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00:03:23.320So I think first on the day before we get into this May Day craziness, which Alexa, I know you have a lot of experience and familiarity with.
00:03:31.660We will first get into some of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's reactions.
00:03:39.220I know that they reacted a little bit yesterday on the stream to some of his comments, both pre and post election debate – or sorry, election results.
00:03:48.400But here we have him saying that – or admitting, finally, rather, that this system is broken.
00:03:55.500So, of course, referring to the criminal justice system that I would say doesn't really do any sort of justice these days.
00:04:01.880So we'll have a look, a listen to what he says, and then we'll come back for some comments.
00:04:05.900I'm just – there's so many great judges, first of all.
00:04:37.360We're going to hire tough-on-crime judges, tough-on-crime JPs to make sure that they follow the law and keep these people in jail because they're just being released.
00:04:49.340You could go in and kick in a door, put a gun to someone's head with kids in the house, terrorize that house, and guess what?
00:04:58.100By the time they get arrested and get out, it's the next day.
00:05:02.480Then they start mocking our police in the back of the police car.
00:05:04.860Don't worry, I'll be out by the time you start your shift.
00:06:39.980And we have been reporting on it at fixourcities.com, at our website there, where we highlight, I mean, it's primarily related to also the drug crisis.
00:06:49.940But the two really go hand in hand, the violence and the fallout on the streets and the public safety issues and the idea that we can give addicts safer, right, with that R is really important, apparently, safer drugs that are highly addictive, highly deadly, and are now being found on the streets cheaper and cheaper, going right into the hands of our literally children and youth.
00:07:19.620And he can see now that the party that he's pretty much part of, which I would argue is just kind of the little man in the Liberal Party of Canada, that he's now all of a sudden taking this stance against the crime and chaos the liberal policies have been directly responsible for.
00:07:38.660And I do agree with him in a sense that, yes, it's true.
00:07:43.080There is judges that have ideologies and, of course, they probably follow those ideologies when they take their decision.
00:07:51.880And I think it's great if we elect some judges because we can make them accountable of some decision that they did.
00:08:00.880But I think it's the liberals have put in place some bills that permit the judge to take those decisions.
00:08:10.360So it's also a big part of the liberals' government that was there before and still there today with a new face.
00:08:22.280But still, they need to repeal some of the bills that they actually voted in.
00:08:29.740Yeah, we need another bail reform, right?
00:08:33.380We need to reform the bail reform that the liberals brought in.
00:08:36.400And I hear it all the time, even in the small town of Coburg, where crime, chaos, disorder, open air drug use, all of these things are proliferating on this one sleepy small town where people didn't even lock their vehicle doors.
00:08:52.220This is a high-trust society and a high-trust community that is being rocked by these horrible policies and implementations.
00:09:01.140And I hear it all the time that the same repeat offenders are arrested.
00:09:07.780And then it's mountains of paperwork for the police officers to go through only to find out that they are back on the streets by the time they're done their shift or by the time that they are signing on to their next shift.
00:09:17.940So they're seeing these repeat offenders over and over out in the community.
00:09:21.280They are literally repeat offending in those same communities.
00:09:25.460And so it really is demoralizing for both the community and the police officers who are trying to do their job to keep the streets safe and arrest these criminals.
00:09:37.380But our judicial system is just, I mean, finally, Ford's calling it what it is.
00:10:00.060They were saying don't lock your vehicle door and leave the keys at the front door so that you don't get hurt when the thieves try to come into your home to steal your vehicle.
00:10:11.780Well, that's how crazy it is in the city of Toronto.
00:10:16.540And where was where was Doug Ford then?
00:10:19.760You know, this is great that he's saying these things and taking this hard stance.
00:10:24.060And a lot of people are saying, hey, this is the Doug Ford that I once voted for.
00:10:27.700But it's just, my faith in people like Doug Ford is just not very high.
00:10:43.120Almost every single time he talks, you just wait for the pulling to come in or the winds to blow the other direction.
00:10:48.960And all of a sudden, Ford is gone with the wind.
00:10:51.220And so here we have another clip, actually, of him basically saying the same.
00:10:57.800He's slamming the Liberal government, which I would argue he just kind of in a roundabout way, actually not even in a roundabout way, directly campaigned for or supported rather during the federal election.
00:11:10.360He is now slamming them for allowing violent offenders back onto Canadian streets and wants to all of a sudden uphold the criminal code.
