Rebel News Podcast - August 08, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Edmonton Police deleted its 'report hate' tweet — but it's still tracking non-crime 'hate incidents'


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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I take a really deep dive into the strange case of the Edmonton Police Service
00:00:05.540 announcing that they're going to start arresting people for non-crime hate incidents. Well,
00:00:11.720 they didn't quite say they're going to arrest people, but they want you to snitch on people
00:00:15.660 who tell offensive jokes. Guess what? Even though they took down the tweet, they're still doing it.
00:00:21.080 I'll have proof for you and a lot more news that just might shock you. But first, let me invite you
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00:00:46.840 tonight i got some more information about that edmonton police campaign against
00:01:00.060 offensive words it's august 7th and this is the azure levant show
00:01:04.440 shame on you you censorious bug
00:01:16.840 The Edmonton police service have a big campaign against non-crime hate incidents.
00:01:25.420 It actually has been going on for two full years.
00:01:28.920 It's just that it exploded over last weekend because the police put it out on social media.
00:01:35.420 They had this goofy video and then a call to the public to report hate.
00:01:41.800 I think you probably know this part in case you don't.
00:01:43.920 Let me give you a quick refresher.
00:01:44.980 but I do have some actual news for you. Despite the public shaming of the Edmonton Police Service,
00:01:51.460 this is still going on in Edmonton. And a half a dozen other police forces in Canada, too.
00:01:58.580 Stick around for that part. But back to the social media hurricane of a few days ago,
00:02:03.620 that video was a series of mean words. I didn't see any crimes in there. I know what a crime is
00:02:11.080 in words like uttering a death threat. That's a crime. I didn't see any crimes, just mean stuff,
00:02:16.160 some insults, some rudeness. And then the Edmonton police tweet said, you typed it.
00:02:22.120 Someone lived it. Online hate isn't just a comment. It hurts real people and harms real
00:02:28.580 communities. Hate has no home here. Now on the face of it, I don't actually disagree with any
00:02:35.040 of those words. I mean, it's a bit overheated saying that someone lived your tweets because
00:02:40.280 you said something mean. It's a bit dramatique. Hurting people is pretty subjective, too. I mean,
00:02:46.280 physical harm, I understand, but hurt feelings? I mean, part of being a grown-up is learning to
00:02:51.920 deal with mean words without having a meltdown. We're not children here. Normally, this is the
00:02:57.820 sort of bland, vanilla PR churned out by some overpaid, government-organized, non-government
00:03:06.060 organization, which is what Crime Stoppers is, by the way, and they helped launch this a couple
00:03:11.080 of years ago. But the problem here is with the police department, with the power to arrest you,
00:03:17.060 to charge you, and even in some cases, to shoot you and kill you. That's what police do sometimes.
00:03:24.320 Now, the campaign video on the internet ends with the call to report hate, presumably for them to
00:03:32.180 act on that report. Now, hate, as you know, is a human emotion. It's a feeling. And sometimes
00:03:40.620 you can't control your emotions. Maybe you can keep a straight face, but you feel a feeling even
00:03:45.620 if someone tells you not to. In fact, maybe the more someone tells you not to, you can no more
00:03:50.640 tell someone to stop feeling hate than to tell someone to stop loving someone. Hey, you stop
00:03:56.820 being in love with that girl. And that usually doesn't work. I mean, Romeo and Juliet was a play
00:04:01.860 about all that, wasn't it? You can't just order someone to turn off their feelings. What we do
00:04:06.420 as grownups is we don't act on our feelings in a hurtful way. And by hurt, I mean actual harm,
00:04:12.240 not just feelings. Hate often comes from an underlying feeling of grievance, as you know.
00:04:17.580 And if you don't deal with that underlying grievance, you probably won't deal with the
00:04:20.920 emotions that are feeding on him. What you ought to do is police actions. That's what we should be
00:04:28.980 having our cops looking into. Whether they're motivated by hate or not, it's the actual crime
00:04:34.280 we care about, isn't it? Not the feelings in your heart. I dare say that some positive things
00:04:39.860 have come from negative emotions like hate or jealousy. I mean, isn't that the motivation for
00:04:45.380 so many young men? They take their feelings and instead of pouting, they build, they're inspired.
00:04:53.020 I mean, this isn't some new manosphere idea.
00:04:56.780 Here's a Charles Atlas ad that's almost a century old now.
00:05:01.980 I used to see this ad for real in comic books when I was a child in the 70s and 80s.
