EZRA LEVANT China launches a new missile, sends more astronauts to space; Joe Biden announces his pronouns｜
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China launches a new missile, and sends more astronauts to the space station, and Joe Biden announces his pronouns. Plus, why many people list pronouns on their social media profiles, and why the U.S. State Department doesn t like them.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through some China news. I'll take a break from talking about
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the pandemic. China's got some big news. They've got a space station. They just sent some astronauts.
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They've got a new hypersonic rocket. There's so many things they're doing. And Joe Biden's
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response is quite something. I'll show that to you. I really want you to get the video version
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Tonight, China launches a new missile and sends more astronauts to its space station.
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In response, Joe Biden announces his pronouns. It's October 20th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about what I publish it is because it's my
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I saw this message on the Twitter account of the U.S. State Department. The State Department,
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and that's what they call their Foreign Affairs Department down there. This is what you might
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expect to see statements about diplomacy or military conflicts or that sort of thing.
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And here's what they say. Today on International Pronouns Day, we share why many people list pronouns
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on their email and social media profiles. Read more here on Share America. And if you go there,
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you'll find this little gem. Some people are pioneering gender-neutral pronouns such as
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zhi, zher, and zherz. So this is on the U.S. State Department's agenda, apparently. Sort of like
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those Floyd George murals that the U.S. government painted on walls in Afghanistan, really. You know,
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no one really talks that way in real life. It reminds me of that made-up word Latinx that all
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the liberal white media in the U.S. use. It turns out only 4% of actual Latinos like that word Latinx at
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all. It's made-up. It's really weird. I think it's just a trick to create insiders and outsiders.
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It's like a secret password to get into your secret club or something. Oh, you don't know the
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password. It's just a way to marginalize people who you disagree with by being more righteous than
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them. I mean, whenever anyone focuses on things like that, for example, if they say, no, no, no,
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don't use aboriginal. Say indigenous. If that's their obsession, that's what they really want to talk
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about. It's a pretty good indicator that they would rather do that than talk about something
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real, like, oh, say, fix the boil water advisories that are on dozens of Canadian Indian reserves.
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So, yeah, if someone says Latinx or talks about the pronouns, I think they could well be an inherently
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unserious person. And they want to have a quarrel with you about who is more exquisitely politically
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correct in their vocabulary. And they'll constantly change the terms to be one step ahead of you
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rhetorically, by the way, because they'd rather do that than actually getting something done in the
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real world, like clean drinking water on a reserve. Which brings me to the real world. The real world is
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this. China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile launch in August of nuclear-capable
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rocket that circled the globe, took U.S. intelligence by surprise. Let me read a little bit from the story
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in the Financial Times. China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the
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globe before speeding towards its target, demonstrating an advanced space capability that
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caught U.S. intelligence by surprise. Five people familiar with the test said the Chinese military
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launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle, which flew through low-orbit space
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before cruising down towards its target. The missile missed its target by about two dozen miles,
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according to three people briefed on the intelligence. But two said the tests show that China has made astounding
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progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than U.S. officials realized. The test has raised new
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questions about why the U.S. often underestimated China's military modernization.
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We have no idea how they did this, said a fourth person. Oh, just that, eh? So just that. You know,
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they're pretty busy up there in space. Did you know that China has their own space station? Did you know
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that? I'll let you look at it while I read to you from a Guardian article in the Guardian newspaper a couple
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days ago. The story says Chinese astronauts arrive at space station for longest mission. The Shenzhou 13
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vessel docked at its space station to kick off a record-setting six-month stay. Three astronauts
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successfully docked with China's new space station, state media said, on what is set to be Beijing's
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longest crewed mission to date and the latest landmark in its drive to becoming major space power.
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Hmm. The three blasted off shortly after midnight on Saturday from the Zhukuan launch center in
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northwest China's Gobi Desert, state-run news agency Xinhua said, with the team expected to spend six
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months at the Tiangong space station. Yeah, you bet. Yeah. Oh, and there's Wang Yaping, a new female
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astronaut, or taikonaut, as they call him. But it's not just space. What about jet fighter planes?
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Here's a news story. I mean, this isn't news. We talked about this with our friend Gordon Chang.
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Brazen China steadily ramps up warplane flights in Taiwan's airspace. Beijing appears to believe now
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is the time to test America's resolve in support of the island nation as it boasts of its military might.
