once summer winds down right yeah and they are talking about the fourth booster now yeah i saw
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that so booster number four which i mean i imagine we're still on youtube and so youtube doesn't like
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anything uh talking about vaccines i was about to say something about that as a headline a study we
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were just talking about earlier um i guess we'll have to wait until we're off of youtube to talk about
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that but uh yeah i mean that sounds kind of crazy as far as quebec style i mean that's you know quebec has
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always been a little extreme compared to all of canada but that kind of rings true to you know just a little
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more explicitly stated but what is going on a lot of provinces now still too i imagine is that like
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all the infrastructure is still there all the emergency legislation is still in place they're
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starting to roll back restrictions they're announcing ends to the vaccine passport announcing ends to
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mandatory masking but all of these provincial governments still have their emergency power still
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in place the current government of each province can still issue emergency orders you know they still
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have those powers and we're still completely you know without any sort of debate in the parliament
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do you know what they smell no election of course yes yes indeed i mean yeah because we in ontario we
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have our election june 2nd or 20 something because you know there's a two in there but sometime in
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june we have our election here ontario which absolutely i was saying yep doug ford rate open up for
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election is there is there an election going on in quebec too coming up or yeah it would be uh i think
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us is a little bit later i think it's uh october okay yeah yeah it's election season no doubt about
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that i mean in the states too in november they have the midterms going on so that'll be interesting to
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see um but you know what there'll be uh and the the leader of the conservative party too it will be soon
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true yeah for federally for the uh the conservative leadership which we've been all over covering that
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yeah that's in september so lots of potential change in the air and it's interesting to see
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how everything is kind of switching up right now leading up to all these elections
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so that'll be that'll be fun to see uh so you know what else is on our list you were talking about
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so we talked about qr code pilot project all those contracts all the fun stuff in quebec
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uh then there's the canadian government border so i i'm sure many would have seen this this was news
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from the other day but the fact that the government the federal government has lifted the requirements
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for mandatory testing and quarantine for those who are vaccinated for international travel so if
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you're unvaccinated you still can't get on a train or a plane or you know travel even domestically
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within canada but if you are vaccinated and you're looking to travel outside of the country
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you no longer have to do the testing or the quarantine which i suppose is good news there i
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mean it's a step in the right direction it would be wonderful if we just you know followed suit with
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other countries and put an end to all of this but i guess we're slowly pulling it back federally i mean
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what do you think alexa i just again it's ostracization it's it's discrimination like we are one of the
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really rare country that um the unvax cannot leave their own country and uh when we look at the british airway
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that they are lifting the uh mass mandate and when i look like at air canada that people would be fired
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on the second of may because they didn't receive their second shot but what's going on in canada
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like we cannot leave the people cannot leave their country and when they come back they need to
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quarantine two weeks but they cannot even leave yeah well exactly i mean it's because we were looking
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at i believe it was the uk uh i think it was last week they announced they're they're ending all travel
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restrictions whatsoever people can come into the country freely they can leave they're dropping every all
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their their main restrictions across the uk um and that was kind of big news there it's like well
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that's great if you wanted to you could go travel there not have to quarantine travel back but wait
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if you are canadian you still and you're if you're unvaccinated canadian you can't travel at all go on
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any plane you can't leave the country or come back without having to quarantine for two weeks so even
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if you're to drive into the united states and then drive back you still have to do a two-week quarantine
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i mean just across the border it's kind of insane the fact that we're still here even when we're now
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dropping domestically finally after two years we're dropping the all the mask mandates we're now
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dropping the vaccine passports in all the provinces they've all announced on monday in ontario we're
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dropping our mask mandate we've already dropped our vaccine passport but still federally all these
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things are clinging on to it as much as they can it's it's just crazy the fact that they refuse to let go
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and and it's really interesting because you know uh in march 2020 i was in africa and i was with
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people from uk with me yeah and uk was what was banned it was a country that was banned you were not
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allowed to take a flight anywhere because your country were banned but canadian was free and and
