SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Your year-end letters to me!
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Summary
Sheila Gunn-Reed reads your letters to her about the Trudeau government's attacks on Alberta's oil and gas industry. She also talks about the carbon tax introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and why she thinks it's a terrible idea.
Transcript
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Oh, hey, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, everybody.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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I think this might be my favorite show of the year.
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And not just because it is probably the last show of the year.
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I love taking viewer feedback, for better or for worse.
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You know, for example, last week I got a viewer email that I didn't address on air,
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but somebody sent their feedback to me, and I responded.
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The feedback was, in my interview with Tom Harris from the International Climate Science
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Coalition Canada last week, the viewer said I wasn't constantly looking at Tom.
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You may notice that sometimes I look away from the camera, which is right in front of me.
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And the reason for that is that I work in my home studio.
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I don't have anybody who helps me with the show, except for editing after the fact.
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And so sometimes if I'm looking away from my guest, I am indeed always paying attention
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to them because I have a little earpiece that sits in my ear so that I can hear every little
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But I am not always looking at them because I'm looking to make sure that my recording
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Sometimes when the internet connection is a little weak, I will be sort of cautiously looking
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at other things to make sure that things have not completely fallen apart.
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So if you are watching and I am with a guest, I am making sure that what my guest is saying
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But that I would not have been able to answer that question if I didn't take viewer feedback
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and welcome viewer feedback, which is why at the end of every show, I give out my email
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Let me know what you thought about the show because without you, there's no show.
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We don't rely on a sugar daddy named Justin Trudeau propping us up with other people's
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I mean, if I wanted to live like that, I'd work for the mainstream media, but I don't.
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You know, I try to do the news for normal people.
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All that is to say, a couple of weeks ago, we put out a call for your letters to rebels.
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So the team in the Toronto studio took receipt of your letters, put them in a PDF, emailed
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I gave the PDF printout to my teenage daughters who snipped them up and then put them in a
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So I'm going to just pull them out and read your letters to me.
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The first letter to Sheila comes from Daryl Burt Elliott.
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Now I'm not saying that you're a serial killer.
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I just noticed that anyways, Daryl Burt Elliott says, I've watched rebel news for some time
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now, and you don't seem to enter the fray on what Trudeau and his henchmen are doing to
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oil and gas in Western Canada, more specific to Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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One of my beats at rebel news is the destruction of the oil and gas sector, particularly in the
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West at the hands of Justin Trudeau, but also globalist progressives all around the world.
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And for a time, for dark years at the hands of our own premier, Rachel Notley, I talk about
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the impact on the carbon tax on industry, on agriculture.
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I documented the NDPs and the liberals attacks on Alberta in two separate books, one called
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The Destroyers and the next one called Stop Notley.
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Actually, all the men in my family work in oil and gas, including my 20-something son.
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So not only do I report and care deeply about this issue, but it is personal to me.
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And so I don't take this criticism to heart, because if you watch me regularly, you know
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that that is one of the most important topics to me is oil and gas in Western Canada, because
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it is a way out for so many people out of generational poverty.
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This is an industry where you can make $100,000 a year plus living without having to go to
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university, without having to be a Laurentian elite, which is one of the reasons why the
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liberals hate it so much, is because we can all of a sudden, us rubes and hicks with high
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school level education with some hard work and good choices, we can all of a sudden be in
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They look down their noses at the oil patch out of classism in part.
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So anyway, I advise you to watch a little bit more of my work here at Rebel News.
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I have, you know, people from Friends of Science on, Tom Harris from International Climate Science
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Coalition, Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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I talk about the war on oil and gas all the time, because it is not actually about war, about
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They take away our power and confederation, and they try to shove us back in our place.
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I hope you find some of the other work that I do here at Rebel News.
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Why is it the Greenies never breathe a word about all the sewage that is being dumped
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You know, that's one of the reasons they don't want me to have plastic straws, right?
