Juno News - March 25, 2026


Debates Commission CANCELS post-debate scrums (w⧸ Ezra Levant)

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corruption raid in Calgary cruise fundraiser
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The former mayor of Calgary, Jody Gondak, has her home raided by police amid corruption allegations. We speak with Ezra Levant, founder of Rebel Media, to discuss this breaking news story and the state of independent media in Canada.

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00:00:00 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Today is Wednesday, March 25th,
00:00:06 2026, and we have a great episode for you today. Today's episode is sponsored by The News Cruise.
00:00:11 I'm very excited to tell you about that. We'll get to it in a few minutes. I am very excited
00:00:14 today to be speaking with Ezra Levant, the founder of Rebel, one of the foremost free
00:00:18 speech activists in the country. And we're going to talk about the state of independent media.
00:00:23 But first, I just want to talk about this breaking news story that's developing. And that is that
00:00:27 the former mayor of Calgary, Jody Gondak, had her home raided by police amid corruption allegations.
00:00:34 Gondak confirmed that officers attended her residence with a warrant and seized her cell
00:00:39 phone. So this is from Juno News. RCMP executed warrants and seized evidence from the homes of
00:00:44 former mayor of Calgary, Jody Gondak, and two other Calgary political figures. As part of an
00:00:49 ongoing corruption investigation, the searches targeted Gondak, former city councillor Sean
00:00:54 Chu and sitting Ward 10 Councillor Andre Chabot. All three have said that they are cooperating
00:01:01 with the authorities. Gonduk confirmed that officers attended her residence with a warrant
00:01:05 and seized her cell phone. I have been fully cooperative with respect and respect the legal
00:01:10 process, said Gonduk. At the same time, this has been very invasive and my lawyer and I will be
00:01:16 reviewing it closely to ensure it was justified. Calgary Police Services confirmed that it
00:01:21 initially received a complaint in October 2025 and referred the matter to the RCMP. She said
00:01:27 she's cooperating with investigators, but described the search as highly intrusive, really crazy,
00:01:33 wild story. So I'm going to introduce our guest, Ezra Levant. You know him well. He is the founder
00:01:38 of The Rebel. Ezra, welcome to the show. And maybe you can comment on this wild story out of Calgary.
00:01:44 Yeah. I mean, to have a raid on a former politician's home is very dramatic. They
00:01:48 would have needed to most likely go before a court on an ex parte basis, which means
00:01:53 the element of surprise. So courts are very reluctant to make a dramatic ruling where the
00:01:59 other party is not there. One of the fundamentals of our law is here, the other side. But what if 0.95
00:02:05 the element of surprise is necessary? So they would have had to have quite compelling documents,
00:02:11 typically affidavits sworn by police called an information to obtain an ITO. So I haven't seen
00:02:16 those, obviously, they've been kept secret while the raid happened. They will later be released.
00:02:22 It'll be fascinating to see what was so shocking that a court allowed a sneak attack raid on really
00:02:31 the most prestigious office in the city, the mayor. So, you know, we obviously can't judge
00:02:36 yet. Everyone's innocent until proven guilty. But boy, this looks bad. Well, especially because of
00:02:42 the sort of corruption angle of it right like we do have so much trust in our public officials in
00:02:47 this country and when you hear about corruption allegations i'll just be perfectly frank as i
00:02:52 think about the third world i think about the developing world and you know the fact that
00:02:55 when you're in mexico like people bribe the police and if you're you're traveling in asia people 0.65
00:03:00 bribe you know border guards and things like that like like that kind of activity is third
00:03:04 role activity so it is quite shocking for it to be happening in one of canada's major cities to
00:03:09 a person who was not too long ago the mayor and someone who was very broadly respected presumably.
00:03:14 Yeah, I mean we talk a lot about the high trust society that we all grew up in
00:03:19 and this is a very low trust feeling where your politicians are allegedly involved in corruption.
