DAVID MENZIES ｜ Toronto's urban decay is a taxpayer-funded, government-approved descent into madness
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After a disastrous program in which children were encouraged to turn in used needles for chocolate bars, surely the time has come for the province of Ontario to shutter the South Riverdale Community Health Centre? Well, it hasn t. And that s a good thing.
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Tonight, after a disastrous program in which children were encouraged to turn in used needles
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for chocolate bars, surely the time has come for the province of Ontario to shutter the
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South Riverdale Community Health Centre. It's Thursday, August 17th, 2023. I'm David Menzies and this
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You may have noticed that we've been running an ongoing series of reports under the banner
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fixourcities.com. Oh, and there is so much to fix in our great dominion these days, thanks to the
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disease of far-left liberalism that allows and even condones lawlessness to take lease. Case in
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point, Toronto's Allen Gardens, this former downtown gem, continues to be occupied by drug addicts,
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drug dealers, vagrants and other reprobates. The once pristine park is now litter-strewn as filthy
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tents take the place of lawns and flowerbeds. Violence, including stabbings and sexual assaults,
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a routine here, as are bonfires and loud music that blare into the wee hours of the night.
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And the city's response is to shrug. Oh, sure, they've asked the occupiers breaking some
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11 sections of the Trespass Act to leave, pretty pleased with sugar on top. But the city gatekeepers
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are about as relevant as professional wrestling referees when it comes to respect and authority.
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So it is. These occupiers refuse to budge. Indeed, with every passing week, their numbers seem to
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grow. Let's hope for an early winter. And just to give you an idea of how the city has its park
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priorities in order, if you happen to be a professional dog walker and you have the unmitigated
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temerity to let your canine clients use the off-leash dog park at Allen Gardens, there is signage
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warning that this activity is strictly verboten and you shall be fined. Unbelievable. But it gets
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worse. A few clicks east of Allen Gardens is the increasingly gentrified neighborhood of
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Leslieville. But pity the beleaguered homeowners and business people trying to get by in this
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neighborhood, thanks to a certain nondescript building located at 955 Queen Street East.
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It's called the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. It sounds like you might find basketball
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courts or swimming pools here. But actually, this is a venue for a so-called safe injection site
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and a so-called safe supply program. It attracts drug addicts. Some are harmless. Others are completely
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deranged. And it attracts drug dealers plying their trade. And that latter group is especially
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problematic to this community. How problematic, you ask? Well, you may recall that it was outside
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this facility where a gunfight erupted on July 7th. Suddenly, Queen Street resembled the shootout at the
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OK Corral as dueling drug dealers sought to settle their disputes via gunplay. The end result was the
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senseless murder of Carolina Huebner Muckarat, a mother of two. Carolina was merely strolling down
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Queen Street in broad daylight en route to a luncheon appointment when she was downed by a stray bullet.
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But alas, that's the price to society. That's the price we must pay for progressiveness these days,
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right? Now, you would think that at the very least, the egregious murder of Carolina Huebner Muckarat
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should have resulted in this safe injection site being shut down, at least temporarily,
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at least until an investigation regarding this rancid facility could be completed. But no,
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it's business as usual at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. In fact, the other day,
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the Mensa Club members who run this safe injection site came up with a so-called marketing ploy that was
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so bat shite crazy that we first did some research to ensure we were not being subjected to some sort of
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a sick prank. Here's the skinny. A few days ago, passerby Ginny Roth spotted a poster that had been posted
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at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, and it made her do a double take. The poster read,
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quote, got sharps? Want chocolate? For every full sharps container you return to counterfeit,
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we'll give you a chocolate bar, end quote. Thankfully, Ginny took a photo of this poster and posted it to
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social media, given that the signage has since been hastily removed. But on so many levels,
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this is equal parts astonishing and disturbing. For starters, heads up out there how many parents
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want their children gathering up used hypodermic needles. Oh, sure, an errant jab might lead to
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contracting everything from hepatitis to HIV. But hey, kids, you stand to be rewarded with a chocolate
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bar. It turns out that this perverse reimagining of an Easter egg hunt is the bailiwick of an
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organization called Counterfeit. No, seriously, folks, that's its name, Counterfeit. Counterfeit is a
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harm reduction program for women, and it doesn't seem to mind causing potential serious harm for
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children. By the way, the very fact that this needle collection program exists, albeit temporarily,
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speaks volumes about the environment that surrounds this centre. Imagine that. There are enough
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discarded sharps nearby that Counterfeit can come up with a whiz-bang promotion to enlist kids to scoop
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up these potentially harmful needles in order to, what, score a Snickers bar? This is proof positive that
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this facility has no place in a residential neighbourhood. Indeed, this egregious sharps for
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chocolate's promotion even drew the attention of Conservative leader Pierre Polyev, who had this to
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say on Twitter, quote, this is an actual sign from a drug consumption site in Toronto. What is happening in
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Canada? End quote. No word yet from Prime Minister Trudeau about this preposterous program yet. What do you want
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to bet that blackface likely approves of such an initiative, given that this program is undoubtedly
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yet another example of diversity, inclusion, and equity? So it was that my cameraman Maurizio and I
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visited the South Riverdale Community Health Centre on Tuesday, and we brought along a bag full of needles.
