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00:00:00.120 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through some China news. I'll take a break from talking about

00:00:04.580 the pandemic. China's got some big news. They've got a space station. They just sent some astronauts.

00:00:10.580 They've got a new hypersonic rocket. There's so many things they're doing. And Joe Biden's

00:00:16.260 response is quite something. I'll show that to you. I really want you to get the video version

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00:00:59.560 Tonight, China launches a new missile and sends more astronauts to its space station.

00:01:06.320 In response, Joe Biden announces his pronouns. It's October 20th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:12.280 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:18.620 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:22.680 The only thing I have to say to the government about what I publish it is because it's my

00:01:27.280 bloody right to do so.

00:01:33.840 I saw this message on the Twitter account of the U.S. State Department. The State Department,

00:01:38.440 and that's what they call their Foreign Affairs Department down there. This is what you might

00:01:41.760 expect to see statements about diplomacy or military conflicts or that sort of thing.

00:01:47.100 And here's what they say. Today on International Pronouns Day, we share why many people list pronouns

00:01:52.800 on their email and social media profiles. Read more here on Share America. And if you go there,

00:01:59.120 you'll find this little gem. Some people are pioneering gender-neutral pronouns such as

00:02:05.440 zhi, zher, and zherz. So this is on the U.S. State Department's agenda, apparently. Sort of like

00:02:12.540 those Floyd George murals that the U.S. government painted on walls in Afghanistan, really. You know,

00:02:20.260 no one really talks that way in real life. It reminds me of that made-up word Latinx that all 1.00

00:02:26.900 the liberal white media in the U.S. use. It turns out only 4% of actual Latinos like that word Latinx at

00:02:33.820 all. It's made-up. It's really weird. I think it's just a trick to create insiders and outsiders.

00:02:38.780 It's like a secret password to get into your secret club or something. Oh, you don't know the

00:02:42.780 password. It's just a way to marginalize people who you disagree with by being more righteous than

00:02:47.520 them. I mean, whenever anyone focuses on things like that, for example, if they say, no, no, no,

00:02:53.220 don't use aboriginal. Say indigenous. If that's their obsession, that's what they really want to talk 1.00

00:03:00.400 about. It's a pretty good indicator that they would rather do that than talk about something

00:03:05.520 real, like, oh, say, fix the boil water advisories that are on dozens of Canadian Indian reserves.

00:03:12.920 So, yeah, if someone says Latinx or talks about the pronouns, I think they could well be an inherently 0.99

00:03:20.360 unserious person. And they want to have a quarrel with you about who is more exquisitely politically

00:03:26.180 correct in their vocabulary. And they'll constantly change the terms to be one step ahead of you

00:03:32.100 rhetorically, by the way, because they'd rather do that than actually getting something done in the

00:03:36.700 real world, like clean drinking water on a reserve. Which brings me to the real world. The real world is

00:03:44.860 this. China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile launch in August of nuclear-capable

00:03:51.420 rocket that circled the globe, took U.S. intelligence by surprise. Let me read a little bit from the story

00:03:55.620 in the Financial Times. China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the

00:04:02.040 globe before speeding towards its target, demonstrating an advanced space capability that 0.57

00:04:08.380 caught U.S. intelligence by surprise. Five people familiar with the test said the Chinese military

00:04:13.780 launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle, which flew through low-orbit space

00:04:20.940 before cruising down towards its target. The missile missed its target by about two dozen miles,

00:04:27.400 according to three people briefed on the intelligence. But two said the tests show that China has made astounding

00:04:32.100 progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than U.S. officials realized. The test has raised new

00:04:40.060 questions about why the U.S. often underestimated China's military modernization.

00:04:44.900 We have no idea how they did this, said a fourth person. Oh, just that, eh? So just that. You know,

00:04:54.560 they're pretty busy up there in space. Did you know that China has their own space station? Did you know

00:05:00.420 that? I'll let you look at it while I read to you from a Guardian article in the Guardian newspaper a couple

00:05:06.960 days ago. The story says Chinese astronauts arrive at space station for longest mission. The Shenzhou 13

00:05:15.700 vessel docked at its space station to kick off a record-setting six-month stay. Three astronauts

00:05:23.400 successfully docked with China's new space station, state media said, on what is set to be Beijing's

00:05:27.860 longest crewed mission to date and the latest landmark in its drive to becoming major space power.