00:03:25 We see it in other parts of the country. In Toronto there was a massive
00:03:29 revelation that a bunch of police were colluding allegedly with criminals, tipping off criminals
00:03:36 to whereabouts of different people so i'm i'm afraid that corruption is very much part of
00:03:42 canada in 2026 that's not something i think any of us would have said a generation ago so i'm
00:03:47 i'm upset about the trend it's totally shattering our illusion of canada as a sort of like good
00:03:53 actor and the boy scout uh the global boy scout is like well we're probably not that way and
00:03:58 unfortunately there are corruption issues ezra i always like talking to you about the state of
00:04:03 the media uh you are you know one of the leaders the leader of the independent media brigade uh you
00:04:09 know a bunch of different independent groups have spawned off of uh what what you created over at
00:04:14 the rebel i know you guys celebrated your 10-year anniversary last year and i i think you know when
00:04:18 i look back at my career as an independent journalist one of the high points was certainly
00:04:23 when uh my organization at the time true north teamed up with your organization the rebel
00:04:27 to basically sue the trudeau government to ensure that we would get access to the independent
00:04:33 uh to to the uh debate to the the federal leaders debate um back in 2021 uh interestingly at the
00:04:39 time it was andrew lawton who was my journalist and he's now a federal mp and your journalist
00:04:44 was keen bexty who is now my co-founder here at juno news um and so it's it's all kind of connected
00:04:48 but interestingly we had an update on the debates commission because you know that was 2021 we got
00:04:54 our journalists in um during the debate in 2025 they let us in as well our journalists dominated
00:05:00 the debate. And I thought that was fantastic. They asked questions that the legacy media were
00:05:04 just incapable of asking questions that Canadians thought were, you know, most Canadians probably
00:05:10 agreed that they were necessary questions. And yet the media like totally freaked out about it.
00:05:16 So, but before I get to the update, the update is that the debates commissioner, Michelle Cornier, 0.97
00:05:20 was in a committee meeting earlier this month, and he recommends getting rid of the whole system,
00:05:25 getting rid of the whole debates. We'll get to that in a minute. I just want to give the audience
00:05:29 a little taste of what i'm talking about so here flashback about a year a year ago to the federal
00:05:35 debates uh commission debate and here is what it looked like with independent media including a
00:05:40 couple journalists uh for here at journal news and a couple journalists uh from rebel just asking a
00:05:44 series of really good questions let's roll that clip in your estimation was justin trudeau a good
00:05:49 prime minister do you believe that women biological women have the right to their own spaces their 1.00
00:05:55 Their own sports, their own change rooms, their own prisons, their own homeless shelters.
00:06:01 Since 1941, a pipeline has brought oil from Portland, Maine to Montreal.
00:06:07 Over the years, it has brought hundreds of millions of barrels of oil, much of it from OPEC dictatorships.
00:06:14 Why have you never, not even once, opposed OPEC conflict oil being imported through an aging pipeline?
00:06:22 Why do you prefer OPEC conflict oil over Alberta ethical oil?
00:06:28 Sorry, I didn't get your outlet.
00:06:30 Drea Humphrey with Rebel News.
00:06:31 Okay.
00:06:32 You know I'm going to go with this, though, right?
00:06:35 Can I speak?
00:06:36 Yeah, you can.
00:06:37 I'm just going to say you know where I'm going to go with it, though.
00:06:38 Over 200 Christian places of worship have been attacked in Canada since 2021.
00:06:44 Many served First Nations communities.
00:06:46 many were historic and they diverted police and resources and put others at risk what do you say
00:06:55 to canadians who see your refusal to answer especially from one of the few media outlets
00:06:59 here that are not funded by the state as proof that a vote for you is a vote for a dangerous
00:07:06 radical party that gaslights the public into thinking it stands against hate when its silence
00:07:11 is instead emboldening christophobia your question is another example of why i don't respond to
00:07:17 agencies like rebel news that promote misinformation and disinformation so that was such a fun time and
00:07:23 i really do feel like that is where independent media has a chance to shine right no one can stop
00:07:28 us we have a judge who's ordered us to be let in so despite all of the best wishes of all of the
00:07:33 fancy people who run the media companies who run the you know the cbc and who run the government
00:07:38 They don't want us there, but they can't stop us.
00:07:41 And so it's like the one time a year where we actually get access to politicians, we
00:07:44 actually get to ask questions, and it just absolutely drives them crazy.
00:07:47 So I'll let you respond to that.
00:07:50 Sure.
00:07:50 I mean, I thought the questions asked by the independent media were exactly independent,
00:07:55 like they were not part of the official narrative.
00:07:57 And they were denounced viciously for that, unrelated to the debate, right wing, we're
00:08:05 in Canada.
