A group of eco-radicals are trying to derail a massive oil and gas development project in British Columbia, Canada. Why are they blocking the project, and why are they getting away with it? And why did a National Post journalist go out of his way to ban Rebel reporters from the Alberta legislature?
00:00:24.760Well, there's this huge resource development project in British Columbia that's going to benefit all British Columbians, including the Indigenous.
00:00:33.780So why is there a group of radicals protesting this project, and why are they seemingly getting away with delaying it?
00:00:42.440Kian Bextie flew out to the B.C. hinterland to get the goods, and wow, it's quite the story, folks.
00:00:48.460And why did a National Post journalist go out of his way to ban rebel reporters from the Alberta legislature?
00:00:57.160Just wait till you hear what Ezra Levent has to say about this latest egregious act of those in the media who actually embrace cancel culture.
00:01:07.400And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day.
00:01:12.800And I'll share some of your responses regarding our video about that travelling freak show known as Jonathan and Mama Yaniv.
00:01:20.620Can you believe it, folks? He was recently catfished.
00:01:24.100He was tricked into believing that a young girl was residing at Sick Kids Hospital.
00:01:29.520And this sick puppy Yaniv actually travelled all the way from Vancouver to Toronto to meet a fictional child to do God knows what.
00:01:41.320Thankfully, there was no child to harm, but the Yanivs got to meet me again.
00:01:46.780And oh boy, they hated every second of it.
00:01:50.240Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
00:01:52.720The development project in beautiful British Columbia remains stalled for absolutely no good reason.
00:02:04.400After all, this project would be an economic shot in the arm for the region.
00:02:08.880And almost everyone is on board, including all of the native bands in the area.
00:02:13.540But alas, there are some agitators trying to derail this project.
00:02:17.820And because they claim this is all about taking a stance in the name of Indigenous justice,
00:02:23.720well, suddenly this project has become a political hot potato and to heck with the rule of law.
00:02:31.460And with more on this incredibly frustrating story is none other than the man who ventured way out into the B.C. hinterland to get the goods,
00:02:40.400my colleague Kian Bexty. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
00:05:53.960They want these good, high-paying, sustainable jobs.
00:05:57.920So why aren't these eco-activists, fake indigenous, why aren't they being called out on this
00:06:06.020and just have the authorities move in and get this project going?
00:06:11.000Well, that's what we hope this document, mini-documentary does at fakefirstnation.com.
00:06:15.940People can go and watch it, and it exposes them for what they are.
00:06:19.540The mainstream media has completely ignored what is going on in Blue River.
00:06:23.060It's become a lawless town where the color of your skin determines whether or not you're allowed to break the laws.
00:06:29.320You'll see in the video some atrocious behavior on the part of those eco-radicals driving down the highway,
00:06:34.740hanging outside of vehicles while waving flags.
00:06:37.120It's absolute anarchy in that town, and it's all a result of the police being too scared to do anything.
00:06:43.360Keep in mind, it's the RCMP in rural D.C.
00:06:45.820It's not the OPP who report to Doug Ford.
00:06:48.940It's the RCMP who, at the end of the day, even though they have to go a little bit through John Horgan's attorney general, minister of justice,
00:06:58.800at the end of the day, their final report is to Brenda Luckey, Justin Trudeau's hand-picked RCMP commissioner.
00:07:04.960And the last thing Justin Trudeau is going to do is intervene when it comes to a race-based issue like this,
00:07:11.240because you know as well as I do, he takes the knee when it comes to enforcing the law.
00:07:45.680But that doesn't mean he's going to lift a finger to help.
00:07:49.820Justin Trudeau technically owns the pipeline.
00:07:52.320So if he's not the one that is actively fighting for it to go through, it makes you wonder why he paid $10 billion or something like that to buy out the pipeline in the first place.
00:08:06.800This is all just like when you're a level-headed, thoughtful person looking at this from the outside, you can't help but think that you as the taxpayer have gotten screwed around so hard on this project.
00:08:22.160All they needed is a competent law enforcement organization to enforce the law so that they can be sure that if the court said, yeah, we're all good to go, then the pipeline would be built.
00:08:32.940But there was no faith that that would happen.
00:08:34.500So Justin Trudeau had to buy this pipeline for Kinder Morgan, losing out costing taxpayers about $10 billion.
00:08:39.560Now, although that's already a sunk cost, there might not even be any return on investment if these radical indigenous eco-extremists are allowed to just continue sitting on that plot of land, stopping any sort of construction.
00:08:56.260It's directly hurting the pocketbook of every mom and dad in the country who invested in this pipeline, knowing that the court said, yeah, it's good to go ahead.
00:09:15.260And I mean, I'm thinking back to earlier this month, well, it began in June, actually, the occupation of Nathan Phillips Square by a group called Afro-Indigenous Rising.
00:09:25.520They broke the law the very first day they stayed overnight.