00:05:34.240 Hmm. The three blasted off shortly after midnight on Saturday from the Zhukuan launch center in

00:05:41.800 northwest China's Gobi Desert, state-run news agency Xinhua said, with the team expected to spend six

00:05:47.720 months at the Tiangong space station. Yeah, you bet. Yeah. Oh, and there's Wang Yaping, a new female 0.97

00:05:56.900 astronaut, or taikonaut, as they call him. But it's not just space. What about jet fighter planes?

00:06:04.640 Here's a news story. I mean, this isn't news. We talked about this with our friend Gordon Chang.

00:06:09.640 Brazen China steadily ramps up warplane flights in Taiwan's airspace. Beijing appears to believe now

00:06:16.060 is the time to test America's resolve in support of the island nation as it boasts of its military might.

00:06:21.500 Over 100 Chinese jets have crossed into Taiwanese airspace.

00:06:25.480 Ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, you think? And the Chinese propaganda agencies are outright calling for an

00:06:32.320 invasion. That Global Times tweet, by the way, is in English. Twitter is actually banned in China.

00:06:38.600 It's for our consumption. So are a lot of other things banned in China, though.

00:06:44.460 Here's some news. China updates official news sources list to tighten information oversight.

00:06:50.100 Sounds a little bit like Justin Trudeau, doesn't he? Let me read you. Shanghai from Reuters.

00:06:53.820 The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country's top internet regulator, published an updated list

00:07:00.180 on Wednesday of 1,358 internet news services, stating that information service providers can

00:07:06.600 only reprint news from these sources. Hmm.

00:07:09.840 Like I say, it sounds like Justin Trudeau. So yeah, hypersonic missiles that can go around

00:07:23.540 the entire world. Space stations. Fighter jets swarming Taiwan. Censorship domestically. So

00:07:32.480 what's up at the State Department, eh? Well, here's a video the White House put up a couple

00:07:37.820 months ago. Take a look. One sec. Democracy's calling. See you, daddy. Bye.

00:07:43.080 Hi, my name is Cooper, and this is a day in my life as a White House intern.

00:07:49.580 We did it, Joe. Hey, everyone. Vogue. Usually, I start off with a big coffee. Sorry,

00:07:57.100 they're like really strict in here. Hey, Jenny. I booked you a nail appointment, love.

00:08:00.740 Yeah, I didn't tell you to do that. It's called initiative.

00:08:03.340 Hi, White House. This is Cooper. Mm, I don't think so.

00:08:06.240 Oh, doesn't matter. This is actually the entrance to the West Wing. This is so fun,

00:08:12.540 and it's really prestigious. Hey, POTUS. Is Olivia Rodrigo still here? No.

00:08:18.960 We've come a long way in our fight against this virus. We've vaccinated 160 million Americans.

00:08:23.980 Are you getting this all down? Don't worry, queen. It's all right here.

00:08:27.380 Cooper. Sorry, Miss Jen. Hey, Jen, don't forget to have fun. Spirit fingers, mama. 1.00

00:08:32.880 We need to get shots in the arms of every single American. I'm heading to a haircut. 0.98

00:08:38.140 Comment if you want me to make more of these.

00:08:39.880 Yeah. I think there's a tiny chance that China and Russia are laughing at America. Just a little

00:08:46.760 chance. I don't think they're laughing with America. I think they're laughing at America.

00:08:51.360 But here's the newest admiral to help fight back. This is from Amazon Washington Post.

