Rebel News Podcast - Alberta Rebels gear up to deliver the other side of the story for 2019 elections (Guest： Keean Bexte)

00:00:00.000 Tonight, my newest on-air colleague joins me to talk about what it's like to be a rebel reporter

00:00:05.040 and what two election cycles in 2019 means for us here at The Rebel.

00:00:10.140 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.860 We've got a provincial election coming up in just a few short months, hopefully before the end of May 2019.

00:00:37.740 And then, before the end of the year 2019, we will also see Justin Trudeau face his first federal election as prime minister.

00:00:46.320 And that means all hands on deck here at The Rebel.

00:00:49.620 Now, over the last nearly four years here, you've seen us break stories that you won't see anywhere in the mainstream media.

00:00:57.500 And you've seen us ask questions the mainstream media just refuses to ask newsmakers.

00:01:04.740 Like when my guest tonight confronted convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Cotter at the Edmonton Law Courts building.

00:01:14.200 That was something we had never seen before in Canadian media.

00:01:18.720 A journalist asking Omar Cotter hard questions about his crime, the murder of U.S. Army medic Sergeant Christopher Speer.

00:01:26.560 Before Carter was confronted like that, he had consistently been treated like a victim by the mainstream media here in Canada.

00:01:35.600 It was shocking and refreshing to see him face scrutiny.

00:01:41.340 Now, joining me tonight is that scrappy rookie reporter who took on the war criminal when everybody else was treating him with kid gloves.

00:01:49.240 My guest tonight, in an interview we actually recorded New Year's Day, is my rebel colleague here in Alberta, Kian Bexie.

00:01:57.420 And we're talking about what it's like to be a rebel reporter.

00:02:01.240 Some of Kian's favorite stories, who Kian thinks is the worst cabinet minister here in Alberta.

00:02:07.500 And what we both plan to do during the 2019 election campaigns, both here in Alberta and at the federal level.

00:02:19.240 So, joining me now is our newest rebel here with the company, but also my fellow traveler in fighting the left in Alberta and bringing you the other side of the story.

00:02:43.180 So, joining me now from Calgary is Kian Bexie. 0.86

00:02:46.600 Hey, Kian, Happy New Year and Merry Christmas. 1.00

00:02:49.420 We both had a little bit of time off.

00:02:51.760 Hopefully, you have your conservative batteries recharged because I think we have a big fight up against us here in 2019.

00:02:59.600 And that's one of the reasons I wanted to have you on today is you and I, I think we're going to play instrumental roles in the election that the rest of the mainstream media isn't going to do.

00:03:11.500 But I wanted to talk to you first about what it's been like for you to be a rebel and join the company.

00:03:20.440 Like, what's your experience been like and has it been, like, unexpectedly hard for you?

00:03:26.500 Because I feel like you sort of hit the ground running.

00:03:28.980 Well, thanks.

00:03:30.160 I appreciate that.

00:03:30.840 It hasn't been unexpectedly hard.

00:03:34.120 It's always fun to do work that matters, that people care about.

00:03:37.800 And when I get feedback from people saying that they like what I'm doing and they appreciate it, it means a lot.

00:03:43.820 So, it's really easy to do.

00:03:46.040 Yeah.

00:03:46.720 Like, it's hard when you're in the fire all the time.

00:03:50.440 Yeah.

00:03:50.740 Yeah.

00:03:51.160 That's a different story.

00:03:52.600 The Twitter barrage.

00:03:54.240 And, you know, sometimes my family gets attacked for talking with me online in a public setting.

00:04:02.900 And it's just, it's kind of awful, but that's the left for you, right?

00:04:06.160 So.

00:04:07.120 Yeah, that really is the left.

00:04:08.440 I mean, it's a bit of a learning curve.

00:04:11.640 You know, like, for myself, I keep my personal Facebook page locked up tighter than Fort Knox.

00:04:17.000 Because I'm always very careful of how the left will come after our families.

00:04:22.680 Because I think you and I are sort of pretty resilient to the blast furnace of the internet.

00:04:27.740 You know, you put one foot into the internet and there's like a thousand crazy cat ladies trying to yell at you. 1.00

00:04:33.760 And no offense to cat ladies, but the crazy ones are the worst. 1.00

00:04:37.020 But I don't think it's something that our families really bargain for.