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when we look like now uk is like oh we lift everything but canada is still like in a jail
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for some people yeah yeah it's crazy like if you if you've not taken the shots that the government has
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told you to take you can't travel at all still which is pretty incredible again i'm not sure if we're
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still on youtube there's stuff i would say about the vaccines but uh i will abstain i will abstain from
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making comments about the vaccines at the moment because i think we are still going on youtube and
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we've kept it pretty youtube safe thus far but uh i mean actually on the topic of censorship there
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uh because we've seen i think it was last last week they first announced it maybe it was earlier
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this week i've got no concept of time when it comes to these headlines it all blurs together but
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sometime in recent history the canadian government announced that they are banning uh all like streaming
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of on canadian airwaves you know of rt russia's uh state broadcaster any russian news sites uh citing
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concerns about russian propaganda going on with the war russian ukraine um and that was very concerning
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i thought just in terms of censorship it's like sure yes it's the russian state broadcaster and it's
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propaganda i would say the same thing about our own state broadcaster the cbc it's just propaganda for
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our government but now we are seeing advocacy groups calling for all russian websites of any
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kind anything coming from russia should just be banned it shouldn't be allowed in canada
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and so that i thought was a little concerning seeing that headline there and the government
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hasn't announced anything on that front but it seems like you know why not why wouldn't the true
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government go ahead and say yeah because hating russia is very much in vogue right now it's very popular
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thing to be saying you know what down with anything russian we've been boycotting anything involving
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russia if it's russian liquor if it's russian tv if it's you know even russian people have been getting
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a lot of hate thrown on them very unfairly because it's the russian government and vladimir putin who's
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been doing the invading and not anything to do with the russian people themselves especially if you're
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a russian canadian but i mean i don't know do you have any thoughts on this alexa in terms of because
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the censorship it seems like it's so okay right now for us to say you know what we're gonna ban all the
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russian tv and all the russian websites but then that just opens the door paves the way for more
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clearly to say all right we're gonna be banning this next and this and you know what you're not
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allowed to see that because that's misinformation and disinformation as we've heard all about from
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our friend justin trudeau haven't we why you have always like someone that we need to bully
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yeah now he's russian before he was on vax it's always someone that we we take apart and you need to
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hate them yeah like the media tell you who you need to hate who you need to like who you need to
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follow what you need to believe stop it let people decide by themselves yeah i think you're 100% right
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there it's it's uh george orwell's two minutes of hate where you know in the novel 1984 you go there
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you get the masses together and then you have the the subject of the day the victim the person you're
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meant to hate and you know for two minutes of the day the state tells you you have to hate this
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person and you know scream let it all out insult them you know uh derate them go all in against
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this one person for two minutes let out your hate and then that way you're no longer angry at the
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state who's causing all of your problems you have the scapegoat uh but i mean it's it's so true it's
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first before it was the unvaccinated and i mean it's still very much to a degree the unvaccinated but
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now the real evil boogeyman is russia and you know hate on russia i hate the russians boycott russia
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stand with ukraine all of that it's it's being weaponized to just direct people and and it's
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amazing to see the the switch flip right in terms of literally one day it's all about the pandemic
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it's all about the vaccine and then suddenly oh the war is going on russia ukraine suddenly everyone
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forgets about all that we're all focused so intently on all right guys the the big battle we have to
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fight is to stand up and fight against russia and hate everything to do with russia and russia
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and then there's a significant amount of hate coming from us like actual russian people who
00:26:56.520
are suffering from this russian-owned businesses who are being boycotted by people and they have
00:27:00.860
nothing to do with this invasion just because they are russian people they're from russia uh it's kind
00:27:06.780
of crazy but yeah i mean i'm just worried because there's that and then there's just the fact that
00:27:11.420
there's this censorship itself going on and trudeau seems to be waging this war against you know
00:27:16.300
disinformation and misinformation and that's you know something we need to be focusing on because
00:27:20.540
it's so dangerous for our democracy and that just seems like an excuse for him to censor his political
00:27:25.140
enemies now and i feel like that's a battle we're going to be fighting here rebel news because we know
00:27:29.680
that trudeau very much does not like us very specifically he's called us out you yourself alexa
00:27:35.820
had your chance to ask him that question of the leadership debate and he gave a piece of his mind to
00:27:41.380
all of us as to what he thinks of us at rebel news so i don't know it's it's worrisome stuff
00:27:46.840
because the government has a lot of power to control information right now and it seems like
00:27:51.020
it's grabbing more and more of that power to censor us further and to control what people are seeing and
00:27:57.040
