Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Toronto's urban decay is a taxpayer-funded, government-approved descent into madness

00:00:00.000 Tonight, after a disastrous program in which children were encouraged to turn in used needles

00:00:21.860 for chocolate bars, surely the time has come for the province of Ontario to shutter the

00:00:28.880 South Riverdale Community Health Centre. It's Thursday, August 17th, 2023. I'm David Menzies and this

00:00:38.200 is the Ezra Levent Show.

00:00:43.060 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:46.320 You may have noticed that we've been running an ongoing series of reports under the banner

00:00:59.760 fixourcities.com. Oh, and there is so much to fix in our great dominion these days, thanks to the

00:01:07.980 disease of far-left liberalism that allows and even condones lawlessness to take lease. Case in

00:01:15.920 point, Toronto's Allen Gardens, this former downtown gem, continues to be occupied by drug addicts,

00:01:23.720 drug dealers, vagrants and other reprobates. The once pristine park is now litter-strewn as filthy

00:01:30.540 tents take the place of lawns and flowerbeds. Violence, including stabbings and sexual assaults,

00:01:37.620 a routine here, as are bonfires and loud music that blare into the wee hours of the night.

00:01:45.280 And the city's response is to shrug. Oh, sure, they've asked the occupiers breaking some

00:01:52.220 11 sections of the Trespass Act to leave, pretty pleased with sugar on top. But the city gatekeepers

00:02:00.000 are about as relevant as professional wrestling referees when it comes to respect and authority.

00:02:05.320 So it is. These occupiers refuse to budge. Indeed, with every passing week, their numbers seem to

00:02:11.680 grow. Let's hope for an early winter. And just to give you an idea of how the city has its park

00:02:19.100 priorities in order, if you happen to be a professional dog walker and you have the unmitigated

00:02:26.300 temerity to let your canine clients use the off-leash dog park at Allen Gardens, there is signage

00:02:34.200 warning that this activity is strictly verboten and you shall be fined. Unbelievable. But it gets

00:02:40.800 worse. A few clicks east of Allen Gardens is the increasingly gentrified neighborhood of

00:02:46.520 Leslieville. But pity the beleaguered homeowners and business people trying to get by in this

00:02:53.020 neighborhood, thanks to a certain nondescript building located at 955 Queen Street East.

00:03:00.280 It's called the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. It sounds like you might find basketball

00:03:06.340 courts or swimming pools here. But actually, this is a venue for a so-called safe injection site

00:03:13.660 and a so-called safe supply program. It attracts drug addicts. Some are harmless. Others are completely

00:03:22.260 deranged. And it attracts drug dealers plying their trade. And that latter group is especially

00:03:30.020 problematic to this community. How problematic, you ask? Well, you may recall that it was outside

00:03:36.940 this facility where a gunfight erupted on July 7th. Suddenly, Queen Street resembled the shootout at the

00:03:45.180 OK Corral as dueling drug dealers sought to settle their disputes via gunplay. The end result was the

00:03:54.040 senseless murder of Carolina Huebner Muckarat, a mother of two. Carolina was merely strolling down 1.00

00:04:02.320 Queen Street in broad daylight en route to a luncheon appointment when she was downed by a stray bullet.

00:04:10.180 But alas, that's the price to society. That's the price we must pay for progressiveness these days,

00:04:17.180 right? Now, you would think that at the very least, the egregious murder of Carolina Huebner Muckarat

00:04:25.060 should have resulted in this safe injection site being shut down, at least temporarily,

00:04:30.560 at least until an investigation regarding this rancid facility could be completed. But no,

00:04:37.820 it's business as usual at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. In fact, the other day,

00:04:44.000 the Mensa Club members who run this safe injection site came up with a so-called marketing ploy that was 0.73

00:04:52.020 so bat shite crazy that we first did some research to ensure we were not being subjected to some sort of 0.93

00:05:01.260 a sick prank. Here's the skinny. A few days ago, passerby Ginny Roth spotted a poster that had been posted 0.99

00:05:09.180 at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, and it made her do a double take. The poster read,

00:05:14.900 quote, got sharps? Want chocolate? For every full sharps container you return to counterfeit,

00:05:23.320 we'll give you a chocolate bar, end quote. Thankfully, Ginny took a photo of this poster and posted it to

00:05:30.100 social media, given that the signage has since been hastily removed. But on so many levels,

00:05:37.420 this is equal parts astonishing and disturbing. For starters, heads up out there how many parents

00:05:45.440 want their children gathering up used hypodermic needles. Oh, sure, an errant jab might lead to 0.99

00:05:52.800 contracting everything from hepatitis to HIV. But hey, kids, you stand to be rewarded with a chocolate

00:05:58.780 bar. It turns out that this perverse reimagining of an Easter egg hunt is the bailiwick of an

00:06:06.620 organization called Counterfeit. No, seriously, folks, that's its name, Counterfeit. Counterfeit is a

00:06:13.280 harm reduction program for women, and it doesn't seem to mind causing potential serious harm for 0.99