00:08:05 And Michel Cormier, who is the executive who runs the government agency called the Debates Commission, he said to Parliament the other day that our questions were, quote, peripheral.
00:08:17 Well, who says? I mean, there are different questions. They're relevant.
00:08:22 But even if they were peripheral and unrelated to the election, so what? It's a right to ask them.
00:08:28 And really, one day, every four years, we get to put a question to Mark Carney, because he hides and he bans us, even though he's made promises to allow independent journalists, and he doesn't.
00:08:40 What's crazy to me is that one question every four years is too much for this system to happen, and they all circle the wagons to try to expel us.
00:08:48 And here's the crazy thing that I think everyone should know.
00:08:52 The government nationalized leaders' debates.
00:08:54 No one asked them to.
00:08:55 It was all about control.
00:08:57 And since they can't keep out independent journalists from Juno or Rebel or anyone else anymore, because two federal courts in a row said they couldn't, what's their proposal?
00:09:08 Their proposal is to shut down the Q&A altogether.
00:09:12 Since they can't keep out the ones they don't like, you, me, Drea Humphrey, Kian Bextie, et cetera, they would rather shut it all down during the election.
00:09:24 Their job was to promote debate, to allow Canadians to learn more, but they would rather
00:09:30 shut that down. 0.96
00:09:31 That's what Michel Cormier told Parliament.
00:09:33 Rather shut it all down than allow you, your team or my team, have one or two questions
00:09:38 every four years.
00:09:39 By the way, Mark Carney, he's a grown-up.
00:09:42 He's pretty smart.
00:09:43 He's not new to this.
00:09:45 He can handle Kian Bextie.
00:09:46 He can handle Ezra Levant, Drea Humphrey.
00:09:49 I mean, what's the worst that could happen?
00:09:51 I mean, it's so incredible how protective the regime media are of the regime.
00:09:58 Well, it's so interesting because from my perspective, Ezra, when I watch the legacy
00:10:02 media debates, I feel like they totally miss the point of the country, right?
00:10:07 Guaranteed every debate, there will be about a quarter of the time spent on the environment.
00:10:11 Look, I love the environment.
00:10:13 I grew up in Vancouver.
00:10:13 My favorite thing to do is go out to go hiking or go out to go camping.
00:10:16 I love spending time in nature.
00:10:17 I think it's really, really important.
00:10:18 I don't want to hear a quarter of the debate talking about climate change policy, right?
00:10:23 That is not a huge priority to me.
00:10:25 Do you know what is a priority to me?
00:10:28 Preserving our way of life, right?
00:10:29 Making sure that my cities are safe, right?
00:10:32 Why don't we talk more about immigration and crime and the issues that I think matter,
00:10:36 and including cultural issues, right?
00:10:37 Like our entire society lost its mind and suddenly decided that men can become women,
00:10:41 and it's totally fine for guys to go into female locker rooms, 0.99
00:10:44 totally fine for guys to play in girls' sports. 0.83
00:10:46 Like, those are important questions, not just to me as a conservative, but really to Canadians all over the country. The media make the debates so narrow that they're almost irrelevant, right? So the fact that you do have a bunch of kind of like wild, maverick-type reporters getting up there willing to ask tough questions, and to point, yeah, actually, Mark Carney handled it pretty well. That kind of showed a bit of his character, which again is the point of the debate, right?
00:11:10 So we have this stuffy, elite class of journalists that want to dictate what the country cares about.
00:11:18 But the country doesn't really care about those things, right?
00:11:20 And so I think it's just so important that we have the media there.
00:11:23 And I think it's so telling how the legacy media reacted.
00:11:26 I have a little montage here, as you're going to enjoy this, of just how the CBC reacted, how the journalists just melted down.
00:11:32 And they just couldn't believe their own eyes that free-thinking people were allowed to ask questions.
00:11:38 Let's roll this clip.
00:11:39 The post-debate scrums were dominated by right-wing media groups who flooded leaders with questions on topics unrelated to the debate.
00:11:46 I think the debate commission is going to need to be accountable for what's kind of happening here.
00:11:51 They've opened up the scrums and the press access to a bunch of groups who sometimes are registered charities or have been defined by their owner as not actually a journalistic organization or have been ruled by the federal court to not be a journalistic organization.