i mean that way you're able to control what people think but the fun fact is like now they are banning
00:28:03.380
like every information that's coming from russia so like that you don't have any narrative that's coming
00:28:09.740
from russia that story that side of the story but in in the same time like all you want to control
00:28:17.280
one narrative it's like when you have nothing that trapped you on the side so it's the perfect game
00:28:24.160
for them the perfect yeah yeah and like what you're just saying there it's interesting uh to think that
00:28:30.660
when you're saying you're banning everything coming from russia because of you know russian propaganda
00:28:35.120
and disinformation when we ourselves have seen more than our fair share of ukrainian propaganda i
00:28:40.300
mean whether or not you believe that uh ukraine or russia are the ones in the right i mean it seems
00:28:45.160
pretty clear to me ukraine got invaded ukraine is the one that's in the right here putin is in the
00:28:49.600
wrong he's doing the invading but still ukraine has puts there's so much wartime propaganda coming up
00:28:55.920
stuff like the ghost of kiev and uh that one island that turned out to be a hoax of the soldiers on the
00:29:01.260
island getting invaded and you know uh different uh numbers coming out about casualties that have
00:29:05.960
been completely wrong and all these sort of war stories or clips from video games or from movie
00:29:10.600
scenes swirling around and that's all been pro ukraine propaganda to sort of bolster the narrative that
00:29:17.200
ukraine is doing great in this war and they're fighting back against russia but somehow all of that
00:29:22.200
even after it's debunked a week later but yeah all of that you saw was a complete lie
00:29:26.940
but because it's coming from the ukrainian side that's okay that sort of misinformation and
00:29:31.540
propaganda is no problem whatsoever and we let that through because it helps ukraine and you know
00:29:36.660
free speech and all that but when it comes to the russian side we have to ban everything because it's
00:29:40.740
it's such an atrocity to allow any sort of misinformation or propaganda come through that
00:29:46.000
we need to just ban everything there and it just you know i think it shows double standard and i think it
00:29:51.860
really speaks to the fact that they're willing to censor anything that is in their political
00:29:57.880
interest to do so and they're more than happy to let through anything that helps support them
00:30:03.140
politically even if it is that same level of disinformation or misinformation the terms trudeau
00:30:08.560
is so fond of using when censoring anything he doesn't like it just yeah it seems very hypocritical
00:30:14.220
to me and it's very concerning i think it's uh i think that's that's sort of our next huge battle is
00:30:19.920
going to be the fight for free speech in times of our digital age and what's being censored or what
00:30:25.300
isn't i mean it's already a battle but i think it's going to get worse but what i mean what is
00:30:30.300
actually make me scared a little bit is like everybody who had like one vision of the pandemic
00:30:38.780
now they are all in the same vision of the world without really asking themselves do i have the good
00:30:47.260
information do i'm thinking right do i'm well informed uh no i just follow and it's getting
00:30:56.300
really worse in quebec when you think about the fact okay fine they remove the uh russian vodka
00:31:02.660
russian liqueur but it's already by yeah yeah exactly it's it's pure virtue put in the back
00:31:10.920
yeah exactly yeah like it serves no purpose to say okay we've already purchased this vodka let's
00:31:15.780
dump it down the drain it's a show of support like i guess but it's yeah it's just more more
00:31:20.340
anti-russia virtue signaling but you know you just give it to me yeah you'll take it
00:31:25.680
well but that that makes me think because i was i was talking about this with someone the other day
00:31:30.320
the fact that you know in terms of where you're getting your information from and you know whether
00:31:34.740
or not you can really judge for yourself when you think about it in our current day of information
00:31:39.500
we're able to see all the stuff coming from both sides if you're kind of tuned into the internet
00:31:44.040
if you're on twitter you can see stuff coming from ukraine stuff coming from russia people
00:31:48.280
debunking a lot of false hoaxes and narratives and government propaganda but if this was say you
00:31:53.160
were back in the original cold war of u.s versus russia there was no digital age there was no internet as
00:31:59.740
we know it um and so you weren't able to get anything other than what your government really
00:32:06.060
provided you you had your your sort of mass media and what the government message was and so the
00:32:11.920
reality then for people was whatever the government told them it was and they didn't have sort of
00:32:16.560
that ability to go and research for themselves to the degree that we do now there's a lot more to
00:32:21.240
sift through there is a lot more fake news and misinformation and propaganda out there but it's just
00:32:26.880
interesting to think that right now we have the ability to see all this stuff coming through and
00:32:30.860
be able to say oh no that's just more government propaganda coming from russia or coming from
00:32:35.080
ukraine you know it's wartime propaganda or this is what the government is trying to support in this
00:32:39.480
narrative but for anyone who's living decades ago they didn't have that whatever was you know printed
00:32:46.040
in the mass media whatever was the messaging of the day was that was just accepted as objective fact
00:32:51.880
and i don't know it just got me thinking it's interesting to think of where we are we are able to be
00:32:55.880
a lot more skeptical now and to be able to kind of you know look at all sides and hear from so many
00:33:02.100
different areas right now because we have access to so much information whether it's true or not
00:33:06.940
and especially like how many words happened in the past i don't remember one time that they say we
00:33:17.180
will ban this liquor from this country or we'll like uh do this or remove the name of this person
00:33:23.580
because or you know in the past i didn't see any of that that it's just it's just too much when it's
00:33:32.100
too much you have something that they want to hide that's it yeah i mean it seems it seems to me like
00:33:37.000
it's fair that in a lot of the major wars a lot of this stuff was done sort of to extreme ways what
00:33:41.500
it reminds me of of seeing all the anti-russian hate uh especially oh my earpiece falling out here
00:33:45.980
especially directed to like people who are russians living in canada or russian-owned businesses
00:33:50.620
uh it kind of reminded me of world war ii in terms of like the japanese internment camps of
00:33:54.760
there was all this skepticism and hatred towards japanese canadians and japanese americans who were
00:34:00.460
just of japanese descent living in north america who were put in internment camps because they were
00:34:05.160
concerned about them being spies or concerned about the japanese government when you know when i i look
00:34:10.920
at people today who have been you know a lot of stuff we're doing to russians like we're banning russian
00:34:15.380
cats from competing in in cat competitions and we're banning russian athletes and we're boycotting
00:34:22.140
russian-owned businesses like of say russian canadians or russian americans who are taking
00:34:26.360
heat from this i think there was a russian piano player was that did you see that who was being
00:34:31.120
boycotted by people and all this stuff and there is actual hate being directed towards people of
00:34:35.640
russian heritage who are you know living in north america that kind of makes you think the guys like
00:34:40.980
