Meet the New Rebels!
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In this episode of The Ezra LeVant Show, host Ezra Levenkamp sits down with a few of our new team members to introduce them to the world, and talk about their first day on the job, their first experience with Rebel News, and more.
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Hello, my Rebels. A little bit of a different show today. Instead of a monologue, well,
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we've got our staff meeting, and I thought, well, you know, let me introduce some of our
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new people to you, because some of them I bet you haven't really met before. Some of
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this is our first time coming to our office. So that's what today's show is. Anyway, I
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hope you like it. I encourage you to get the video version of this podcast so you can see
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these people with your own eyes. Just go to rebelnews.com and click subscribe. It's eight
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bucks a month, and you get the video version of this program. And more importantly, in
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my opinion, well, equally importantly, let me put it that way, you support Rebel News
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because, you know, we are not laying people off. We are hiring people. We are growing
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because we want to serve you, our listeners, even better. So please consider supporting
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us. Go to rebelnews.com and click subscribe. Okay, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, let me introduce you to a few new rebels. It's May 14th, and this is the Ezra
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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You know, I don't have time to do a regular show today. I even skipped our noontime live
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stream. First time I've done that in a while. Because we're having an all-staff meeting here
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at our world headquarters in Toronto. So we brought our whole team in. We're doing a bunch
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of training, and we're just getting to know some of the new teammates. Plus, we had an
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excellent lunch catered by Adamson's Barbecue. You know them. So what a wonderful day.
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And I know everyone on the team, obviously, but I don't think we've had a chance to properly
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introduce some of our new talent to you. And we've got young people and people from different
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walks of life. And we've got new people in Alberta and Ontario and here and there. So
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instead of doing a regular show, I'm just going to introduce you to a few of our new teammates.
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And I hope you're going to love them as much as I do. So for the next half hour, enjoy meeting
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seven. Well, the first new talent I'd like to introduce to you is Daniel Day. He's the youngest
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rebel, just turned 18. And he's actually the fourth generation of the Day family with whom I have had
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the pleasure of talking and getting to know him. Daniel, you started with the rebel sort of in a
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casual way. You attended at the Grace Life Church with Sheila Gunn-Reed every Sunday. And you saw
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the cops try and get in that building, didn't you? That's right. It was outrageous what I've seen.
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It's like something straight out of communist China. Huh. Well, and you were there when the police
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tried to smooth talk their way into the door. Now, some of those church elders knew the law,
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maybe even better than the cops did. There's part of the criminal code that says you cannot disturb
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a church. Tell us about that because you filmed that key interaction, which I think showed the
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whole game. I think they were really trying to intimidate that church. Tell me about that
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film that you recorded. Yeah. So the AHS and the police were trying to get into the church,
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but the elders seemed to know a lot better than they did. And I guess outsmarted them.
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And then they had to turn away because it's against the law to do that.
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Yeah. Section 176.2 of the criminal code says it's actually a crime to disrupt a church service. I
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actually didn't know that until just a few months ago. I think that's a pretty good law,
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by the way. And by the way, that law applies to everyone, including police, including health
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officers. Your first adventure with Rebel News was extremely stressful. And frankly,
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I thought there was a 50-50 chance we'd never see you again. I'm kidding around. You were with us
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in Montreal when the Montreal police tried to raid our Airbnb that happened to be on a houseboat
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without a search warrant. We had a real standoff there. That didn't scare you off?
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No. I mean, it was exciting. And it was definitely outrageous what the police were doing. It didn't
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scare me off. It rather, like, encouraged me to, like, be here and want to help because this should
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not be happening. Right on. Well, listen, we're delighted to have you aboard. I like the fact
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that you care about things. When I went to that Grace Life Church and I saw you there, and it was
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clear to me that you really believed in our mission of telling the other side of the story.