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Over 100 Chinese jets have crossed into Taiwanese airspace.
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Ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, you think? And the Chinese propaganda agencies are outright calling for an
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invasion. That Global Times tweet, by the way, is in English. Twitter is actually banned in China.
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It's for our consumption. So are a lot of other things banned in China, though.
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Here's some news. China updates official news sources list to tighten information oversight.
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Sounds a little bit like Justin Trudeau, doesn't he? Let me read you. Shanghai from Reuters.
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The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country's top internet regulator, published an updated list
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on Wednesday of 1,358 internet news services, stating that information service providers can
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Like I say, it sounds like Justin Trudeau. So yeah, hypersonic missiles that can go around
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the entire world. Space stations. Fighter jets swarming Taiwan. Censorship domestically. So
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what's up at the State Department, eh? Well, here's a video the White House put up a couple
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months ago. Take a look. One sec. Democracy's calling. See you, daddy. Bye.
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Hi, my name is Cooper, and this is a day in my life as a White House intern.
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We did it, Joe. Hey, everyone. Vogue. Usually, I start off with a big coffee. Sorry,
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they're like really strict in here. Hey, Jenny. I booked you a nail appointment, love.
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Yeah, I didn't tell you to do that. It's called initiative.
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Hi, White House. This is Cooper. Mm, I don't think so.
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Oh, doesn't matter. This is actually the entrance to the West Wing. This is so fun,
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and it's really prestigious. Hey, POTUS. Is Olivia Rodrigo still here? No.
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We've come a long way in our fight against this virus. We've vaccinated 160 million Americans.
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Are you getting this all down? Don't worry, queen. It's all right here.
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Cooper. Sorry, Miss Jen. Hey, Jen, don't forget to have fun. Spirit fingers, mama.
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We need to get shots in the arms of every single American. I'm heading to a haircut.
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Yeah. I think there's a tiny chance that China and Russia are laughing at America. Just a little
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chance. I don't think they're laughing with America. I think they're laughing at America.
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But here's the newest admiral to help fight back. This is from Amazon Washington Post.
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Rachel Levine, openly transgender health official, sworn in as a four-star admiral in public health
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service. The former Pennsylvania health secretary is the sixth four-star admiral in the history of the
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health corps. Yeah. So that's not a real admiral, but it's more symbolic. But this here is actually a
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real army general. Why the army thinks a French manicure is an obnoxious color compared to the
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civilian world, which views it as an understated yet professional look is beyond me. But I have to
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be in uniform tomorrow. So here we are. It looked nice while it lasted. Got it. That is a real tweet
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from a real U.S. army general tweeting about her nail polish. A general is, but she's actually no worse
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than her boss. Here's General Mark Milley talking about how he studies critical race theory because,
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you know, that's his job because, you know, white Americans almost staged a coup this January. Take
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a listen. And I want to understand white rage and I'm white and I want to understand it. So what is it
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that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of
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the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out because our soldiers, sailors,
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airmen, Marines and guardians, they come from the American people. So it is important that the
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leaders now and in the future do understand it. I've read Mao Zedong. I've read I've read Karl Marx.
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I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist. So that's the same General Mark Milley who called up
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his Chinese counterpart when Trump was president and promised China that he would tip them off. He would
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give them an advance warning if America was ever planning to attack China. That's a lot closer
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to a coup than people meandering around the Capitol building in January. Say, General Milley, if I can
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interrupt you while you're reading your Karl Marx, did Chinese generals give you a heads up before they
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fired their hypersonic missile? Yeah, I thought not.
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I tell you, things are just cooking here at Rebel News. We're bringing aboard new teammates
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almost every week. I mean, we have a new intern starting today, Olivia, who's helping produce this
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show. We are bringing on video editors, print editors. Our friend Louis Barakpool in London, UK,
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is joining us full time. There's so much going on. And one of our outstanding success stories who
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started really right out of school is my friend Mocha Beziergan, who is now our chief videographer.
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Besides being a great cameraman and editor, he travels this country really as a one man swarm of bees
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covering the stories, especially on Liberty and the pandemic. And he's passing through Toronto today.
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So we grabbed him, said, Mocha, here, sit down and let's have a catch up. Great to see you again.
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Good to see you too. And it's true. I was just passing by. I have a flight to catch to Quebec City.