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We just wanted to put this harebrained program to the test. Namely, what sort of chocolate bar would we
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receive for our sharps? Would it be a low-end Mars bar or a top-shelf Laura Secord treat? Well, here,
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check out the warm welcome we received. Hey, how you doing there? Oh, I'm just here to, excuse me.
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No, you're not here for anything. Please leave. I've got syringes here. I'm here for my candy bar.
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Please leave. I'm here for my candy bar. Please leave.
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Excuse me. No, no, you can't come in. Well, this is a public facility, isn't it? Not for you, no.
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No? Why is that? Okay. Oh, geez, you're crushing me. You have a sign that says if you live in
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Leslieville and you're concerned about your kids picking up needles that surround the drug
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consumption site, you don't have to worry. In fact, if your kids collect enough, they can trade them
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in for chocolate. Here's my bag of needles. Do you want to take it? No? But you have a sign
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advertising a candy bar. No comment. What about yourself, sir? Can I get a Mars bar or Snickers?
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I don't work here. I'm sorry. You don't work here? No. No, I'm a neighbour.
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Oh, okay then. Sorry about that. So, ma'am, who are you? Because you advertised a free candy bar
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Why did you put up that sign if you don't mean to fulfill the contract?
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What about that? Did you guys know Ms. Mohamed? She's being charged with helping one of the...
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No comment? She's one of the workers here now charged with the murder.
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Wow. Now, if you can imagine the entitlement of the thugs who patronize this community centre,
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Maurizio had his cell phone stolen right out of his hands by some deranged reprobate.
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That resulted in us calling the police, and they responded en masse. Our thanks, by the way,
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to the police for that response. Oh, by the way, don't blame the Toronto Police Service for a lack
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of law enforcement presence in this troublesome area. The political puppet masters have allegedly told
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the Boys in Blue to avoid patrolling this criminal hotbed. You see, evidently, the sight of police
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officers may further stigmatise the clients of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre.
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Oh, and we can't have that, can we? Yeah, so as Toronto continues to reimagine itself as San Francisco
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North, the police are actually being instructed to avoid places where there is a very high likelihood
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of crime being committed. Yeah, that sounds completely logical, doesn't it? Speaking of criminals,
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one of the suspects in the killing of Carolina Huebner-Muckarat was arrested several weeks ago.
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His name is Damien Hudson. He is the poster boy for the caption,
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Menace to Society. For starters, Hudson has an incredibly long criminal record dating back to 2011.
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He's being charged with everything from assault with a weapon to attempted murder. And incredibly,
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this animal was not put behind bars, but instead, he was out on bail when Carolina was killed,
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perhaps from a bullet emanating from Hudson's handgun. Oh, did I not mention that this darling
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had previously violated his probation orders some 16 times over? But thanks to the blackface liberals,
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trash-like Hudson, are worthy of a 17th chance. The real threat to Canadian society, after all,
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is all those Saskatchewan duck hunters, hence the rationale for blackface's obscene gun grab.
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But get this, just three hours before we arrived at the South Riverdale Community Crack Centre,
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Toronto police released an update on the murder of Carolina Huebner-Muckarat,
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namely, two new suspects had just been arrested. The first is 20-year-old Hamad Mustafa Ibrahim.