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And occasionally we actually go even farther and help people fight in the court of law. We don't
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represent Grace Life Church, but we are helping other churches around Canada. So it's nice to
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have you here. I know you're working closely with our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and I think
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that's going to be a key to your success. Sheila, I think, is the best of the rebels. She's got one
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foot in the city, one in the country. She's a little bit oil and gas, a little bit farm, a little bit
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big. Like, she's just got all our bases covered. And in the six years she's been with us,
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she hasn't put a word wrong. So if you stay close to Sheila and follow her guidance, I think you too
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could be an outstanding citizen journalist. I know it. And it's fun to have you aboard.
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It's an honor to be out here and Sheila's amazing.
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Isn't that the truth? Well, listen, great to have you here. Stay with us. We're going to have
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more new rebels. I'm so proud of these folks. And we've got them all out here in Toronto for a bit
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of a staff meeting. So I thought, well, let's just get them in the chair and a quick hello. So stay with us.
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Well, we're back. You know, our new talent sitting in the chair next to me, we have given him a
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nickname already. K2. You know, there's a mountain in the Himalayas called K2. It's the second highest
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in the range. The reason we call him K2 is his real name is Kian Simone. And Kian,
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the very first Kian I had ever heard of was Kian Bexty, who worked with us in Calgary. I'd never heard
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the name Kian before in my life. Now you've joined us in Calgary and your name is Kian. And it's
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almost too much of a coincidence. It's certainly odd. Listen, we can call you Kian. We can call you
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K2. It's great to have you. How did you come to the rebel? You just joined us in the last two weeks.
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Actually, your very first week on the job, you were sort of thrown right in the deep end, weren't you?
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Yeah, that was one of the craziest weeks of my life. About a year ago, my dad actually said,
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hey, there's another Kian and he's doing news. I was like, oh, that's weird. So I became a fan
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actually through Kian. And he was actually a big inspiration to me to, you know, get people's
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faces. You know what, from one Kian to the other, keep it spreading. In your first week on the job,
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and I think your title is technically intern, am I right? Yeah. So that sounds like a humble title,
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a modest title, a ground floor, you know, first rung on the ladder title. But in your very first week,
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you were thrust into the largest story in Canada, the arrest and imprisonment of Pastor Arthur
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Pawlowski. Yeah, I don't feel like an intern after that. Yeah, I don't think you are. You did
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something and we kept it secret at the time, but I think you can reveal it now. We didn't know when
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the police would strike. So you literally slept at the church in case they did a morning raid.
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Yeah, that was it was it was crazy. It was weird. That's a heck of a stakeout. Yeah, I woke up like
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every hour, not knowing what was to expect. Yeah. Well, and you know, that it's a little bit
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dramatic, but in the Grace Life Church, police did a dawn raid to lock the place down. So I had this
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premonition that they were going to do the same thing. They didn't have that dawn raid, but I'm
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really glad you were there just in case. Sometimes journalism is about waiting for something to
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happen. No, I'm glad that you were wrong about that, though. No news is good news in that case.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, we wouldn't talk about what would happen if the police came into the church and
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found you there and how that would go down legally. That wasn't the only excitement, because
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a couple of days later, when Pastor Arthur Pawlowski was set to be released from the Calgary V-Man
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Center, their maximum security holding jail, the judge, Justice Germain, sent the order to the jail
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saying, release him. And the jail guards wouldn't. They were arguing with the judge. Oh, we need two
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orders, one for each brother. There's Pastor Arthur, there's Brother David. Like it was, I've never seen
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guards fight a judge saying, no, we're not doing, like it was bizarre. You were standing outside the
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jail waiting, and a couple of guys in uniform came out and started telling you that you had to leave.
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Tell me about that. You called me on the phone, but I couldn't see what was happening. I could only hear
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it from the phone. You were there, obviously. What went down there? Well, the first guy that came out,
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he was extremely nice, and I said, I'm with Rebel News. And he said, okay, well, let me go speak
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to my boss, because I said, I'm not going to film until Arthur comes out. I have no, I don't care
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what you guys are doing here. Maybe just get some B-roll, but if I don't get that, fine. I'll respect
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that. And his boss came out, and he said, oh, you're with Rebel News? I love Ezra. Oh my God,
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what? I've been so mean to them. My dad's been such a great fan of his, but I have to ask you to leave.