00:12:04 True North is a very right-wing website, and there have been issues in the past with who gets allowed into these scrums and who's allowed to ask questions of the leaders. The Debates Commission was the one who decided that these people were allowed to come in and ask these kinds of questions.
00:12:24 At one point, when some of those last questions came up, I just checked to make sure, yeah, no, we're in Canada.
00:12:30 Imagine the chutzpah, that they, that those losers, those government regime journalists, all taking a paycheck from Karani, by the way, imagine the audacity that they get to decide what is or isn't a relevant question.
00:12:42 what we, I mean, hey, ask your own questions. We'll ask our, I would never say, how dare the
00:12:49 CBC talk about global warming? I would just roll my eyes. But they fancy themselves something
00:12:55 superior. Hey, I saw an ad, sort of an old timey Instagram channel of things in Canadiana in the
00:13:03 past. And it was an ad in 1974 for CBC's The National. And back in 1974, when Canada's
00:13:11 population was about half of what it is now. They were getting 2 million views a night. They were
00:13:17 boasting about this in their ad for The National. These days, the numbers are so low, they don't
00:13:21 release them. The last numbers I saw were that the CBC's The National gets about 250,000 views.
00:13:27 So Canada's population has doubled, but the viewership of CBC has fallen from 2 million
00:13:33 to 250,000. And I think that the smaller it gets, the more strident they become and the more
00:13:42 Canadians just don't even pay attention. In their last report to Parliament, the CBC boasted that
00:13:47 4.2% of Canadians watch them on TV. 95% of people don't. It's a bit of chutzpah that they regard
00:13:56 themselves as the keepers of the debate. No one even cares about the CBC. We're just forced to
00:14:02 pay for them. Well, that's how I felt. I felt that the debate itself was just kind of predictable
00:14:07 and boring. And all the questions were already things that the politicians talked about day in
00:14:12 and day out on the campaign. So they all had their scripted response, right? And so the part that was
00:14:16 interesting and unique was the thing that we added to the end to make them think on their feet and
00:14:22 answer questions that they feel uncomfortable doing. As we saw, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh
00:14:27 couldn't even do that, right? He just had to go to, I don't answer your questions. And then of
00:14:31 course, yeah, the CBC's response there. I mean, especially knowing now what we know, Ezra, about
00:14:36 how these two individuals, David Cochran and Rosemary Barton, are like bullying and gatekeeping
00:14:42 inside the CBC. Remember, Travis Dan Roche had that explosive testimony where he disclosed that
00:14:46 those two are kind of like hated within the CBC. And yet they were saying like, you know, this is
00:14:53 peripheral or this is outside the topic of the debate. That was a point, right? The debate was
00:14:57 boring and all the questions were really predictable and our questions were not. So isn't
00:15:02 that what the scrum is supposed to be? And then them trying to police us saying, oh, True North
00:15:07 is very right-wing. It's a very right-wing website. And oh, they're a charity, therefore
00:15:11 they can't do news. I mean, come on, give me a break. But the news that made us talk about this
00:15:17 today, Ezra, is the fact that the debates commissioner appeared in parliament. You referenced
00:15:22 that he was speaking to committee and he has made his recommendation that canada cancel the media
00:15:28 scrums so they want to continue to have this government funded debate structure and that the
00:15:35 idea is because the government's paying for it all canadians are supposed to have access to it
00:15:40 it's not just you know hosted by one outlet like if it was only hosted by global maybe it would
00:15:44 only be accessed by global news uh journalists and that might not be fair to the other journalists so
00:15:49 you know they had this government structure so that all journalists could have access
00:15:52 rosemary barton said the debates commissioner were the ones that let us in not true it was
00:15:56 actually the judge that ordered them to let us in because they tried to not let us in and then
00:16:00 the judge came in and said actually canada's a free society with a free press and these are
00:16:03 journalists they have you know there's a free speech right to go in um and so the the solution
00:16:09 after a year of hawing and humming and thinking it through is just to scrap it so i want to just
00:16:15 play this quick clip of michael cormier recommending that they get rid of this whole
00:16:19 thing um this is for march 12 2026 this is sought three where cormier is questioning like what is
00:16:25 a journalist well we're not supposed to be the ones that determine that and he basically just
00:16:28 says that the post scrum was counterproductive as well so this raises an issue that goes beyond the
00:16:36 commission what or who makes up a journalist some have told us that we don't have the authority to
00:16:46 decide and so we have a very large definition of a journalist and we include different models of
00:16:55 journalism but during the last election it created a problematic environment for a lot of journalists
00:17:05 and it also raised issues with press conferences that were counterproductive
00:17:13 they were not productive for anyone i disagree i thought they were super productive but ezra
00:17:18 what did you make of that whole thing i just love that line it created a problematic environment
00:17:24 for a lot of journalists so other people who were watching other journal founded a problem