00:06:20.880 children. By the way, the very fact that this needle collection program exists, albeit temporarily,

00:06:29.340 speaks volumes about the environment that surrounds this centre. Imagine that. There are enough

00:06:36.600 discarded sharps nearby that Counterfeit can come up with a whiz-bang promotion to enlist kids to scoop

00:06:44.760 up these potentially harmful needles in order to, what, score a Snickers bar? This is proof positive that

00:06:53.160 this facility has no place in a residential neighbourhood. Indeed, this egregious sharps for

00:07:00.860 chocolate's promotion even drew the attention of Conservative leader Pierre Polyev, who had this to

00:07:07.020 say on Twitter, quote, this is an actual sign from a drug consumption site in Toronto. What is happening in

00:07:16.020 Canada? End quote. No word yet from Prime Minister Trudeau about this preposterous program yet. What do you want

00:07:23.520 to bet that blackface likely approves of such an initiative, given that this program is undoubtedly 1.00

00:07:29.860 yet another example of diversity, inclusion, and equity? So it was that my cameraman Maurizio and I

00:07:37.900 visited the South Riverdale Community Health Centre on Tuesday, and we brought along a bag full of needles.

00:07:44.960 We just wanted to put this harebrained program to the test. Namely, what sort of chocolate bar would we

00:07:51.720 receive for our sharps? Would it be a low-end Mars bar or a top-shelf Laura Secord treat? Well, here,

00:08:00.620 check out the warm welcome we received. Hey, how you doing there? Oh, I'm just here to, excuse me.

00:08:06.980 No, you're not here for anything. Please leave. I've got syringes here. I'm here for my candy bar.

00:08:11.640 Please leave. I'm here for my candy bar. Please leave.

00:08:14.640 Excuse me. No, no, you can't come in. Well, this is a public facility, isn't it? Not for you, no.

00:08:18.940 No? Why is that? Okay. Oh, geez, you're crushing me. You have a sign that says if you live in

00:08:25.560 Leslieville and you're concerned about your kids picking up needles that surround the drug

00:08:31.180 consumption site, you don't have to worry. In fact, if your kids collect enough, they can trade them

00:08:38.340 in for chocolate. Here's my bag of needles. Do you want to take it? No? But you have a sign

00:08:46.200 advertising a candy bar. No comment. What about yourself, sir? Can I get a Mars bar or Snickers?

00:08:52.340 I don't work here. I'm sorry. You don't work here? No. No, I'm a neighbour.

00:08:56.460 Oh, okay then. Sorry about that. So, ma'am, who are you? Because you advertised a free candy bar

00:09:01.840 for syringes, and here they are.

00:09:07.640 Why did you put up that sign if you don't mean to fulfill the contract?

00:09:11.200 What about that? Did you guys know Ms. Mohamed? She's being charged with helping one of the... 1.00

00:09:18.340 No comment? She's one of the workers here now charged with the murder.

00:09:23.960 Wow. Now, if you can imagine the entitlement of the thugs who patronize this community centre,

00:09:31.540 Maurizio had his cell phone stolen right out of his hands by some deranged reprobate.

00:09:38.160 That resulted in us calling the police, and they responded en masse. Our thanks, by the way,

00:09:43.660 to the police for that response. Oh, by the way, don't blame the Toronto Police Service for a lack

00:09:50.180 of law enforcement presence in this troublesome area. The political puppet masters have allegedly told

00:09:57.440 the Boys in Blue to avoid patrolling this criminal hotbed. You see, evidently, the sight of police

00:10:04.620 officers may further stigmatise the clients of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre.

00:10:12.140 Oh, and we can't have that, can we? Yeah, so as Toronto continues to reimagine itself as San Francisco

00:10:19.160 North, the police are actually being instructed to avoid places where there is a very high likelihood

00:10:27.300 of crime being committed. Yeah, that sounds completely logical, doesn't it? Speaking of criminals,

00:10:35.160 one of the suspects in the killing of Carolina Huebner-Muckarat was arrested several weeks ago.

00:10:41.780 His name is Damien Hudson. He is the poster boy for the caption,

00:10:46.580 Menace to Society. For starters, Hudson has an incredibly long criminal record dating back to 2011.

00:10:54.100 He's being charged with everything from assault with a weapon to attempted murder. And incredibly,

00:11:01.100 this animal was not put behind bars, but instead, he was out on bail when Carolina was killed,

00:11:07.960 perhaps from a bullet emanating from Hudson's handgun. Oh, did I not mention that this darling

00:11:14.440 had previously violated his probation orders some 16 times over? But thanks to the blackface liberals, 1.00

00:11:22.680 trash-like Hudson, are worthy of a 17th chance. The real threat to Canadian society, after all, 1.00

00:11:29.760 is all those Saskatchewan duck hunters, hence the rationale for blackface's obscene gun grab. 0.89

00:11:37.620 But get this, just three hours before we arrived at the South Riverdale Community Crack Centre,

00:11:44.540 Toronto police released an update on the murder of Carolina Huebner-Muckarat,

00:11:49.660 namely, two new suspects had just been arrested. The first is 20-year-old Hamad Mustafa Ibrahim.