00:08:59.500 Rachel Levine, openly transgender health official, sworn in as a four-star admiral in public health

00:09:05.540 service. The former Pennsylvania health secretary is the sixth four-star admiral in the history of the

00:09:11.440 health corps. Yeah. So that's not a real admiral, but it's more symbolic. But this here is actually a

00:09:20.020 real army general. Why the army thinks a French manicure is an obnoxious color compared to the

00:09:29.680 civilian world, which views it as an understated yet professional look is beyond me. But I have to

00:09:35.200 be in uniform tomorrow. So here we are. It looked nice while it lasted. Got it. That is a real tweet

00:09:41.720 from a real U.S. army general tweeting about her nail polish. A general is, but she's actually no worse

00:09:48.700 than her boss. Here's General Mark Milley talking about how he studies critical race theory because,

00:09:55.660 you know, that's his job because, you know, white Americans almost staged a coup this January. Take

00:10:02.280 a listen. And I want to understand white rage and I'm white and I want to understand it. So what is it

00:10:09.180 that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of

00:10:15.200 the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out because our soldiers, sailors,

00:10:19.800 airmen, Marines and guardians, they come from the American people. So it is important that the

00:10:24.040 leaders now and in the future do understand it. I've read Mao Zedong. I've read I've read Karl Marx.

00:10:31.060 I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist. So that's the same General Mark Milley who called up

00:10:36.380 his Chinese counterpart when Trump was president and promised China that he would tip them off. He would 0.99

00:10:41.860 give them an advance warning if America was ever planning to attack China. That's a lot closer 0.92

00:10:47.400 to a coup than people meandering around the Capitol building in January. Say, General Milley, if I can

00:10:56.100 interrupt you while you're reading your Karl Marx, did Chinese generals give you a heads up before they 0.82

00:11:04.680 fired their hypersonic missile? Yeah, I thought not.

00:11:11.860 I tell you, things are just cooking here at Rebel News. We're bringing aboard new teammates

00:11:27.340 almost every week. I mean, we have a new intern starting today, Olivia, who's helping produce this

00:11:33.220 show. We are bringing on video editors, print editors. Our friend Louis Barakpool in London, UK,

00:11:39.040 is joining us full time. There's so much going on. And one of our outstanding success stories who

00:11:44.320 started really right out of school is my friend Mocha Beziergan, who is now our chief videographer.

00:11:49.920 Besides being a great cameraman and editor, he travels this country really as a one man swarm of bees

00:11:57.920 covering the stories, especially on Liberty and the pandemic. And he's passing through Toronto today.

00:12:03.400 So we grabbed him, said, Mocha, here, sit down and let's have a catch up. Great to see you again.

00:12:08.360 Good to see you too. And it's true. I was just passing by. I have a flight to catch to Quebec City.

00:12:13.020 I should go back to New Brunswick once again, because hopefully the pastor who has been arrested there

00:12:18.900 is going to be released. That's what I'm hoping. So finally that I could get an interview. I was going

00:12:25.320 to interview him. He went inside the courthouse. First, everybody, his supporters surrounded him

00:12:30.940 and they prayed for him. So I didn't want to disrupt. He went inside the courthouse, but

00:12:35.120 didn't, didn't, unfortunately didn't make it back out. But this time, hopefully I will catch him.

00:12:40.380 It's incredible. I haven't done an exact count, but I think we're close to 10 Christian pastors.

00:12:47.320 I think Alberta has about five. There was someone, a pastor in Manitoba who was imprisoned and now

00:12:53.100 New Brunswick. I really don't know any other country in the world that's jailing pastors.

00:12:59.460 I know places like China and other authoritarian regimes do jail Christian clergy or even in some

00:13:05.720 cases other religions. But for Canada to jail coming up on 10 pastors, I really think that

00:13:13.060 makes us unique in a bad way in the world. Yeah. And I asked to those pastors and their

00:13:19.040 fellow pastors, where could they seek refuge if even the courts are not upheld in the charter?

00:13:28.520 And they say, well, it would be nice to seek refuge somewhere, but we have no other place to seek

00:13:36.020 refuge but God. And that's sad to hear. And I see a lot of people smearing at them saying, oh,

00:13:42.720 there are super spreaders. It's because of them and justifying their arrest. But and even in a

00:13:49.460 affidavit of a health bureaucrat who came to inspect one of the church services that was happening

00:13:55.600 illegally, she said she felt too uncomfortable to go there because of COVID reasons. But there is no

00:14:03.160 known in any COVID case there. And at any of these churches whose pastors were arrested,

00:14:09.220 there is no known or there is no evidence of any COVID case. But there is one evidence of a COVID

00:14:17.020 outbreak in the CBC headquarters in Toronto. That's a great point. You know, Pastor James Coates at the