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Because they're worried my plastic straw out here in the backwoods of northeastern Alberta
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is going to somehow end up the nose of a sea turtle.
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But Esther, they never talk about the sewage being dumped off the coast of British Columbia,
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the raw, untreated sewage that gives people from time to time a serious outbreak of norovirus
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from eating the shellfish that is farmed in the same area as these outflows of effluent,
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They also don't talk about how in Quebec, they constantly have sewage outflows into ecologically
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vulnerable areas where, you know, it causes massive fish kills and where baby belugas just
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go swimming next to, I don't know, toilet paper and tampon applicators.
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I mean, it's really horrific that these are also simultaneously the people blocking state
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of the art heavily monitored pipelines like British Columbia Greenies and Quebec lefties.
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They're the ones blocking the state of the art pipeline while they are still dealing with
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But further to my point from before, it's not really about environmentalism, is it?
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If it were, they would behave as though there were some sort of environmental existential crisis.
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It's about smacking down the West and making sure we don't gain our rightful place of power
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That was a very, I'm happy to go back to some of my earlier reporting on the sewage dumps
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Literally, they would dump billions of liters of sewage at the same time, blocking energy
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east and the fish would just wash up on the shore dead.
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And if a pipeline killed that many fish, the level of green outrage would cause global warming.
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I think just their fiery rage would warm the degrees of the earth a little bit.
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Through the year, Rebel gives many accounts of what they've done, hope to do, and issues
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they are being challenged with and dealing with.
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Is it possible at the end of the year to give a detailed report as to the many petitions that
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we have signed and what the outcome has been on each one?
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If any, you know, that's a really good project, which I believe will probably fall directly on
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my shoulders, but, you know, we have had some good outcomes with some of our petitions.
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For example, one of my earliest petitions here at Rebel News was getting Canadian beef
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They did this like crazy thing where they wanted beef that was ethically sourced.
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I went all the way to Vancouver to the Earl's head office, delivered the petition, made a
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big stink about it, as we do on certain topics here at Rebel News, and they actually brought
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And it was one of my proudest achievements at Rebel News because I felt uniquely poised
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to fight this battle as a journalist, as an activist, and as a Canadian farmer who knows
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I got to tell you, I am, for people who know, I mostly eat carnivore.
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I think cows are a magical creature that, outside of being created in the image of the divine,
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cows, I think, might be what make us human beings because of their ability to take the things we can't eat
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And by getting so much of our sustenance from cattle, it actually helped to grow our brains
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and shrink our digestive tract because your body can only, like, you have a finite amount of energy
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Now, you can focus it on digestion or you can focus it on brain growth.
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So that when we started eating cows, ruminants largely, but cows, milk and dairy, and we started
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herding cows, we, our brains grew, our bodies shrunk.
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And so that's why we don't look like gorillas, right?
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So anyways, all that is to say, I delivered that petition and the lady who worked at Earl's
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Like, she thought I worked for the meatpacking industry because she couldn't understand how
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this journalist knew so much about abattoirs and the meat processing industry.
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And it's one of those times it served me well, not being a classically trained journalist.
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But getting back to your point, Diane, I think that's great.
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But even if there is no outcome on any of our petitions, I should give you at least a tabulation
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And sometimes the success is simply in the delivery.
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Going somewhere, as I recently did in Saskatchewan with our no class or stop classroom grooming
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petition, I dropped off thousands of names of Canadians who are calling on the Saskatchewan
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government to carry on, to not listen to the activists and to root out gender theory and
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And so sometimes the petitions act as a moral support for the good guys who are under fire
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from, you know, the mainstream media and the activist left.
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But I might be repeating myself there by distinguishing between those two groups.
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Um, so sometimes it's moral support for the good guys.
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And sometimes it's a reminder to the bad guys that they need to behave themselves.