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He's charged with manslaughter, robbery, and I know the following info might just shock you folks,
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failing to comply with the terms of his probation. The other suspect who was arrested is very surprising
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indeed. That would be 23-year-old Khalilah Zahra Mohamed. She's charged with accessory after the fact
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and obstruction of justice in relation to the shooting. But get this, folks, Miss Mohamed is
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actually an employee at the safe injection site. What's more, according to True North, she was featured
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in a glowing CBC News report last year in which she advocated for more drug consumption sites
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in order to, you know, reduce stigma. You can't make this up, folks, because it would appear that
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in trying to figure out who's who in the safe injection zoo, it is getting harder to tell the
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livestock from the zoo keepers. But back to that outrageous Sharps for Chocolate poster,
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thankfully, the outcry on social media resulted in the poster's removal. Jason Altenberg, who is the
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CEO of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, released the following statement, quote,
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In an exuberance to get used needles off the street, one of our staff posted a sign that was never meant
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for the public. In no way, shape, or form was that communication meant for children. We apologize
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for any miscommunication, end quote. Is anyone other than a drooling dimwit buying that explanation?
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Altenberg says the communication was never meant for children, but it addresses children directly
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in that the reward is a child appealing chocolate bar. And what's this exuberance bullshite? This was
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not a hastily crafted handwritten message on a piece of fool's scat. Rather, it was professionally
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rendered. And I bet it went through an approval process too. In fact, I'm betting that Altenberg and
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all the other woke dopes at this centre probably thought it was a perfectly good idea until
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the community responded otherwise. Pathetic. So what is going to be done about this so-called safe
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injection site that is adversely affecting an entire neighbourhood? Well, folks, in a word,
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nothing. For example, coincidentally, the constituency office for the Liberal MP for the writing where the
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safe injection site is located is less than a football field away from the site. But good luck getting a
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comment from MP Julie DeBruzan as we discovered last month.
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Well, this is the constituency office, folks, for the federal member of Parliament. That would be Julie
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DeBruzan. And as you can see, it's locked down. There's plenty of people in here. They're not closed.
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They're just not letting us in. Or maybe they're just so shell-shocked by what happens. They're not
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opening the door to any strangers. It's too bad I would have liked to ask them the question if they think
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this is an appropriate area for a safe injection site, so-called. And like I said, it is literally
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less than a football field away. But nobody... Let's see.
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No, they're not interested. They are simply not interested in providing a comment.
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Yeah, no comment and no access either. But I wonder, did DeBruzan's crew lock the doors due to our
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oncoming arrival? Or are those doors always locked, given the number of cretins who are attracted to
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this particular postal code? We'll never know as DeBruzan remains silent on this file. We also reached
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out to Ontario NDP MPP Peter Taubbins, as well as Toronto City Councillor Paula Fletcher for comment.
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These leftists support these sorts of safe injection sites, but they have nothing to say about the harm
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such sites do to the community. Oh, by the way, Fletcher is the former leader of the Communist Party of
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Canada. You'd think having that on your resume would make you unelectable in Canada, but not in
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Hogtown. Still, when you have a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist-setting policy, well, guess what? You
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just end up with more safe injection sites. Meanwhile, we did get a response from Liberal
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MP Dr. Carolyn Bennett's office. Well, sort of. Her office staff merely suggested we reach out to
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the City of Toronto in the Toronto Police Service. Thanks. As previously noted, the Toronto Police are
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being politically handcuffed when it comes to carrying out their law enforcement duties, especially in this
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section of Toronto. Little wonder that the Toronto Police Association stated the following in a Twitter
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post back on July 9th. Quote, where is the outrage from the public slash local politicians over an innocent
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bystander being murdered in broad daylight on our city streets? End quote. Yes, where indeed.
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And that's the solution to this problem, folks. Namely, the political will to do the right thing.
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Safe injection sites do not work. They cause more harm than good. But for whatever perverse reason,
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the woke left embrace these facilities. Meanwhile, to its credit, the province of Alberta is embracing
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the opposite approach, implementing programs to get addicts off drugs and off the streets,
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as opposed to perpetuating their addictions and their homelessness. Oh, those cruel right-wingers in
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wild rose country. How dare they actually care about trying to do something tangible when it comes to
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eradicating human suffering? You know, it used to be that when a situation got out of control,
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the response from those desperate for a resolution would ask the following query,
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what's it going to take to change things? Is someone going to actually have to die?