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And then that's when you were still on the phone. Oh, I got so mad. I swore. I swore. Because my
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point of view is that we have a right to be on public property, filming matters of public interest.
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And just because someone in a uniform says leave or turn off your camera doesn't mean you have to do
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it. In fact, we have a right to report. And the thing is, this is your first week on the job.
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Yeah. Someone in a uniform at a jail is saying leave or you're in trouble.
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I don't know. Maybe you're going to wind up in jail. Already there.
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Yeah. So for you, like if you didn't quit after being on the nighttime stakeout and being threatened
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by some uniformed folks at a jail, I know you've got what it takes to be a rebel. And I did not expect
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that to happen in the first week to an intern. Yeah. It's honestly the best job in the world.
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Well, that's great. I think you're doing great. Every day I can see you getting stronger.
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It's quite something. And the timing was fortuitous that you were there for the big story
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in Canada, I think. And great work. And I was, I remember I was hollering at you,
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don't, don't, don't leave. Don't do it. You tell him. Oh my God. I was stressed for you. Because I
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thought, who has the courage to stand up to an armed guard? Well, the next guy that came out with the
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acting director, he was a lot more lenient on getting me to leave. And he was more mean about
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it. And then that's when, you know, the first guy I was nice and he was nice. So it was just more of
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like a weird casual. But the acting director was the tough guy. Yeah. I'm so glad you held the line.
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That's part of being a rebel reporter. If you're a CBC reporter, a Toronto Star reporter, you're not
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asking tough questions at all. So no one's really miffed. And you certainly don't speak truth to power.
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So, you know, the CBC is really never asked to leave anywhere important because they're just,
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they're stenographers. Rebel reporters get asked to leave all the time because when we show up,
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we're shining a light of public scrutiny, typically on someone who doesn't want that light. So I hate
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to say it, Kian, but you are going to get other people telling you to leave. And it's going to be
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a test of your courage every time. Keep the camera rolling. Do not leave unless they prove they have
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lawful authority for you to leave and then only do so reluctantly. I mean, if you are on private
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property and if the owner asks you to leave, you do have to leave. But public property, a public
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interest story, I'm so glad you held the line. What a first week. I have no fear, Ezra. All right.
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Well, great to have you here. That's Kian, Simone, or K2, as we call them. Stay with us for more new
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Well, like I say, we have all the staff here at our world headquarters in Toronto. We're having
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a little bit of Adamson's barbecue for lunch. But in between bites, I'm pulling some of the new
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talent into the studio because I thought, well, hey, we haven't even properly introduced some of
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these new folks. Some of them are so new. Like K2 has only been with us about a week or two and
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same with Daniel Day. But Matt Brevner has been working with us for a few months. He's based in
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Vancouver. Now, most of the time he works with Drea Humphrey, our outstanding bureau chief out there.
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But Matt's also appeared on camera a couple of times. And he was also with us at that dramatic
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incident in Montreal when the police tried to raid our hotel rooms without a search warrant. That
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turned into a 10-hour standoff. I just talked to Matt before we turned the camera on. I said,
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is there anything you want to talk about? He said, well, you know, my own story. I'd like to share
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that with viewers. And, you know, frankly, Matt and I haven't had a chance to really go deep on it
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anyway. So I'd love to hear it. Matt, we're delighted with your work. We think the work that you're doing
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out there is so visually beautiful. The stories are so well edited. And Drea is one of my favorites.
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She's amazing. But why don't you tell us a little bit about you, the man behind the camera?
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Sure. Because I don't think most of our viewers even know you're on our team yet.