did we not realize that this thing back in world war ii we were doing of directing hate towards
00:34:45.560
japanese north americans because of what the government of japan was doing like you do realize
00:34:50.660
they're not one in the same and it's that was bad remember that that wasn't good we shouldn't be you
00:34:56.000
know judging and hating people because of what the government of their native land was doing it just
00:35:01.340
yeah but now the biggest like problem is like the nuclear yeah like it's it's an biological weapon
00:35:10.180
they know that they have biology biological like weapon they have a laboratory and they have weapon
00:35:18.420
for it and they know that they have nuclear as well weapon so what are we doing there yeah and that's
00:35:25.380
another thing because i see people saying that if this is sort of leading up if they're comparing
00:35:30.420
putin's russia right now to germany during world war ii and saying guys we can't appease like you you know
00:35:36.040
remember when germany took austria you know and that was the you know the first big thing you can't
00:35:40.720
be appeasing um you know we have to step in now we have to fight back we have to stop putin before
00:35:45.540
he keeps going you do realize though guys back then there wasn't the threat of nuclear war this is
00:35:50.820
another factor we kind of have to consider everyone calling for the no-fly zone over ukraine and you know
00:35:55.380
of course like i think very rightly so we've been seeing a lot of our leaders saying i'm not sure we
00:35:59.840
want to get pulled into a world war three right now but there is also the other factor of we are at the
00:36:04.200
moment nuclear superpowers here who are kind of preparing to knock heads and that is a very
00:36:10.020
important factor i think people are forgetting is that to declare war on russia right now is to have
00:36:15.020
one superpower nuclear superpower be declaring war on another nuclear superpower and that's uh that's
00:36:21.740
when things get dicey and of course everyone's calling for de-escalation and stepping back and
00:36:26.200
i mean i'm not going to pretend to be an expert on this but there is some worrying stuff there and
00:36:30.440
like you're saying with the biological labs in the ukraine that's a whole other issue of in ukraine
00:36:35.860
we have these united states owned or funded or at least affiliated biological weapons labs that they
00:36:42.460
were denying and then saying that okay yes they're ours but this and now they're just saying okay yeah
00:36:48.460
everything you've said about them is true and we need to make sure that stuff doesn't happen there
00:36:52.200
with russia invading we don't want they falling into russian hands or something bad happening there
00:36:57.000
there's a lot of very dicey stuff going on it's all there's just so much it's a big mess
00:37:01.780
in terms of trying to especially when the info especially when we we see like the prime
00:37:08.280
minister of ukraine begging for the no-fly zone yeah and and some people like say yeah we need to help
00:37:15.960
them and the other one say do you do you realize the consequences of doing that like are you ready
00:37:22.420
if they use nuclear uh word uh like nuclear weapon what do you promise us that you have like a b plan
00:37:30.960
yeah but nobody have b plan yeah that's the thing it's like i don't trust any of these people in our
00:37:38.420
government right now who are talking about this it's just yeah i i don't think anyone wants world war
00:37:44.480
three we certainly don't want nuclear war we prefer to all stay alive and live peacefully and not have
00:37:49.580
all this craziness stuff going on it's tough i mean you know there there are so many comments i'd make
00:37:54.620
about it but i'm also not the most informed on the topic and that's why we don't talk about it so much
00:37:58.420
here rebel news i've seen a lot of people saying come on guys why don't you talk about this more
00:38:01.480
we're just like guys we're not experts on geopolitics we're not experts on russia we're not experts on
00:38:06.820
ukraine so like we can we will give you our two cents here and there but uh we don't we don't mean to
00:38:12.460
like report on it as if we're experts in terms of the geopolitics of russia and ukraine and everything
00:38:17.920
that's going on plus that's the thing it's like half the time i see these headlines coming out of
00:38:22.580
there and then i've seen so much where it's like oh yeah that was you know fake propaganda coming
00:38:26.720
from either russia or ukraine this is you know wartime i think i forget where it comes from the
00:38:31.740
saying that the first casualty of war is truth or something along those lines in terms of if there's
00:38:36.460
a war going on there's going to be propaganda coming out both sides non-stop and so half the time i see a
00:38:42.920
headline i'm like oh okay that's interesting or a story on the on the internet in terms of oh this
00:38:46.740
happened you know with this side you see this crazy thing ukraine did or russia they're like
00:38:50.060
okay if that's true cool or i guess or oh no that's awful i guess if that's true but i really
00:38:55.860
don't know if that is true and i'm having to sort of guess every piece of news i hear coming out of
00:39:00.260
there until everything is verified it's just kind of crazy but the only sad part is like all the
00:39:07.600
innocent that will that actually die for a decision and everything that is out of their hand is all
00:39:14.540
political and they they don't deserve what i what is happening right now exactly that is the one thing
00:39:21.100
i can't absolutely say is you know i i don't stand with any of these governments really i stand with
00:39:27.380
the people who are having you know either the people who are being invaded and having their you
00:39:32.980
know their homes destroyed and all that or the people of russia who are you know their government is
00:39:38.080
doing this and they don't want any part of it it's the people who are being harmed in this the mass
00:39:42.560
casualties all the death and the horrible parts of war so you have these governments fighting it out
00:39:47.440
you know putin seeking to invade zelensky has his own agendas i'm you know i don't know what to think
00:39:52.860
of him because on the surface he seems like oh yeah he's this great war hero saying all these great
00:39:57.200
things but then also there's some sketchy stuff about him when you start looking into zelensky i don't
00:40:01.740
trust any of these politicians or any of these governments but my heart absolutely goes out to every
00:40:06.420
single person who's suffering through this because war is hell and there is you know all the
00:40:11.800
heartbreaking stuff that you do see coming out of there that is eventually verified because like
00:40:16.620
you're saying there's so much fake stuff coming out but all of the death and the casualties it's
00:40:20.440
just it's horrible to see people on the ground sending in their stuff and seeing reporters now from
00:40:25.300
the from the states there are those uh someone from fox news i think there are two people from fox
00:40:29.300
news who were killed uh and another american who was killed while out there you know like it's it's
00:40:34.120
crazy to see that sort of stuff happening you know it's hitting a home for people in the states but
00:40:38.480
i mean crazy crazy to see all the people in russia and ukraine who have been suffering through this
00:40:43.900
so that's the one thing i can't actually say is it's just heartbreaking it's never no one ever wins
00:40:49.420
in war that's the bottom exactly i mean except for those who profit from it and who never have to
00:40:55.440
actually fight i'll say that they win in war those are the real winners those who can after that
00:41:00.880
yeah you finish with like a country that is completely destroyed for what at the end what you will
00:41:07.280