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But when it comes to the South Riverdale Community Health Centre and the clientele it attracts,
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Carolina Huebner-Mackarat already paid the ultimate price. And the response of this so-called
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community centre was not to relocate its safe injection site out of this neighbourhood, but instead
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to launch a ludicrous program encouraging children to pick up potentially deadly hypodermic needles in
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exchange for chocolate? Of note, following our report about the Needles for Chocolate program,
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Ontario's Ministry of Health says it is now launching a so-called critical incident review
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of the province's consumption and treatment services sites. The reason? Well, they say it's due to the
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daytime murder of Ms. Huebner-Mackarat, but that shooting took place on July 7th, folks. Why is the
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province only announcing such an investigation now? And no word from the province on the chocolates for
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hypodermic needles campaign? Really? And in the meantime, wouldn't it be prudent to shut down this so-called
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health centre pending the results of such an investigation? Or is that too much to ask? Because
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at the end of the day, what's happening at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre is not harm
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reduction. This is a taxpayer-funded and a government-approved descent into madness.
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When one thinks of a school board, one would imagine that such an organisation is staffed with
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dedicated education professionals, the prime directive being educating children. And then there is the
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Toronto District School Board. Apparently, this entity is hostile and downright intimidating
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to any person who offers up an opinion that runs contrary to the woke mob running the TDSB. Indeed,
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respected education consultant Margaret Wilson reviewed the TDSB way back in 2015, stating that a
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quote, culture of fear, end quote, is so endemic to the board that many staff are too afraid to use
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board email addresses out of concern of being monitored. And folks, that's just for starters.
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And joining me now is the investigative reporter with True North, that would be Sue Ann Levy,
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who just recently published a piece entitled, The TDSB's Culture of Terror under Colleen Russell
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Rawlins. And joining me now is Sue Ann Levy herself. Hey, Sue Ann, thank you for joining me here on the
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Likewise, Sue Ann. So first things first, who is Colleen Russell Rawlins and what is she all about?
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Well, she's a black activist. I make no bones about that. I've said that in many stories. She,
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I guess her claim to fame was that she was the interim director of the Peel District School Board
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when things allegedly fell apart. I think that was pushed by the parents for black children in the
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Peel District. And so she became interim director for a year, appointed by the ministry. And then after
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that year, she went over to the Toronto District School Board. That was in 2021, just to sort of in
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the midst of the pandemic. And she's been the education director of the Toronto District School
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Board since then. So we're going on two years now.
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Mm-hmm. And of course, the TDSB was in the news very recently regarding, well, I don't know how to
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describe it. Is it a tragedy? Is it a crime? But we're talking about the principal, Richard, and forgive
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me if I mispronounce his name, is it Biltstow, who was essentially, well, he took his own life, Sue Ann,
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but a lot of people allege that this man, who was a good man and a good principal and a good
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teacher, was essentially bullied to death. What was going on at the TDSB that led to this tragic
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incident? He was railroaded. You know, he was a white principal. He actually happened to be gay as
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well, although that was kept rather quiet. And, you know, he doesn't have to display his personal life
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like many of the teachers at the Toronto District School Board when they come into the classroom.
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You know, you have to know everything about what they did the night before. But he was in a casual
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principal. He had officially retired a couple of years ago and then worked casually and was well
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recognized. And he signed up for one of those diversity, equity, and inclusiveness sessions,
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DEI sessions. There were four segments of it. And the sessions were led by Kiko Ojo-Thompson,
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who, when you asked me about Colleen Russell-Rollins, who was the contractor of choice at the Peel
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District School Board. So she was brought in to do similar sessions in Peel. And then Colleen Russell-Rollins
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brought her over to the Toronto District School Board to do these equity sessions, which ended up being
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just, you know, abusive sessions, you know, denouncing white supremacy and white fragility. And,
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you know, as we found out through Mr. Bilkstow's claim, he made a, you know, claim to the court
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and through recordings that have surfaced, she was extremely abusive to him in two of these four
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sessions. So it didn't end at that, though, because Richard actually applied to the WSIB
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for compensation. He went off on leave. And the adjudicator, they rarely rule in favor of
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people at the board, especially in stress leave. The adjudicator even said that she had engaged,
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Ms. Thompson, Ojo Thompson, had engaged in egregious bullying and aggressive behavior towards him
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and awarded him six weeks or more than six weeks, two months of compensation, which the Toronto District
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School Board did not disagree with. Subsequent to when he came back, they basically canceled him from
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any further contracts. He, one of the contracts that he had was, was canceled. And so they continued
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to operate like he was, you know, persona non grata. And I think it wasn't just the bullying in the
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session, Dave, but it was what happened subsequent to the session. And speaking of subsequent to the
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sessions, Sue Ann, one of the, and correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the most egregious things I
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thought is that not a single colleague came to the defense of Richard. Is that correct?