00:04:40.740 And I think we saw this with Sam Oosterholt.

00:04:43.120 I was just going to say, yeah.

00:04:44.760 Yeah, go ahead.

00:04:45.420 Well, yeah, with Sam Oosterholt, his parents were doxed by an SJW activist.

00:04:51.460 And I think it's one of the most reprehensible things to do is to drag innocent people into a fight that they don't want to be in.

00:05:00.440 And they had no reason to be involved in the first place.

00:05:05.200 It's sad, really.

00:05:06.760 It's, you know, the guy who did it, he's just so inconsequential.

00:05:13.500 He's a failed city council candidate where Sam's from.

00:05:18.820 But he actually directed people to go to Sam's, like, not just to, you know, attack Sam, but go to his parents' house on Christmas and then protest them.

00:05:30.520 Like, what did they do?

00:05:31.780 Except raise a high-achieving young man.

00:05:34.260 They're Christian.

00:05:34.840 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:37.600 It's just, it's, but that's sort of how the left operates.

00:05:44.540 We saw what they did to Tucker Carlson.

00:05:46.340 Yeah, same thing.

00:05:48.060 Yeah.

00:05:48.920 I wanted to ask you what has been your favorite thing or story that you've done here at The Rebel?

00:05:56.860 It has, without a doubt, it was confronting Omar Khadr.

00:06:00.660 I mean, coming face to face with a terrorist, sure, he didn't answer our questions, but I think we got our point across.

00:06:07.000 Just the fact that he was so unwilling to talk and answer real questions shows a few things.

00:06:13.080 First off, that the media has absolutely no ability to hold him to account.

00:06:17.780 He has 10.5 million taxpayers' dollars in his pocket, keep in mind, but also that he has no remorse himself, right?

00:06:25.700 We asked him if he regretted killing Christopher Speer, and he just said nothing.

00:06:30.200 And then when we went into the courthouse and stood in an elevator with this convicted terrorist, he did nothing but smirk at me, knowing that I couldn't film him.

00:06:40.720 And that was the true Omar Khadr that we saw there, I think.

00:06:43.320 But you don't get those kind of opportunities to confront real-life terrorists unless you're with The Rebel.

00:06:50.720 It was an eye-opening experience for me, that's for sure.

00:06:54.560 Yeah, I think you did something that no other journalist has ever thought to do.

00:06:59.200 And not only is that a credit to you and your bravery, really, but a real indictment of the mainstream media in Canada that nobody has ever asked him if he regretted killing an army medic, Christopher Speer.

00:07:16.180 I was able to confront him, too, and it was strange because I didn't even realize, like, it didn't sink into me that I had confronted a war criminal and an al-Qaeda terrorist until I was in the truck on the way home.

00:07:28.120 But I also asked him about Christopher Speer's children, these kids that grew up without their hero father because of Omar Khadr's actions.

00:07:38.340 And, you know, he's never really been remorseful.

00:07:40.880 And, you know, he's actually structured his payout from the Canadian government in such a way that the widow, Tabitha Speer, will probably never see any of it.

00:07:50.720 You know, we talk about Christopher Speer and his children so much, and it's such a shame what happened to them.

00:07:56.300 But what people need to know is that Omar Khadr, he hasn't just killed Christopher Speer and blinded another American military personnel in Afghanistan.

00:08:06.420 He was creating IEDs.

00:08:08.780 Who knows how many people this person has killed or has had a hand in killing?

00:08:13.660 But nobody's asking the questions.

00:08:15.380 That's the problem, right?

00:08:16.400 And he's certainly not willing to answer.

00:08:18.060 I sure wouldn't divide $10.5 million in an offshore bank account if that's in fact where it is.

00:08:23.400 But we just don't know.

00:08:24.220 We just don't know where his money is.

00:08:26.620 And like you say, nobody's asking the questions.

00:08:29.140 When I confronted Omar Khadr, all the other journalists looked at me like I was crazy because I confronted this newsworthy person with an entirely valid question that Canadians want to know about.

00:08:42.080 But they just treat him as though he's the child victim in all of this instead of the fatherless children of his true victim.