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Sure. Yeah, I'm a musician from Vancouver. Music's been very good to me. I've been able to
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travel all over the world and win multiple awards and pay my bills as a musician, which,
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That's pretty rare. Yeah, especially for a kid from Vancouver who started making music
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in his grandma's basement. That's a dream come true. Last year, I attended, I went to go watch
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a street preacher. And the story was taken out of context and covered by CTV as a homophobic
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protest. And unfortunately, my social media reach as you know, on was on par with CTV Vancouver. So
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you can't have as you know, you can't have any sort of success without some haters. So people who have
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been, you know, quietly hating me over the years took this as the opportunity to take potshots at me
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and, and labeled it as some sort of homophobic protest, which it was not in any way, shape or
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form. And I was subsequently canceled for that. I was dropped from my record label without even
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them reaching out to me. I know what that feels like not on the music side, but we've had people
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deplatform us. No conversation, no appeal, no discussion. It's, it's the height of injustice.
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Yeah, it's, it's, and you know, it's tough, you know, as an entrepreneur, your greatest resource are
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your relationships. So when something devastating like that happens to you, and you also can't call
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on familiar friends to help you, it's a really, it's difficult. So, you know, that led me to, I'm
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good friends with Alex. I've known Alex for over over 10 years.
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That's Alex on our, who works here in our Toronto office. Yeah, one of my oldest friends. And he's
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like, Hey, you know, maybe we should link you with our reporter, Drea, and she can ask you about what
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happened. So, you know, we met up and I kind of told her the story. And at the time I was, it was a
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devastating experience and I was still getting my footing. So I was like, I don't know if I'm ready
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to fight this yet. I kind of want to let, I don't want to reemerge on the defense. I kind of want to
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let the dust settle and see what's next for me in that way. But I told her, Hey, no, I love what you
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guys are doing. And if there's any way that I can contribute, you know, I'm out of prudence.
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I'm quite handy with a camera and I would love to, you know, work with you guys in that capacity.
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So I started working with you guys part-time, I think last fall, and now I've been on full-time
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for the last couple of months. And it's interesting because, you know, when I applied for the job,
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I wanted to make a point to not really highlight or emphasize my accolades or achievements in that
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other industry, because I wanted to work with you on the merit of, you know, my convictions and my
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skill set. And I knew that if I was given that opportunity, obviously the rest of it would
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would come out. And, you know, every time I'm out with Drea, someone recognizes me either positively
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or negatively from my career or from, you know, the debacle. So she's like, wait, there's
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there's something different about you, right? I'm like, well, actually, yeah, there is. So
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and it's, I never thought that life, you know, would take me on this path, but it's amazing to be
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able to, you know, the thing I really love about working for Rebel is when we show up,
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we get, we get to be like, people look at us like we're the good guys. You know, we get to really
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help people. In Montreal, especially, I really felt that, which was a surprise to me because we're
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pretty new to Quebec. Tell me a little bit more about that, because it sounds like, I'm hearing
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some of your pain about what was done to you in that previous career. And I honestly didn't know
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that background. We hired you because of the excellence of your work, and you just seemed to click with
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Drea, and I really love what you guys are doing out there. We need strength in BC. It's such an
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important province. Vancouver, it's a great city. So we're telling important stories there. But you
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said you get some negative and some positive. I want you to tell the viewers, because I, and I'm a
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lightning rod. Yeah. I have to say, I go out and about, and it is 99% positive in my life. Tell me about
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some of the positive feedback you get. Obviously, there's some negative, but I want to hear about
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the positive. What do people say? What do they refer to? Or do they just say, hey, keep at it?