00:14:22.960 Grace Victory Church in Edmonton, never a case, never an outbreak. And the health inspector said they

00:14:27.720 brought police just for the delight of the media in that case. Arthur Pawlowski, Justice Adam Germain,

00:14:33.700 said he was the problem. Again, never a case, never an outbreak. It's a bizarre kind of

00:14:38.880 scapegoating as if these Christian pastors are unclean. And I should tell you, that's similar to 1.00

00:14:44.520 the language used 70, 80 years ago by the Nazis to talk about the unclean Jew. And I don't mean to

00:14:49.960 be too dramatic. I'm just saying the last time we called an entire group of people unclean,

00:14:54.920 we should marginalize them because they're unclean. That's, I mean, that's the language of

00:15:00.020 dehumanizing someone. It's shocking. So you told us a little bit about your trip to New Brunswick.

00:15:06.240 Very interesting. Now, you've also been to three other cities. And I just want a really

00:15:10.900 quick update. I think you most recently came from Winnipeg. What's going on there?

00:15:16.520 Winnipeg, well, not, it's not going very good. Pastor Tobias Thiessen of the Church of God

00:15:22.720 in Steinbeck, Manitoba, was arrested Monday night. And I got the call and I flew there Tuesday

00:15:30.720 morning and interviewed the fellow pastor. I've been to that church 11 months ago when

00:15:36.760 the police was blocking the road to block people from going to a drive-in church service.

00:15:43.640 Not even, they're not even kind of... I saw that. What could possibly be a health

00:15:46.860 reason? You don't leave your car. Your windows are rolled up. The cars themselves are socially

00:15:51.700 distanced. So how dare the people who did that could arrest pastors and say, oh, our policies

00:16:00.720 by science. How dare they do that? How dare they could say that? I don't understand.

00:16:05.860 Very frustrating. You were in Calgary. There's a pizza company there, a pizza shop, that is

00:16:11.500 trying to defy the requirement that it suddenly become a doctor, health inspector, secret agent,

00:16:19.120 policeman. It's bad enough what the government is doing, but for the government to force companies

00:16:26.140 to become spies and informants too. That's really gross. Tell me about a pizza company in Calgary

00:16:30.740 that doesn't want to go along with that. Well, they're trying their best. They were giving out

00:16:35.140 free pizza. Some people criticize, well, that's not a smart business move. But I think they are doing

00:16:40.940 that because they could get shot at any moment and you don't want to... Why would you want to...

00:16:46.040 You don't want to waste food. But they always have supporters outside to eat their pizza,

00:16:52.240 hanging out there. It became like a community center for the unvaccinated because really what

00:16:58.160 does it mean to be unvaccinated today? You can't go to restaurants. Soon you're not going

00:17:03.340 to be able to fly and you can't even go to church to seek God. It really is insane. These are

00:17:10.320 restrictions that typically are put on someone who has been convicted of a crime. Then if you're

00:17:16.520 a criminal, only in certain cases, you're sentenced to not being able to leave your house, house

00:17:21.460 arrest. You're sentenced to not being able to go places, to have limits on you, to have an ankle

00:17:27.820 bracelet, or even custody in a prison. These are things that normally happen to people who have

00:17:33.480 done something very wrong, usually more than once, and have had a proper trial where they could put

00:17:39.280 their defenses. Now it's being happened to people who in many cases have lived an exemplary life,

00:17:45.340 have never done anything wrong, have never had any trial or hearing. And by the way, if you want to

00:17:49.140 talk about science, many of the people that this is being done to are naturally immune because they

00:17:54.160 got the virus and got better. And they're probably healthier and less of a risk than some of the

00:18:00.000 people who are getting vaccinated and have these breakthrough infections and aren't being screened at

00:18:05.260 all. I don't believe that we should have a screening snitch culture, but frankly, a young, healthy person

00:18:10.800 who has recovered from the virus is probably less of a threat than an old person who has the false 1.00

00:18:16.120 confidence that the vaccine has protected him. Well, Saskatchewan Health Authority disagrees.

00:18:21.180 They say it's about being vaccinated or not. It's not about age or comorbidity or anything else.