have in your pocket it's only like the people on the head that will have something but the people
00:41:14.020
on the bottom exactly you get the the whole military industrial complex war is great it's
00:41:20.120
profitable you can make some money and you send people off to die or you have people who are
00:41:24.880
suffering because the war is happening in their backyard so you know what i think bottom line
00:41:31.420
war bad let's not do war but war is here so it's tough it's tough what can you do
00:41:41.940
oh i guess so oh man all right you know what i'm gonna i'm gonna move on here looking at our
00:41:48.900
headline because there are a couple i think i know you know one final headline on our little
00:41:52.980
list here before going to some chats reminder to people if you want to send some chats i'm seeing a
00:41:57.140
few popping up on my phone there oh remember to send in your chats we'll go with those in there
00:42:01.380
there's one other uh thing on our list here of headlines to cover an ontario high school teacher
00:42:06.000
i saw this person on actually of the original tweet who's under investigation for opposing critical race
00:42:12.000
theory and that's kind of uh it's interesting to me it's kind of crazy especially when we're seeing
00:42:17.680
ontario i did a video on this before about them passing bill 67 which is essentially institutionalizing
00:42:23.880
critical race theory in all of our schools but yeah that headline there so this ontario school
00:42:28.600
teacher who's under investigation for opposing critical race theory she essentially was like i
00:42:35.680
saw the tweet of her being under investigation essentially for i think she was just teaching
00:42:39.580
her students uh that guys racism is bad and don't discriminate and uh you know i just want to
00:42:46.760
scroll down a little bit on that uh that article there yeah for marks yeah so she said this is what
00:42:52.420
teachers in ontario being investigated for nowadays uh we're gonna load up the tweet right there
00:42:58.220
and yeah so the things that she was saying um let's see here can we zoom in i'm not i want to read this
00:43:04.860
out let's see uh kids aren't in school to be indoctrinated with critical race theory so she was
00:43:11.400
being critical of critical race theory schools should be non-partisan focus on modeling kindness to
00:43:17.520
everyone and speak out against any form of discrimination you see this includes discrimination
00:43:22.920
brought on by anti-racist movements i.e all white people are racist etc in some places example britain
00:43:29.680
it is now illegal to teach crt without offering a balanced opposing view and she posted a youtube
00:43:35.900
video entitled teachers presenting white privilege as facts uh are as fact are breaking the law warns
00:43:43.540
minister in which a british member of parliament named kemi badnock states among other things that
00:43:48.820
critical race theory is an ideology that sees my blackness as victimhood and their whiteness as
00:43:54.220
oppression i want to be absolutely clear this government stands unequivocally against critical
00:43:58.160
race theory we do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and
00:44:03.000
inherited racial guilt and let me be clear any school which teaches these elements of critical race
00:44:08.120
theory are uh no critical race theory as fact or which promotes partisan political views and it goes
00:44:14.620
on i mean i would agree with that sort of thing teaching white people that they are inherently
00:44:19.120
privileged and that they should have inherited guilt teaching black people they are inherently oppressed
00:44:23.780
and inherently victims i mean that is what critical race theory teaches i think that teacher is 100%
00:44:30.320
correct and it's kind of absurd the point we've gotten to where when you speak out against racism
00:44:34.300
and saying including racism being taught as a part of critical race theory uh will get you investigated
00:44:39.920
as a teacher in ontario i mean that's sort of where we're at because critical race theory is
00:44:44.080
considered the doctrine of the day but i don't know do you have any thoughts on on that of this teacher
00:44:48.980
being under investigation for speaking against critical race theory to her students speaking
00:44:53.480
critically of critical race theory so my my only point of view in this is like at school yeah you can
00:45:01.160
teach some something but at home you get teach something else by your parents it depends on what is
00:45:10.880
your environment where did you grow up what is the mentality of the people where you grow up with
00:45:17.940
if at school everything is white and with flower and like we're not not talking about the real thing
00:45:25.400
you're coming back home and you just say like why you have like such a big gap and and that make the the
00:45:33.500
the children that don't understand the life we need to teach the history as it was to mention that
00:45:42.260
it should not happen again and everybody is equal and everybody is like the same human being
00:45:49.300
but a fact is a fact history is the history yes white had privilege in the past and and and and black
00:45:58.460
people was slave and and i know because i've been to uh africa and i saw this jail and i saw this
00:46:06.360
story about like the slavery and it was a fact we cannot ignore that and i think it's just like
00:46:13.300
something that we need to teach like children uh whatever like people are against or whatever
00:46:19.380
but it's something that you need to know it's the history what we will just like wipe up like
00:46:24.180
everything that happened in the past and just say oh you know what uh everybody is equal and everything
00:46:30.460
but no in this in this story no it wasn't it wasn't it is not really far away yeah it's a couple of
00:46:37.120
years ago no yeah that's absolutely true and i mean because the teacher here speaking out i i like
00:46:42.760
where she says that like schools should be non-partisan and they should be if they were
00:46:47.340
to if they're teaching critical race theory they should not be presenting that as objective fact
00:46:52.180
because that's sort of part of the day and the critical race theory itself as in they teach you
00:46:56.180
that they they oppose they say the idea that treating everyone equally is actually racist and
00:47:03.160
that you need to favor people of color and treat white people worse essentially is what they're saying
00:47:08.620
teach them that they have inherent guilt and that they should feel guilty that's what critical
00:47:12.620
race theory is in this i didn't know i just learned something yeah exactly so that's that's that's
00:47:19.020
sort of the thing so the teacher is speaking out against critical race theory in terms of she's
00:47:22.840
saying that this new curriculum that we're bringing in here is teaching students that it's all about
00:47:27.940
that racial equality is bad and they need to fight for racial equity which means they have to like
00:47:32.980
uplift people of color and push down people who are white because inherently there are these
00:47:37.840
disadvantages and disadvantages that we need to take action to yeah that's essentially what it was
00:47:42.920
so this teacher who is speaking out against this who are they're teaching critical race theory which
00:47:47.780
yeah like i was saying teaches you that if you're born black right now you are inherently oppressed and
00:47:53.960
you won't be able to make it somewhere in life as well as someone who's white because you will be
00:47:57.860
disadvantaged i mean that's what they're teaching in these schools right now and so this teacher was
00:48:03.300
speaking out against that and saying no racial equality guys is what we should teach we should
00:48:07.260
teach that no matter the color of your skin you are equal you have the same chances the same
00:48:12.880
opportunities and we should just treat each other the same no matter what race you are that's kind of
00:48:18.620