00:17:32 that we were asking our questions and i just just turn that over in your brain for for a couple of
00:17:39 times look let's say every single thing they said about us was true that we were peripheral that we
00:17:44 were right wing that we're not real journalists etc okay so what like why why are you in such a
00:17:51 tizzy it's because they believe in their mind that they are this elite like like an oracle or a high
00:17:58 priest a society they think they're like a profession that you have to beg to enter like
00:18:03 an ancient guild and we are outsiders who are peasants and we don't have their aristocracy
00:18:09 like they actually think there's some priestly class with some magic by the way the reason why
00:18:16 Juno and Rebel are successful and the reason our questions are interesting is because the
00:18:20 regime media has not done a good job they haven't vetted Mark Carney they didn't vet Justin Trudeau
00:18:26 we didn't have a chance to put a question to Carney directly, but my question to him would
00:18:31 have been, do you still have three passports and why? If I had a follow-up and it would have been,
00:18:35 what was the residence in your last tax return? Is that why you had an Irish passport? Why are
00:18:41 you still holding hundreds of millions of dollars in stock? I mean, those are basic vetting
00:18:48 questions, so simple, not right-wing, just who are you, Mark Carney? You've come back to Canada
00:18:54 after a decade away. None of those basic vetting questions. And that's what terrifies the other
00:19:01 journalists, that we might have a real question better than them. We might show what real
00:19:04 accountability journalism looks like. We might actually get a scoop. Like, literally, why would
00:19:10 they care that once every four years we put a question? Last point, you know, you mentioned
00:19:15 Andrew Lawton, and I used to see him in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum when we
00:19:19 would go every january he did such a great job there and this january we were in davos again
00:19:25 and in a 24-hour span i scrummed justin trudeau for about 10 minutes which was pretty fun christia
00:19:32 freeland for about the same melanie jolie briefly and francois philippe champagne i talked to four
00:19:38 cabinet ministers or one former pm in a day that was more access than i had in 10 years to the
00:19:47 liberal government. And it's because the police in Davos don't block journalists. They only stop
00:19:53 you if you're a threat or something. And obviously we weren't. So isn't it funny that we have to go
00:19:58 halfway across the world to put a question to our own cabinet ministers? And by the way,
00:20:01 our questions were good, if I may. And there's something really creepy about Canada. It's really
00:20:07 banana republic-ish, where the government pays the regime journalists and keeps out. I've always 0.73
00:20:14 said, soon in Canada, there will only be two types of journalists, those paid by the government and
00:20:20 those banned by the government. And we're pretty close to it. It's really unbelievable. And I mean,
00:20:25 to your point, you ask great questions. We loved your questions in Davos. It's so outrageous that
00:20:31 you weren't able to ask those questions on home soil that you had to go abroad. I want to go back
00:20:37 to Drea Humphries, your journalist, because she raised a question that to many Canadians, Ezra,
00:20:42 this is the most important question. This is sort of when our country really started unraveling. Yes,
00:20:47 it happened during COVID as well. But the moral panic over the unmarked graves, which has broadly
00:20:52 turned out to be a hoax, right? And so Drea Humphries had the foresight to ask that question
00:20:57 during the debate. We showed it to you a minute earlier. I just want to throw to Rosemary Barton
00:21:01 again. This is CBC's chief political commentator. And this is how she reacts. She's almost in tears,
00:21:07 right? She doesn't want to talk about this. The questions that the rebel and the Juneau News
00:21:11 think up this specifically the rebel it causes them so much anxiety and consternation they just
00:21:18 can't handle it so she has to jump in and accuse drea of trafficking misinformation and then making 1.00
00:21:24 a false claim let's roll this clip this is thought 10 rebel news in particular traffics and
00:21:29 misinformation facts uh lack of facts and uh as you heard in that question which was uh woven with
00:21:36 some truth and some things that weren't true. Yes, there have been burnings of Christian Catholic
00:21:41 churches. Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places
00:21:47 around the country, which she misrepresented. So I don't know, maybe Rosemary doesn't just,
00:21:52 she doesn't know the issue. She doesn't have her facts straight because the CBC issued a rare
00:21:57 correction, Ezra. 24 hours later, this appeared on the CBC News website. As CBC News has reported
00:22:04 on multiple occasions, what several indigenous communities across Canada have discovered on the
00:22:09 site, former residential schools are potential burial sites and unmarked graves. So no, they
00:22:14 haven't found remains. Actually, no remains have been found in the places where they were alleged
00:22:19 Rosemary doesn't have her facts, or she just was hoping to push government propaganda and hope that 1.00
00:22:24 she wasn't caught. And then they quietly put this correction at the bottom. Again, this is why
00:22:29 these debates are so important because we are getting the facts out there. And while many people
00:22:34 will listen to Rosemary, although to your point earlier, not as many as they would like, right,
00:22:38 the CBC numbers have plummeted. But the fact that that is now on the record, I think is helpful.