00:18:27.820 Yeah, I saw that. It's very funny. Yeah, I saw that. And I know that that tweet, they didn't allow you

00:18:31.940 to reply to it. They knew they were lying. Okay, last story. You spend time in Quebec, and I'm so glad we're

00:18:37.800 covering Quebec well, because Quebec has a bit of a protest spirit that I think English Canada

00:18:43.480 doesn't have to the same depth. Can you give us an update? I think that there was a small and perhaps

00:18:50.100 temporary victory, but the nurses and doctors who were being threatened with being fired made the

00:18:56.480 government blink at least once. Tell us what happened there. Well, I was supposed to, I went to Quebec

00:19:01.340 City to cover that, but then the hearing of Pastor Phil Hutchings was about to happen on Friday in New

00:19:09.580 Brunswick. So I wasn't there for that. But I know thousands of people showed up, and I know that this

00:19:16.160 was the biggest protest where there were a lot of frontline workers with their uniforms on, and even some

00:19:24.880 police officers. Police officers were protesting. That's what I heard, yes. Firefighters, paramedics. But

00:19:35.180 I understand that now it is illegal to protest near hospitals, and something happened. A man who was

00:19:46.000 unable to, who have a health condition that he cannot speak, what do they call that condition? 1.00

00:19:55.100 He's dumb. Mute? No, no. He just can't. Tourette's? Yeah, yeah, something like that. And he was trying to go to 0.99

00:20:03.200 his house near the hospital, and he was explaining to the police that, yeah, I'm a protester, but my house

00:20:09.820 is right there. I want to go to my house. In a speech impediment of some sort. Yes. So he couldn't

00:20:13.800 communicate. Yes, and he got arrested. Another woman who went to a store without a mask, she got 0.99

00:20:21.260 also arrested. It's very frustrating. You know, we are representing hundreds of Quebecers through

00:20:26.760 Fight the Fines. We're trying to represent more people on the vaccine side. It's a little bit

00:20:31.400 harder to lawyer up for vaccines, because it's more complicated. You have to be proactive. You can't

00:20:37.480 just be on defense, like with the tickets. We're trying our best. We do have about 10 actions that we

00:20:43.600 have started. A lot of our battles are with unions, because if you represent a unionized

00:20:47.820 worker, you can't go after the employer directly, because it's called collective bargaining. So

00:20:52.540 all the union members, they're at the mercy of the union boss. And if the union boss is on

00:20:57.520 the side of the company, you have to first deal with your union boss. So that's hampering

00:21:03.100 a lot of the fight back, is that a lot of these unions are company unions. That is, instead

00:21:08.360 of representing the workers to the company, they represent the company to the workers.

00:21:13.080 And it's actually a shocking betrayal of the whole concept of a union. I've never been much

00:21:19.060 of a union man myself, but surely if you pay union dues, if you're part of the union, and

00:21:24.040 if you give up your personal rights to the collective, surely the union should help you on something

00:21:29.760 as basic as not wanting to be jabbed contrary to your contract.

00:21:34.140 Well, right now, the unvaccinated are a minority. And when you're a minority, when you're an 0.99

00:21:41.360 individual, do you really have a choice not to pay the union dues? I worked in union-related

00:21:48.180 jobs. You don't have a choice. You have to pay, even though you don't agree with what they're

00:21:53.180 doing, even though you think that they are not doing what is in your best interest. So they

00:22:01.060 don't have a choice. Because they don't have a choice, they don't have the control over

00:22:07.580 the union.

00:22:08.520 It's very frustrating, but hopefully the blinking of the Quebec government is a sign. And I note

00:22:14.860 that Southwest Airlines in the United States, they were pushing ahead with the vaccine mandate.

00:22:22.040 Their labor unions did a work to rule. They had a labor action, and they caused the company

00:22:27.000 to change course. In-N-Out Burger, if I'm not mistaken, they just simply refused. So it

00:22:32.120 is possible to win. And I know that's not a lot to grasp at, but it is possible. Mocha,

00:22:37.560 I think you're doing a great job. Thank you for crisscrossing the country and telling stories

00:22:42.940 that no one else is. Folks, I want to let you know, Mocha's a great reporter. You know that

00:22:47.580 great videographer. He's our chief videographer. But it does cost money to keep him in the plane.