00:05:07.920 And, you know, it's a cartoon showing a skinny victim of bullying at the beach who was humiliated
00:05:16.600 by a strong guy in front of his girlfriend.
00:05:19.500 He decided to get fit.
00:05:21.360 Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I support bullying, but wasn't the moment things changed for that thin guy, wasn't that the better?
00:05:31.360 I mean, it would be foolish not to acknowledge the pro-social effects of, let's call it constructive teasing, at least.
00:05:38.560 People who do something stupid or rude or destructive or too contrarian or too un-Canadian, they could use a nonviolent social realignment, right?
00:05:47.160 Like if a man enters a women's change room, let alone if a man got into a boxing match with a woman.
00:05:53.000 These are antisocial things that we should correct with rough words, don't you think?
00:05:58.800 You can't even fat shame people anymore, which if you could in a healthy and not unlimited way would probably mean a lot more healthy people.
00:06:08.140 I mean, I could deal with some more fat shaming.
00:06:11.240 It would probably put me on the right path.
00:06:12.680 So, yeah, report bad feelings is what the Toronto, the Edmonton cops have to say.
00:06:17.160 And here's the announcement of this campaign, including tens of thousands of dollars spent on wrapping buses with that same message.
00:06:25.720 But this announcement is not from last week.
00:06:29.240 It's from almost exactly two years ago in 2024.
00:06:33.600 Take a look.
00:06:34.020 So in the coming weeks, you will see ads like the one in the bus behind me, as well as within the LRT system.
00:06:40.260 With these highly visible ads, we hope to raise awareness in the community of Crimestoppers as another option for reporting hate.
00:06:47.160 I'd like to thank the Edmonton Police Service for their partnership on this campaign, and importantly, the government of Alberta for their financial support of this campaign and Crime Stoppers in general.
00:06:57.460 So that guy's with a government-organized, non-government organization called Crime Stoppers, which I generally support if they're stopping crime, except he's specifically talking about stopping non-crimes.
00:07:09.580 Hate is not a crime. Look it up in the criminal code. You can't be arrested for your feelings.
00:07:16.260 If you murder someone and you hate them, let's say you murder them as a racist act.
00:07:22.560 Sure, call that a hate crime.
00:07:23.620 It is.
00:07:24.240 But it's the crime part that's the noun.
00:07:27.840 The hate part is an adjective.
00:07:29.920 It would be a crime whether or not there was a certain feeling connected to it.
00:07:33.580 Now, the provincial minister of public safety, Mike Ellis, is a former cop himself in Alberta.
00:07:39.000 And you've got some Edmonton cops and a city politician all of this announcement two years ago.
00:07:43.360 it's a 20-minute video, which you can find on the Edmonton Police Service YouTube channel.
00:07:48.120 I don't want to play 20 minutes of it to you, but let me play a couple of minutes. Here's a very
00:07:52.960 short clip, a single sentence actually, from the provincial minister. And every Albertan deserves
00:07:59.640 to feel safe, respected, and valued. Every Albertan deserves to feel safe, respected,
00:08:05.700 and valued. Now, of course, we all want that. Everyone wants to feel loved, not hated. Everyone
00:08:12.260 wants to feel like they belong and are happy. Now, whether or not they deserve that, does everyone
00:08:17.560 really deserve that? Really? I mean, even Santa has a list of who's naughty and nice. It's probably
00:08:23.420 not for the government to decide what people deserve with touchy-feely things like respect
00:08:28.820 and belonging. I mean, that's a friendly general statement, but it's more aspirational, right? It's
00:08:34.820 like the phrase, the pursuit of happiness. You can pursue happiness, but I'm not sure if it's the
00:08:39.820 place of the government to say you deserve it and therefore must get it. And here's the thing
00:08:44.680 for a politician to say that everyone deserves something. That's one thing, but for a police
00:08:51.880 campaign that says everyone deserves to be respected. I, I don't know. Do you really have
00:08:59.460 the right to be respected and for the police to enforce that? I just don't think that's true.
00:09:06.360 Again, I'm not promoting the idea that we should be disrespectful, but doesn't respect
00:09:12.440 have to be earned?
00:09:13.440 You heard him.
00:09:14.440 He said, everyone deserves respect.
00:09:15.820 I don't know if that's true.
00:09:17.120 I think badly behaved people do not deserve our respect and we all want to earn respect,
00:09:21.980 but you don't deserve it.
00:09:23.980 And if someone is disrespectful to you, even if they're wrong, how on earth is that a police
00:09:28.100 matter anyways?
00:09:29.320 And that is the problem here.
00:09:30.460 That's what people online reacted to a few days ago.