what we fought for all throughout the civil rights movement right so she's speaking out against this sort
00:48:22.580
of woke ideology and now she's under investigation for that for sharing these videos and so but
00:48:28.580
in the same time it's when you you actually point color of skin or whatever um i think you make an
00:48:37.600
emphasis on what it is i think uh we should just not it's kind of really like sketchy especially like
00:48:47.900
i would not want to be a teacher for that yeah i think i prefer to be what i'm doing right now
00:48:53.880
it's just because it's just because uh you don't know how will be the reaction of the children
00:49:00.860
whatever you say it will be capped differently because we are not the same person and we think
00:49:10.080
differently and we will see that the everything differently too so whatever you will say it will
00:49:16.840
be probably understanding differently well yeah and that's why i just think it's it's also so
00:49:24.340
important to teach a wide range of views to kids right and like not teach them a single ideology as
00:49:29.740
if it's objective fact right to like you know give them a lot more context and teach them you know
00:49:34.400
all sides sort of thing tell them the other side of the story as we might say yeah exactly exactly
00:49:40.580
and it's just it's concerning because teachers like this like if they share something like that
00:49:44.820
like she's under investigation for speaking out against teaching a certain you know sort of woke
00:49:49.480
leftist ideology there it's essentially what it is and so i mean that's just something concerning i i
00:49:54.600
and that's an ontario high school teacher you know because in ontario i i interviewed belinda
00:49:59.080
carahelios who's an mpp in ontario the other week to talk about this new bill in ontario that's being put
00:50:04.940
forward that's essentially making critical race theory the the objective fact they're teaching in
00:50:10.160
schools which is this i would say it's an inherently racist doctrine they're teaching these
00:50:14.760
kids and teaching them yeah that you know because you're you are because your skin is this certain
00:50:21.040
color you are more or less than someone else and it like would fine people for subconscious racism or
00:50:26.980
for speaking out against the bill and stuff like that so that's something i can learn about you can
00:50:30.840
see that video and sign a petition at stop crt.ca tell you to go check that out petition launch but
00:50:38.540
you see she's under investigation okay but i don't know if you remember in december uh the show in uh
00:50:46.260
the french show at home the teacher was with two uh two children that was from the school and they
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have been teached that on vax have less privilege and we need to punish them and we need to remove
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their rights and everything she's not under investigation for doing that yeah yeah exactly
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well yeah that's and that you know like you're saying that was that was sort of the new
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discrimination of our times was the segregating of the vaccinated the unvaccinated the not giving
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anyone the benefit of the doubt based off of their own medical history or anything like that there's
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no such thing as medical privacy now um or medical individuality right it's like saying everyone no
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matter who you are no matter what your medical situation is you need to take this vaccine and if you do
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not take this vaccine you are a terrible evil person and we need to put you down we need to coerce you
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we need to take away all of your rights until you give in and take this shot yeah but that that's our
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right to teach exactly oh that's that's good yeah exactly so i mean that is your your news of the day
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we got less than 10 minutes here left on our hour so i think it's time for some chats you know
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yeah what do you say we take a look at what the people are saying so go ahead oh i'm reading this
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first chat here i'm also going to recover i just dropped out of my ear so i can actually hear you
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alexa uh so yeah we're back at it so we have one from mikisa uh and tyrants plans by avoiding the use
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of mobile phones gold fashion make in-person events that all include that all including unjabbed and
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unmasked can attend regularly and post ads for them on street pulse you know what i'm always always for
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uh going doing some old-fashioned stuff dropping the technology that's the thing about our day
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it's like it's impossible to escape you know being tracked if you didn't want to be tracked you know
00:52:45.140
we talk about the worries about the qr codes and that sort of thing but it's like this thing i'm
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carrying in my pocket here it's got a microphone it's got a bunch of cameras it's got a gps in it
00:52:53.060
it's trackable by so many means if someone wants to find me and i've got this on me by all means and
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you know stuff on our cars and our computers and everything it's like we are in a full digital age
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now where uh and even if you didn't carry your phone everyone else around you has phones and
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there are cameras everywhere on every street and there are satellites everywhere it's like this
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sort of thing where even if you really wanted to get out of the way it's tough it's tough to escape
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the the digital world in which we're living it's kind of a reality but in the same time that like
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i'm for coming back to the old fashion but in the same time that brings so much people together
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yeah and it's why we were able to to tell the other side of the story because we were we had
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like news coming from everywhere yeah um and that was not come from a mainstream imagine no um
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no tool for knowing like what is going on in the world or only the mainstream that would be horrible
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yeah exactly that's the thing it's like it is all of these amazing new technologies that have allowed
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us to have alternative platforms and that sort of thing to have that sort of innovation and to get
00:53:58.860
your information elsewhere i mean and now yeah exactly i guess being there and talking exactly
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going in person but yes i am all for putting aside the technology going old-fashioned be nice to
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escape to a cabin in the woods and hold some covert meetings be fun i'm all for it
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uh all right same person here which i always forget mikisa mc3 canada ca you know i'll resay
00:54:26.200
maybe send us a note sometime how you want us to pronounce that username uh one dollar again