00:11:58.940 He's charged with manslaughter, robbery, and I know the following info might just shock you folks,

00:12:05.760 failing to comply with the terms of his probation. The other suspect who was arrested is very surprising

00:12:12.540 indeed. That would be 23-year-old Khalilah Zahra Mohamed. She's charged with accessory after the fact 1.00

00:12:20.780 and obstruction of justice in relation to the shooting. But get this, folks, Miss Mohamed is 0.91

00:12:27.240 actually an employee at the safe injection site. What's more, according to True North, she was featured

00:12:34.300 in a glowing CBC News report last year in which she advocated for more drug consumption sites

00:12:42.540 in order to, you know, reduce stigma. You can't make this up, folks, because it would appear that

00:12:49.720 in trying to figure out who's who in the safe injection zoo, it is getting harder to tell the

00:12:55.900 livestock from the zoo keepers. But back to that outrageous Sharps for Chocolate poster,

00:13:04.140 thankfully, the outcry on social media resulted in the poster's removal. Jason Altenberg, who is the

00:13:11.820 CEO of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, released the following statement, quote,

00:13:17.800 In an exuberance to get used needles off the street, one of our staff posted a sign that was never meant

00:13:25.520 for the public. In no way, shape, or form was that communication meant for children. We apologize

00:13:32.900 for any miscommunication, end quote. Is anyone other than a drooling dimwit buying that explanation? 0.96

00:13:41.540 Altenberg says the communication was never meant for children, but it addresses children directly 0.97

00:13:46.960 in that the reward is a child appealing chocolate bar. And what's this exuberance bullshite? This was 0.92

00:13:56.480 not a hastily crafted handwritten message on a piece of fool's scat. Rather, it was professionally 0.99

00:14:03.200 rendered. And I bet it went through an approval process too. In fact, I'm betting that Altenberg and

00:14:10.240 all the other woke dopes at this centre probably thought it was a perfectly good idea until 0.96

00:14:16.800 the community responded otherwise. Pathetic. So what is going to be done about this so-called safe 1.00

00:14:24.260 injection site that is adversely affecting an entire neighbourhood? Well, folks, in a word,

00:14:30.580 nothing. For example, coincidentally, the constituency office for the Liberal MP for the writing where the

00:14:37.700 safe injection site is located is less than a football field away from the site. But good luck getting a

00:14:46.520 comment from MP Julie DeBruzan as we discovered last month.

00:14:59.260 Well, this is the constituency office, folks, for the federal member of Parliament. That would be Julie

00:15:07.800 DeBruzan. And as you can see, it's locked down. There's plenty of people in here. They're not closed.

00:15:17.060 They're just not letting us in. Or maybe they're just so shell-shocked by what happens. They're not

00:15:23.900 opening the door to any strangers. It's too bad I would have liked to ask them the question if they think

00:15:30.540 this is an appropriate area for a safe injection site, so-called. And like I said, it is literally

00:15:38.320 less than a football field away. But nobody... Let's see.

00:15:46.500 No, they're not interested. They are simply not interested in providing a comment.

00:15:52.420 Yeah, no comment and no access either. But I wonder, did DeBruzan's crew lock the doors due to our

00:16:00.180 oncoming arrival? Or are those doors always locked, given the number of cretins who are attracted to 1.00

00:16:07.600 this particular postal code? We'll never know as DeBruzan remains silent on this file. We also reached

00:16:14.960 out to Ontario NDP MPP Peter Taubbins, as well as Toronto City Councillor Paula Fletcher for comment.

00:16:23.160 These leftists support these sorts of safe injection sites, but they have nothing to say about the harm

00:16:30.720 such sites do to the community. Oh, by the way, Fletcher is the former leader of the Communist Party of

00:16:36.700 Canada. You'd think having that on your resume would make you unelectable in Canada, but not in

00:16:43.220 Hogtown. Still, when you have a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist-setting policy, well, guess what? You

00:16:50.080 just end up with more safe injection sites. Meanwhile, we did get a response from Liberal

00:16:55.460 MP Dr. Carolyn Bennett's office. Well, sort of. Her office staff merely suggested we reach out to

00:17:01.860 the City of Toronto in the Toronto Police Service. Thanks. As previously noted, the Toronto Police are

00:17:09.560 being politically handcuffed when it comes to carrying out their law enforcement duties, especially in this

00:17:16.020 section of Toronto. Little wonder that the Toronto Police Association stated the following in a Twitter

00:17:22.220 post back on July 9th. Quote, where is the outrage from the public slash local politicians over an innocent

00:17:32.420 bystander being murdered in broad daylight on our city streets? End quote. Yes, where indeed.

00:17:41.780 And that's the solution to this problem, folks. Namely, the political will to do the right thing.