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And I don't know if any of you saw that, but she got right off the rev limiter, as they say
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on the prairies from me, because it was the first time that she was calmly confronted by,
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And, uh, it called on her to resign or be fired for censoring parents in person.
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She slammed a door in my face, but I was intent to give a voice to all the people that she
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had silenced after she cut the mic to parents who were speaking at a school board meeting.
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And so, you know, sometimes petitions change things as is the case with Earls.
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Sometimes they offer moral support to the good guys to keep fighting.
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And sometimes they just allow Canadians to have a voice that was taken from them.
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And so, um, I think those are all three very important things.
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And I, I really should at least say like, this is us delivering this petition.
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I was very gratifying to deliver those petitions.
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I take it very seriously because you've trusted me with your names.
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Like you've put your name to a cause and then you've given that name to me.
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Asks me, how come the Calgary mayor really refused to attend Hanukkah?
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I think her non-attendance is what made it political.
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It's never been political in 35 years, despite many, many wars.
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Um, but Jody Gondick refusing to attend the Hanukkah celebrations because of a pro-Israel
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It's the first Hanukkah after the October 7th terror attacks that left 1,200 dead and 240
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Because the pro-Hamas contingent, the anti-Israel contingent in Calgary is much larger than the
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Or rather the pro-uh, well, no, I think it's a, the, the Jewish community is in Calgary is
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a lot smaller than these, I don't know, the Hitler youth marches that seem to be going
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Um, and so for her, it's just a purely cynical numbers game.
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She could not do the right thing and support the Jewish community in Calgary during Hanukkah.
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Um, for her, she's just looking at sheer vote numbers.
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I think she's just a shameless opportunist and she saw opportunity there.
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Last year, we heard the very sad story about Sheila Annette Lewis.
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Sheila Annette Lewis is, um, a woman whose story was covered very closely by our Sydney
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She was, um, a transplant patient here in Alberta who is denied a transplant because of her vaccination
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Has the rules of getting an organ transplant changed or are there still others being denied
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organ transplants because of the vaccination status?
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I think the death of Sheila Annette Lewis shook this government.
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Now, Daniel Smith has been very anti-discrimination based on vaccination status, but she was remiss to
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weigh in on what, you know, what the doctors were saying was the decision between medical professionals
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about whether or not Annette Lewis gets to live.
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Um, now I think her passing and the doctor's not budging on giving her an organ or allocating
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an organ to her because of her vaccination status prompted something that, uh, our premier
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Daniel Smith said, as I'm recording this, I'm recording this on the ninth teens, just so
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But yesterday she said on the Sean Newman podcast, Daniel Smith did that she would be including
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vaccination status in the Alberta bill of rights as a protected class.
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It's something you could not discriminate against people because of, and I think it might have
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something to do with the passing of Sheila Annette Lewis because she did face discrimination
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because of her vaccination status and, um, it's completely unwarranted.
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This woman is dead and, uh, it's just a absolute tragedy that nobody can undo, but hopefully it
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Uh, this one is from Maria who doesn't give me her last name.
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How is rebel news going to deal with the world economic forum and its new world order in
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I appreciate your consideration on this matter.
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The world economic forum likes to operate largely in anonymity or at least in praise.
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So they don't like to accredit prickly skeptics of what they do.
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Don't, don't, uh, accredit skeptics to, uh, come to their events.
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And then they pat themselves on their back for the glowing coverage of journalists.
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They hand selected and they say like, Whoa, look, everybody likes us.
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Because you only let the people in who like you.
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And as you saw from our previous coverage of the world economic forum in Davos, the mainstream
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So not only are they reporting, they are exhibitors.
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They are active contributors in the world economic forum.
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So, you know, how can you be, but how can you report on something that you have a vested
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How can you trust that reporting, especially when they don't divulge that bias?
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Like I will tell you, if I'm reporting on things about farming or oil and gas, I'm a farmer.