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I should go back to New Brunswick once again, because hopefully the pastor who has been arrested there
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is going to be released. That's what I'm hoping. So finally that I could get an interview. I was going
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to interview him. He went inside the courthouse. First, everybody, his supporters surrounded him
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and they prayed for him. So I didn't want to disrupt. He went inside the courthouse, but
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didn't, didn't, unfortunately didn't make it back out. But this time, hopefully I will catch him.
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It's incredible. I haven't done an exact count, but I think we're close to 10 Christian pastors.
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I think Alberta has about five. There was someone, a pastor in Manitoba who was imprisoned and now
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New Brunswick. I really don't know any other country in the world that's jailing pastors.
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I know places like China and other authoritarian regimes do jail Christian clergy or even in some
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cases other religions. But for Canada to jail coming up on 10 pastors, I really think that
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makes us unique in a bad way in the world. Yeah. And I asked to those pastors and their
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fellow pastors, where could they seek refuge if even the courts are not upheld in the charter?
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And they say, well, it would be nice to seek refuge somewhere, but we have no other place to seek
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refuge but God. And that's sad to hear. And I see a lot of people smearing at them saying, oh,
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there are super spreaders. It's because of them and justifying their arrest. But and even in a
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affidavit of a health bureaucrat who came to inspect one of the church services that was happening
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illegally, she said she felt too uncomfortable to go there because of COVID reasons. But there is no
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known in any COVID case there. And at any of these churches whose pastors were arrested,
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there is no known or there is no evidence of any COVID case. But there is one evidence of a COVID
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outbreak in the CBC headquarters in Toronto. That's a great point. You know, Pastor James Coates at the
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Grace Victory Church in Edmonton, never a case, never an outbreak. And the health inspector said they
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brought police just for the delight of the media in that case. Arthur Pawlowski, Justice Adam Germain,
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said he was the problem. Again, never a case, never an outbreak. It's a bizarre kind of
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scapegoating as if these Christian pastors are unclean. And I should tell you, that's similar to
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the language used 70, 80 years ago by the Nazis to talk about the unclean Jew. And I don't mean to
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be too dramatic. I'm just saying the last time we called an entire group of people unclean,
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we should marginalize them because they're unclean. That's, I mean, that's the language of
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dehumanizing someone. It's shocking. So you told us a little bit about your trip to New Brunswick.
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Very interesting. Now, you've also been to three other cities. And I just want a really
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quick update. I think you most recently came from Winnipeg. What's going on there?
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Winnipeg, well, not, it's not going very good. Pastor Tobias Thiessen of the Church of God
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in Steinbeck, Manitoba, was arrested Monday night. And I got the call and I flew there Tuesday
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morning and interviewed the fellow pastor. I've been to that church 11 months ago when
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the police was blocking the road to block people from going to a drive-in church service.
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Not even, they're not even kind of... I saw that. What could possibly be a health
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reason? You don't leave your car. Your windows are rolled up. The cars themselves are socially
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distanced. So how dare the people who did that could arrest pastors and say, oh, our policies
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by science. How dare they do that? How dare they could say that? I don't understand.
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Very frustrating. You were in Calgary. There's a pizza company there, a pizza shop, that is
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trying to defy the requirement that it suddenly become a doctor, health inspector, secret agent,
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policeman. It's bad enough what the government is doing, but for the government to force companies
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to become spies and informants too. That's really gross. Tell me about a pizza company in Calgary
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that doesn't want to go along with that. Well, they're trying their best. They were giving out
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free pizza. Some people criticize, well, that's not a smart business move. But I think they are doing
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that because they could get shot at any moment and you don't want to... Why would you want to...