00:08:50.600 Now, I wanted to ask you, this is, I was thinking about this question myself because we're going into hopefully Rachel Notley's last five or so months in office, God willing.

00:09:07.800 Who do you think the worst cabinet minister is? 0.88

00:09:10.480 David Egan, I don't even have to think twice about it.

00:09:14.260 David Egan, 100%.

00:09:16.380 He is single-handedly shaping the future generation, like the next generation of Albertans.

00:09:22.760 And it's terrifying what he's doing.

00:09:24.900 He's manipulating them with his curriculum.

00:09:28.060 He's revoking funding from Catholics, from Christian schools just because they don't agree with his political doctrine.

00:09:36.260 I mean, it's insane.

00:09:38.460 You know, Joe Ceci, he can spend billions and billions of dollars.

00:09:41.400 But Albertans are hard workers and will overcome that debt and will get back to balance like we did with Ralph Klein.

00:09:48.120 But the problem is that is we're disabled when we have a generation of socialists growing up.

00:09:55.640 And he knows that.

00:09:57.040 And that's what he wants.

00:09:58.120 Right.

00:09:58.420 So, yeah.

00:10:00.020 You know what?

00:10:00.460 I would agree with you.

00:10:01.440 I think he's doing it's, you know, Joe Ceci.

00:10:05.540 Yeah.

00:10:05.780 He's spending us into oblivion.

00:10:07.540 He thinks that craft beer is going to save the economy.

00:10:10.120 Shannon Phillips with her carbon tax.

00:10:13.540 But that's something that can be repealed with her, you know, changing how Albertans use our public lands. 1.00

00:10:19.600 That's something that can be repealed with, you know, a vote and a new law.

00:10:25.740 But what David Egan is doing is he's changing the culture of Alberta in such an irreparable way that, as you so wisely pointed out,

00:10:35.960 we won't have this sort of skilled workforce who understands work and the oil patch and to be able to work ourselves out of this debt.

00:10:47.780 If we don't have a workforce that is competitive with the likes of the Americans or the Chinese or the Japanese, 1.00

00:10:55.080 we are not able to get out of this hole.

00:10:57.320 And that's why I was so proud of you to see your campaign against David Egan, your Fire Egan campaign in that big, beautiful billboard on the side of the highway, too.

00:11:10.780 It is a beauty.

00:11:12.040 How many people are seeing that thing every day?

00:11:14.620 It's over one million impressions every month is the information we have.

00:11:20.780 So that's over 250,000 people seeing it a week, which I think is crazy.

00:11:25.760 I mean, thank goodness we were able to crowdfund for that because it was 100 percent paid for by Rebel viewers.

00:11:34.420 And it's such a great message to send to the NDP every time Rachel Notley and David Egan and any of her cabinet ministers, her MLAs or the staffers or even people who support her,

00:11:46.000 when they're driving from Calgary to Edmonton, they're seeing a big sign on the side of the road calling them out for what they've done.

00:11:52.520 And if you go to www.fireegin.ca, you can see all the coverage we've done on David Egan and the people involved with him from Progress Alberta to Press Progress.

00:12:05.680 And folks who, well, actually, the one video that I want to talk about specifically was the left wing trifecta video that we did.

00:12:13.560 It was one of the first few ones that I did.

00:12:15.100 Actually, we went to Weber Academy and talked to the headmaster there, Dr. Weber, and he was sharing a story about how he was called on Twitter a supporter of residential schools through a series of steps from the Egan ministry to Progress Alberta releasing statements.

00:12:37.300 And it eventually ended up, Progress Alberta had to release an apology.

00:12:41.980 Duncan Kinney had to release a public statement of apology, which he did on Christmas Eve, I think it was, so that nobody would see it.

00:12:49.140 But that was part of our Fire Egan campaign.

00:12:52.140 So there's a whole bunch of stuff that we've done and it's a lot of good work.

00:12:55.260 So I'd recommend people go check that website out.

00:12:58.240 Yeah, I normally don't like to talk about Progress Alberta because it feels like we're punching down.

00:13:02.700 You know what I mean?

00:13:04.460 We take on cabinet ministers, we take on Trudeau, we take on the United Nations, you know, and we very frequently win those battles or at least severely damage the people we are up against and make them look like totalitarian wackadoodles.