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Um, you know, like when I talk about the problems in the education system, I'm a mom with two kids
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When I talk about women's sports, I always tell you like, look, I have a high level female athlete
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Um, I don't know if it's a, it's a conflict of interest.
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It really is, but at least we could call it a bias and they don't divulge it.
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So what are we going to do with, to deal with the world economic forum?
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We're going to expose them at every step of the way, and we will not capitulate to their
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We will fight, we'll fight and we will shine, uh, the disinfectant of sunlight.
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On all the dark recesses of the corners of the world economic forum.
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Kim Morton says, oh, this is a story suggestion.
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I would like to see an investigation into federal laws that only impact West and rural areas.
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Decades ago, there was, or is a federal tax on marine fuel that only applied to the West
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Uh, you know, this reminds me of, yeah, I can look into this for you.
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Thank you for the story suggestion, but this reminds me of the wheat board.
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Uh, for those of you in the rest of the country who don't know, or maybe you're a lot younger
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than me, you're, you have to be a woman of a certain vintage to remember this, but, um,
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there was for a time export laws in this country that only applied to grain producers in the
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So if you were in Ontario and Quebec and you were a grain producer there, there's not a
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Um, you could sell your grain to whomever you wanted, but, uh, Western farmers, Alberta,
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Saskatchewan, Manitoba, we had to sell ours to a specific export agency run by the government.
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And then the government would then market our grain now, whether or not you were getting
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a higher value in doing that, sometimes you did, sometimes you didn't, but, uh, that's
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And it was this disproportionate paternalism directed at Western farmers that we weren't
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smart enough to sell our own wheat or that we weren't able to decide what to do with
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We needed big daddy government to do it for us.
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And so what happened was some farmers, farmers for justice, they were called, decided to
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break the law in an act of peaceful civil disobedience and succumb themselves to the punishment
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And another one was a former Wildrose MLA here in Alberta, Rick Strankman, uh, among others.
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But these two men were pardoned by Stephen Harper for their act of civil disobedience.
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Um, they sold, uh, I think it was a bushel of wheat, if I recall the story correctly,
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They went to jail for doing that which an Ontario farmer could do any day of the week.
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And I think the horrors of seeing those men taken away in handcuffs in front of their crying
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wives and frightened children, it was an optic that changed everything.
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It was just, you could really see the injustice of it all.
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And, uh, at the time, our premier Ralph Klein, he did attend those rallies in support of the
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farmers, uh, even though they, they did, they were breaking the law.
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Um, uh, I, I suppose like the restaurateurs who opened in defiance of the lockdowns, they
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And, uh, so yeah, there is a, as you say, Maria, there's a history of these disproportionate
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I mean, for example, right now happening right now, uh, no carbon tax on home heating
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oil, if you're in Atlantic Canada, but it's on my natural gas here in Alberta.
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So that's the unequal application of a law right now, um, happens all the time.
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Thank you for allowing me to take us all down that big fat walk down memory lane.
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Uh, this one is from Glenn McPherson, who asks me, why is this not emphasized, emphasized
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There's nothing Canada could do that could make a difference.
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Canada's boreal forests absorb more CO2 than it emits.
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None of the environmental calamities that have occurred.
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Ice age, rising sea levels, global warming, climate change due to CO2, now methane.
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Uh, yeah, there's a reason why, like, geologists and geophysists are not often subscribers to
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It's because these people know that there have been times of higher CO2 levels in our atmosphere,
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which led to global greening and larger plants, like more biodiversity, larger plants, which fed
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larger animals, which could sustain larger animals.
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And, uh, there was a, a great deal of biodiversity on the face of the earth when our CO2, uh, levels
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And as a farmer, I've got a real tough time taking advice from people who never get their
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Birkenstocks off the pavement, telling me that I don't care about the environment, which I
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depend on for my livelihood, simply because I don't believe that giving money to the government
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will make the weather colder and that if I eat fewer steaks, there will be fewer tornadoes.