00:11:18.600Have you spoken to the Prime Minister since that letter?
00:12:28.400But we'll be building more jails because these guys are going to be in jail.
00:12:32.460And they're going to think twice about going and robbing someone when they know the sentence is going to be five to ten years in maximum security prison.
00:13:28.280You think that just because they changed the face of the leader, that will change something when you have the exact same cabinet behind you?
00:13:39.080And you know what it looks like, and I'm pretty sure, make my words, but it seems like Doug Ford is now training himself to be the first opposition of the liberals and trying to crack down on the liberals and do the job of the conservative leader.
00:13:58.700However, I don't know if he's training himself to maybe look for the position as the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, but it looks like.
00:14:09.480Yeah, a lot of people are saying that he's kind of posturing himself to take on that role.
00:14:14.380So that will be really interesting because I don't remember the last time that Doug Ford was on the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney, et al., like an 800-pound gorilla.
00:14:26.180I mean, he's always like, oh, we have each other's backs and we're all in this together and we love working together and having, I like the way that Jamil Javi put it, the MPP force or the MP, I think it's for North Oshawa, anyway, somewhere in Durham, that he's out just having lattes and cappuccinos with Justin Trudeau.
00:14:46.600And I mean, that is so, like the amount of truth that he spoke in those comments, and I think we've played that on the live stream earlier this week.
00:14:54.400But for anyone who's not familiar with that clip, you can, it's pretty easy to find Jamil giving those remarks on election night after his win and heavily criticizing Doug Ford and how he conducted himself throughout the writ period for those 37 days.
00:15:12.020But yeah, I mean, I guess it's, again, better late than never. Oh, there he is. Sorry, he's having lattes and cappuccinos with Carney.
00:15:19.960I mean, these people are so just out of touch and, like, there's no adversity in their lives. So I guess it's better. Like I said, it's better late than never that Doug Ford is all of a sudden coming out of, you know, coming out of the gate with a bit of a backbone.
00:15:37.740But we'll see if it's just empty words once again from Doug Ford and if the wind changes direction, which way he'll flop next.
00:15:45.960And he say, well, let's build more jail. OK, look at the jail here in Quebec. There is recently someone who went on, I think it was the main person in charge of this union of the officer working in the jail system.
00:16:05.020And they were saying, like, there is drone doing delivery of packages to the people in prison.
00:16:12.800They have, like, a lot of different stuff, like, happening. Like, how come you are in the jail system and you can actually order Amazon stuff and being delivered straight to you without passing by the main person to look into the packages?
00:16:29.160They are just bringing, like, at their window. And they can just remove the window and, like, take the package and put back the window.
00:16:36.840Like, it's how the jail system is working right now. Some of them have, like, phone.
00:16:42.820Some of them were able to bring so many different devices into the jail system.
00:16:48.340Now they can also threaten the people that are outside from the prison to show, like, oh, they are badass and they are going to go after you if you are doing something.
00:17:00.360So the jail system in itself, as a building, it's broken.
00:17:06.160Yeah, that reminds me, too. There was a piece out a couple weeks ago.
00:17:09.180Yeah, there's the Quebec man arrested for the drone drop.
00:17:13.600But just a few weeks ago, actually, maybe it was only last week or the week prior, but inmates are now going to be able to access the Internet.
00:17:21.760They're going to be given phones, tablets and Internet access, which has not happened previously.
00:17:28.480So not only is it difficult to retain these criminals and actually get them behind bars, but once they are behind bars, the rope that they are supposed to be bound by is just being loosened and loosened and loosened and is becoming more comfy and cozy.
00:17:46.700I mean, jail is not supposed to be a pleasant place to live.
00:17:49.700And jail is supposed to be a huge punishment for those criminals to think twice when they go out of the jail, if they will repeat again criminal offenses.
00:18:05.460And this is not something that would deter them.
00:18:08.460They would just do it again and again, because when they go into jail, they have everything that they need as access to everything.
00:18:16.340So where is the determined for them to not doing again and again and again a criminal offense?
00:18:50.340They're becoming more familiar with the lax rules.
00:18:52.840And there is no accountability and there's no deterrent for them to, you know, live a straight and clean and sober life.
00:19:02.740So that's really, that's going to bring back street justice eventually, right?
00:19:08.260If there's no actual justice, then people will start taking things into their own hands.