00:13:19.020 So I don't like to punch down because they're just, while Progress Alberta is very well funded and very well connected,

00:13:27.120 I think they're just low level known at things most of the time.

00:13:33.080 And they're just, you know, like the undeclared press secretaries of NDP.

00:13:41.100 But what they tried to do to Weber Academy was really reprehensible.

00:13:46.620 But it goes back to this attack on private schooling that you see from the left all the time.

00:13:53.680 Yeah, it's harder to indoctrinate kids when they're in a private school, I suppose.

00:13:58.300 I think you said it well a few months ago.

00:14:00.920 You said the public education factories is what you call them, the public schools.

00:14:05.420 And that's a great way to put it because that's what they are.

00:14:08.160 And that's what they, well, maybe that's not what they are.

00:14:09.780 But that's what the NDP view them as is just a factory to push kids through and form their ideologies early on.

00:14:18.020 Well, and they attack a private schooling because they think that only rich people send their kids to private school.

00:14:28.420 But that's just not the case.

00:14:30.240 I've seen some studies, I think it was from the Fraser Institute, where when you take out like the elite level academies,

00:14:38.640 I guess like Weber Academy and some of the, you know, really expensive elite level academies,

00:14:44.880 when you take them out of the equation and you compare the incomes of people who send their kids to private school

00:14:51.000 versus the people who send their kids to public school,

00:14:54.100 the people who send their kids to public school are actually quite often earning more money than those who send their kids to private school.

00:15:02.080 So it's not a place where, you know, the elite send their kids so that they don't have to mix with people like me, I guess.

00:15:09.900 It's where people who are making sacrifices to pay that extra bit of tuition because they want to send their kids to someplace different for a whole host of reasons.

00:15:19.160 It doesn't have to be for even the education.

00:15:22.960 Sometimes it's for sports.

00:15:24.120 Sometimes it's for religious reasons.

00:15:25.980 Sometimes it's because of class sizes.

00:15:27.860 But when the NDP attack these private educational institutions, what it really what they're doing is they want to dump a bunch of kids into what seems to be an already failing public system.

00:15:42.600 And you actually accurately pointed that out in your Fire Egan campaign.

00:15:47.240 Yeah, it's it sure is a shame when when they attack those private schools,

00:15:51.860 because what they're doing is they're attacking the parents and the children who have made a joint decision to go to that school.

00:15:58.700 No one forced them to.

00:16:00.040 They decided this is in their best interests and that's what they want to do.

00:16:03.440 And and for some reason, Progress Alberta and David Egan and his ministry think that it's OK to disparage them and act like they're the worst people ever.

00:16:13.960 But really, they're just looking for a good education or have made that decision for those whole host reasons.

00:16:19.200 Like you said, sports location, maybe they're avoiding a problem at an old school with a bully or something like that.

00:16:25.680 You know, you never know what what causes these children to go to private schools.

00:16:29.220 And and I think it's just it's a shame that that Progress Alberta thinks that it's OK to attack them like that. 1.00

00:16:35.580 Well, and we know that private education actually saves the public system money because in Alberta, we only fund our children who are attending private schools.

00:16:46.820 I think it's at 70 percent. So with 30 percent savings per student is being dumped back into the public system.

00:16:53.360 It's not like the government is saving that money and just putting it away for a rainy day.

00:16:57.840 They're dumping it into the public system.

00:17:00.420 So, you know, to eliminate private education in Alberta would rise the cost of education by 30 percent.

00:17:08.900 It is outrageous and it is very short sighted.

00:17:12.620 But heaven forbid some kids escape those indoctrination factories.

00:17:16.000 Well, you know, as well as I, the NDP aren't concerned with rising costs at all.

00:17:19.780 Right. They're happy to spend as much as they as much as they need.

00:17:23.520 So I pointed out earlier, we're headed into an election year, both federally and provincially.

00:17:32.620 Provincially, we should hopefully see an election sort of by the end of May.

00:17:39.020 I think it'll be earlier than that.

00:17:41.040 You think it'll be earlier?

00:17:42.580 Yeah.

00:17:42.880 Why? I think they're going to hang on for all it's worth.