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That seems like superstition to me, quite frankly.
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Just read an article regarding illegal immigrants that are coming to the U.S. receiving a cell
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phone, a plane ticket to anywhere they want within the country and a $5,000 gift card.
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I would guess Canada is even more generous to these mostly young fighting age men.
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A few years ago, I did a story about how the average Syrian refugee family and family
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can be, as I found out in other access to information reporting, a family can be like two, as you
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They just show up at a refugee or immigration intake facility somewhere in the region.
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And at the time, ISIS had taken control of passport printing information in northern Iraq and Syria.
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So even if they had paperwork, you couldn't really trust it.
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But $50,000 is what these people were getting upon coming to Canada.
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So, yeah, it seems like a lot that they're getting from the United States, but it's far less than what we give refugees.
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Jamie Nash writes, so where does the gun come from?
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I guess, technically speaking, it came from my dad.
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Also, if you must know, when I had my son, as many of you know, I was quite young, was married.
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So I've done it the wrong way and then I did it the right way.
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So let me just tell you, I recommend the right way.
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But I had finally trained the school that my son and I had different last names.
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And then so when my daughters came along, I just, I didn't want it.
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It was just very confusing to retrain everybody.
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Also, by the way, if your last name was Gun, would you change it?
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The mischief trial in Ottawa is similar to the January 6th prosecution in Washington.
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Can you describe the cost of the mischief trial to Canadian taxpayers?
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I would propose it's in the millions for non-violent mischief charges against Tamara Leach and Chris Barber, leaders of the Freedom Convoy,
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who have not done anything even approaching what the anti-Israel marches are doing in the streets every single week.
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I mean, those people have mobbed MPs' offices, calls for genocide.
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I saw a fire pit at Randy Boissano's office while I was out and about last night as the anti-Israel people were protesting him.
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That was like insurrectionist, according to boring people and worry warts in the city of Ottawa.
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You know, they have their own horn honking, these folks, their own convoys.
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They block railway tracks, critical infrastructure.
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But do you think we're going to see multi-million dollar prosecutions of those folks?
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But yes, Tamara Leach, Chris Barber, non-violent mischief charges for which if they were convicted of all of them
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and sentenced to, I think, close to the maximum or at least the sentence to the standard,
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they would never see the inside of a jail cell.
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I mean, Tamara spent close to 50 days in jail already.
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I mean, they should have just dropped these charges.
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I think the Crown probably wanted to drop them.
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This new Crown prosecutor, there's a previous Crown prosecutor who is a real ideologue.
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He's the one who argued to keep Tamara in jail on a breach of bail conditions that never actually happened.
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Anyway, I think this new Crown is stuck with like a sack of garbage of a prosecution, can't back out of it.
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But and yes, at the end of the day, it's Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
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Their lives are completely disrupted and taxpayers are on the hook for it.
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So even if she is convicted, it'll be an absolute nothing burger.
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But the moral of the story is the deterrent, right?
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You better not stand up to the Liberals if you don't want to end up like her and him.
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You are my most favorite news reporter on TV ever.
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I hope you voted for me in the Viewers Choice Awards.
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And as you know, I oversee the journalistic team here at Rebel News.
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So, you know, like when when the journalists are when you like our journalists and we're all like very close to finishing first within like a few hundred votes across a couple of different continents of of winning.
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I was wondering what you did before joining Rebel News and how did you get started in the business?
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Well, I was at home with my kids for close to 10 years.
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And I think that's the most important thing that I did.
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And it was one of the things that made me feel good about starting at Rebel News was that Ezra was like, you work from home.
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You only give me what you feel comfortable giving to the company because your first job is your children.
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And my husband works in the oil patch, as I said repeatedly on this show for some reason, but he's gone all the time, like gone.
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My kids were a lot younger then because I've been here like eight and a half years.
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She wasn't in school full time when Ezra first asked me to work for the company.