00:22:52.300 I mean, you fly three, four times a week. These days, sometimes even more. And we're

00:22:58.520 happy to do it. We're happy to do it because we don't have people in every city. We don't

00:23:02.960 have a permanent person in Winnipeg. Some of these other cities that we cover, you never

00:23:08.140 know where Mocha's going to be. He even went up to Whitehorse.

00:23:11.420 I went up to Fort McMurray, to Victoria Island, all sorts of places.

00:23:16.680 Yeah. So if you can help us chip in, I mean, I know you pay $8 a month to watch our paywall

00:23:22.740 shows and that helps. But if you do feel motivated to keep Mocha on the road and in the air, feel

00:23:27.640 free to make a donation at rebelnews.com. And I hope you don't mind me asking. I just

00:23:31.140 want to show you the kind of work ethic and passionate consideration of our civil liberties.

00:23:37.680 I mean, as we've told you before, Mocha himself is originally from Turkey. And even when he was

00:23:41.280 a young man, he was called into the police station there because of his YouTube videos.

00:23:44.940 And I think of that quite a lot, Mocha, because I keep on thinking, if you can stare down a

00:23:52.260 Turkish policeman in a Turkish police station when you're a teenager, that probably, if you

00:23:58.200 can survive that psychologically, you're going to be a good rebel.

00:24:03.060 Well, it was very stressful days in Turkey. But what is even more painful is that the police

00:24:08.820 that I was dealing with, they know me, they like me, and I know them, and they're likable

00:24:14.140 people, but they have to do their job. And it could have ended up me being jailed. My other

00:24:20.320 YouTuber friends, who were also critical of the government, they got jail sentences.

00:24:26.800 So it's not like the police is the enemy, but they are appearing as friends. But they are

00:24:35.520 going to do the, you know, just like the vaccination policies in Canada, where the RCMP union is saying

00:24:41.860 they are going to fight back, they are going to fight for their officers. But they are, the officers

00:24:47.340 are the first ones to arrest pastors or someone trying to get into a restaurant without a vaccination

00:24:52.380 QR code.

00:24:55.140 We live in dangerous days. Mocha Beziergan, our chief videographer, you're doing a hell of a job.

00:24:59.080 Thanks very much. All right, stay with us. More ahead.

00:25:15.460 Hey, welcome back. Here are some of your letters. Someone with the nickname Big Donor, well, thank

00:25:20.320 you if you're a big donor to us, says, Okotoks is one of the most conservative towns in Alberta,

00:25:25.200 yet only leftists won. I noticed that the municipal election used Dominion voting machines.

00:25:31.980 Fraudulent elections springs to mind. I didn't know that they used voting machines. Are you sure

00:25:37.720 about that? If so, I'd like to look into it because I think that pen and paper or pencil

00:25:43.060 and paper is the best way to do it. I don't think there's a need for electronic voting machines.

00:25:47.840 I think it just opens it up either to actual fraud or people being worried about fraud, which

00:25:52.900 undermines democracy just as much, I think. I think, though, that you can't just blame a voting

00:25:59.400 system. I think you have to blame the lack of candidates and organizations and donors and

00:26:05.460 campaign workers. I think it's easy to look for an excuse. I don't think conservatives have their

00:26:11.180 act together. And I think the nominally conservative parties in this country, especially federally and

00:26:16.280 the provincial level, they are anything but conservative. Alfonso Liberty says,

00:26:22.780 there are also plenty of doctors and nurses who have stood up at great risk and spoke the

00:26:26.380 uncomfortable truth about this medical mandate. Thousands of scientists, doctors and nurses

00:26:30.520 across the world have called this medical emergency totally unnecessary. I don't know if it's

00:26:36.960 thousands because I know that here in Canada, all the key ones who speak out, I think of

00:26:42.260 Calvinder Kaur in Ontario, I think Roger Hodkinson in Alberta, they're immediately slapped with

00:26:48.960 investigations, warnings, or even some suspensions by their colleges of physicians and surgeons.

00:26:54.740 I don't think I could count 10 doctors in all of Canada who have spoken out.

00:27:00.940 Bruce Atchison says, how sad that people are being lied to and they still won't understand that.

00:27:05.740 This story shows that these medical bureaucrats are tweeting lies and readers can't even reply.