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You don't want to waste food. But they always have supporters outside to eat their pizza,
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hanging out there. It became like a community center for the unvaccinated because really what
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does it mean to be unvaccinated today? You can't go to restaurants. Soon you're not going
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to be able to fly and you can't even go to church to seek God. It really is insane. These are
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restrictions that typically are put on someone who has been convicted of a crime. Then if you're
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a criminal, only in certain cases, you're sentenced to not being able to leave your house, house
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arrest. You're sentenced to not being able to go places, to have limits on you, to have an ankle
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bracelet, or even custody in a prison. These are things that normally happen to people who have
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done something very wrong, usually more than once, and have had a proper trial where they could put
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their defenses. Now it's being happened to people who in many cases have lived an exemplary life,
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have never done anything wrong, have never had any trial or hearing. And by the way, if you want to
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talk about science, many of the people that this is being done to are naturally immune because they
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got the virus and got better. And they're probably healthier and less of a risk than some of the
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people who are getting vaccinated and have these breakthrough infections and aren't being screened at
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all. I don't believe that we should have a screening snitch culture, but frankly, a young, healthy person
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who has recovered from the virus is probably less of a threat than an old person who has the false
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confidence that the vaccine has protected him. Well, Saskatchewan Health Authority disagrees.
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They say it's about being vaccinated or not. It's not about age or comorbidity or anything else.
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Yeah, I saw that. It's very funny. Yeah, I saw that. And I know that that tweet, they didn't allow you
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to reply to it. They knew they were lying. Okay, last story. You spend time in Quebec, and I'm so glad we're
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covering Quebec well, because Quebec has a bit of a protest spirit that I think English Canada
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doesn't have to the same depth. Can you give us an update? I think that there was a small and perhaps
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temporary victory, but the nurses and doctors who were being threatened with being fired made the
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government blink at least once. Tell us what happened there. Well, I was supposed to, I went to Quebec
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City to cover that, but then the hearing of Pastor Phil Hutchings was about to happen on Friday in New
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Brunswick. So I wasn't there for that. But I know thousands of people showed up, and I know that this
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was the biggest protest where there were a lot of frontline workers with their uniforms on, and even some
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police officers. Police officers were protesting. That's what I heard, yes. Firefighters, paramedics. But
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I understand that now it is illegal to protest near hospitals, and something happened. A man who was
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unable to, who have a health condition that he cannot speak, what do they call that condition?
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He's dumb. Mute? No, no. He just can't. Tourette's? Yeah, yeah, something like that. And he was trying to go to
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his house near the hospital, and he was explaining to the police that, yeah, I'm a protester, but my house
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is right there. I want to go to my house. In a speech impediment of some sort. Yes. So he couldn't
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communicate. Yes, and he got arrested. Another woman who went to a store without a mask, she got
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also arrested. It's very frustrating. You know, we are representing hundreds of Quebecers through
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Fight the Fines. We're trying to represent more people on the vaccine side. It's a little bit
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harder to lawyer up for vaccines, because it's more complicated. You have to be proactive. You can't
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just be on defense, like with the tickets. We're trying our best. We do have about 10 actions that we
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have started. A lot of our battles are with unions, because if you represent a unionized
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worker, you can't go after the employer directly, because it's called collective bargaining. So
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all the union members, they're at the mercy of the union boss. And if the union boss is on
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the side of the company, you have to first deal with your union boss. So that's hampering
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a lot of the fight back, is that a lot of these unions are company unions. That is, instead
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of representing the workers to the company, they represent the company to the workers.
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And it's actually a shocking betrayal of the whole concept of a union. I've never been much
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of a union man myself, but surely if you pay union dues, if you're part of the union, and
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if you give up your personal rights to the collective, surely the union should help you on something
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as basic as not wanting to be jabbed contrary to your contract.
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Well, right now, the unvaccinated are a minority. And when you're a minority, when you're an
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individual, do you really have a choice not to pay the union dues? I worked in union-related
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jobs. You don't have a choice. You have to pay, even though you don't agree with what they're
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doing, even though you think that they are not doing what is in your best interest. So they
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don't have a choice. Because they don't have a choice, they don't have the control over
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It's very frustrating, but hopefully the blinking of the Quebec government is a sign. And I note
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that Southwest Airlines in the United States, they were pushing ahead with the vaccine mandate.
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Their labor unions did a work to rule. They had a labor action, and they caused the company
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to change course. In-N-Out Burger, if I'm not mistaken, they just simply refused. So it
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is possible to win. And I know that's not a lot to grasp at, but it is possible. Mocha,
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I think you're doing a great job. Thank you for crisscrossing the country and telling stories
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that no one else is. Folks, I want to let you know, Mocha's a great reporter. You know that
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great videographer. He's our chief videographer. But it does cost money to keep him in the plane.