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What do they say? Well, it's a little, a little bit of everything, but you really understand the,
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the impact and the consequences of what we're doing when people reach out to us, especially for like
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the Fight the Fines initiative. Yeah. Because we're their last line. We're their last help. You know,
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people can't afford to pay the tickets, let alone like the idea of even, you know, hiring a lawyer
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is a, is a. Very scary to most people. Yeah. How do you even do it? Is the lawyer going to take all
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my money? How do I know if he's the right guy? You know, hiring a lawyer is as scary as finding a fine
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yourself. Totally. And it's a, it's a responsibility that I don't hold lightly. Being able to, I have a
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passion and, you know, for the underdog, I always have. And if you look into my, my past, uh, you
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know, uh, controversies, they're often because of that. Um, and yeah, it's just, it's a, I don't,
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because of what happened to me and how I understand how, you know, fake news or false information can
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completely derail you and ruin, ruin your life. Essentially. I don't hold that responsibility
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lightly when we're, when we're speaking to people, regardless of their political belief or alignment
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or religious belief or alignment, I really believe in above all, like, you know, human dignity and
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to be able to dignify somebody in a long format video that isn't just a snappy news piece that's
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10 seconds taken out of context. It's like, no, I actually want to hear what you're about. Now,
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you know, once that's public and on the internet, people can make their own decisions. But at least
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for me, I try to like, as, as least as I can interject myself into the situation and just look people in
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the eye and give them an opportunity to, you know, for redemption because that's something that I was
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never afforded. Well, that's amazing. It's a very touching story. And Dre is so good at that. I
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know you guys work as a team. We have a phrase we sometimes use with complicated stories. We say,
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well, look, follow the facts wherever they lead. We have our ideas about a story. For example,
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when you guys went to this Chinese restaurant that had all the cameras, all the spy cameras,
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okay, we, it was, the story was a little more complicated than we, it wasn't quite the narrative
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we had read in other media. All right, we'll follow the facts where they lead. Let both sides have
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their say. In fact, our main motto is telling the other side of the story. So listen, I'm glad that
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you find some moral value in our work. That's the chief reward for me is I feel like in these
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upside down times, we are doing small things to make a difference. And you know, you do small things
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to make a difference every day. They add up, you know, we're over 1200 cases on that fight.
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And that's 1200 families that we've helped even just this much. I feel like if, if I go to the
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pearly gates and St. Peter says, you're not getting in, I'm going to say, whoa, before you kick me out,
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I want to make it, I want to advocate for myself. I'm going to point to the fight the flies.
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Yeah, I might sue him. I might sue him to let me in. That's a great joke. But no, I think that what we do
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here is a business. It's how we earn our living. It's a product, the news, but I think there's a
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moral value to it, which is my chief reward. And working with folks like yourself, you're fairly
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new to the organization. And some folks have literally started with us in the last week or
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two. Working with like-minded people is really a highlight of my day, especially in these times
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where we're pitted against each other, where, where there's fear and loathing. So Matt, it's great
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to have you on the team. I think your work is excellent. Thank you so much. It's beautiful. Like,
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it's visually beautiful. You have a tremendous talent. And I'm just so glad you're on the team.
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It's an honor and a pleasure to be here. And I really, you know, I feel a duty to not only tell
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the truth, but make it in a way that's digestible for folks who maybe, you know, look like me or into
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the same things that I'm into because, you know, my generation has spam blockers up, but unfortunately
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they don't have the sharpest discernment for what's spam and what isn't. So I feel like if we can
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package the truth in a way that people are familiar, at least, you know, to seeing it and,
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you know, for me watching Vox and Vice and whatever else, then hopefully we can plant some seeds of
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truth in people and watch those things grow into, you know, oak trees of righteousness.
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Amazing. Well, I'm just so pleased you're with us. There you have it. Matt Brevner, one of the new
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talent here at Rebel News. I'm just so proud of our team and I hope you are too. And I hope over the
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course of months and years ahead, you come to follow our different teammates and love them
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as much as I do. Stay with us. More talent ahead.
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Well, we earlier talked to Kian Simone, a.k.a. K2, about his exciting first week on the job
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around the largest story in the country. In fact, one of the largest stories in North America,
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namely the arrest of Pastor Arthur Pawlowski. Kian was doing some interesting work. He camped out in
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the church at night as a night watchman in case the police made a raid then. They didn't.
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Kian also went up to the jail and faced a bit of a shakedown from the correctional guards. But the
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leader on our reportage throughout the week has been this man, Adam Sose, a new Calgary reporter
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who joins me in the studio. Adam, great to see you again. Thanks for having me. Happy to be here.
