Alexa Lavoie was one of the few skeptical journalists on the ground in the wake of the massive wildfire that destroyed the town of La Reina, Maui, Hawaii. She was tasked with finding the truth behind the government's half-truths and hyperbole.
00:08:07.400But the thing is, with the hurricane that was passing by, with the big wind, this fire sparked up and they actually burned down the old town.
00:08:24.520And by the way, some people were saying like, oh, some houses of rich people are still there standing up.
00:08:31.640But it's not only their house. A lot of houses was intact. Churches, some churches was completely intact.
00:08:39.240It was kind of strange, but a firefighter was explaining to us that with the wind that was going back and forth,
00:08:47.240the fire had burned in zigzag. And so letting some houses perfectly intact, same if they are made with wood,
00:08:55.240perfectly intact and untouched. So you can see the pattern of the fire burning like back and forth places.
00:09:04.840And it's so like disgusting to think that in the morning, since they had no power and no electricity,
00:09:13.080and the wind was so powerful. So it was supposed to be the first day of classes for students.
00:09:20.920But all the students did remain at home, taking care of their sister and brother.
00:09:27.400And so all of them were not worn. So a lot of children passed away that day.
00:09:35.480And the horrible story of this mother who did a celebration for the anniversary of his 15-year-old adopted son,
00:09:48.680who they found him back burned cuddling the dog inside of their house.
00:11:55.360There are reports of people who are just burning around that roadblock to get out of there.
00:12:00.520And those are the people who survived the wildfire.
00:12:03.200That's really been the moral of the last three years is those who defied the government are the ones who are faring far better than the ones who just complied mindlessly.
00:12:13.820According to resident, they were explaining that since the wind have collapsed, a lot of power line, they actually collapsed in the middle of the road.
00:12:21.760So police officer were blocking the road.
00:12:24.520And when people were trying to evacuate the town, the police officer were telling them to go back.
00:12:33.760And people were like, what are you talking about?
00:12:35.900Because you are actually sending us into the fire when we try to evacuate the town.
00:12:42.040So people have choose to take like some land, just avoiding the like the electric cable that was on the ground.
00:12:51.060So I just don't understand why the police officer just tell them, you know, escape by the land, escape by the field or escape by the property of a house just right there.
00:13:05.080So you will like avoid the power line and you will save your life.
00:13:10.460Instead of that, they were just blocking the road and sending them back into the fire.
00:13:15.400And it's why a lot of people die into their car.
00:13:18.760And I heard like a woman that was telling me a full family was into their car waiting to evacuate.
00:13:25.380And the tree in fire fall into their, on the top of their car and the whole family burned inside.
00:13:37.680And I, I really feel for you having to wade through the devastation and the aftermath just so you could try to bring Canadians.
00:13:45.580And I know your reporting was relied on by people around the world so that you could show people firsthand the truth.
00:13:52.680And so I'm just, I'm grateful for that, but I'm also grateful to all the people who donated to send you there because they knew they couldn't trust the mainstream media or the government to get the story straight.
00:14:04.420And, and, and the, the biggest thing on this is like a lot of people are really afraid that now investor it's going and take over their land.
00:14:12.100When we know that Josh Green have now the emergency power on his end to rebuild faster.
00:14:18.340And, and same, if you look at the emergency power, um, you can see that the historic side of La Haina, it's not a priority.
00:14:28.240So he can actually step over it, rebuild as he wants.
00:14:32.700It can, uh, and we know that he wants a sustainable housing.
00:14:36.900Um, he wants to build mostly like apartment because they have a lack of housing in Maui and, and especially in La Haina.
00:14:46.500So a lot of people are skeptical because Josh Green wants to purchase a lot, a part of the land.
00:14:53.060And he say that is for protecting from investor.
00:14:56.640But a lot of people are like, we are actually don't know about the motivation of Josh Green to really take our land because some of the people were mostly renter.
00:15:07.100So, uh, they were renting apartment or house.