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I did an interview with Andrew Lawton over at True North, which will air over the Christmas break, where you can hear like my full story of how I came to Rebel News.
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But I was just a bit of a hellraising citizen activist on the Internet.
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And I was digging down into Justin Trudeau's Liberals in 2015.
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So Rachel Notley had just been elected in Alberta in like a cacophony of errors that the conservative movement did, committed, I should say, here in Alberta.
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And so she had like these crazy, useless paper candidate radicals.
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They just put their name on a ballot and they won.
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And Stephen Harper had probably worn out his welcome a little bit.
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And the Liberals were running some very radical candidates.
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And I had seen radicals get elected in Alberta and the mainstream media had not done their job in properly vetting these people.
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They were all worried about presumed misogyny of the PC leader here in Alberta telling Albertans to look in the mirror.
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And so I started digging down on the Liberal candidates and I got one nuked.
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The Liberals had to get rid of her for the things that I had uncovered her saying.
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And he said, what you're doing is actual journalism that the mainstream media should be doing.
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Actually, my youngest is not in school full time.
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I said it would stay home with my kids at least until they were in school and then reconsider.
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And continued to do, like, just taking it to the Liberals on Twitter.
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And then September rolled around and Ezra talked to me again and he said, I know your excuse just started school full time.
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So, and it's been wild, like a stay-at-home mom from Alberta.
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I just think about the places that I've gone and done and all these opportunities.
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I've held the most powerful people, not just in the country, but sometimes in the world, to account.
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And the fact that I'm not a classically trained journalist is not held against me.
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It is, I think, at Rebel News, like a check in the pro box as opposed to a con, in that I see things with dinner table common sense.
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I see the world through a practical lens, unlike the J School graduates from elsewhere on the planet.
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I've been at this 38 minutes and someone's got to edit this video.
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Gail Quinney writes, we've been following you for years and would like to see you write a pickle recipe cookbook.
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For those of you who don't know, besides being a meat evangelist, I am a, I would say, pickle expert.
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I think I did 16 or 18 dozen jars of pickles this year, thanks to my friends up at the Scotford Colonies supplying me with enough cucumbers to make that happen.
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But the basis for most of my pickle recipes are my great, it's my great-grandmother's pickle recipe, which you will find, but you won't know who she is, in the Joseburg United Church Ladies Cookbook.
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The recipes date back much earlier, but if you can find that book, you will find my great-grandmother's pickle recipe in there.
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Like, they'll see a pickle on the shelf, and they're like, hey, have you tried this?
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And I'll say, yep, definitely hard pass or great aroma, good bite, you know.
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Lucky Lewis writes, why are rural Albertans so well-grounded as opposed to our Redmonton and El Calgary people?
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The best day of my life was discovering Rebel News.
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I heard on the Glenn Beck show once, and it was years ago, but he was talking about rural America.
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New York, L.A., flyover, ignore those people in the middle.
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But they are really the people who make the world go round.
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And I would say the same thing about rural Albertans.
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We are the people who grow your food, produce your energy, and we're the useful people, right?
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And like farmers and people who rely on the weather, whether they want to believe it or not,
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they are actually deeply religious people, right?
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You realize that you are at the whims of the creator every day.
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Like you know you are important because without you, people starve or freeze.
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But also without the cooperation of God, you cannot do what you need to do to help other people.
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We also come from having an existential crisis of the weather potentially killing you or an animal killing you.
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You have to be self-reliant on your neighbor, right?
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Because town is so far away and the police are so far away.
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I think that's why the resistance to the COVID lockdowns also came from small town Alberta.
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Government tell us to stay away from our neighbors.
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You guys went over to the UN and delivered a stack of paperwork of all the crimes JT has done.
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Whatever happened to that, I heard he was going to get charged with crimes against humanity if he ever went to Europe.
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However, I did go with lawyer Sarah Miller and we delivered a human rights complaint to the United Nations in Geneva.