00:17:50.540 Safe injection sites do not work. They cause more harm than good. But for whatever perverse reason,

00:17:56.740 the woke left embrace these facilities. Meanwhile, to its credit, the province of Alberta is embracing

00:18:03.700 the opposite approach, implementing programs to get addicts off drugs and off the streets,

00:18:10.740 as opposed to perpetuating their addictions and their homelessness. Oh, those cruel right-wingers in

00:18:19.000 wild rose country. How dare they actually care about trying to do something tangible when it comes to 0.83

00:18:26.100 eradicating human suffering? You know, it used to be that when a situation got out of control,

00:18:34.020 the response from those desperate for a resolution would ask the following query,

00:18:40.880 what's it going to take to change things? Is someone going to actually have to die?

00:18:45.520 But when it comes to the South Riverdale Community Health Centre and the clientele it attracts,

00:18:51.160 Carolina Huebner-Mackarat already paid the ultimate price. And the response of this so-called

00:18:58.580 community centre was not to relocate its safe injection site out of this neighbourhood, but instead

00:19:05.220 to launch a ludicrous program encouraging children to pick up potentially deadly hypodermic needles in

00:19:13.860 exchange for chocolate? Of note, following our report about the Needles for Chocolate program,

00:19:22.180 Ontario's Ministry of Health says it is now launching a so-called critical incident review

00:19:29.780 of the province's consumption and treatment services sites. The reason? Well, they say it's due to the

00:19:38.000 daytime murder of Ms. Huebner-Mackarat, but that shooting took place on July 7th, folks. Why is the

00:19:45.240 province only announcing such an investigation now? And no word from the province on the chocolates for

00:19:53.400 hypodermic needles campaign? Really? And in the meantime, wouldn't it be prudent to shut down this so-called

00:20:02.260 health centre pending the results of such an investigation? Or is that too much to ask? Because

00:20:09.960 at the end of the day, what's happening at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre is not harm

00:20:17.420 reduction. This is a taxpayer-funded and a government-approved descent into madness.

00:20:32.260 When one thinks of a school board, one would imagine that such an organisation is staffed with

00:20:42.520 dedicated education professionals, the prime directive being educating children. And then there is the

00:20:51.780 Toronto District School Board. Apparently, this entity is hostile and downright intimidating

00:20:59.140 to any person who offers up an opinion that runs contrary to the woke mob running the TDSB. Indeed,

00:21:09.540 respected education consultant Margaret Wilson reviewed the TDSB way back in 2015, stating that a

00:21:18.100 quote, culture of fear, end quote, is so endemic to the board that many staff are too afraid to use

00:21:28.600 board email addresses out of concern of being monitored. And folks, that's just for starters.

00:21:36.760 And joining me now is the investigative reporter with True North, that would be Sue Ann Levy, 0.63

00:21:42.520 who just recently published a piece entitled, The TDSB's Culture of Terror under Colleen Russell

00:21:52.420 Rawlins. And joining me now is Sue Ann Levy herself. Hey, Sue Ann, thank you for joining me here on the

00:22:00.960 Ezra Levent Show tonight.

00:22:03.080 Oh, you're very welcome. Always a pleasure.

00:22:06.080 Likewise, Sue Ann. So first things first, who is Colleen Russell Rawlins and what is she all about?

00:22:14.400 Well, she's a black activist. I make no bones about that. I've said that in many stories. She,

00:22:22.220 I guess her claim to fame was that she was the interim director of the Peel District School Board

00:22:28.480 when things allegedly fell apart. I think that was pushed by the parents for black children in the

00:22:38.060 Peel District. And so she became interim director for a year, appointed by the ministry. And then after

00:22:45.060 that year, she went over to the Toronto District School Board. That was in 2021, just to sort of in

00:22:51.580 the midst of the pandemic. And she's been the education director of the Toronto District School

00:22:58.000 Board since then. So we're going on two years now.

00:23:00.420 Mm-hmm. And of course, the TDSB was in the news very recently regarding, well, I don't know how to

00:23:10.740 describe it. Is it a tragedy? Is it a crime? But we're talking about the principal, Richard, and forgive

00:23:19.160 me if I mispronounce his name, is it Biltstow, who was essentially, well, he took his own life, Sue Ann,

00:23:29.440 but a lot of people allege that this man, who was a good man and a good principal and a good

00:23:35.720 teacher, was essentially bullied to death. What was going on at the TDSB that led to this tragic

00:23:43.040 incident? He was railroaded. You know, he was a white principal. He actually happened to be gay as

00:23:50.360 well, although that was kept rather quiet. And, you know, he doesn't have to display his personal life

00:23:55.960 like many of the teachers at the Toronto District School Board when they come into the classroom.