00:17:45.700 I'm looking at their expenses and they're spending a lot of money on fancy clothes.

00:17:49.000 Fair enough. It's just a hunch.

00:17:52.160 But I if I was to be if I was a betting man, which I suppose I am, but I would say early March.

00:17:59.860 That's that's when I'll put my money on it.

00:18:02.400 Really?

00:18:02.960 Yeah. Yeah.

00:18:04.380 I I don't I don't know.

00:18:07.680 The thing is, I think it they would have called an early election if they thought they could catch the UCP flat footed.

00:18:16.920 But clearly, the UCP has been running their nominations for, you know, well over a year now.

00:18:22.960 They've got most of their candidates in place.

00:18:26.640 Although, you know what, I might agree with you if they if there was some sort of like a serious bozo interruption, they would from the UCP. 0.82

00:18:35.780 I think the NDP might try to strike while the iron was hot.

00:18:39.380 But I think they're going to hang on for all it's worth.

00:18:42.240 What are they going to do?

00:18:43.540 Well, what are they going to do?

00:18:44.640 They're going to go back to Starbucks.

00:18:46.280 They're going to go back to their mom's house.

00:18:48.260 I don't know their mom's basement.

00:18:49.860 Yeah.

00:18:50.420 Well, here's my reasoning.

00:18:52.480 I think.

00:18:53.260 Well, if you look, there's a few writings that are that are certainly in contention.

00:18:57.000 I think Calgary Varsity, I think pretty much all of Lethbridge.

00:19:00.700 These university areas where there's a high concentration of left wing voters, I think that if they get them before finals and before they all go home for go home for the summer, I think that'll help them a lot.

00:19:15.920 So I think that's going to play a part in them in when they're going to call the election, because I seriously think that these these people don't don't know, can't see the writing on the wall.

00:19:26.720 I think that they really think that they can win and maybe they can.

00:19:30.620 Who knows?

00:19:31.740 Polls are polls.

00:19:33.020 So, yeah.

00:19:35.320 Now, I know that you're sort of looking forward to doing some stories about cataloging what the NDP like their failures over the last three and a half years.

00:19:50.560 I know I'm sort of looking forward to that because I feel as though it's sort of like the job losses in Alberta.

00:19:58.240 Every one of them is terrible, but we you get barraged with them and you sort of become desensitized to how bad it is until you dig back down into, you know, the people and the catastrophe that it's causing.

00:20:16.360 And I think the NDP have just been so bad that I think people are used to how bad they've been and they've sort of forgotten.

00:20:25.700 And I know between now and whenever the election is, I'm going to be working on cataloging some of their catastrophe.

00:20:32.900 What about you?

00:20:33.760 Well, it's numbing.

00:20:34.820 You're right, is probably a good way to put it, because if you if you recall back to just it was a week after the election when the Deborah Drever stuff came out.

00:20:44.000 This this woman who is posing with marijuana memorabilia and and posed in a heavy metal album cover in a way that made it look like she was being sexually assaulted. 1.00

00:20:55.260 It was, you know, and she said quite a few nasty things online as well. 0.99

00:20:59.180 And that was the first one.

00:21:01.040 And I think people were stunned when they saw it.

00:21:02.840 They realized what they did.

00:21:03.980 And ever since then, it's just been a buildup of of bozo eruptions from the NDP and people just expect it now.

00:21:14.440 But but we'll we'll have to see, I guess, whether or not that's going to play part in the everyday Albertans decision come the ballot box.

00:21:21.980 When when we do the catalog, that's what exactly what we're going to do.

00:21:26.020 I'm going to try to focus on Calgary MLAs to start with through this series of videos.

00:21:32.760 And I'm going to it depends on which one it is, depends on who it is.

00:21:36.280 But I'm hopefully going to go meet them and actually ask them questions in person.

00:21:40.420 I think that would be entertaining because you never know how these people are going to act when they're when they have a microphone on them.

00:21:45.820 And you can ask them questions that the CBC is not asking them. 1.00

00:21:48.780 But I don't want to just go through them and and outline the stupid thing, the stupid things they've done. 0.99

00:21:54.400 I want to actually ask them what their justification is for doing the things that they've done. 0.99

00:21:59.120 So so you'll have to watch out for that, I suppose.