00:15:10.940So right now they are really scared because it, there was not their land for that for some of them.
00:16:24.260But then all of a sudden men pretending to be women got involved in beauty pageants.
00:16:28.260And the left was pro-beauty pageant again, for some reason.
00:16:31.080Um, they used to say it was enforcing negative, uh, gender stereotypes about women until like guys show up with boob jobs and win the pageant.
00:16:41.900And they're like, look at that diversity.
00:16:45.140Tell us about what's happening in Italy.
00:16:47.160So, um, recently Italy have announced that transgender women will not take part of the pageant.
00:16:54.640Not only because the pageant was already on this way, so classification and everything, but the fact that since the creation of Miss Italy that was born in 1940 something, I don't remember the date exactly, but it's been 84 years.
00:17:14.120And the rules are, you need to be born as a woman.
00:17:38.460And anyway, what she was saying is like, since the, the whole story of like Miss Italy, she had true, two trans people who apply, who try to get into the pageant.
00:17:51.960And now, since someone tried to do and was refused, all the activists came and tried to, to challenge the fact that, first of all, you cannot have any surgery.
00:18:04.940If you go there, they have a ban on aesthetic surgery.
00:18:40.540So not only like the, the trans activists wanted to challenge that ban of aesthetic surgery, but he wanted also to challenge the fact that trans woman was not allowed to take part of that pageant.
00:19:08.280I'm really open same to change the rule if I really need to, but in a matter that is not exploit in a bad way and to take over for not the great reason behind it.
00:19:24.100So she said that I'm not, I'm, I don't understand why I received that much debt threat to explain my own opinion freely as a woman.
00:19:35.880And she said that nobody should deserve that.
00:19:38.260And if the trans woman are really a woman, they should be more like into discussion and find a way to communicate to each other.
00:19:46.820Since you're supposed to be a woman, you're supposed to communicate with other woman.
00:19:53.260Well, and this is something I asked Faye Johnstone, the biological male who was hired by the YWCA, the women's YMCA, to give the keynote speaker at the Nutrien Women of Distinction Awards.
00:20:09.860And that was one of my questions to him when I found him on the street, thanks to the help of my friend, Lise.
00:20:22.140I said, you know, like you care about safety, like you're all about safety.
00:20:26.840What do you say about the death threats being leveled at biological women who are getting threatened and doxxed for speaking out against you?
00:20:35.860Wouldn't say anything then because safety is just a baloney word that they use to shut you up.
00:20:44.980But if people are actually getting real life death threats, you can't you don't even have the ability to renounce them.
00:20:51.260Like, I think everybody getting a death threat is a bad idea.
00:20:55.600But they couldn't even say that because it's it's not really about safety.
00:20:58.900It's about using the the threat of safety to shut people up.
00:21:02.620But my only concern is like, do those death threats will go and make change in the idea of Patrizia Merigliani, that she is the director of the pageant that she took from her father.
00:21:19.160But do that will coerce her to change because she has a family and she has a really big background of like issue in her own personality.
00:21:32.620life that I don't think she she deserves to receive like these kind of backlash and death threats.
00:21:37.500So, of course, like at one point she will be and she will not probably say it like that, but it will be a way of coercion from the trans activists.
00:21:47.740And by the way, where are the feminists who supposedly protect those women who receive those threats from activists?
00:21:58.280Yeah, they don't care because those women, they they have the wrong politics.
00:22:15.200It is, you know, like threats of violence to make political change is the definition of political terrorism.
00:22:24.380Now, before I let you go, I want to ask you about the trans march from Montreal.
00:22:32.280That was where you were victim blamed.
00:22:34.680You had the wrong opinions in a public place and the police treated you like you were the bad guy.
00:22:41.220I get a lot of emails about what happened to you that day.
00:22:45.100Have you heard anything from the police?
00:22:47.220Have they followed up with you because you were being, you know, bullied out of the public square, but there was some physical intimidation leveled at you and Guillaume behind the camera.