00:24:00.280 You know, you have to know everything about what they did the night before. But he was in a casual

00:24:07.740 principal. He had officially retired a couple of years ago and then worked casually and was well

00:24:13.040 recognized. And he signed up for one of those diversity, equity, and inclusiveness sessions,

00:24:18.280 DEI sessions. There were four segments of it. And the sessions were led by Kiko Ojo-Thompson,

00:24:28.040 who, when you asked me about Colleen Russell-Rollins, who was the contractor of choice at the Peel

00:24:33.160 District School Board. So she was brought in to do similar sessions in Peel. And then Colleen Russell-Rollins

00:24:40.540 brought her over to the Toronto District School Board to do these equity sessions, which ended up being

00:24:47.640 just, you know, abusive sessions, you know, denouncing white supremacy and white fragility. And,

00:24:57.880 you know, as we found out through Mr. Bilkstow's claim, he made a, you know, claim to the court

00:25:06.480 and through recordings that have surfaced, she was extremely abusive to him in two of these four

00:25:15.740 sessions. So it didn't end at that, though, because Richard actually applied to the WSIB

00:25:25.100 for compensation. He went off on leave. And the adjudicator, they rarely rule in favor of

00:25:33.060 people at the board, especially in stress leave. The adjudicator even said that she had engaged,

00:25:40.840 Ms. Thompson, Ojo Thompson, had engaged in egregious bullying and aggressive behavior towards him 0.93

00:25:48.880 and awarded him six weeks or more than six weeks, two months of compensation, which the Toronto District

00:25:56.660 School Board did not disagree with. Subsequent to when he came back, they basically canceled him from

00:26:03.580 any further contracts. He, one of the contracts that he had was, was canceled. And so they continued

00:26:10.480 to operate like he was, you know, persona non grata. And I think it wasn't just the bullying in the

00:26:16.940 session, Dave, but it was what happened subsequent to the session. And speaking of subsequent to the

00:26:25.260 sessions, Sue Ann, one of the, and correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the most egregious things I

00:26:30.660 thought is that not a single colleague came to the defense of Richard. Is that correct?

00:26:38.220 Yes. And that kind of speaks to the article I wrote about the culture of terror. They've been

00:26:45.060 all terrorized into silence. My article, I write about how they sit in their offices, afraid that

00:26:52.000 they could be next labeled for some racist miscue, something that maybe they looked at a black student

00:27:00.640 or a black parent or a black teacher, fellow teacher in the wrong way. It is just incredible 1.00

00:27:09.920 how these people feel and what is going on inside the board. And most of the people I spoke to,

00:27:18.120 or because I spoke to a series of people, I met with them, agreed that this had happened or ramped up

00:27:24.520 since Colleen Russell-Rollins became education director. Unbelievable. And also, Sue Ann, I think in

00:27:31.320 the department of chutzpah, that's my favorite Yiddish word, meaning sheer unmitigated gall.

00:27:38.020 Gall, yes.

00:27:38.860 Miss Ojo Thompson, one of the head honcho bullies against Richard, she is reimagining herself as a victim. 0.94

00:27:50.880 I know there was supposed to be a barbecue in Brampton last week in which she was going to

00:27:57.660 appear. And we were planning to go out and cover that. And it was canceled because of fears of

00:28:04.540 white supremacists standing on this Peel Park. And she is saying all kinds of things in the media,

00:28:13.220 distancing herself from any responsibility of what happened to Richard. What do you make of that, Sue Ann?

00:28:18.560 Well, it goes right down the line. And yes, I was going to go to that picnic as well. And I found

00:28:24.220 out from, it was going to be run by the parents of black children in Peel. And I called them up and

00:28:30.220 they said that they had gotten death threats from white supremacists, which I promptly asked them,

00:28:35.320 so how did you know they were white supremacists? They could have been Chinese supremacists. They could

00:28:39.400 have been Jewish supremacists. And the gentleman on the other end of the line said, well, they sounded like

00:28:44.680 white supremacists. Of course, they never provide any proof. But Kiko Ojo Thompson is chairman. This shows you

00:28:54.220 how incestuous these groups are. She's chairman of the Parents of Black Children in Peel. So, you know, she was

00:29:01.480 not, I'm sure she was behind this, this picnic that they were, or barbecue that they were planning. But, you know,

00:29:09.360 it's, it's, it's, they're, they're amazing because they are terrible bullies. She was like, there's no 0.83

00:29:16.180 question that she bullied Richard and the other people in the session. But she's not only a bully,

00:29:23.160 but she's a coward. And, you know, now she's playing the victim. Like, you know, you're being racist 1.00

00:29:28.820 towards me. And this is just the act of white supremacists. And she's propped up by other 0.98

00:29:34.800 activists who, you know, are in the DEI grifting game, you know, making lots of money from it. There's a lot of money

00:29:43.640 attached to this, these deck, these equity sessions, as you well know. So they don't want to be, you know, letting go of

00:29:51.500 their cash cow, so to speak. 0.93

00:29:54.440 It's incredible. And, you know, Sven, do I have this right or not? It seems to me that there is a

00:29:59.900 preponderance of so-called black activists that lobby for policies that are contrary to the 0.98

00:30:09.040 well-being of black students and black parents. An example, a few years ago, as you know, there was a 0.92

00:30:15.720 very successful program where there were some high-risk schools that had members of the Toronto Police

00:30:21.620 Service in those schools. And it was to maintain order. And suddenly these black activists, I don't 1.00

00:30:28.020 know this was an example of imperialism, colonialism, you name it. They got that program ended. And I

00:30:34.200 remember black parents saying, listen, my kid wants to go to school to learn. He doesn't want to be 1.00

00:30:40.940 bullied. He doesn't want to be shaken down for his lunch money. Why are you surrendering this realm

00:30:46.660 to the bullies? How do you explain this, Sue Ann?