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I mean, you fly three, four times a week. These days, sometimes even more. And we're
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happy to do it. We're happy to do it because we don't have people in every city. We don't
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have a permanent person in Winnipeg. Some of these other cities that we cover, you never
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know where Mocha's going to be. He even went up to Whitehorse.
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I went up to Fort McMurray, to Victoria Island, all sorts of places.
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Yeah. So if you can help us chip in, I mean, I know you pay $8 a month to watch our paywall
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shows and that helps. But if you do feel motivated to keep Mocha on the road and in the air, feel
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free to make a donation at rebelnews.com. And I hope you don't mind me asking. I just
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want to show you the kind of work ethic and passionate consideration of our civil liberties.
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I mean, as we've told you before, Mocha himself is originally from Turkey. And even when he was
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a young man, he was called into the police station there because of his YouTube videos.
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And I think of that quite a lot, Mocha, because I keep on thinking, if you can stare down a
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Turkish policeman in a Turkish police station when you're a teenager, that probably, if you
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can survive that psychologically, you're going to be a good rebel.
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Well, it was very stressful days in Turkey. But what is even more painful is that the police
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that I was dealing with, they know me, they like me, and I know them, and they're likable
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people, but they have to do their job. And it could have ended up me being jailed. My other
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YouTuber friends, who were also critical of the government, they got jail sentences.
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So it's not like the police is the enemy, but they are appearing as friends. But they are
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going to do the, you know, just like the vaccination policies in Canada, where the RCMP union is saying
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they are going to fight back, they are going to fight for their officers. But they are, the officers
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are the first ones to arrest pastors or someone trying to get into a restaurant without a vaccination
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We live in dangerous days. Mocha Beziergan, our chief videographer, you're doing a hell of a job.
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Thanks very much. All right, stay with us. More ahead.
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Hey, welcome back. Here are some of your letters. Someone with the nickname Big Donor, well, thank
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you if you're a big donor to us, says, Okotoks is one of the most conservative towns in Alberta,
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yet only leftists won. I noticed that the municipal election used Dominion voting machines.
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Fraudulent elections springs to mind. I didn't know that they used voting machines. Are you sure
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about that? If so, I'd like to look into it because I think that pen and paper or pencil
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and paper is the best way to do it. I don't think there's a need for electronic voting machines.
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I think it just opens it up either to actual fraud or people being worried about fraud, which
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undermines democracy just as much, I think. I think, though, that you can't just blame a voting
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system. I think you have to blame the lack of candidates and organizations and donors and
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campaign workers. I think it's easy to look for an excuse. I don't think conservatives have their
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act together. And I think the nominally conservative parties in this country, especially federally and
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the provincial level, they are anything but conservative. Alfonso Liberty says,
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there are also plenty of doctors and nurses who have stood up at great risk and spoke the
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uncomfortable truth about this medical mandate. Thousands of scientists, doctors and nurses
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across the world have called this medical emergency totally unnecessary. I don't know if it's
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thousands because I know that here in Canada, all the key ones who speak out, I think of
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Calvinder Kaur in Ontario, I think Roger Hodkinson in Alberta, they're immediately slapped with
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investigations, warnings, or even some suspensions by their colleges of physicians and surgeons.
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I don't think I could count 10 doctors in all of Canada who have spoken out.
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Bruce Atchison says, how sad that people are being lied to and they still won't understand that.
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This story shows that these medical bureaucrats are tweeting lies and readers can't even reply.
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That's not free speech. We're becoming like China, where the government says what we can talk about.
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And like in 1984, all the Winston Smiths are being beaten into submission until they tow the party line.
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You're talking about the weird lies, including by the Saskatchewan Health Authority,
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that the virus doesn't pick and choose based on age or fitness level, when of course it does.
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I find it bizarre and I think it's to the point of Orwell where they're lying, we know they're lying,
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they know we know they're lying, they know we know they know we know they're lying,
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and that's the point, is that they want to show that they can lie and you have to agree with it.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
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Let me leave you with one nurse who is not going quietly.
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That is why the COVID Cabinet Committee today approved a requirement that all 25,000 employees
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of the Alberta Public Service show proof of vaccination or negative regular test results.
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The majority of employees within the broader Alberta public sector, including Alberta Health Services,
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post-secondary educational institutions, and government agencies, boards, and commissions
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The human cost of vaccine mandates and vaccine passports is often forgotten.
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We think of these things as policies, health measures, but we don't experience the real stories
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of people whose lives have been turned upside down.