00:27:10.520 That's not free speech. We're becoming like China, where the government says what we can talk about. 0.97

00:27:16.780 And like in 1984, all the Winston Smiths are being beaten into submission until they tow the party line.

00:27:24.220 You're talking about the weird lies, including by the Saskatchewan Health Authority,

00:27:28.880 that the virus doesn't pick and choose based on age or fitness level, when of course it does.

00:27:35.420 I find it bizarre and I think it's to the point of Orwell where they're lying, we know they're lying,

00:27:42.260 they know we know they're lying, they know we know they know we know they're lying,

00:27:46.760 and that's the point, is that they want to show that they can lie and you have to agree with it.

00:27:52.100 I find it very strange.

00:27:52.960 That's our show for today.

00:27:55.480 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:27:59.840 keep fighting for freedom.

00:28:01.160 Let me leave you with one nurse who is not going quietly. 0.96

00:28:05.380 Stay tuned for this video by Adam Sos.

00:28:07.800 That is why the COVID Cabinet Committee today approved a requirement that all 25,000 employees

00:28:14.640 of the Alberta Public Service show proof of vaccination or negative regular test results.

00:28:21.840 The majority of employees within the broader Alberta public sector, including Alberta Health Services,

00:28:27.320 post-secondary educational institutions, and government agencies, boards, and commissions

00:28:32.200 have already adopted similar policies.

00:28:34.580 The human cost of vaccine mandates and vaccine passports is often forgotten.

00:28:40.720 We think of these things as policies, health measures, but we don't experience the real stories

00:28:46.680 of people whose lives have been turned upside down.

00:28:49.600 Time after time, when we're out telling stories, we encounter people in the most surprising of locations

00:28:54.980 who come up to us to share their stories about how their jobs, their educations, their careers,

00:29:00.800 whatever it may be, have simply evaporated.

00:29:03.320 They've lost all of it.

00:29:04.580 They've lost all of it because of these vaccine mandates.

00:29:06.780 Dozens of friends who ended up getting the vaccine, but because they felt like they were politically blackmailed,

00:29:13.380 they were backed into a corner, and they felt like their life was over, and now they're miserable.

00:29:21.000 Adam Sos here for Rebel News,

00:29:22.920 And we are about to be joined by one of the stories that we happened upon, one of the people who has had their lives turned upside down by vaccine mandates.

00:29:32.280 So I'm here with Jessica Whitten.

00:29:33.760 And we're actually here talking to your dad about the letter that he put out with Whitten Construction.

00:29:38.740 And then we heard your story, which is incredibly fascinating.

00:29:41.080 So we're fascinating and tragic, in fact.

00:29:44.480 So perhaps if you could just start and let us know your circumstance.

00:29:47.200 You, like many students, have been placed in a difficult and challenging circumstance regarding vaccine mandates.

00:29:53.140 So maybe you could just tell us a little bit about your story.

00:29:54.880 Yeah, so I was a nursing student at Mount Royal University up until recently.

00:30:01.260 I decided not to get the vaccine, just between personal choice, and I have an issue with my heart and other medical conditions.

00:30:08.720 And they told us that Alberta Health Services wasn't doing any type of accommodations for students.

00:30:14.480 So I reached out to my advisor.

00:30:16.260 I asked her, what do I do?

00:30:18.160 She told me that I'm able to take all my theory courses, but I just won't be able to graduate.

00:30:22.680 Right. She wasn't helpful whatsoever. 1.00

00:30:25.460 So I asked her, I was like, so anybody who wants to be a nurse, a doctor, or just work in health care,

00:30:30.600 and they decide not to get the vaccine, whether it's personal reason or medical, they can't work in any of that.

00:30:38.580 And she said, yeah, pretty much.

00:30:40.640 One of the things that we're certainly seeing throughout all of this is there's this talk about the health care system being entirely overwhelmed.

00:30:46.460 And then nurses are being fired. 1.00

00:30:48.120 Nurses aren't being allowed to finish school. 1.00

00:30:49.820 Particularly, though, you had a focus in your education that is a field that not too many people volunteer for,

00:30:56.500 and one certainly that someone compassionate like yourself could help a lot of people.