00:30:50.600 Well, I was there at those meetings when the Police Services Board were basically, the members were

00:30:57.240 bullied into dropping the Cops in Schools program. And it was, you know, Desmond Cole, a well-known

00:31:04.100 black activist who sees dead people under every rock, and a bunch of others from the Black Lives Matter

00:31:12.500 movement. And here they are, you know, screaming about cops being in schools and it being racist. 0.86

00:31:19.660 Well, you're right. They don't speak for the majority of black parents or black children, 0.66

00:31:24.940 but they're very loud. They're very noisy. And they have chips on their shoulders a mile high. 0.98

00:31:32.400 And so what's happened since then? The violence has increased. The black activists, education 0.98

00:31:38.580 directors and superintendents have eliminated expulsions and suspensions. There are no consequences

00:31:45.040 for bad behavior. And school, like we've heard numerous stories of violence being out of control

00:31:51.380 in Toronto schools. And what is that? What is the reason for that? Because there are no consequences

00:31:57.720 and because the cops are no longer in schools. Unbelievable, Sue Ann. And, you know, in the big

00:32:03.180 picture, certainly the TDSB, it does look like a hostile, toxic environment. There's no other way

00:32:11.560 around it when you see a respected principal taking his own life. But in the big picture, there were so many

00:32:19.600 school boards in Ontario, Sue Ann, that are out of control. The Holland District School Board that

00:32:25.060 can't even enact a dress code to that weirdo that's showing up as a grotesque drag performer for shop 0.99

00:32:33.800 classes. You've got the Holland District School Board, which has pornography in the elementary school 1.00

00:32:42.240 libraries. I'm not exaggerating themes of incest and pedophilia in some of those books.

00:32:48.360 Waterloo is another one. Ottawa, Carleton. I mean, the list goes on. I guess what I'm leading up to,

00:32:55.560 Sue Ann, is where, oh, where is our milquetoast minister of education, Stephen Lecce?

00:33:04.600 Well, he's hiding under a rock, no doubt. I mean, if you find him, let me know, because he's doing

00:33:10.840 these videos, lauding, lauding their back to basics curriculum. Well, I have another piece coming out

00:33:17.940 in a couple of days, which speaks to teachers in the classroom. And one of them told me flat out,

00:33:24.840 great to have this back to basics curriculum, but it's not going to be implemented unless they

00:33:30.260 keep a very close eye on the school board, on Colleen Russell-Rollins and her acolytes,

00:33:37.140 you know, who back her up. Because right now, it is totally out of control. The curriculum

00:33:43.300 is placed second to DEI training and anti-Black racism and critical race theory. So yeah, I don't

00:33:52.840 know where he is. It's good to make announcements. But if you don't follow through, look how he handled

00:33:57.580 the big boob teacher. He didn't handle it. Look, I mean, there's umpteen examples. Waterloo School

00:34:05.800 Board going after teachers, going after a Black trustee, Mike Ramsey, has been just absolutely

00:34:13.700 harassed by some of his colleagues. I mean, you know, I don't think Stephen Lecce is fit to be the

00:34:20.640 education minister, but Ford seems to be out of touch as well. Doug Ford, of course, the premier.

00:34:27.440 I have never seen a weaker minister in the province of Ontario than Stephen Lecce, who, by the way,

00:34:34.440 stole the nomination meeting in King Von going back to 2016, when it was meant to be Constantine

00:34:41.160 Tubas. So that tells you a lot about Stephen Lecce. But you know, Sue Ann, I want to run something by

00:34:47.400 you get your thoughts on this. I look at these school boards, and they have been completely infiltrated

00:34:54.620 with far-left progressives. I'll go even further. Marxists. And I think what's really going on here,

00:35:03.260 the unspoken strategy, is that these Marxists, well, they're subscribing to Marxism 101, namely

00:35:10.340 tear down society and rebuild it as that Marxist utopia, which never transpires. Just go to North 0.89

00:35:18.380 Korea or Cuba or Venezuela, ask the people there how things are working out for them. Is that what

00:35:23.660 we're seeing here, this grotesque infiltration of people that don't give a tinker's damn about the 0.70

00:35:32.360 education of children? They are pursuing a Marxist agenda, and they're getting away with it. 0.55

00:35:38.840 Well, certainly the trustees, many trustees, far too many trustees of NDP or socialist leanings are