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Well, you know, you did such a good job on such an important story and it's clear to me that you
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have won the trust of Arthur Pawlowski, the pastor who was arrested. And that's not easy to do because
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I think he has the right to regard pretty much 99% of the mainstream media as hostile and unethical
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and biased and sometimes downright lying. So obviously you've won his trust and respect to be
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able to tell the story. Yeah, I certainly agree. I mean, I've kind of been there since the get-go.
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I've had conversations with him. I've talked with his family. My wife's family has a similar
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experience to his family escaping from communist Poland through Greece. So there's that connection
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there. But he's said repeatedly that it's nice to have someone who's not, and he's not looking
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for someone to sort of tout the party line or say what he wants. He just wants someone who's
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going to share the truth, not spin it. He shared early on an article that I sent you as well
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of people saying he was terrorizing the neighborhood. Oh, I saw that. You know,
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the Calgary Herald just ran a pack of lies. I'm so embarrassed for the Herald on that. It makes me
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mad. Now, you joined us, I'd say, in the last month or so. Not even, I think. Before that,
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you were affiliated with our good friends at the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedom,
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who are frankly the only other civil liberties group in this country who's fighting the good fight
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here. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, that's the left-wing group in Toronto. I give
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them a monthly donation, by the way. I shouldn't. They don't deserve it. Those leftist civil liberties
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activists haven't lifted a finger. The JCCF and John Carpay and his team, they've got a ton of cases,
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haven't they? Oh, yeah. I mean, they've been on this right from the start. I sat down with John.
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We did a long interview that folks can check out. But they're defending the coats.
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That's the pastor up there in Grace Life Church. Grace Life Church. But again, and they've been
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sort of outspoken. Some of the amazing work that they're doing, particularly, is the infographics
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that they've been putting out. Oh, they're getting good at that. And they're not putting an opinion
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on it. Yeah. They're just presenting, here are the facts. And I think that's incredible for people
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to look at. Well, they were very early on this pandemic. They figured out what was going on very
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early. What were you doing over there, the JCCF? So, yeah, I would do a number of events for the
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large. I used to do some back-end web stuff. Not a lot of events these days with the whole rules.
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Oh, yeah. But we did, as a few of the Rebel staff came out, we did during the start of
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the lockdown. We bought some tables. Yeah, we bought just a little bit of a show of support.
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I went to your Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. That's right. Yeah. It was a lot of fun. It was
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great. Rex Murphy was the speaker of that. Oh, he was great. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, listen,
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I mean, I'm sorry that events across this whole country have been shut down, including for us,
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too. But I guess it turns out that's our good luck to have you aboard. And just in time,
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there's so many stories in Calgary. You're going to keep covering the Arthur Pawlowski story.
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It's so important. Please stay on that. I think we are the window to that story for
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literally millions of people. Of course, yeah. I mean, when I say millions, that's not an
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exaggeration. And like you said, he trusts us. Before he had a chance to speak to his lawyers
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because he didn't have their contact information left, he got permission to call his wife.
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Yeah. And she patched right through to me because he wanted to get the story out.
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I'm so glad that happened. Of course, Calgary is one of Canada's largest cities. It's very
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important in a number of ways. It's an oil and gas city. It's a conservative city. It's a city
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that's been hit hard by the carbon tax, by pipeline blockades. It's a city that Justin
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Trudeau despises. Putting aside the story of the lockdowns and Arthur Pawlowski, which
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are important stories, what other stories are there in Calgary and Southern Alberta that you
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So, I mean, along the lines of that, there are obviously other pastures also been targeted.
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But beyond that, just the impact on small businesses, the breakdown of leadership on
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a provincial level. We finally had somebody that we thought in Jason Kenney was going
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to go to bat to us. And that's clearly shifted. The marginalization, so to speak, of Alberta
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and Western Canada has just become so dramatic and so magnified. And there's sort of this pendulum
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swing in society. And Eastern Canada, it seems, or at least Ottawa, has swung so far away from
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caring about Alberta that Albertans are starting to say, hold on a second, this isn't right.