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does anyone know how to modify tvs so that trudeau doesn't focus people's attention on ukraine versus
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russia i bet in mandated digital id and microchips are being invented behind the scenes for all
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i'm not sure what i mean i don't know by modify tvs that trudeau doesn't focus i don't know about
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that i mean the thing is probably um so some people are able to break through and i'm like
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i don't know i never did that some people i know that do it but yeah i see what you're saying
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personally but yeah yeah it's interesting i mean yeah focusing people's attention on ukraine versus
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yeah i mean everyone's tuned in the tv they're all tuned into the news all distracted and that's
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the thing it's like you can divert people's attention to wherever you want like you were
00:55:16.700
we were saying earlier you can point them to hate whoever you want and i'll i'll hate this person now
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go and everyone will just go do it or oh everyone look over here put all your attention there and
00:55:26.220
they'll just do it it's it's pretty incredible the powers of mass media and the way we can control
00:55:32.480
people that way in terms of think this do this put your focus on us in this place and then what's
00:55:37.540
going on in the background you know like what what sort of legislation are we pushing through at
00:55:41.200
home we're all focused on the war or you know the the issues that were the biggest on the news cycle
00:55:47.020
one week they just instantly disappear the next week it's all about something else those issues
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still exist though so something to keep in mind folks something to remember like you're saying
00:55:57.100
digital id we were talking all about that about the push in quebec and digital id it's here guys
00:56:03.400
it's it's we're living in this digital world so what next you know yeah i might that scare me more
00:56:12.480
than everything else that uh we passed through since the last two years yeah um because afterwards what
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everybody would know like where where where when who which person i see uh what what did i buy
00:56:30.620
uh which uh fine or death aha yeah um no it's not okay yeah well yeah exactly and it's like we have
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a whole host of privacy laws for a reason right and i mean and they told us what especially like oh
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you download this covet app and don't worry everything is gonna be totally private or get
00:56:51.680
your qr code don't worry we're protecting your privacy and all your private information
00:56:55.040
but then we had all these massive data leaks and people hacking in getting people's private
00:56:59.900
information and all that it's like no really nothing is private now and even when your government
00:57:05.220
promises you privacy of course they're going to violate it and then when they promise to protect
00:57:09.660
your privacy from that of others they show that they're incompetent and they're not able to do
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that anyways so kind of no matter what you know the you know the example that what um
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eric gave for like the uh the uh numeric like uh identity yeah he said oh but if children go and
00:57:31.460
buy some beer it would just can uh and uh the person in the the cashier will know his age his birth of
00:57:39.360
date and his name i was like that's not a good a good like yeah oh it's like the cashier doesn't need to
00:57:49.160
know my birthday they doesn't know to know like how old i am my name at least not even where i'm
00:57:56.900
living yeah exactly and it's like if you want to go and you know go to the liquor store and buy some
00:58:02.720
beer or something right it's like you choose to go and show your id to them but if you're like if
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you're at the gas station you decide to buy a pack of cigarettes you choose to show your id to go and
00:58:11.240
buy the pack of cigarettes but if you don't want to you don't have to show your id and buy the pack of
00:58:15.900
cigarettes you can go there and buy a bottle of water and not show any sort of id and keep that
00:58:20.060
information private because they don't need to know that information for you to buy a bottle of
00:58:23.660
water so that's that's the thing there is soon yeah everyone can know everything because the
00:58:29.980
information's out there yeah so uh like you're saying oh yeah we got a another chat here from
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scissor 2 two dollars why ban russian media what about russia's side of the story is ukraine involved
00:58:46.080
with the wef schwab freeland communism were there bio labs in ukraine and is hunter biden involved in
00:58:52.760
these bio labs well that's a lot packed in there why you have a lot of questions there yeah so i mean
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why ban russian media i the way i feel about this is it's a great way politically to sort of virtue
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signal in terms of like yep we stand with ukraine we're against russia we're gonna ban all russian
00:59:11.480
media you know because we're just so virtuous we're gonna do our part you know we're not actually
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gonna join the war but we're gonna help the information where we're gonna ban russia because
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russia's the aggressors so it's time to ban all their media so that's one thing it's just a good
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way to virtue signal but number two i think it's a great test run to start the censorship i mean if you
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can begin censoring russian media because that's something that will win you political points why not go
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ahead and ban all russian media because you know what's next if after russian media you're banning
00:59:39.920
i don't know rebel news or anyone else it's what i was thinking it's like you know i think it's a
00:59:45.920
great first step for them in terms of their censorship to be like look we're we're banning
00:59:49.920
russian media we're doing such a good thing and well oh well we already banned all russian media why
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not ban the other media we don't like and if they can find some excuse to do it they will
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and then you know russia's side of the story it's true i mean if ukraine's propaganda can get out
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there why not russia's like it seems yes clear russia's the aggressor yes russia's the bad guy
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and by russia i mean putin and the putin government i suppose but um what about you know russia's side
01:00:13.960
it's true why not you let people actually hear that side if they want to even if they go in eyes
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open knowing yes russian propaganda exists out there that's what it is i think all people should
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be able to access that and as far as is ukraine's involvement with world economic forum schwab