00:22:42 What do you think? Yeah, Rosemary Barton hosts a show called At Issue, where they have a panel
00:22:46 with the entire political spectrum from A to B. It's the same three tired voices in Ottawa,
00:22:53 Montreal, and Toronto, Althea Raj, Andrew Coyne, and Chantal Ibert. It's a hermetically sealed
00:22:58 world. And when I say the spectrum from A to B, it's sort of a joke, but they do not allow rogue
00:23:03 opinions on anything important, whether it's the medical assistance in dying or life issues or
00:23:08 firearms ownership or Donald Trump or global warming or any of these, or truckers. You're
00:23:14 just not allowed to have a different opinion. And they're so terrified that in a, what's a wrong
00:23:21 think, that's what Orwell could be terrified that a wrong think idea might penetrate their defensive
00:23:26 Shield, and one of their viewers might say, hey, what was that you just said? I didn't know that.
00:23:32 Are you saying 100 churches were vandalized or burned? I didn't know that. I'm going to look
00:23:36 into that myself, and I'm going to start Googling because I can't find that news in the CBC.
00:23:41 They need everyone to be in this false consciousness, and COVID was the best example
00:23:47 of that. No one was allowed to even dissent, and by the way, that seeped into YouTube and other
00:23:51 places. They needed the pretense of unanimity. They needed everyone to think, everyone agrees,
00:23:58 I can't dissent. That's why they're panicking, because we had the national audience there for
00:24:04 a moment, maybe a million people watching live, and they heard for the first time questions they
00:24:09 didn't hear anywhere else. That's actually why they were terrified. Partly, it's personal distaste
00:24:14 for us. Partly, it's professional rivalry. But I think mainly it's ideologically, they could not
00:24:20 allow a mind virus to be planted that hey think for yourself maybe the cbc isn't telling you the
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00:24:52 ezra you're going to be there go to thenewscruise.com so it's thenewscruise.com follow that
00:24:58 link go get it go get a cabin go go have a vacation if you can have a vacation you might as well
00:25:03 surround yourself with like-minded canadians you want to meet people who share your ideas share
00:25:07 your values and you get to hang out with some of your favorite journalists ezra what a great idea
00:25:11 i remember i went on one of these with you oh gosh i don't know i guess it was a decade ago now
00:25:15 But I still keep in touch with many of the people that I met on that cruise and still
00:25:19 sort of have friends that I keep in contact with.
00:25:21 So why don't you tell us a little bit about this cruise?
00:25:24 Sure.
00:25:24 I mean, I've been doing these cruises in one form or another for more than 20 years.
00:25:27 And there's some people who come almost every year because some people really like cruising.
00:25:31 But even if you've never been on a cruise before, you should really consider coming
00:25:34 because every night we have dinner together and we rotate the tables.
00:25:39 So one night you'll have dinner sitting at my table.
00:25:41 The next night you'll have dinner sitting at Key and Bextie's table.
00:25:44 The next night, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:25:45 So we're bringing a bunch of Rebels, and I thought, well, let's team up with Juno News.
00:25:48 Let's make it the independent media.
00:25:50 And so there's going to be Juno people there and Rebel people there. 0.97
00:25:55 And when the ship is in port, your time is your own.