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Yeah. Yeah. It'll be interesting to see how that expresses itself. I don't trust the polling
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out there right now because I think the pollsters, when they give party choices, I think they're
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forcing people into a template that doesn't fit. I think if you were to ask, do you want
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either a different party or a separatist party? That would be the true expression, the sentiment
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there. I think just saying, hey, who do you like? New Democrats or Conservatives? I don't
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Well, I'm glad you're out there. Sheila testifies to your tremendous work ethic and your good
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news judgment. And she really likes having you commanding our Calgary outpost along with
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K2. I feel like our Alberta coverage is stronger than ever. So thanks for being an important part
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So happy to be here. I think that it was just meant to be like, we all, K2 came on board,
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I came on board, and we're here just as these stories are breaking. There's definitely some
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Yeah. Isn't that great? Well, Adam Sosa, it's nice to have you aboard. There you have it.
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You got to follow Adam for all his coverage and his savearthur.com work is of global importance.
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Well, last but not least today, Catherine Kozanowski. She's actually been with us for a little while.
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She was out there in the Montreal craziness when the police tried to raid our hotel rooms without
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a warrant. Who does that? That's police state stuff.
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You came aboard doing video editing. Then you came to Montreal for our great effort there. You've
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been doing some on-camera fight to fight stuff. I think you're doing great.
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Tell us a little bit about yourself, because what I'm doing today is, since everybody's
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in town for the staff meeting, I thought, well, instead of me just blah, blah, blah,
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let's just say a quick hello to some of the new people on the team. Now, you're not super
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I'm fairly new, but things move fast here, so new is old a week later.
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Well, our team is very big and very strong, and I think everyone's pulling in the same
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direction. There's a diversity of views, but I think the crisis of our age, the pandemic
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and how it's being used as an excuse for authoritarianism, I think that's the story of
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our age, and that's sort of a new coalition, isn't it?
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Yep. Well, I'm old enough to remember when kids went to school and teenagers went to,
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well, young adults went to bars and people had parties and weddings and funerals, and
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it's like we're becoming so normalized to, oh, in the future, when we can go back to normal,
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we can do all these things again, but I'm like, we can do those things now. We should be doing
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Yeah. It's the obedience that I don't like to see. I mean, there is a time and a place
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for obedience, but I think that citizens should generally not obey the government. It should
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be the other way around. There are some rules we want to obey, but some unelected, unaccountable
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health bureaucrat from a bureaucratic deep state that we never even knew about until 14 months
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ago, now issuing edicts from high up on Mount Olympus, like Zeus just throwing thunderbolts.
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Yeah. Well, that's what people are shocked about. They're saying we didn't elect these health
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officials who are telling our government leaders how to impose law. We elected those leaders.
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But they're not in charge anymore, it would seem. It's like they're saying it's out of
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Yeah. And the ease with which such a lot, I don't know if it's a majority of the population,
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but a sizable chunk of the population just does whatever they're told.
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It is shocking to me, and it is an explanation and an unhappy reminder. As a kid, I kept thinking,
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how could Germany, which was an outstanding Western liberal modern democracy, how could
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it have gone along with Hitler? Hitler actually won an election in 1933.
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It was a six-year process. Like, it was a multi-year process.
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Yeah. And how did that happen? I always thought, couldn't they see? How did they not stop?
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And I'm not saying that we are on the road to Nazism, but I'm saying, holy cow, those
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first steps sure went quick. Suspend parliament, suspend elections or delay elections, mail-in
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Extra power. Civil liberties groups shut up. Opposition shuts up.
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Yeah. Shutting down gatherings. I just thought, holy cow, those first five lines of defense
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Yep. And people didn't even blink an eye. Well, most people.
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Yeah. In fact, the reverse, they sort of reveled in it. I mean, how many volunteer street captains?