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We were like, I think I was up for like 50 hours straight flying there.
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We cleaned up, went down, delivered the thing to the United Nations.
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Sarah is one of the best lawyers in the country.
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I think she's an incredible human rights litigator.
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Um, she's worked so hard for the, uh, pastors and protesters.
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And so, um, she went with me and then I, we delivered it and then I came right back.
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So I went to Geneva, saw nothing and came right back.
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I got up very early in the morning the next day before my flight and ran around old Geneva.
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Um, and, uh, but now we wait on the United Nations.
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Sometimes it can take years, um, before they act on things.
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Um, but sometimes the United Nations is critical of Justin Trudeau.
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So, um, we just wait, but on the flip side, much like the petitions, what else can we do?
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We just say like, this is our lot in life, or we try to raise awareness of what is happening
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And even if you're something is ineffective or if it fails, I'd rather go down swinging.
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So next one, I have two left, I think again, apologies, editing team for this enormously
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Uh, Leslie Baynard, my husband and I have followed rebel for many years, even before COVID.
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I credit your amazing reporters with keeping us safe and well-informed over the last few
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There is so much going on in the world currently, and it can be very overwhelming knowing what
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I was wondering if you find it just too much at times.
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Well, you know, sometimes I get asked this, you know, I try to follow in the footsteps of
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And I, I try to, I guess, mock the ridiculous of it, of it all, you know, like the devil hates
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And if I see what we are experiencing as a society, but as a battle between good and
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Um, and you know, like, so I try to make fun of it.
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I, you know, I, I, I just, it, it is, it is grueling and it can be hard.
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And we see people on their very worst day, right?
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When we are talking with, for example, Sheila Annette Lewis's family or restauranteurs who
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are being forced to close or families who are getting, who have already lost their jobs
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And now they're getting a ticket for gathering for Christmas.
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You're meeting people on their very, very worst day.
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And it can be emotionally hard because I think everybody at this company cares about people
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We feel like we can make a difference for them.
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Um, and so sometimes you make a difference by measuring something, you know, you measure
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Like when I am talking to a family, for example, during the pandemic, and I should tell you,
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my mom died during the pandemic because of a canceled surgery, not because of COVID.
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And, uh, that was right when we started fight the fines, which was Ezra just announcing into
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the ether that we were going to take a thousand COVID tickets, which turned into a whole heck of
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a lot more and that morphed into the democracy fund, a charity, um, that is now representing
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But, uh, for me, it was, I was the person on the other end of the emails in the week after
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my mom died, answering those people saying, I got a ticket.
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And it was a good distraction for me because I was mad at the government.
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I was mad at everybody, um, because my mom died out of, from something that was just minor.
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Um, and I also couldn't see her and I couldn't have the funeral that she deserved.
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My family and I were, I mean, 10 people in our mega Catholic church of 800 people.
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I'm mad at my priest for allowing that to happen.
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Um, mad that I had to basically cast lots with my friends and family to see who could
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be there in the church where I was baptized, where my kids were baptized, where I received
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I was just, I'm still mad about it, as you can obviously tell.
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But, um, what helped me and what continues to help me today, sorry, that was a long way
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around, um, is that I can turn something bad into something good.
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I get to meet people on their worst day and they feel like ever all is lost and nobody
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Maybe I can connect you with people who can help you at no cost to you.
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And I'm going to gather up signatures on a petition of people who care about what you're
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going through and see what we can do to change.
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And if nothing changes, at least these people that we are trying to help know that other
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It is one of the reasons I keep doing this job in spite of censorship, in spite of how much
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the left and modern feminism, gun grabbers don't like me.
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Um, uh, uh, it's very rewarding to be able to help people.
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I didn't realize I was such a empathetic people person.
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I never, never thought of myself as that until you get to do a job where you do that every
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Um, and, uh, that's, uh, why I keep doing it, but also, um, I, I get to advocate for
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causes that I deeply care about, like persecuted Christians.