00:09:28.480You're not allowed to camp on the public square.
00:09:57.360How does this play out in the future, Kian?
00:10:00.980They're not running out of money anytime soon.
00:10:04.280You know, as well as I do, who's funding these radicals.
00:10:08.860So they'll be there as long as it takes.
00:10:10.640They'll be there until the RCMP finally grow a pair and pull them off, which they will eventually have to do.
00:10:16.720Once the pipeline is about to be laid through that creek, and once they need to build that man camp there, the police will eventually have to arrest them.
00:10:30.000Right now, the collateral damage are the townsfolk who have to put up with this individual.
00:10:38.260Her name is Canhouse Manuel, who not only does her family own a gas station, they have to put up with this radical extremist standing on their streets, shouting at children, calling them rapists, calling them racists, screaming at women, screaming at any indigenous man who does not agree with her, who happens to be working.
00:10:59.980For the pipeline, they have to deal with someone like this, someone who is, I have to watch my words here so I don't get sued, although I presume she won't use the colonialist court to fight back, but she's a radical extremist who is dangerous to the community.
00:11:19.260She is hurting young children with her words, making them think that they're rapists, going home to their parents and asking them, Daddy, what is a rapist?
00:11:30.980Why did that indigenous woman call me a rapist?
00:11:34.260It's such a sad situation for that town who have no police force presence to back them up and keep them safe.
00:11:41.600It is sad, and we're going to have to wrap it here.
00:11:43.860Kian, welcome to Justin Trudeau's Canada in 2020.
00:11:46.680A major development project is in the ditch and in Blue River.
00:11:51.220There is a two-tier race-based justice system playing out every day.
00:14:31.620I have been elected as president of the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery Association as of our annual general meeting this morning.
00:14:37.920I'm writing to inform you that the gallery has voted to reject the applications of Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kian Bexte of the Rebel News Network Limited for membership to the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery Association.
00:15:56.180And full disclosure, I freelanced for every section of the Post for at least a decade.
00:16:02.640That National Post was unapologetically right of center and conservative and a champion for freedom of speech and freedom of expression and, of course, freedom of the press.
00:16:12.400But to paraphrase that Oldsmobile ad tagline from the 1980s, this is not your father's National Post.
00:16:20.420This current post is not about going to bat for freedom, but rather a rag that embraces cancel culture.
00:16:46.320But they're really the newspaper I love the most because of those early days, that spirit, that conservative, freedom-loving spirit to be contrarian.
00:16:55.480When I worked there, I had a catchphrase of my own when I was in an editorial board meeting and we were arguing which approach to take.
00:17:04.180My zinger was always, we already have a Globe and Mail in Canada.
00:17:27.680But if it was thin but quality, so much of it is what's called wire copy, just sort of generic stuff written by other journalists and other newspapers that they just put in.
00:17:38.500They pay a very small fee because a hundred newspapers print the same thing.
00:18:08.940A, what happened to the National Post in recent years?
00:18:12.660And B, who in blue hell is Tyler Dawson?
00:18:15.920Well, I think the National Post just forgot the old saying, personnel is policy.
00:18:21.280If you start hiring the woke leftist grads out of Ryerson Journalism School, don't be surprised if you do that for three, four, five, six, ten years, that that is who you become.
00:18:35.700And the National Post has hired a bunch of woke millennials.
00:18:40.620We hire conservative millennials here at Rebel News because we believe it's important.
00:18:45.420But why aren't they hiring the conservative millennials?
00:19:01.760The National Post and all the post-media newspapers, so Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Regina Leader Post, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Montreal Gazette, so many newspapers, and those are just the big dailies.
00:19:15.860They're owned by a hedge fund in New Jersey, and I got nothing against New Jersey, love the place.
00:19:20.200But they don't care about ideas, they care about money.
00:23:12.720And he really is one of the nicest men you'll ever meet.
00:23:15.840And he's like a guardian angel for journalists.
00:23:18.160So I thought, you know, if Fred and his company, Reynolds Murth, write this letter, really friendly, just laying it out and saying, hey, here's a little bit about Kean.
00:23:30.040My name isn't even on there because maybe they don't like me or something.
00:23:33.380So I thought, let's have the friendliest pro-media law firm write the friendliest letter, just saying, hey, guys, got a couple of journalists, Kean and Sheila, they're good guys.
00:23:42.640So the whole goal there was to lower the temperature and not pick a fight.
00:23:46.840That's why, I mean, I could have written the letter myself.
00:23:57.160So I think the law firm wrote a third time that we're spending money on this.
00:24:01.980And then we get this email out of the blue from this character named Tyler Dawson, who I didn't really know much about him, but I Googled him.
00:24:10.020And he just hates Rebel News and me and Kean.
00:24:24.600But for him to be the judge of whether or not we can walk into the legislature building and put a microphone to Jason Kenney, why would he be the judge?