00:35:46.700 getting onto these boards, school boards. And that is a huge, huge problem. Then the unions,

00:35:53.580 the teachers' unions have become far-left and woke and don't protect teachers who just want to do their

00:36:00.160 jobs, keep their heads down, and teach the curriculum. So there's a whole system of, you know,

00:36:07.460 I call it incestuous wokeness because they all feed off each other. I think the best thing is for 1.00

00:36:14.340 parents, if they can, to pull these kids out of the school system. Well, two things. Pull their kids 0.82

00:36:21.000 out of the, I wouldn't be sending my kid to TDSB schools right now. Pull them out of the schools,

00:36:27.020 either homeschool, or if you can possibly afford it, send them to some sort of private school,

00:36:32.540 or show up at board meetings and start registering your concern. That is happening in Waterloo region.

00:36:39.240 It's happening to a certain extent in Ottawa, certainly in Waterloo. I've seen a group of

00:36:46.460 people showing up. I'm very proud of them. And it's got to start happening at the Toronto District

00:36:51.340 School Board. I don't think parents are aware, many of them, of what's going on, truly going on.

00:36:56.820 But you know, Sven, I've shown up to some of those meetings. Well, for some school boards,

00:37:02.360 like Halton District School Board, and what's the other one? The Durham District School Board.

00:37:09.660 I've been banned, evidently, for life, for showing up, for asking impolite questions. 0.98

00:37:14.800 Yes, but you are wearing big breasts, David. Let's be honest. 0.98

00:37:19.480 You know what? I have a newfound respect for womankind. I don't know how you get through the 1.00

00:37:24.840 day without suffering backaches every time I strap those things on. But you know what? Seriously,

00:37:29.680 that tells you a lot, doesn't it? For Halton District, they're all down with the radical trans

00:37:36.760 agenda when it's this weirdo, Busty Lemieux, teaching his high school student shop. But when

00:37:46.180 you bring it up close and personal to a board meeting, oh, off with his head, David Menzies is

00:37:52.260 banned for life. Doesn't that speak volumes about the hypocrisy of these so-called educrats? 0.97

00:37:59.680 Oh, for sure. I mean, they're the biggest hypocrites going. Yeah, and they don't like it thrown back in 1.00

00:38:07.060 their face. That is for sure. I would find a similar situation in Waterloo where there's a gentleman named

00:38:14.300 David Todor who has shown up and given deputations or gave a deputation earlier this year about

00:38:22.260 pornographic books in Waterloo School Elementary Libraries. And the school board director, who was

00:38:30.700 such a coward, he wouldn't even take responsibility for this, he put out an open letter. He didn't even 0.98

00:38:36.660 respond to David, you know, personally, because David had raised several questions, put out an open

00:38:42.980 letter, basically defaming David and saying that he was abusive. Then he wouldn't even take

00:38:49.260 responsibility for having written it. He got his whole team to stand up and say, oh, we were behind

00:38:54.820 this open letter. So they love to dish it out. They love to, you know, intimidate and harass. But if

00:39:07.160 you hold them to account, boy, they don't like it much. But that has to continue happening. I'm sorry,

00:39:13.340 it does. It's appalling. So and I remember in Durham District, it was a father that got up and he

00:39:18.580 started reading verbatim, the text from an elementary school book, and the trustees called

00:39:24.420 the police and talk about convenience. The police station is right next door to the school board

00:39:30.800 headquarters. I guess, you know, we have to wrap it up to him. But what I'm wondering is, what can we do?

00:39:37.160 We know we have no ally in the Ford PCs, which is shocking, because if you remember, and I'm sure you do

00:39:44.940 back in 2018, they, one of their planks was running against the McGinty-Winn radicalized sex ed

00:39:53.820 curriculum. I would say that in the last five years, it's become way more radicalized.

00:39:59.140 They didn't clean out the education ministry. And that's the problem. They left all the Winn

00:40:05.360 appointments in there. So they haven't done their jobs. What can we do? Parents have to speak up

00:40:12.540 parents and activist groups, not black activist groups, but activist groups who truly want their

00:40:19.560 kids to get a proper education. Moms, you know, there are groups in the States that are making 1.00

00:40:27.000 incredible strides doing that. And we've got to start doing it in Canada.

00:40:31.120 You know what, Sue Ann, I think you're absolutely right. I look back to what happened very recently

00:40:36.200 in Virginia, where you had parents, basically, mama bear woke up. And she said, no, I'm tired of this 0.67

00:40:43.960 critical race theory crap, Black Lives Matter, radical transgenderism. I wanted to go back to basics. 0.99

00:40:51.100 And it was a miracle what happened in that state. Because when you look at it, the lowest elected office

00:40:57.060 in North American democracy, it is school board trustee. And from the lowest office, well,

00:41:03.020 what did you see happen? Regime change in that state, when the Democrat unexpectedly lost to the

00:41:09.720 Republican candidate. I guess we should leave it here. Do you see an appetite in Canada,

00:41:18.200 in Ontario, Sue Ann, for mama bear to wake up there, mob these school board meetings and say, 1.00

00:41:24.780 enough is enough? Because certainly, we can't count on our education minister,

00:41:31.200 Stephen Lecce, to do anything.