00:19:13.600And that's the territory that you don't want to be in when you live in a high trust society that's supposed to have checks and balances in place to uphold public and community safety.
00:19:24.820And when those things aren't happening, well, then people become increasingly frustrated and emboldened to take matters into their own hands.
00:19:32.520So something better change here because I think that's probably the trajectory, as sad as it is, that a lot of communities are in currently with the current state of affairs that we have.
00:19:42.960But also adding insult to injury is the downturn, as Global News puts it, of the Canadian economy.
00:19:53.380And a lot of us throughout the COVID handling saw kind of the writing on the wall, like this wasn't difficult to see four or five years ago, after the massive global lockdowns and shutdown of the global economy, that this would result in the inevitable fallout of supply chains and those economic stability and security.
00:20:14.480And so now we have Deloitte predicting a downturn for the Canadian economy, calling it walking on a tightrope.
00:20:24.080And they say that Canada is likely to experience an economic downturn later this year.
00:20:32.120I mean, obviously, Canada's economy is walking on a tightrope.
00:20:35.040But this may be our moment to build a more resilient, productive and diversified future, they said in the spring edition of their economic outlook.
00:20:58.520They make every crisis into an opportunity to move forward their own net zero agenda and policy implementations.
00:21:06.980And so I think this will probably serve as a bit of a sounding board for someone like Carney, who's going, wait, no, we need all these, we need billions more of taxpayer dollars to invest into a green economy.
00:21:20.840And I think that's probably where this is kind of going, because otherwise, things are stagnating, and it's going to be difficult times ahead, especially as the tariffs unfold.
00:21:32.700And we face hundreds of thousands of layoffs across Ontario alone, not to mention what it's going to look like in the rest of Canada.
00:21:40.720We'll see what will happen with that, but I will say that the future of Canada, at least like the soon future, look a little bit dark.
00:21:55.300And I don't think that net zero policies or trying to build this electrical grid is going to be the saving grace for all of that.
00:22:03.920Let's open up what we have that's reliable, get our oil and gas sector ramping up speed, and start utilizing the vast amount of natural resources that we have basically, literally at our feet.
00:22:17.820Um, because continuing to squash that and not utilize it is obviously going to continue this economic downturn, as they call it, I would say, we're already in a in a recession, it's just been, um, inflated, literally by by money printing.
00:22:35.020And so Canadian, like you don't feel it as much as maybe you should, but if the lineups at food banks are any indication, we are already in a recession.
00:22:44.540And depending on what happens with the global trade, and the US tariffs, things are only going to get worse from here.
00:22:53.120And the fact that you bring up the power grid, look at what just happened to France, Spain and Portugal, they had the major blackout.
00:23:02.980And some of them say that something went wrong with the power grid, but some people are blaming the net zero, uh, the fact that they are trying to push all those green energy projects that cause a major, major cuts in those, uh, in those countries.
00:23:27.260And so that's going to be a more commonplace occurrence.
00:23:30.600If we try to just move to such an unstable, unreliable energy source, those things will happen more often.
00:23:38.540And what do you do in a country like Canada, where we have, you know, minus 20, minus 30 weather, and you all of a sudden, your entire energy source fails for how many days for how many hours?
00:23:51.100Um, Canada needs, um, Canada needs, um, Canada needs reliable, consistent energy, and the, the electrical grid is obviously not equipped to provide that.
00:24:04.380Now, Alexa, you had a fun tweet, just switching to more of the election fallout, um, where you highlighted how much Pierre Polyev's riding was redistributed.
00:24:20.200So it was, uh, amalgamated with a really heavily, um, liberal riding.
00:24:26.460And so do you want to walk us through your tweet there and what you found on the map?
00:24:31.520So they, so previously before, so in 2012, uh, the riding of Canada, um, Canada Cardleton and the riding of Cardleton was created.
00:24:43.020And in 2015, um, the, um, the Canada Cardleton riding had been liberal since, uh, since now.
00:24:55.160Uh, and the Cardleton riding was conservative by Pierre Polyev.
00:25:00.220But in 2022, and that is the same year that Pierre Polyev won the leadership race and, uh, started to be the leader of the Conservative Party.
00:25:11.780His riding changed because Election Canada did a redistribution and now you can see that the Canada riding went by itself and the rest of the Canada Cardleton riding that used to be liberals have been annexed to the Cardleton riding.