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Yes. And that kind of speaks to the article I wrote about the culture of terror. They've been
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all terrorized into silence. My article, I write about how they sit in their offices, afraid that
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they could be next labeled for some racist miscue, something that maybe they looked at a black student
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or a black parent or a black teacher, fellow teacher in the wrong way. It is just incredible
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how these people feel and what is going on inside the board. And most of the people I spoke to,
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or because I spoke to a series of people, I met with them, agreed that this had happened or ramped up
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since Colleen Russell-Rollins became education director. Unbelievable. And also, Sue Ann, I think in
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the department of chutzpah, that's my favorite Yiddish word, meaning sheer unmitigated gall.
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Miss Ojo Thompson, one of the head honcho bullies against Richard, she is reimagining herself as a victim.
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I know there was supposed to be a barbecue in Brampton last week in which she was going to
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appear. And we were planning to go out and cover that. And it was canceled because of fears of
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white supremacists standing on this Peel Park. And she is saying all kinds of things in the media,
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distancing herself from any responsibility of what happened to Richard. What do you make of that, Sue Ann?
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Well, it goes right down the line. And yes, I was going to go to that picnic as well. And I found
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out from, it was going to be run by the parents of black children in Peel. And I called them up and
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they said that they had gotten death threats from white supremacists, which I promptly asked them,
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so how did you know they were white supremacists? They could have been Chinese supremacists. They could
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have been Jewish supremacists. And the gentleman on the other end of the line said, well, they sounded like
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white supremacists. Of course, they never provide any proof. But Kiko Ojo Thompson is chairman. This shows you
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how incestuous these groups are. She's chairman of the Parents of Black Children in Peel. So, you know, she was
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not, I'm sure she was behind this, this picnic that they were, or barbecue that they were planning. But, you know,
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it's, it's, it's, they're, they're amazing because they are terrible bullies. She was like, there's no
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question that she bullied Richard and the other people in the session. But she's not only a bully,
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but she's a coward. And, you know, now she's playing the victim. Like, you know, you're being racist
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towards me. And this is just the act of white supremacists. And she's propped up by other
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activists who, you know, are in the DEI grifting game, you know, making lots of money from it. There's a lot of money
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attached to this, these deck, these equity sessions, as you well know. So they don't want to be, you know, letting go of
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It's incredible. And, you know, Sven, do I have this right or not? It seems to me that there is a
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preponderance of so-called black activists that lobby for policies that are contrary to the
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well-being of black students and black parents. An example, a few years ago, as you know, there was a
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very successful program where there were some high-risk schools that had members of the Toronto Police
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Service in those schools. And it was to maintain order. And suddenly these black activists, I don't
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know this was an example of imperialism, colonialism, you name it. They got that program ended. And I
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remember black parents saying, listen, my kid wants to go to school to learn. He doesn't want to be
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bullied. He doesn't want to be shaken down for his lunch money. Why are you surrendering this realm
00:30:46.660
to the bullies? How do you explain this, Sue Ann?
00:30:50.600
Well, I was there at those meetings when the Police Services Board were basically, the members were
00:30:57.240
bullied into dropping the Cops in Schools program. And it was, you know, Desmond Cole, a well-known
00:31:04.100
black activist who sees dead people under every rock, and a bunch of others from the Black Lives Matter
00:31:12.500
movement. And here they are, you know, screaming about cops being in schools and it being racist.
00:31:19.660
Well, you're right. They don't speak for the majority of black parents or black children,
00:31:24.940
but they're very loud. They're very noisy. And they have chips on their shoulders a mile high.