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Time after time, when we're out telling stories, we encounter people in the most surprising of locations
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who come up to us to share their stories about how their jobs, their educations, their careers,
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They've lost all of it because of these vaccine mandates.
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Dozens of friends who ended up getting the vaccine, but because they felt like they were politically blackmailed,
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they were backed into a corner, and they felt like their life was over, and now they're miserable.
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And we are about to be joined by one of the stories that we happened upon, one of the people who has had their lives turned upside down by vaccine mandates.
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And we're actually here talking to your dad about the letter that he put out with Whitten Construction.
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And then we heard your story, which is incredibly fascinating.
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So perhaps if you could just start and let us know your circumstance.
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You, like many students, have been placed in a difficult and challenging circumstance regarding vaccine mandates.
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So maybe you could just tell us a little bit about your story.
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Yeah, so I was a nursing student at Mount Royal University up until recently.
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I decided not to get the vaccine, just between personal choice, and I have an issue with my heart and other medical conditions.
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And they told us that Alberta Health Services wasn't doing any type of accommodations for students.
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She told me that I'm able to take all my theory courses, but I just won't be able to graduate.
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So I asked her, I was like, so anybody who wants to be a nurse, a doctor, or just work in health care,
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and they decide not to get the vaccine, whether it's personal reason or medical, they can't work in any of that.
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One of the things that we're certainly seeing throughout all of this is there's this talk about the health care system being entirely overwhelmed.
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Particularly, though, you had a focus in your education that is a field that not too many people volunteer for,
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and one certainly that someone compassionate like yourself could help a lot of people.
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And if you could talk about what you were hoping to do as a nurse.
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I was in the unit myself for six years, so I wanted to go back, and I think it would be very full circle.
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I've wanted to do that since I was in the unit, and now I can't.
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And there's even more shortage of nurses, but really, who's to blame there?
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We've seen these same nurses who've worked for the past year and a half throughout COVID helping people working in these,
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what the government would call high-risk situations.
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Suddenly, they've gone from heroes to no longer wanted.
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You have a very beautiful personal story where you've been through the oncological ward,
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and then you want to go back and contribute very much sounds like a dream that you're hoping to fulfill to give something back after you received.
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What does it feel like for AHS mandates and regulations to deem you basically not enough of a person
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or not worthy of the capacity to go back and participate in this dream that you've had?
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Yeah, it's very infuriating, and it's devastating, because I then had to go into a career where I know I'm not going to be as happy,
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but it's one thing that can provide, and it's really infuriating, because, you know, it's my body, my choice when you want an abortion.
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It's my body, my choice when you want doctor-assisted suicide, but now it's not my body, my choice when you want a vaccine.
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Do you have other colleagues, other students who are in the same boat as you?
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I know we've heard from hundreds of students who are in the same situation.
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How many people are facing the same sort of exclusion?
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So, just on Mount Royal, 11 students were kicked out just for not declaring whether or not they were vaccinated,
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and then I have dozens of friends who ended up getting the vaccine, but because they felt like they were politically blackmailed,
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they were backed into a corner, and they felt like their life was over, and now they're miserable.
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And, I mean, like we said when we were talking to your dad,
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the thing that we're forgetting about is they write these policies, but time and time again they're forgetting about the human cost.
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You want to literally help children battling through cancer.
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They're saying that you can't do that anymore because you're not willing to get this jab.
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Do you have any words of encouragement for other people who might be in the same situation,
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who are facing the same kind of heartbreak over their sort of dreams evaporating right before them?
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I think the longer people conform and the less people that speak out,
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the longer this is going to happen and the more people that are going to be fired.
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Yes, our medical system is going to be overwhelmed,
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but you shouldn't be blaming people who don't want to get vaccinated.
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Like, we should have a government who governs for all and not just those that are vaccinated.
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Her story of heartbreak is one that countless people are feeling across this province
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We want to thank her for her courageous stance and we encourage you,
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if you have a story like this, to reach out to us.
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While an apparent medical crisis is overwhelming our systems, nurses are being fired.
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Other nurses are not being allowed to finish their schooling to fill that void.
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This is incredibly troubling and just one of the many problems resulting from vaccine passports.
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If you agree that we need to put an end to vaccine passports, go to fightvaccinepassports.com.