00:25:58 So you could go explore Puerto Rico, which we're going to San Juan, which is one of the
00:26:01 most beautiful cities in the Western Hemisphere.
00:26:03 It's amazing.
00:26:04 So you'll be free to do cruise stuff.
00:26:06 But when the ship is at sea, which can be a little bit more boring maybe, that's when
00:26:12 we have our panel discussions, our seminars, our Q&As, and you get to hang out with other Rebels
00:26:17 and Juno supporters. And like I say, the dinners are the best part. Imagine spending seven days at
00:26:23 sea with your favorite Juno and Rebel personalities. And by the way, it's a fundraiser for both Juno
00:26:29 and Rebel. A few hundred bucks is tacked onto the ticket that goes to, you know, it's a fundraiser
00:26:35 for both of our companies because we don't take government money. So this is not just fun and
00:26:40 educational. You know what? In closing though, what I hear so much is what you've just said.
00:26:45 People make friends because they can let their guard down and have honest conversations without
00:26:50 being afraid that someone's going to jump on them because they say something conservative.
00:26:54 I love these cruises. And folks, if you go to thenewscruise.com, you can sign up. And actually,
00:27:02 it's selling pretty well. I hope we have a full house. I think you will. I think it's going to
00:27:07 be so much fun. And again, I mean, Canadians love to go on vacation, right? It's cold in the winter.
00:27:12 Might as well go on a vacation with the people who, you know, are trying to change the country
00:27:17 and shape the world and meet fellow like-minded Canadians. As we really have you here, I want to
00:27:21 talk to you about the story that we have been reporting on In Depth, the Candace Malcolm Show
00:27:25 and Juno News, which is the story of, I don't even really know how to describe it, the rise of
00:27:30 open Jew hatred in Canadian society, primarily in Toronto. And so this is something that's been
00:27:36 brewing under the surface, honestly, probably for years or decades. But it really started to come
00:27:41 out in the open after October 7. Somehow that emboldened the Islamists and the extremists to
00:27:47 come out and sort of be open in their Jew hatred. We've seen a lot of rallies, the Free Free Palestine
00:27:53 people blocking freeways. They started protesting in residential neighborhoods, which I find very
00:27:58 disturbing, right? And actually, when I came to your rebel headquarters over Christmas, you showed
00:28:03 me a picture of you being arrested by going to one of these rallies, which is really truly shocking
00:28:07 that you would get arrested for going in your, you know, in your community and opposing these
00:28:12 people who are protesting residential neighborhoods. Well, things have really spiraled out of control,
00:28:16 I would say, since Operation Epic Fury started and the Iran campaign. We obviously saw Al-Quds 1.00
00:28:23 Day open support of terrorism. That happens every year. But synagogues started getting shot up. So
00:28:28 they'd go in the morning and their front door would be full of bullet holes. And then it also
00:28:32 happened at the U.S. consulate. Very, very concerning things. I think this should be the
00:28:38 biggest national news story. We don't really hear that much about it, but there is a little bit of
00:28:42 an update, which is that the Toronto police will finally act to stop the protests marching through
00:28:47 these neighborhoods. And so they came out and basically just announced that this was going to
00:28:53 stop. I'm wondering, I mean, this is your community in your city. Can you comment on it? What's
00:28:59 happening? And do you think that the police are doing enough? Yeah. So every Sunday, there are
00:29:05 dueling protests. Actually, these days, there's only the pro-Hamas, pro-Iran protests at an
00:29:11 intersection in a fairly Jewish neighborhood, Bathurst and Shepherd. And they scream anti-Semitic
00:29:17 things. In the past, they were using PA systems to bombard Jewish residential homes. But what
00:29:23 they started to do a couple months ago is they would go from this intersection, then they would
00:29:26 start walking down residential streets like no offices no schools no not just going down the
00:29:34 houses and they would see jews and start screaming anti-semitic things like terrifying moms and kids
00:29:42 it was shocking and the police walked with them escorting them this wasn't so the police were
00:29:50 walking with these and and most of them in bathers and shepherd they're about 90 or 95 percent foreign
00:29:56 nationals. So these are not Canadians. In fact, many of them, I suspect, are amongst the 700