00:22:01.760 And I'll be chatting with you as we go through it, because I imagine you're probably going to want to focus on Edmonton, Edmonton folks so you can do the same.

00:22:09.720 Yeah, I think if you do that, I think you're going to catch these people.

00:22:16.520 It's like wildlife photography.

00:22:18.060 You're going to catch them in their natural environment and you're you are going to catch them off guard because I think for a lot of these MLAs, they're used to a very sycophantic media, a media that is, quite frankly, contracting.

00:22:31.440 And it feels like every story they do is a cover letter for their job with the government.

00:22:36.300 And I think it's almost it's over a dozen, if I recall correctly, mainstream media reporters who've gone on to work for the NDP government in some form or another.

00:22:49.400 So, you know, when you're reading their coverage, of course, but, you know, but I don't know if the public really knows that or if they've they keep that in mind that that's the filter through which these people write.

00:23:01.980 So but that's also the filter through which they ask questions of the MLA.

00:23:06.460 So I think you are going to get some very interesting, very natural reactions from the NDP that I don't think we've ever seen before.

00:23:15.260 So I'm very excited to see that.

00:23:18.720 What else are you going to be up to in 2019, though?

00:23:21.340 Well, in 2019, we're going to continue on with our fire egging campaign.

00:23:26.460 I imagine he just keeps handing us stuff, handing us content to talk about because there's disaster after disaster.

00:23:33.680 But what I really want to focus on, and this is from feedback that I've gotten from viewers, is I want to focus on videos that involve the public in some way where I'm actually going out and asking questions because people want to hear some monologues sometimes, but they really want to hear what the everyday Albertan has to say about what's going on.

00:23:51.200 So it completely depends on what what's going on in the media and current events and in some way, shape or form so that I can go chat with people and see and get their opinions about what's going on.

00:24:03.740 You know, I think that's one of the things that we really do well here at The Rebel is we talk to the normal people in a way that normal people understand we don't use like when you go to these climate change conferences and you hear stuff like increasing ambition to fight climate change.

00:24:20.580 What does that even mean?

00:24:21.860 Nobody does like no normal person talks like that.

00:24:24.300 I've been to three of these conferences. 0.97

00:24:25.600 I still don't even know what that phrase means because it is so vague and ridiculous.

00:24:29.760 And I think you are becoming one of the best sort of man on the street reporters doing what we call in the business streeters.

00:24:39.240 You're asking normal people normal questions that people ask around the dinner table and you're getting some incredible responses.

00:24:47.640 And it's something that nobody else in the media really does run out and gauge the public on an issue.

00:24:54.000 Yeah, no, it's nice when the weather's nice, but I just find a close C train station and wait for people to get off the train and ask them questions.

00:25:02.860 And, you know, they want to talk.

00:25:04.160 They want to share their thoughts.

00:25:06.300 So it's always a fun experience to do.

00:25:08.700 Yeah, and it's I've been covering these ongoing truck rallies and when you when you're on the Internet every day, it's like I called it earlier, a blast furnace of hate.

00:25:21.140 Just get on there.

00:25:22.200 It's people yelling at you and you get back off.

00:25:24.900 But when you go to these rallies, you remember, wait, yeah, there's people cheering for us and they're happy to see us.

00:25:31.740 They're high fiving you.

00:25:32.900 They're hugging you.

00:25:33.660 They want to talk to you.

00:25:34.760 They have a story to tell and it reminds you that the Internet is not real life and it is it is the best thing ever.

00:25:43.460 So when I get a chance to get out of my little cubbyhole studio that I work in, I jump at it.

00:25:49.540 Yeah, and I'm glad I'm glad to see you doing it because we're giving voice to people that normally they're they're they're the forgotten people or the people that the mainstream media just glosses over.

00:26:00.660 They don't care about those people.

00:26:01.860 They are our bread and butter.

00:26:03.660 Yeah.

00:26:04.460 Yeah.

00:26:04.960 No, I don't see the CBC going to these yellow vest protesters and actually trying to get their opinions on what's going on.

00:26:13.760 Right.

00:26:13.960 And actually hear their story.

00:26:16.020 Sometimes they do show up and film the protest and say, this is what's happening.