00:23:00.120Have the police done anything about that or they just, you know, like you don't count because you you might have had some sort of uncomfortable opinions in a public place.
00:23:09.220And that's just not allowed in Canada anymore.
00:23:40.800Why do you need to know which outlet I'm working for?
00:23:44.200And because I just told them I'm an independent media, because if I was telling them I was with Ribbon News because, by the way, on their website, they ban Ribbon News to take part of the trans march, same before the event.
00:24:00.860Those questions that I ask are public interest.
00:24:04.480If I was saying for who I was working, I would not have reached my goal as a journalist to get and gather information from them.
00:24:15.320So when I had these people bullying me and harassing me, I say, well, OK, there are only two.
00:24:22.640Before everything escalates, I'm going to tell the police that I'm being bullied and harassed and to try to engage conversation with them to stop them to stop me to do my work.
00:26:35.380These people are just benevolent and they don't mean anybody any harm and they're just wonderful and they want acceptance.
00:26:41.180And the only reason you see that is because those are the only journalists allowed to cover these events because skeptical journalists are run off by the cops.
00:26:53.080Or at least if you go, you know, you're not going to be protected from violence by the cops who are standing four feet away.
00:26:59.720But this call being in a socialism, communism country.
00:27:05.700And by the way, those people in their pamphlet that they are distributing to people, they tell people to not talk to any media.
00:27:13.980If media wants to engage conversation to refer to the person in charge of the trans march, in which society people wants to have a censorship and a cancellation of your own voice over the person in charge of an event.
00:27:31.200In a free country, we should be free to express ourselves and not being always like suppressed by the people in charge.
00:27:40.760And so that really represents the kind of activists from the left that took over and really wants to enter in a tyrannical like country.
00:27:51.620Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We just want to be able to do our jobs.
00:27:57.480If you don't like us, that's OK. I don't need anybody to like me. Just leave me alone to do my job.
00:28:02.520And if you don't want to talk to me, then don't. Then just don't.
00:28:08.100Alexa, I know that you have other things to do and you've been very generous with your time today.
00:28:13.320What are you working on next? Can you give people sort of a hint of some of the things that are on the horizon for you?
00:28:20.100Yes. So I don't know if you remember, I was covering this young teenager who did face criminal charge, still facing criminal charge over taking down LGBTQ plus from a school.
00:28:35.740Now is facing to be transferred to another school for some action he did as giving just an interview and just like speaking out what is going on with like his situation.
00:28:50.760Because it's totally unfair because it's totally unfair because not only it was treated by LGBTQ community members because it was religious and he was wearing a cross in his neck.
00:29:01.560And now those people are not facing anything but him facing to lose all his friends, all his own community and being transferred and separate and from and isolate from where he used to go as a student.
00:29:18.900So this is really important because that show our school are intolerant over the people who go against their narrative and who go in the side of Christianism.
00:29:38.260Because it's really important because it's people who are really, really religious who go to that school.
00:29:45.020But you need to suppress your religion and let LGBTQ plus thing like going all over.
00:29:53.960Yeah, it's a personal expression for the left is only valid in one way.
00:30:03.020So you need if your personal expression conflicts with the feelings of other people, then you have to suppress yourself while allowing the other side to express themselves in the most hedonistic and public ways sometimes.
00:30:17.780So, again, back to what you said earlier, double standard.
00:30:32.960And like I'm pretty sure you and Lincoln didn't sleep all that much when you guys were in Lahaina.
00:30:38.340And it's a very long flight from Quebec to Hawaii.
00:30:42.400Not so far for me, but far for you and multiple time zones.
00:30:46.540But you hit the ground running when you were there.
00:30:48.340You were dealing with infrastructure challenges and no Internet.
00:30:51.680Trying to stay in contact with us, trying to let us know that you guys were working and it's not easy to do.
00:30:57.520And I think you did great work and you did our journalistic mission here at Rebel News.
00:31:01.860You found the other side of the story.