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I'm the street captain on the mask watch. I'm the street captain. You know, we used to
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have, you know, crime watch, rural crime watch, neighborhood watch. You know, people just
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Yeah. Now it's the East German model of that, spy on each other. And the willing, passionate,
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almost erotic, and yes, I've got them. Holy cow, where did that come from?
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I think it's power. What's the word? When someone gets power hungry.
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Power tripping is what I'm trying to say. But I'm talking about, like, just your neighbor.
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Well, yeah. But I think it's like you give someone a little, it's, they don't have power,
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but they think that they have power because now they can tell you what to do and they can,
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they can tell on you. When we were on our way to Montreal, we stopped at an en route and we saw
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a woman with her, two young children there. One was under the age of three, not wearing a mask.
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And the teenager working at the Tim Hortons was imposing the mask rule on the woman and said,
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your son needs to put on a mask. And she wouldn't serve the woman. So the woman left in tears. And
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we caught up with her in the parking lot and we're just like, don't worry. She was like,
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am I normal? Or is that? And we're like, you're normal. That was abnormal. That teenager was power
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Oh my God. And obviously it was completely wrong in law, but whatever that teenager lacked in
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correctness and moral authority. There's a woman, she, she made up for uncertainty and there is no
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greater certainty than that of a zealot. And that is terrifying. Well, I think you're doing a great
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job covering these things. Thanks for doing the fight the fines project. We're trying to get all
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I love doing those. I love meeting those people. They're incredible. You know what? And that's
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important work. And you may, I mean, we've done 1200 of these cases. So they just, you know, okay,
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that's routine. Another day at the office for us, but for every family we help for them,
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it's the first time. And like, I remember the first one you did, it was a, it was a low
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income family and they had, I think four tickets or something, six, six tickets for a birthday
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for thousands of dollars. And there is no family in Canada other than like a ultra rich who you give
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six tickets in the thousand dollar range to that's going to rock that family. So it would have
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rocked my family growing up. It would have destroyed us. Yeah. And all of a sudden you've
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got discord in the house. If there's a marriage that's having trouble, that's going to money
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is a leading cause of marital breakups. It really is. You know, the stress in the home.
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On the children. Yeah. I mean, these police, some of them are just robots. Some of them have
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a viciousness to them. Some of them are money collectors. They don't realize what they're
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doing to families when they drop these little bombs on them. But I feel like we're helping
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to fix things and set things right. So thanks for being part of that. Thank you very much.
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All right. There you have it. One of our new crop of young rebel talents, Catherine Kuczynowski.
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Well, what do you think of them? And I have to say, that's not even everybody. I mean,
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you've met Lincoln Jay, Amoka Bezergin, you know, Ephraim Lonsanto. Well, he's not even
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a newcomer. He's been with us for four years now. So we've got so many people and we're
00:34:08.880
giving her full tilt. We have a young lady here today. I haven't introduced her to you
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because I'm going to meet with her after this show and hopefully we'll sign her up.
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So we'll have another new reporter. We're really growing. And it's important to me to grow
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because people are trying to stop us. YouTube demonetized us. That kicked $400,000 a year
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out of our budget. Then they suspended us for a week. PayPal suspended us. We're fighting with them.
00:34:34.400
All these people want to slow us down, stop us, maybe make us lay people off, God forbid.
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No, no, no, no, no, no. That just tells me our work is more important than ever.
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And it is so reassuring to me to see these young people, especially I'm 49 now. I'm nowhere close
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to young. But to see young rebels as young as 18 saying, I'm on board. Boy, that gives me some hope.
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I hope it gives you hope too. And it's my commitment to you as the boss of Rebel News
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that we stay strong and be able to make payroll and be able to continue to bring you the news
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and by hiring young talent to do the job. So thanks for letting me share with you my new friendships
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with these folks. And that's not even all of them. Let me tell you that. All right. That's the show
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for today. Until next week, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters and you at home,