00:30:02 Islamic Revolutionary Guard, IRGC, terrorists that Canada has identified. If we've identified 700,
00:30:08 why are they here? Like, why haven't we deported them? I believe that a number of them are the 1.00
00:30:13 activists. And a couple of weeks ago, there was a big rally outside the U.S. consulate. They called
00:30:17 it Al-Quds Day, which is an Iranian propaganda day. There, you had every communist, hardcore
00:30:25 left-wingers. So I was surprised. I'd say it was about 20 or 30 percent white, woke, leftist
00:30:31 communists. And then about 70 percent were pro-Iran activists. I was really glad to see that Juno had
00:30:38 Clayton Domain there covering it, too. I think it's very important. And the police, I'm not looking
00:30:44 for hate crimes and speech crimes. How about just take care of the real crimes? Assault, uttering
00:30:49 threats, harassment, stalking, trespass, vandalism, shooting at synagogues and schools. I'm not
00:30:56 looking for new hate crimes to be put on the books. I'm looking for existing laws to be
00:31:01 affected. There's Section 176 of the Criminal Code says you're not allowed to beset a place
00:31:05 of worship and interrupt it. A couple years ago, the Pro-Hamas people took loudspeakers right
00:31:11 outside a Jewish synagogue and shouted Nazi-style epithets at it all day. That's actually against
00:31:18 section 176 of our criminal code. Look it up. And why won't the police act? And all I'm looking
00:31:24 for is for the police to treat this, oh, say the same way they would treat it if it was happening
00:31:29 to a mosque. On the weekend, I went to New Brunswick. There was a church that was torched.
00:31:34 Now, the church was no longer in use, but a church was torched in New Brunswick,
00:31:39 and I don't think there was a single news story about it. I just saw it on Twitter,
00:31:43 and I went to see it for myself. Over 100 churches have been vandalized or torched,
00:31:47 and we alluded to this earlier, that was sort of part of Dre's questions to Jagmeet Singh.
00:31:52 So what's crazy to me is that the Jewish community is under a crime wave. And I'm not
00:31:59 talking about word crimes or hurt feeling crimes. It's a, when you shoot up three synagogues in 1.00
00:32:04 five days, that is real crime. And where's the, you know, last point, I know I'm going on here.
00:32:11 One of the city councilors said, we need more police. We need RCMP. We need Ontario Provincial
00:32:16 police. Both of those police forces refused to help, and I'll tell you why. Because we have
00:32:21 millions of people in Canada who vote, who come from endemically anti-Semitic cultures,
00:32:28 and the politicians can do the math. There are more people who hate Jews, hate Israel, 0.84
00:32:33 hate Zionism, hate, just they're full of hate for the West, than there are Jews or Jewish supporters. 0.99
00:32:39 So the mayor, the premier, the prime minister have done the calculations. I see that Mark Carney 0.98
00:32:44 denounced israel occupying southern lebanon when they're going to extirpate hezbollah why didn't
00:32:49 he put out a press release about hezbollah there i because he knows who his market is and i think
00:32:55 unless we deal with immigration and frankly repatriate a lot of foreign nationals who are 0.96
00:32:59 here on false pretenses i think this is going to get worse and i think you're going to see more and
00:33:04 more jews leave for the united states which makes me very sad it makes me sad too as i think it's
00:33:09 sign of a very sick society when you know people who fled nazi europe in the 20th century uh who 0.84
00:33:19 you know came to canada and had safe refuge are now picking up and leaving and i speak to a lot
00:33:24 of people from toronto not just conservatives do right like like actual former liberal jews or just
00:33:29 just even secular jews that don't really feel safe and comfortable in canada it's a very terrifying 1.00
00:33:36 calculation and you're totally right that it all just stems from reckless immigration so it's i
00:33:41 guess good to see the police are finally starting to pay attention they kind of have to when it's
00:33:45 spilling out into violence in our streets um but it sort of feels like too little too late
00:33:49 and again it's to me it's a sign of a very unhealthy society ezra i always appreciate
00:33:53 your time i could talk to you for hours and probably talk about every topic under the sun
00:33:57 but we appreciate uh your time and uh thanks for joining us great to see you thanks for having me
00:34:02 All right, folks, that's Ezra Levant of The Rebel.
00:34:05 That's all the time we have for today.
00:34:06 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:34:07 I'm Candice Buckham.
00:34:08 This is Candice Buckham Show.
00:34:08 Thank you and God bless.