00:25:31.740So we, we, we can see now a part of the riding being added to Pierre Polyev riding.
00:25:40.300And so this riding was, used to be liberals.
00:25:44.100So this is one of the facts that can have contributed.
00:25:48.320Also the 91, a candidate on the bayat and also another point.
00:25:55.860So I would look at into the numbers and in 2021 NPD where NDP was pretty heavy was 8,000 and something, uh, votes down to 1,000 and something votes for 2025.
00:26:26.560So that was a thousand and something vote that went probably to the conservative.
00:26:31.300The Green Party, uh, went down to thousand and something to 565.
00:26:37.840And also you need to count, uh, the, a thousand other vote that went to random candidate, you know.
00:26:45.740Uh, but on that, when you look at the, just the number of numbers, you can see that what was added was about like in between 10 to 15,000 more votes.
00:26:59.500But that comes from the extent riding that was annexed to Pierre Polievre riding.
00:36:59.660And, you know, it literally goes on and on.
00:37:03.260A lot of the smaller outlets also receive at least six figures.
00:37:08.400You can see Glacier Digital Media Limited, you know, got $397,000.
00:37:15.500And this is only 60% of their estimated total.
00:37:21.860So this money, it's only going to become higher and higher amounts.
00:37:27.660And then an interesting part of what the CTV News article states is that the totals will rise beyond current estimates when the collective works out whether any applicant outlets are ineligible.
00:37:42.620So that would allow previously earmarked money to flow to the media businesses that meet the requirements, right?
00:37:51.960And we know that Rebel News doesn't meet those requirements because, well, we speak truth to power and criticize the government.
00:37:58.920So why would a government-funded news corporation want someone like Rebel News to be able to get the benefits of what these media organizations get?
00:38:10.200And again, I'm going to have a full video out on this where I break some of it down.
00:38:13.960But essentially, you know, they're saying that this is like compensation for the journalism that the mainstream media does.
00:38:21.200And I would say that it's more of a corporate power grab dressed up as charity and also a direct threat to independent small creators like us here at Rebel News.
00:38:31.260Yeah, there is a lot, but guess who is getting the biggest part of it?
00:38:49.380They get, it's not on that list, so you have to kind of go through and then tally it up.
00:38:54.720This CTV was the one that wrote that specifically about CBC, that they will get 7% of the total payout.
00:39:06.160So yes, this equates to roughly 6.8 million.
00:39:08.600And again, this is only the first one, so there is going to be more.
00:39:11.320And then depending on the eligibility of these other smaller outlets, if they're found to be ineligible, then the money that was going to be divvied up to them would be then redirected into some of these bigger outlets.
00:39:27.820So this is just 60% of the total payout.
00:39:31.720We'll see what the other 40 looks like in the weeks and months to come.
00:39:35.120But this was basically a way for Google to be exempt from the Online News Act.
00:39:42.700They agreed to pay out news organizations.
00:39:46.840And, you know, it further contributes to the censorship that we've seen over the last few years because why, just like the way the legacy media parrots and promotes the Liberal Party of Canada, who bails them out to the tune of millions of dollars every year, why would you bite the hand that feeds, right?
00:40:04.260So now we have big tech, big gov, and a lot of the big tech is funded also by big pharma.
00:40:10.500So you have these three massive entities just in bed together here.
00:40:17.000So this is just a cesspool of compensating one another to pat each other on the back and promote your policies, theories, products, etc.
00:40:42.720But like the rest is really not some media I've never heard of.
00:40:48.000Yeah, there's a lot of, again, just smaller creators.
00:40:52.220But there's a lot that even I haven't heard from.
00:40:54.720It's interesting once you go to the Canadian Journalism Collective directly, right?
00:40:58.380Because I like to source my stuff direct.
00:41:00.640I don't like to trust the mainstream media.
00:41:02.700I don't like to, I don't trust anybody.
00:41:04.220I want to say, you know what, well, where did you get that information from?
00:41:06.860I like to go back to the direct source.
00:41:08.660So when you go back to the Canadian Journalism Collective, it's interesting to kind of sift through what they've been publishing, what organizations are compensated in here.
00:41:20.000And then again, I'm going to have a full report.
00:41:21.680So I don't want to get too far into it.
00:41:23.540But the Canadian Journalism Collective, they actually get an administrative fee for doing this crucial work to divvy out the funds.