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Um, and of course, um, you know, I, I lean into my faith quite a bit.
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Um, we know that we will be, um, we, we will be persecuted.
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Like we know we will be, um, we were promised that.
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Um, and so, uh, you know, but that doesn't make any difference to me because I'm called
00:50:01.500
Just before Tucker Carlson was abruptly booted from Fox news, he teased that he was working
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on a new documentary called Oh Canada, which he referred to as a great country.
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You've already done some excellent documentaries.
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So is this topic something that might be of interest?
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Tucker might even be able to provide some input.
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May all of you have a blessed season and keep up the great work.
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Um, I don't think Tucker has any input to give us.
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Um, but I think his, um, documentary just died when he left Fox news.
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Now we have done some, I think more comprehensive reporting on certain issues.
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So, um, you know, he talked about Tucker's documentary would have encompassed the trucker
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Now we've done two documentaries on the trucker convoy, um, which you can see at rebel news
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plus, um, we've also done a documentary called church under fire, which I'm very proud of,
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um, the government persecution of pastors who stood up to the lockdowns.
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So our, I think, frankly, I don't want to toot my own horn here, but I think our documentaries
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are probably more comprehensive because we took more time on each of the issues that
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Tucker was going to put just into one documentary.
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And I should tell you, Kian Simone, our head of documentaries, and I are already starting
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Um, and so we're also going to work over the Christmas holiday.
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We're going to put our heads down and work as much as we can on that next documentary,
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because time is really of the essence on this one, uh, if we want to, um, change something.
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And I think we're, that's ideally the outcome of, you know, we're measuring something, so
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And it will, it's again, on the horrors of Canada's dark slide into anti-human progressivism
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But we'll let you know, um, very soon about what the documentary is going to be on, because
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Um, because as I said, off the top of the show, there's no rebel news without you.
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And we can't do the work that we do, um, with regard to these comprehensive documentaries,
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And so we will do something very similar as to what we did with a church under fire, where
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we will invite you to help us, and then we'll give you a little something in return.
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So we'll, uh, we'll have perks available where you can support us and then we'll give
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So we'll give you ownership of the documentary as we have done in the past.
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And if you, it's church under fire, um, is the previous one, it's available on rebel
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I almost talked for an hour straight without stopping to take a drink of coffee or anything.
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Um, I would just want to, from the bottom of my heart, and I know that sounds cliche,
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Thank you to everybody who watches the gun show every single week, who sends me comments,
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sends me emails, sends me your viewer feedback.
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I appreciate that you folks at home care so much about the work that we do here at rebel
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I, I know that the mainstream media is jealous of us because they don't have this army of
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people cheering for them to succeed every day, the way we do here at rebel news.
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So just thank you so much from the journalistic team here at rebel news.
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I don't know what else I can say, but thank you.
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Um, what a great year we leave behind us, um, as far as the quality of our journalism here
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Hopefully we helped you feel not as alone or not as crazy as the mainstream media would
00:54:03.960
And, uh, thank you to everybody who also works behind the scenes at rebel news to bring you
00:54:12.620
Um, you may only see us, but for every one of us, there's three and four people who are
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working behind the scenes to make us seem smart, articulate, and to make sure that you can find
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So thanks to the rebel news team, uh, thanks to, uh, my boss, uh, for giving me the opportunities
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Like I said, I'm a housewife and I've been around the world speaking truth to power and
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Um, because I think if they matter to me, they matter to other normal people of this country.
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And I appreciate the trust that he has put in us to do that and, and to allow me to, uh,
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mentor our journalism team, um, so that we can make a difference to make this country a freer
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It's, uh, as someone once said, it's not just a job, it's a ministry.
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I think that we do here at rebel news, everybody.
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What it is as we leave 2023 behind us, here's to hopefully a more free 2024.
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And as always, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.