00:09:33.740 Now, the minister, two years ago, handed the mic over to a city councillor and she said something sort of interesting here.
00:09:41.280 Let me play about 45 seconds. Take a look.
00:09:42.880 The campaign is also complementary to our Lighthouse project.
00:09:46.800 In partnership with the Anti-Defamation League, the city of Edmonton created a technology solution that tracks the proliferation of hate symbols.
00:09:56.320 It's often difficult for law enforcement and community workers to identify and track the various symbols encountered in the field.
00:10:02.520 and related those symbols to a wider pattern of hate.
00:10:07.260 So this critical identification and tracking need
00:10:10.540 is growing in tandem with the ever-evolving crisis of racism and hate.
00:10:15.020 Discrimination has no place in our city and in our province.
00:10:19.200 True.
00:10:20.260 And when Edmontonians take an active role in community safety,
00:10:23.860 we can accomplish so much more.
00:10:25.500 So she's trying to tamp down hate.
00:10:28.520 And by far the main wave of hate in Canada these days,
00:10:31.520 and more importantly, hate crimes in Canada, is against Jews, a tiny minority.
00:10:37.100 Every week, there's another act of violence, mainly in Toronto and Montreal, but other places too.
00:10:42.420 Just the other day, a synagogue in Saskatoon was violated.
00:10:46.540 I mean, those are real crimes though, right?
00:10:48.520 So when she says that the ADL is helping with this, she's referring to the Anti-Defamation League,
00:10:54.300 which has become a censorship organization.
00:10:56.840 But censorship does not stop hate, especially in the era of the internet.
00:11:00.860 It just doesn't. And did you hear her? She says, they're scanning the internet for hate symbols and words. So they're searching. They're scouring the internet for word problems, for feeling problems, rather than real problems happening on the streets right now. Even she couldn't keep it straight, though. She talked about discrimination, which is not a feeling. Discrimination is an act. I mean, for example, firing someone for being a certain race.
00:11:26.820 That's not a crime, but it could be against employment law or human rights law.
00:11:31.440 But you can see it's sort of coherent.
00:11:33.080 She's excited to censor the Internet, but admits the actual problem is discrimination in the real world.
00:11:39.040 And that sort of gives the game away.
00:11:40.500 This is a distraction to make people feel better that something is being done when, in fact, nothing is being done.
00:11:46.680 Another day, another synagogue or Jewish shop is vandalized or even shot at with a gun.
00:11:51.100 And if our cops and politicians really wanted to prove that people deserve respect and to feel safe, they'd probably kick out foreign nationals, the non-citizens who overwhelmingly make up the anti-Semitic protesters every week in Canada.
00:12:04.700 I mean, you don't need a special anti-hate bus and a special website to point out that.
00:12:10.140 I mean, this happened the other day in Edmonton at their annual heritage festival.
00:12:15.160 Well, take a look. A Somali migrant took out a knife and attacked the Jewish pavilion with a knife.
00:12:24.380 It's caught on tape. Take a look.
00:12:29.780 Where's the police?
00:12:34.700 I know. Unbelievable.
00:12:39.680 I don't know.
00:12:45.160 Oh
00:13:15.160 Oh, and when he was grabbed by police there, you could hear other people were cheering him on.
00:13:32.920 They were chanting anti-Jewish slogans. Maybe instead of anti-hate buses, we can actually
00:13:38.880 deport that guy back to Somalia. What are the odds that he'll even be charged? But hey, keep driving
00:13:44.940 those anti-hate buses around. Maybe that'll do something. Let me show you one more clip again
00:13:50.020 from two years ago. A senior cop tries to explain what the difference between a hate crime. I know
00:13:56.520 what that is. It's a, it's an actual crime where there's hate involved versus a non-crime hate
00:14:02.220 incident is. Take a listen. This is a one minute clip. I want to speak briefly today also about
00:14:06.660 what makes a hate incident or hate crime, as this is often an area of confusion. A hate crime is a
00:14:13.780 criminal offense that is motivated by hate bias or prejudice towards an identifiable group based
00:14:19.940 on real or perceived color, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual
00:14:27.360 identity, gender identity or expression or any other similar factor. This could include crimes
00:14:33.580 such as assaults, graffiti, direct threats, or distribution of hate literature. Hate incidents
00:14:39.900 are actions that are defined by the same criteria
00:14:42.840 as a hate crime, but while they may be offensive,
00:14:45.660 they are not criminal as defined by the Criminal Code of Canada.