00:24:35.420When we got this letter from Tyler Dawson of Post Media, on Post Media, stationary is not the word, but it said Tyler Dawson, Post Media.
00:24:45.000It was from his Post Media email account sent during work hours.
00:24:49.440So it was very clearly a Post Media thing, and it had to do with Post Media's business, journalism.
00:24:54.740So we served notice on Tyler Dawson and Post Media's Toronto lawyers that we're going to sue them not for being mean, not for, well, I'll tell you what for, for violating the Competition Act.
00:26:04.960But if your sources of news and opinion in one town are all controlled by the same guy, a New York hedge fund, the New Jersey hedge fund, there's a problem.
00:26:13.600So the Competition Bureau had a five-month investigation into Post Media's plans to buy out the Sun.
00:26:20.040And that's a very long, that's like an audit.
00:26:22.760Imagine being audited for five months.
00:26:44.600And there were a couple other reasons.
00:26:46.460But so it was, I won't say it was a grudging approval, but it was, all right, this is very anti-competitive.
00:26:52.060But as long as these four things are there, maybe it's okay.
00:26:55.820Well, Post Media, by stealing our stuff, by engaging, by refusing to deal with our intellectual property claims, by being bullies corporately.
00:27:05.660I'm not talking about hurting my feelings.
00:27:34.220But for them to say, hey, Rebel News, this up-and-coming competitor, we are going to ban you from our place of business without any explanation, without any due process.
00:27:46.240We're not going to invite you to the trial of you.
00:27:48.740The guy who's going to preside over this is a longtime hater.
00:27:59.440That's, so we wrote a letter to their Toronto-based, high-priced Competition Bureau lawyer, I think her name is Catherine Kaye or something, at Stikeman Elliott.
00:28:52.480It's just, well, it's cheaper and it's faster.
00:28:55.580Post-media isn't saying, hey, customers of news, hey, news readers, we're cheaper, faster, better, smarter than rebels, so come over to us.
00:29:33.560And exit question, Ezra, because we're up against the clock here.
00:29:37.360I'm curious, behind the scenes, was this decision made by this Tyler Dawson, who is pretty low down on the post-media totem pole, I would imagine?
00:29:47.420Or was there an executive, a publisher of post-media that said, oh, no, no, the rebel journalists do not get in?
00:30:29.760I mean, I've been using that term for years.
00:30:31.780I think they just think that they're better than us, and this is how they've always gotten away with it.
00:30:36.920So, of course, and of course, the rebel is bad people, and of course, we'll do this with impunity.
00:30:43.100I don't believe there was a big boss at post-media who said do this.
00:30:48.760But it is extremely clear that there's a culture at post-media.
00:30:52.560Listen, the same people that stole Kean's photograph, the same people that stole Kean's video, downloaded it, re-uploaded it with their own branding.
00:30:59.480I'm not saying that was directed by the king of post-media down there in Chatham, New Jersey.
00:31:37.840And in the meantime, I've called on all my friends to send a message to post-media that, sorry, that's not cool to be part of the cancel culture.
00:31:45.400So, guys, if you are a subscriber to post-media, and I say this as an almost day one employee there.
00:31:52.280I wasn't there exactly on the first day, but I was there 99 to 2001, very early days, 20 years ago.
00:37:03.140Don't despair that The Freak Show has been canceled due to political correctness.
00:37:07.380I mean, hey, who needs to gaze upon Lobster Boy or the bearded lady when you've got Jonathan and Mama Yaniv crisscrossing Canada these days on their gender bender tour?
00:37:18.640Here's the back story. We were tipped off by a source that Jonathan had been catfished.
00:37:24.160In other words, someone had fabricated a completely fake personality.
00:37:29.640She told Yaniv she was flying to Toronto with her sick daughter.
00:37:33.040She also told Yaniv not to go to Toronto and to leave her alone.
00:37:38.620But apparently being able to visit a little girl while confined to a hospital bed was irresistible bait for Yaniv.
00:37:47.300And so it was that Yaniv communicated with this person to state that he too was en route from Vancouver to Toronto Sick Kids Hospital to see them as well.
00:37:57.920Now, keep in mind, Yaniv had never met the woman he was texting with.
00:38:03.420He had never spoken on the phone. He had never seen a video.
00:38:07.780All he was going on was one fake photograph.
00:38:11.820But apparently that was good enough for him to hop aboard a plane for a cross-Canada journey with Mama in tow to boot.
00:38:37.740Well, Penguin Queen, I think this is what's known as the art of the con.
00:38:43.020The sort of proposition that would make Tom Sawyer blush.
00:38:46.120You set up a premise that is alluring to Yaniv, i.e. that there is a female child confined to a hospital bed and then you tell them do not come.
00:38:56.700So there is an element of forbidden fruit here making the bait all the more irresistible for this sick puppy.
00:39:03.800It's absolutely nauseating but thank God this child is indeed a fictional construct.