Juno News - February 18, 2026Announcing： The News Cruise!
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Summary
Rebel News and our friends at Juno News are teaming up for a super cruise this year, the first time our two companies have worked together on something like this. It'll be the vacation of a lifetime! You won't just get to hang out with your favorite Rebel News team, but the Juno team will be with us too. Here's Ezra and Kian to tell you more about it.
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Rebel News loves our cruises. We came up with the idea because we take no government money,
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so we needed a fundraiser and it was a great way to do it. But they become a really well-loved
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part of what Rebel News does each year. Some people come on the cruise every year. We bring
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aboard your favorite Rebels like Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies and Alexa Lavoie. And we also
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bring friends of Rebel News like Tamara Leach. Well, have I got some news for you. Rebel News
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and our friends at Juno News are teaming up for a super cruise this year, the first time our two
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companies have worked together on something like this. It'll be the vacation of a lifetime. You
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won't just be able to hang out with your favorite Rebels, but the Juno team will be with us too.
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Here's Juno's Kian Bextie to tell you more about it. Thanks, Ezra. Juno News and Rebel News are the
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only two independent news networks in the entire country and all of Canada that do not take a dime
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of government money. So it's not surprising that many of our supporters like both of us.
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This cruise is going to be a great way for Juno News supporters and Rebel News supporters to spend
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some time together and with us a week aboard the luxurious Holland America line as we sail
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through the Caribbean Sea stopping in some pretty amazing ports for some sightseeing. But the best part
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really is going to be when we're at sea because that's when our special panel discussions happen,
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speeches, special activities. And of course, we're all going to be having dinner together every single night
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and we're going to be rotating through tables of special guests. So you might have me at your
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dinner table one night, Ezra Levant at your dinner table the next night, and someone else the following
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night. We're going to have some VIP guests here joining us on this cruise. So it's going to be a
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really exciting time. Thanks, Kian. I think this is going to be really fun. Technically, Rebel and Juno
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are competitors, but we have a lot in common in our belief in independent journalism and freedom of
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speech. I think our viewers are absolutely going to love this trip to see the best of both
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companies. And as I mentioned, it's a fundraiser for each of us too. So this cruise is going to be
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taking place from November 28th to December 5th of this year, 2026, in the Eastern Caribbean,
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departing from Fort Lauderdale and sailing aboard Holland America lines MS Eurodam. It's a beautiful
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ship with great food, some awesome activities, and we're going to be visiting Grand Turk, San Juan,
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St. Thomas, and a private beach island called Half Moon Cay. You can see all of the details at
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thenewscruise.com. Thanks, Kian. This is the first time we're doing something like this,
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bringing Juno News and Rebel News journalists and fans together in person and see for a full week
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of conversation, learning, relaxation, and fun. So head on over to thenewscruise.com for the vacation
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of a lifetime. That's thenewscruise.com. See you on the high seas.