00:31:32.400
And so what's happened since then? The violence has increased. The black activists, education
00:31:38.580
directors and superintendents have eliminated expulsions and suspensions. There are no consequences
00:31:45.040
for bad behavior. And school, like we've heard numerous stories of violence being out of control
00:31:51.380
in Toronto schools. And what is that? What is the reason for that? Because there are no consequences
00:31:57.720
and because the cops are no longer in schools. Unbelievable, Sue Ann. And, you know, in the big
00:32:03.180
picture, certainly the TDSB, it does look like a hostile, toxic environment. There's no other way
00:32:11.560
around it when you see a respected principal taking his own life. But in the big picture, there were so many
00:32:19.600
school boards in Ontario, Sue Ann, that are out of control. The Holland District School Board that
00:32:25.060
can't even enact a dress code to that weirdo that's showing up as a grotesque drag performer for shop
00:32:33.800
classes. You've got the Holland District School Board, which has pornography in the elementary school
00:32:42.240
libraries. I'm not exaggerating themes of incest and pedophilia in some of those books.
00:32:48.360
Waterloo is another one. Ottawa, Carleton. I mean, the list goes on. I guess what I'm leading up to,
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Sue Ann, is where, oh, where is our milquetoast minister of education, Stephen Lecce?
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Well, he's hiding under a rock, no doubt. I mean, if you find him, let me know, because he's doing
00:33:10.840
these videos, lauding, lauding their back to basics curriculum. Well, I have another piece coming out
00:33:17.940
in a couple of days, which speaks to teachers in the classroom. And one of them told me flat out,
00:33:24.840
great to have this back to basics curriculum, but it's not going to be implemented unless they
00:33:30.260
keep a very close eye on the school board, on Colleen Russell-Rollins and her acolytes,
00:33:37.140
you know, who back her up. Because right now, it is totally out of control. The curriculum
00:33:43.300
is placed second to DEI training and anti-Black racism and critical race theory. So yeah, I don't
00:33:52.840
know where he is. It's good to make announcements. But if you don't follow through, look how he handled
00:33:57.580
the big boob teacher. He didn't handle it. Look, I mean, there's umpteen examples. Waterloo School
00:34:05.800
Board going after teachers, going after a Black trustee, Mike Ramsey, has been just absolutely
00:34:13.700
harassed by some of his colleagues. I mean, you know, I don't think Stephen Lecce is fit to be the
00:34:20.640
education minister, but Ford seems to be out of touch as well. Doug Ford, of course, the premier.
00:34:27.440
I have never seen a weaker minister in the province of Ontario than Stephen Lecce, who, by the way,
00:34:34.440
stole the nomination meeting in King Von going back to 2016, when it was meant to be Constantine
00:34:41.160
Tubas. So that tells you a lot about Stephen Lecce. But you know, Sue Ann, I want to run something by
00:34:47.400
you get your thoughts on this. I look at these school boards, and they have been completely infiltrated
00:34:54.620
with far-left progressives. I'll go even further. Marxists. And I think what's really going on here,
00:35:03.260
the unspoken strategy, is that these Marxists, well, they're subscribing to Marxism 101, namely
00:35:10.340
tear down society and rebuild it as that Marxist utopia, which never transpires. Just go to North
00:35:18.380
Korea or Cuba or Venezuela, ask the people there how things are working out for them. Is that what
00:35:23.660
we're seeing here, this grotesque infiltration of people that don't give a tinker's damn about the
00:35:32.360
education of children? They are pursuing a Marxist agenda, and they're getting away with it.
00:35:38.840
Well, certainly the trustees, many trustees, far too many trustees of NDP or socialist leanings are
00:35:46.700
getting onto these boards, school boards. And that is a huge, huge problem. Then the unions,
00:35:53.580
the teachers' unions have become far-left and woke and don't protect teachers who just want to do their
00:36:00.160
jobs, keep their heads down, and teach the curriculum. So there's a whole system of, you know,
00:36:07.460
I call it incestuous wokeness because they all feed off each other. I think the best thing is for
00:36:14.340
parents, if they can, to pull these kids out of the school system. Well, two things. Pull their kids
00:36:21.000
out of the, I wouldn't be sending my kid to TDSB schools right now. Pull them out of the schools,
00:36:27.020
either homeschool, or if you can possibly afford it, send them to some sort of private school,
00:36:32.540
or show up at board meetings and start registering your concern. That is happening in Waterloo region.