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freedom and communism honestly i'm sure there is i i i can't you know i don't know details myself but
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i imagine all all these leaders i mean we know zelensky is involved with the world economic forum
01:00:39.460
like every other world leader it's just what the world leaders do they're involved with that but
01:00:43.980
and then bio labs we know that's real is hunter biden involved in the bio labs i don't think anyone
01:00:49.960
can know that i don't i'm not sure we could say i don't think anyone anyone does know that but uh
01:00:55.120
yeah anything else to add alexa uh yeah actually say everything yeah i think i think i hit those
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notes there yeah all right a couple more chats here uh can you see the chats alexa yeah i can see
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yeah how about you read this next one it's not that lovely that spring has sprung uh warmer days
01:01:19.940
are coming enjoy oh thank you yeah that's really nice that's great yeah well we're diving into all
01:01:25.160
the dark deep stuff going on in the news cycle guys at the very least spring has sprung warm weather
01:01:30.700
is here as we were talking about earlier go out enjoy some sunshine considering you are somewhere
01:01:35.540
that has nice weather if your weather sucks right now my condolences but if your weather is getting
01:01:40.160
nicer get out there enjoy it spring's here it's a friday it's a beautiful day don't let the bad news
01:01:46.760
the world get you down you know what no point doom scrolling and looking at poor headlines and
01:01:52.280
thinking oh man the world's coming to an end now you sometimes take a breath disconnect enjoy where
01:01:57.360
you are in the immediate moment and enjoy some nice weather you know grab some people you love
01:02:02.320
have a good friday you know i was with uh you know guillaume like my colleague and we were talking
01:02:10.040
this morning oh it's so nice outside like it's it's really warm and they say i'm just and he
01:02:17.940
answered to me i'm just waiting for like the next snowstorm i say don't don't give me like bad news
01:02:23.820
and i watch the maybe meteo and we have a snowstorm that's coming oh man yeah that's how it goes here
01:02:31.140
the next snowstorm will come but before the next snowstorm hits enjoy the sunshine that's my proverb
01:02:35.860
for you today people enjoy the sun before there's more snow that's uh exactly my nugget of wisdom
01:02:42.260
um and then one final chat here from kushi 1124 because it's five dollars and says i think the
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other comment was speaking to using vpns where you can get content from other countries because
01:02:54.480
location features are disabled great coverage folks as always well i appreciate that and actually
01:02:59.720
that's enlightening i think that is something like manipulate tvs what do you mean by that or modify
01:03:04.320
tvs but that makes sense vpns vpn yeah i mean i'm sure you could oh you need to pay for that though
01:03:09.920
yeah you need to pay and sometimes it doesn't work yeah i i do like to make use of vpns uh they're
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they're great for privacy and for if yeah if you do want to access country specific content i'm not
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sure if a vpn would allow you to access russian stuff like i imagine it very well might i don't know
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but that is a good question it's something to look into if you're really hard bent on accessing
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russian stuff that's been banned by canadian government i mean i i can't imagine it's too
01:03:36.460
hard to still access it if you really wanted to go check out what's being said on you know
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say they end up banning rt's website or something and you want to go look there
01:03:43.860
i'm sure a vpn could help so yeah thanks for the comment there i thought um i thought that for the
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internet they didn't ban yet yeah exactly tv yeah yeah exactly i don't think they have actually
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banned any internet stuff it's really more virtue signaling because i don't even think rt was being
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broadcast like russia today like were they even really broadcasting on canadian channels i don't
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know if they were but i don't think so yeah but yeah so if they do end up actually doing internet
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bans and you really wanted to access russian media online i'm sure you could just use a vpn but
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hey vpns are solid stuff actually i think it's uh who was it i think it was atlas vpn i think was
01:04:26.660
uh one of our sponsors with andrew says you know go go check out one of andrew's shows he had a vpn
01:04:31.040
sponsor there's a code there not remembering on the top of my head i think it's atlas vpn go check
01:04:35.540
that out andrew says andrew says tv give our man andrew a shout out but i think unless we have any more
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chats there we're at the top of the hour i think that's it well thanks so much everyone for joining
01:04:46.680
alexa that is an hour gone by talking on the news of the day some gloomy stuff there today but i think
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i would leave us off on the note as we were just talking about don't get sucked too much into the
01:04:57.800
bad news or the the doom scrolling or worrying about uh all the the terrible evil stuff going on in the
01:05:03.740
world because it is we live in a very fallen evil miserable world in many aspects but also there's a
01:05:10.040
lot of goodness out there a lot of great people there are a lot of good things stay optimistic
01:05:14.540
enjoy the sunshine enjoy your friday people and we will catch you next time on the rebel news daily
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live stream we do air every single weekday monday tuesday wednesday thursday and friday at noon eastern
01:05:27.720
time so make sure to tune in next time i believe that'll be on monday with sheila gun reed and adam
01:05:34.200
sos our two primary alberta reporters so that's a good one you know get your uh western coverage out
01:05:41.180
there and i think they talk about more than just alberta but our 12 bird reporters on monday at noon
01:05:45.780
and until then get out there and enjoy some sunshine folks we'll catch you next time good chatting with
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you alexa hey see you next time were there any uh large donors that would have uh stuck out that
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would have raised red flags uh in terms of perhaps trying to influence the outcome of this protest
01:06:08.360
we did not discover that no uh mr chair was we reviewed uh the donations uh we did not identify um
01:06:18.540
you know significant donations or patterns that were there um i believe uh um miss wilford might know
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the the largest donation that we took uh on the campaign from a non-canadian source okay um actually
01:06:31.600
the thank you juan and thank you for the question uh mr chair what i would say is actually the largest
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donation in this campaign was from a canadian and it was in the amount of thirty thousand dollars
01:06:41.460
it don't have that's the largest donation that was the largest donation yes okay so we're not
01:06:48.100
talking about million dollar donations that float in that try to influence events in canada no that's