00:14:49.080 An example of a hate incident could include
00:14:51.480 the uttering of racial slurs or comments
00:14:53.760 that we all recognize as absolutely unacceptable,
00:14:56.980 but nevertheless, they are not criminal.
00:15:00.340 And however, it's still important for investigators
00:15:03.020 to track hate incidents, even if we can't lay charges.
00:15:06.260 Okay, why is it important to track mean tweets?
00:15:09.720 They're not crimes.
00:15:11.820 So why are you tracking him?
00:15:13.080 Why are you spending so much money and so much manpower?
00:15:16.960 That part was not really explained, was it?
00:15:18.720 Why are they doing it?
00:15:20.980 I've got a couple of ideas.
00:15:22.020 First of all, they are building the police infrastructure for a wider and more
00:15:27.780 brutal censorship of the internet yet to come.
00:15:31.720 They're putting together the building blocks.
00:15:33.020 They're normalizing this, getting the police trained on it, getting their
00:15:37.000 systems in place, getting the websites up and running, setting up budgets, hiring people.
00:15:42.140 This is a test drive. Second, it's a distraction from, you know, crime. Just the other day,
00:15:50.720 about a week ago, Edmonton released its actual crime statistics as compiled by Statistics Canada.
00:15:56.960 Let me quote a few lines. This is from an actual Edmonton police report. I'm just going to read
00:16:01.960 three or four sentences. Edmonton Police Service data for 2025 shows a 3.2% increase in total
00:16:08.420 crime rate, which measures the number of police reported crimes per 100,000 people.
00:16:13.540 Of note, the property crime rate in Edmonton showed a large increase of 10.1% driven by
00:16:20.840 increases in shoplifting, mischief, and theft from auto. In 2025, we saw our crime rate creeping up
00:16:28.520 after steady decreases in recent years, along with notable increases in property crime,
00:16:33.060 says Police Operations Chief Devin LaForce.
00:16:36.260 In 2025, shoplifting under $5,000 increased by 30%.
00:16:41.440 Mischief increased by 23%, and theft under $5,000 from a motor vehicle showed a 17% increase.
00:16:49.660 Yeah. So if you I think, you know, most of that, if you're on social media, you know that crime is going crazy.
00:17:03.580 So this is a way to distract, isn't it? Mike Ellis, the minister who was there launching the buses, when he saw the ruckus online about a few days ago, he backed away from it.
00:17:16.460 So he was the guy who was there at the launch two years ago, but he just realized that's the wrong way.
00:17:22.960 So here he is tweeting, this was just a couple of days ago,
00:17:26.920 our government will be in contact with our provincial and municipal policing agencies
00:17:30.560 to ensure Albertan's policing priorities continue to be cracking down on violent crime, theft, illegal drugs, and vandalism.
00:17:38.680 Okay, better late than never, it was Ellis himself who launched the project that day, as you saw.
00:17:45.300 Well, the premier responded to him as well, saying free speech is a foundational Alberta value.
00:17:51.640 We don't believe in policing unpopular or religious based statements, even if they are controversial.
00:17:56.140 That's a slippery slope. Other countries have fallen into and we can't go down that road.
00:18:01.120 Premier Smith also posted this video, which has been recorded on another occasion, but is very strong here.
00:18:07.520 Watch for a couple of minutes. I thought this was good.
00:18:09.300 I'll tell you our approach in Alberta is that the federal government does have the power of criminal law. We have the power of non-enforcement. And what that means is we choose our policing priorities and we choose our crown prosecution priorities.
00:18:26.480 And I can tell you, if the intention behind it is to do what we're seeing in the UK, where regular citizens are getting hauled off to prison because they post something online that hurts someone's feelings, we are just not enforcing that.
00:18:41.200 There's no way.
00:18:42.360 That's not the culture in Alberta.
00:18:44.620 We reaffirmed in our Alberta Bill of Rights that free speech is protected.
00:18:50.560 And we think that's a government overreach.
00:18:54.320 The worry I have about how this may—I mean, so that's how I think private citizens should be looking at that, is just look at what's happening in other jurisdictions.
00:19:04.060 And we've got to draw a line saying that we have to be able to toughen up.
00:19:07.720 There are areas of criminal law where you legitimately cannot say things that subject another group to hatred or violence.
00:19:16.920 That's a very high bar, and it should be a high bar.
00:19:19.540 But hurt feelings laws, you can't police them.
00:19:21.860 But the worry I have about the independent media is that we're in a world now where the media is so disaggregated.
00:19:31.500 We used to have a national consensus because we all used to sit and watch the six o'clock news, and it used to be three stations.