00:26:21.000 These people are protesting.

00:26:22.180 There's about however many people there.

00:26:24.940 They usually drastically underestimate how many people actually showed up, but they never actually talk to the people.

00:26:30.380 Right.

00:26:30.940 Right.

00:26:31.040 And hearing their story and sharing that online is a huge help to them.

00:26:35.520 But also, everyday Albertans want to know why there was 600 protesters outside of City Hall two weeks ago when the CBC certainly isn't going to tell them.

00:26:45.560 Yeah.

00:26:46.840 Yeah.

00:26:47.280 I mean, I guess we serve as a counterbalance to that because not only does the CBC not tell them in certain instances or the CBC totally makes up the reason those people are there.

00:26:59.000 Like they won't say, oh, these people are like explicitly anti-Trudeau, they're anti-carbon tax, they're anti-Rachel Notley.

00:27:04.980 They'll just say, oh, there they are. 0.98

00:27:07.480 There's some anti-immigration sentiments within the yellow vest protesters who seem to also support oil and gas or something stupid like that. 0.96

00:27:15.900 But when you go to talk to the yellow vest protesters, like over the weekend, I talked to somebody who is a first generation Canadian. 0.92

00:27:22.460 And he's like, I just want all the immigrants who are coming to the country to go through the same process that my parents had to.

00:27:28.460 And I'm like, oh, that's pretty fair. 0.97

00:27:30.120 But according to the CBC, that guy is some sort of xenophobic crazy person. 0.97

00:27:34.640 Yeah. 0.78

00:27:35.120 No, the CBC has a very explicit way they want to characterize people.

00:27:39.380 If they're wearing a yellow vest or it's not even just a yellow vest, they're in a yellow vest, they're in a truck or they have an anti-Trudeau sign.

00:27:46.840 They're always, you know, disgruntled Albertans or, you know, some sort of upset but discredited.

00:27:54.840 They characterize them in some upset persona that they just discredit after that.

00:28:02.060 Whereas if it's, oh, I don't know, some Antifa protests, then there's legitimate concerns that they talk about.

00:28:10.240 They interview them and they share what their issue is with the public.

00:28:14.040 Right, right.

00:28:16.000 They'll go to the Antifa protests and paint them as though they're out there fighting actual Nazis instead of just people with whom they disagree.

00:28:25.900 As though there are actual Nazis out there, by the way.

00:28:28.380 There's like 10 LARPers. 0.54

00:28:30.640 That's it.

00:28:32.800 Well, Kian, I think I've taken up enough of your time because we are recording this on New Year's Day.

00:28:38.960 And you and I both had to do our hair.

00:28:42.840 Yes, I had to shave.

00:28:44.100 I had to get to rest.

00:28:44.680 It was a shame.

00:28:45.680 It was a real shame.

00:28:46.740 It was a shame.

00:28:47.320 My hair deserved the break.

00:28:49.520 But, yeah, I want to thank you so much for jumping on with me today and sort of sharing your experience as a new rebel.

00:28:56.980 And I look forward, so forward, to all the things that you're going to get up to in 2019 because, boy, you are scrappy.

00:29:06.180 So, Kian, thanks for coming on the show.

00:29:07.460 My pleasure.

00:29:07.780 Thank you so much.

00:29:08.980 Thanks, Kian.

00:29:09.560 Bye.

00:29:09.680 In 2019 at The Rebel, we will continue to do what we've always done here, and that is bring you the other side of the story.

00:29:31.640 We will continue to file access to information requests with the federal government and freedom of information requests with the Alberta government and other provincial governments to get you the answers to questions that normal people are asking around their dinner tables.

00:29:48.180 Questions like, how much did that really bad idea just cost us, and whose dumb idea was it in the first place?

00:29:55.880 And as long as the mainstream media tailors their coverage of liberal and left-leaning politicians as though their coverage were a resume for a job with the government, Kian and I will always have a big job to do at The Rebel.

00:30:11.200 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:30:13.600 Happy New Year, and all the best to you and yours in 2019.

00:30:18.160 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:30:22.800 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - January 03, 2019

Alberta Rebels gear up to deliver the other side of the story for 2019 elections (Guest： Keean Bexte)

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