00:36:39.240
It's happening to a certain extent in Ottawa, certainly in Waterloo. I've seen a group of
00:36:46.460
people showing up. I'm very proud of them. And it's got to start happening at the Toronto District
00:36:51.340
School Board. I don't think parents are aware, many of them, of what's going on, truly going on.
00:36:56.820
But you know, Sven, I've shown up to some of those meetings. Well, for some school boards,
00:37:02.360
like Halton District School Board, and what's the other one? The Durham District School Board.
00:37:09.660
I've been banned, evidently, for life, for showing up, for asking impolite questions.
00:37:14.800
Yes, but you are wearing big breasts, David. Let's be honest.
00:37:19.480
You know what? I have a newfound respect for womankind. I don't know how you get through the
00:37:24.840
day without suffering backaches every time I strap those things on. But you know what? Seriously,
00:37:29.680
that tells you a lot, doesn't it? For Halton District, they're all down with the radical trans
00:37:36.760
agenda when it's this weirdo, Busty Lemieux, teaching his high school student shop. But when
00:37:46.180
you bring it up close and personal to a board meeting, oh, off with his head, David Menzies is
00:37:52.260
banned for life. Doesn't that speak volumes about the hypocrisy of these so-called educrats?
00:37:59.680
Oh, for sure. I mean, they're the biggest hypocrites going. Yeah, and they don't like it thrown back in
00:38:07.060
their face. That is for sure. I would find a similar situation in Waterloo where there's a gentleman named
00:38:14.300
David Todor who has shown up and given deputations or gave a deputation earlier this year about
00:38:22.260
pornographic books in Waterloo School Elementary Libraries. And the school board director, who was
00:38:30.700
such a coward, he wouldn't even take responsibility for this, he put out an open letter. He didn't even
00:38:36.660
respond to David, you know, personally, because David had raised several questions, put out an open
00:38:42.980
letter, basically defaming David and saying that he was abusive. Then he wouldn't even take
00:38:49.260
responsibility for having written it. He got his whole team to stand up and say, oh, we were behind
00:38:54.820
this open letter. So they love to dish it out. They love to, you know, intimidate and harass. But if
00:39:07.160
you hold them to account, boy, they don't like it much. But that has to continue happening. I'm sorry,
00:39:13.340
it does. It's appalling. So and I remember in Durham District, it was a father that got up and he
00:39:18.580
started reading verbatim, the text from an elementary school book, and the trustees called
00:39:24.420
the police and talk about convenience. The police station is right next door to the school board
00:39:30.800
headquarters. I guess, you know, we have to wrap it up to him. But what I'm wondering is, what can we do?
00:39:37.160
We know we have no ally in the Ford PCs, which is shocking, because if you remember, and I'm sure you do
00:39:44.940
back in 2018, they, one of their planks was running against the McGinty-Winn radicalized sex ed
00:39:53.820
curriculum. I would say that in the last five years, it's become way more radicalized.
00:39:59.140
They didn't clean out the education ministry. And that's the problem. They left all the Winn
00:40:05.360
appointments in there. So they haven't done their jobs. What can we do? Parents have to speak up
00:40:12.540
parents and activist groups, not black activist groups, but activist groups who truly want their
00:40:19.560
kids to get a proper education. Moms, you know, there are groups in the States that are making
00:40:27.000
incredible strides doing that. And we've got to start doing it in Canada.
00:40:31.120
You know what, Sue Ann, I think you're absolutely right. I look back to what happened very recently
00:40:36.200
in Virginia, where you had parents, basically, mama bear woke up. And she said, no, I'm tired of this
00:40:43.960
critical race theory crap, Black Lives Matter, radical transgenderism. I wanted to go back to basics.
00:40:51.100
And it was a miracle what happened in that state. Because when you look at it, the lowest elected office
00:40:57.060
in North American democracy, it is school board trustee. And from the lowest office, well,
00:41:03.020
what did you see happen? Regime change in that state, when the Democrat unexpectedly lost to the
00:41:09.720
Republican candidate. I guess we should leave it here. Do you see an appetite in Canada,
00:41:18.200
in Ontario, Sue Ann, for mama bear to wake up there, mob these school board meetings and say,
00:41:24.780
enough is enough? Because certainly, we can't count on our education minister,
00:41:33.200
Yeah, I do see an appetite. I think it is growing. I mean, it's slow, but I do think it's growing.