00:30:59.960 And if you could talk about what you were hoping to do as a nurse.

00:31:02.940 Yeah, so I wanted to work in child cancer.

00:31:05.060 I was in the unit myself for six years, so I wanted to go back, and I think it would be very full circle.

00:31:10.760 I've wanted to do that since I was in the unit, and now I can't.

00:31:14.620 And there's even more shortage of nurses, but really, who's to blame there?

00:31:19.500 And it's extremely tragic.

00:31:20.880 We've seen these same nurses who've worked for the past year and a half throughout COVID helping people working in these,

00:31:27.660 what the government would call high-risk situations.

00:31:29.720 Suddenly, they've gone from heroes to no longer wanted.

00:31:33.240 You have a very beautiful personal story where you've been through the oncological ward,

00:31:36.960 and then you want to go back and contribute very much sounds like a dream that you're hoping to fulfill to give something back after you received.

00:31:44.620 What does it feel like for AHS mandates and regulations to deem you basically not enough of a person

00:31:51.040 or not worthy of the capacity to go back and participate in this dream that you've had?

00:31:56.460 Yeah, it's very infuriating, and it's devastating, because I then had to go into a career where I know I'm not going to be as happy,

00:32:03.460 but it's one thing that can provide, and it's really infuriating, because, you know, it's my body, my choice when you want an abortion.

00:32:10.140 It's my body, my choice when you want doctor-assisted suicide, but now it's not my body, my choice when you want a vaccine.

00:32:17.760 Unbelievable.

00:32:18.720 Do you have other colleagues, other students who are in the same boat as you?

00:32:22.320 I know we've heard from hundreds of students who are in the same situation.

00:32:25.600 How many people are facing the same sort of exclusion?

00:32:28.040 So, just on Mount Royal, 11 students were kicked out just for not declaring whether or not they were vaccinated,

00:32:34.560 and then I have dozens of friends who ended up getting the vaccine, but because they felt like they were politically blackmailed,

00:32:42.520 they were backed into a corner, and they felt like their life was over, and now they're miserable.

00:32:47.740 It's unbelievable.

00:32:49.340 And, I mean, like we said when we were talking to your dad,

00:32:51.960 the thing that we're forgetting about is they write these policies, but time and time again they're forgetting about the human cost.

00:32:58.860 You clearly have a heart for this.

00:33:00.340 You want to literally help children battling through cancer.

00:33:03.820 You can relate to their story.

00:33:05.160 You've experienced it.

00:33:06.240 And they're saying no.

00:33:07.820 They're saying that you can't do that anymore because you're not willing to get this jab.

00:33:12.700 Do you have any words of encouragement for other people who might be in the same situation,

00:33:16.320 who are facing the same kind of heartbreak over their sort of dreams evaporating right before them?

00:33:21.100 I think the longer people conform and the less people that speak out,

00:33:26.540 the longer this is going to happen and the more people that are going to be fired.

00:33:29.920 Yes, our medical system is going to be overwhelmed,

00:33:32.040 but you shouldn't be blaming people who don't want to get vaccinated.

00:33:35.160 You should be blaming the government.

00:33:36.880 Like, we should have a government who governs for all and not just those that are vaccinated.

00:33:41.080 Jessica certainly isn't alone.

00:33:43.260 Her story of heartbreak is one that countless people are feeling across this province

00:33:47.920 and indeed across this country right now.

00:33:50.380 We want to thank her for her courageous stance and we encourage you,

00:33:53.800 if you have a story like this, to reach out to us.

00:33:57.000 We'd love to share it.

00:33:58.680 I want to thank you all for tuning in.

00:34:00.420 For Rebel News, I'm Adam Sos.

00:34:02.220 While an apparent medical crisis is overwhelming our systems, nurses are being fired.

00:34:10.580 Other nurses are not being allowed to finish their schooling to fill that void. 1.00

00:34:15.260 This is incredibly troubling and just one of the many problems resulting from vaccine passports. 0.98

00:34:20.320 If you agree that we need to put an end to vaccine passports, go to fightvaccinepassports.com.

00:34:26.500 Thank you.

00:34:28.960 Thank you.

00:34:31.660 And today we are here.

00:34:32.440 We'll see you next time.

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