00:41:33.200 Yeah, I do see an appetite. I think it is growing. I mean, it's slow, but I do think it's growing.

00:41:39.660 And it's a responsibility of people like you and me to point out what's happening. So this is why I'm

00:41:45.460 pursuing this teacher story, because it's not just principals, but teachers are endearing

00:41:50.900 incredible pressures on them not to teach the curriculum, to teach, you know, drumming.

00:41:57.860 And I don't want to give my story away, but like crazy, crazy stuff, Dave. You think the boobs, 0.61

00:42:04.580 the big boobs are crazy. 0.99

00:42:07.600 Well, Sue Ann, I want to thank you again. And we got to keep our eye on this. And by the way, 0.99

00:42:12.340 two sure signs that summer is coming to an end tomorrow, the Canadian National Exhibition opens

00:42:20.100 up, runs till Labor Day. And we're hearing saber rattling from the Ontario teachers unions

00:42:25.700 that we might just have to go on strike. It's for the kids, you see, Sue Ann. It's for the kids.

00:42:33.860 Well, see, there's the thing. And the problem is that Lecce is going to focus on that. He's going

00:42:41.420 to be like big, you know, big daddy, and he's going to fight back and they're going to get a deal and

00:42:47.040 they're, you know, maybe get what they want, maybe not. And he's going to save the kids. But that is

00:42:51.760 just window dressing. That is all, it's just to divert from what's really, really happening in the

00:42:56.980 classroom. And the teachers know it, the principals know it. I mean, the real teachers, not the activist

00:43:01.580 teachers. They know it. And let me tell you, those unions don't represent the lion's share of those

00:43:08.320 teachers in the school boards. I totally agree. Well, Sue Ann, I think the only thing Lecce concentrates

00:43:15.440 on is his latte at Starbucks, but we'll have to leave it there. A pleasure as always, Sue Ann. I know

00:43:21.940 you're going to keep an eagle eye on this story. So we'll have you back here for an update.

00:43:31.580 Well, folks, lots of feedback regarding Ezra's interview with fan favorite Manny Montenegrino

00:43:44.940 regarding Justin Trudeau's separation from his wife, Sophie. Robert Steele, 7672, writes,

00:43:54.200 I fully support my wife, my daughters, my mother, and my grandmother, and all others of the gentler

00:44:01.660 gender. And I do not and will not call myself a feminist to gain some form of popularity among

00:44:08.780 the ladies. It seems dishonest, creepy, and sneaky to insist on giving oneself such a silly title. 0.94

00:44:17.040 Perhaps he is the emotionally insecure from enduring and emotionally neglected childhood

00:44:25.040 under showboat Pierre and Rolling Stone Margaret. That's my view. Anyway, you know what? I tend to

00:44:32.740 agree, Robert. I mean, Justin Trudeau brands himself as a feminist, but he seems to have a lot of trouble

00:44:41.960 with those in his caucus, especially female members who have strong opinions about anything.

00:44:48.640 And how much of a feminist are you when you can't come to some kind of living arrangement 1.00

00:44:55.400 with your very own wife, Sophie? They are now separated. And I would say it's time for us to

00:45:02.600 separate the title feminist from Prime Minister Blackface. Laurie5455 writes, 0.93

00:45:11.740 Asking for family privacy and then showing up with his son, both in pink for the Barbie movie, 0.93

00:45:18.920 is about as hypocritical as you can get. Marriage been on rocks for some time, looking at Sophie's

00:45:26.260 body language last couple of times she showed with Trudeau. Failed at the job, failed at

00:45:32.580 his marriage, failed Canadians, failed as a teacher. How is he still leading, I use this 0.97

00:45:38.240 word loosely, this country when he has shown time and time again how he can't get positive results

00:45:45.540 for anyone but WEF? You know, you raise a good point. The last couple of elections, as my beloved

00:45:53.020 colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed likes to say, he dusted off Sophie to take on the campaign trail for certain

00:46:00.480 photo ops. The idea is, look, he's just a common family guy, much like so many of us Canadians.

00:46:09.060 That ain't going to work whenever the next election is. And hopefully, that's going to be sooner than

00:46:15.280 2025. Jason Sanguine, 4006, writes, He means to say he is effeminate, not a feminist. Well, you know what?

00:46:28.060 When you go to the Barbie movie with your son and you're clad in pink, yeah, you're really getting

00:46:37.600 close to effeminate territory, at least in my books. Well, folks, that's it for tonight's Ezra Levin

00:46:44.360 show. Thanks so much for tuning in. The Big Boss Man, he'll be back here tomorrow. In the meantime,

00:46:50.600 as always, stay safe and stay sane.

Rebel News Podcast - August 17, 2023

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Toronto's urban decay is a taxpayer-funded, government-approved descent into madness

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