00:41:39.660
And it's a responsibility of people like you and me to point out what's happening. So this is why I'm
00:41:45.460
pursuing this teacher story, because it's not just principals, but teachers are endearing
00:41:50.900
incredible pressures on them not to teach the curriculum, to teach, you know, drumming.
00:41:57.860
And I don't want to give my story away, but like crazy, crazy stuff, Dave. You think the boobs,
00:42:07.600
Well, Sue Ann, I want to thank you again. And we got to keep our eye on this. And by the way,
00:42:12.340
two sure signs that summer is coming to an end tomorrow, the Canadian National Exhibition opens
00:42:20.100
up, runs till Labor Day. And we're hearing saber rattling from the Ontario teachers unions
00:42:25.700
that we might just have to go on strike. It's for the kids, you see, Sue Ann. It's for the kids.
00:42:33.860
Well, see, there's the thing. And the problem is that Lecce is going to focus on that. He's going
00:42:41.420
to be like big, you know, big daddy, and he's going to fight back and they're going to get a deal and
00:42:47.040
they're, you know, maybe get what they want, maybe not. And he's going to save the kids. But that is
00:42:51.760
just window dressing. That is all, it's just to divert from what's really, really happening in the
00:42:56.980
classroom. And the teachers know it, the principals know it. I mean, the real teachers, not the activist
00:43:01.580
teachers. They know it. And let me tell you, those unions don't represent the lion's share of those
00:43:08.320
teachers in the school boards. I totally agree. Well, Sue Ann, I think the only thing Lecce concentrates
00:43:15.440
on is his latte at Starbucks, but we'll have to leave it there. A pleasure as always, Sue Ann. I know
00:43:21.940
you're going to keep an eagle eye on this story. So we'll have you back here for an update.
00:43:31.580
Well, folks, lots of feedback regarding Ezra's interview with fan favorite Manny Montenegrino
00:43:44.940
regarding Justin Trudeau's separation from his wife, Sophie. Robert Steele, 7672, writes,
00:43:54.200
I fully support my wife, my daughters, my mother, and my grandmother, and all others of the gentler
00:44:01.660
gender. And I do not and will not call myself a feminist to gain some form of popularity among
00:44:08.780
the ladies. It seems dishonest, creepy, and sneaky to insist on giving oneself such a silly title.
00:44:17.040
Perhaps he is the emotionally insecure from enduring and emotionally neglected childhood
00:44:25.040
under showboat Pierre and Rolling Stone Margaret. That's my view. Anyway, you know what? I tend to
00:44:32.740
agree, Robert. I mean, Justin Trudeau brands himself as a feminist, but he seems to have a lot of trouble
00:44:41.960
with those in his caucus, especially female members who have strong opinions about anything.
00:44:48.640
And how much of a feminist are you when you can't come to some kind of living arrangement
00:44:55.400
with your very own wife, Sophie? They are now separated. And I would say it's time for us to
00:45:02.600
separate the title feminist from Prime Minister Blackface. Laurie5455 writes,
00:45:11.740
Asking for family privacy and then showing up with his son, both in pink for the Barbie movie,
00:45:18.920
is about as hypocritical as you can get. Marriage been on rocks for some time, looking at Sophie's
00:45:26.260
body language last couple of times she showed with Trudeau. Failed at the job, failed at
00:45:32.580
his marriage, failed Canadians, failed as a teacher. How is he still leading, I use this
00:45:38.240
word loosely, this country when he has shown time and time again how he can't get positive results
00:45:45.540
for anyone but WEF? You know, you raise a good point. The last couple of elections, as my beloved
00:45:53.020
colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed likes to say, he dusted off Sophie to take on the campaign trail for certain
00:46:00.480
photo ops. The idea is, look, he's just a common family guy, much like so many of us Canadians.
00:46:09.060
That ain't going to work whenever the next election is. And hopefully, that's going to be sooner than
00:46:15.280
2025. Jason Sanguine, 4006, writes, He means to say he is effeminate, not a feminist. Well, you know what?
00:46:28.060
When you go to the Barbie movie with your son and you're clad in pink, yeah, you're really getting
00:46:37.600
close to effeminate territory, at least in my books. Well, folks, that's it for tonight's Ezra Levin
00:46:44.360
show. Thanks so much for tuning in. The Big Boss Man, he'll be back here tomorrow. In the meantime,