00:31:03.080So on behalf of myself as the head of journalism and everybody else who just cheers for you to continue to do the work that you do, just thank you so much for your for your dedication to the truth.
00:31:15.640Thank you. And by the way, don't forget the truth about Maui.com if you want to see more about what happened there.
00:31:22.580Yes. And if people want to support the work that you did on the ground there, because we we did incur quite a few expenses, a last minute flight to Maui from Montreal.
00:31:34.440It's a little bit. It's a little bit of something.
00:31:37.260But Alexa, thank you so much. And I'll talk to you later, probably later this afternoon.
00:31:43.660Well, we've come to the portion of the show wherein I read your viewer feedback, your letters, your hate mail, even sometimes.
00:32:00.600That's why I give out my email address right now.
00:32:05.520If you are going to send me a letter that you'd like me to read on air, put gun show letters in the subject line so it's easier for me to find.
00:32:12.820I do get sometimes, depending on what I've done that day, for better or for worse, sometimes hundreds of emails a day.
00:32:21.460So gun show letters in the subject line make it real easy for me to find.
00:32:24.980But don't hesitate to leave a question, comment, story idea wherever you're watching us.
00:32:30.080For example, if you're watching the free version of the show, thank you for sitting through the ads on YouTube or Rumble.
00:32:36.800And I go poking around there sometimes for comments as well.
00:32:40.320And actually, that's where the comments come from today.
00:32:43.260They're on YouTube on the free version of the show from last week that I did with my friend Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:32:54.580We both have an affinity for mid-century modern architecture and Pyrex dishes and cryptids, Bigfoot or, as she says, Sasquatch.
00:33:05.520Specifically, but any and all cryptids, actually.
00:33:08.760Anyway, our show was on how the carbon tax is hurting Canadian families and how in Alberta we have pushed pause on the provincial portion of the gas tax.
00:34:16.300And the reason I know that is because in Alberta, you can just go online and Google vehicle registration by fuel type.
00:34:25.580And you will know exactly how many diesel cars there are, how many hybrids, how many fully electric vehicles, and how many gas-powered vehicles are registered for the road.
00:34:33.500So that doesn't include, you know, like quads that don't get license plates because you only ride them at home, or vehicles under 50 cc's, my golf cart, and farm trucks that are not registered for the road.
00:34:46.420So anyway, we have all that data so we know exactly how many fully electric cars are in Alberta.
00:35:26.960It was an NDP thing that they decided to phase out coal-fired electricity production, even though if – and you can do this for yourself.
00:35:36.640You can actually – we have these air quality monitoring stations all around the province.
00:35:40.700And I know here out by Refinery Row, our air quality is often better than it is in Edmonton, where the decision makers of these things are.
00:35:48.380But by the coal-fired generating stations like Genesee, you can check the air quality there, and it is almost always – you can put money on it – cleaner than Edmonton.
00:35:59.660Cleaner than any of the municipalities, and actually Fort Mac is often frequently cleaner than Edmonton, where all the hippies are and the decision makers.
00:36:10.580I mean, I guess – I guess if they think it's – they must think that everywhere is as bad as it is there.
00:36:17.520But maybe they should take off their Birkenstocks and get off their bike and get in a car and go see how the other half lives.
00:36:31.160Vancouver is the only city in the world who claimed to be concerned with the cost of living in the city, then added 10 cents a liter to gas, and 15 cent fees on all cups and bags sold in the city.
00:36:42.840Like, you can't complain about affordability and then do things to make basic living more expensive.
00:36:49.280Like, as Pierre Polyev says, these people actually need calculators.
00:36:56.900Like, if you are adding 15 cents to every bag of groceries that you buy, you are going to have 15 fewer cents in your pocket at the end of the day.
00:37:09.380Anyway, why can't they figure this stuff out?
00:37:13.920User tt6sq1ft1m, if that's even your real name, writes to me and says,
00:37:25.160Sheila, why don't you debate Max Bernier on Rebel?