00:19:37.040 And the advertising used to go to those three stations to be able to support good journalism.
00:19:43.000 And what has happened over time is that all of the ad revenues are going to social media.
00:19:47.500 and so the mainstream media is turning to government sources
00:19:51.200 to be able to get the revenues that they need
00:19:53.320 and as soon as government starts funding
00:19:55.460 then government starts playing the tune
00:19:57.080 and that's what I worry about in independent media
00:19:59.780 and whereas it applies to the independent media
00:20:03.560 I feel like they're trying to put independent media
00:20:07.260 in the same category for Canadian content
00:20:09.660 and all of the rules and restrictions
00:20:11.640 the CRTC puts on regular broadcast television
00:20:14.940 which does not make any sense whatsoever.
00:20:18.160 And I think could be quite, not only onerous,
00:20:20.860 but if they're able to, as they can with private broadcasters,
00:20:25.280 pull your license to be able to broadcast,
00:20:28.960 that's where I worry it's going to end up going.
00:20:31.700 So we'll be a safe haven in Alberta.
00:20:34.160 We'll find a way to, maybe we'll have to cut a deal.
00:20:37.280 Are we going to go there?
00:20:38.180 We'll have to go to the studio.
00:20:39.200 You just mentioned, we'll cut a deal with Elon, with Starlink,
00:20:42.640 so that you can have your little ham radios and do your broadcasting.
00:20:46.380 But I can tell you that that is not the pathway we're going down in Alberta.
00:20:49.340 Okay, that's great.
00:20:50.240 And the Edmonton Police Service did take down their tweet
00:20:52.740 and they cut off the link in that tweet to report.
00:20:56.660 I don't know if the buses are still running with those signs on them,
00:21:00.080 but look at this.
00:21:01.540 I went here just today.
00:21:03.180 I checked this like an hour ago.
00:21:06.720 It's still up.
00:21:07.920 The website where Edmontonians can file hate incident complaints.
00:21:15.480 Go there yourself.
00:21:16.480 Try it.
00:21:17.740 Let me read it.
00:21:18.900 Hate motivated incident definition, a non-criminal action committed against a person or property
00:21:23.660 motivated in whole or in part by hate bias or prejudice towards an identifiable group.
00:21:29.820 Okay, so that's one definition.
00:21:32.540 But here's an example of hate incidents.
00:21:35.460 verbal insults name calling offensive jokes and slurs okay so just to be crystal clear
00:21:47.040 according to the edmonton police own website it is not a crime to call someone a name even an
00:21:52.180 offensive name it's not a crime to make a tasteless joke that's racist might be tasteless
00:21:57.440 might be rude but it's not a crime the same thing with slurs like that's a that's a religious or
00:22:02.920 ethnic uh you know a degrading word for a certain ethnicity that's not nice it's not a crime though
00:22:11.520 now i clicked through this site it's still operating it is still collecting information so
00:22:17.380 the entire hate focused eminent police service website it still exists they just took down the
00:22:24.700 part that was linked to the to the twitter account they haven't changed anything that i can tell
00:22:29.580 other than deleting that one tweet and the link.
00:22:33.300 But why would they?
00:22:34.560 Because there was a reaction on social media.
00:22:36.440 So what?
00:22:37.160 Their policy remains unchanged.
00:22:38.900 I mean, look at this.
00:22:39.660 Here's the Calgary police doing the exact same thing.
00:22:44.780 Here's the link.
00:22:45.900 I went on their website today.
00:22:48.060 The Calgary police are doing the same thing.
00:22:52.020 And the Vancouver police, same thing.
00:22:54.800 And by that, I mean non-crime hate incidents.
00:22:59.580 And obviously the Toronto police, they're the worst.
00:23:03.840 Worst crime wave in history.
00:23:05.600 Jewish synagogues shot every week in Toronto,
00:23:07.620 but they're busy policing offensive words on the internet.
00:23:10.560 Thank you very little, you guys.
00:23:12.060 Can we get some help on the streets?
00:23:14.060 Here's York region, which is near Toronto.
00:23:16.480 Same exact thing.
00:23:17.620 In fact, some of them are using the exact same wording.
00:23:20.340 Here's Halton Regional Police.
00:23:22.180 Again, close to Toronto, a little bit further out.
00:23:24.640 Here's Hamilton, a little bit west of Toronto.
00:23:27.500 Identical.
00:23:28.020 Montreal, of course, of course, even Halifax.
00:23:32.280 And I haven't even looked at all the police.
00:23:34.380 They're just the first ones I checked.
00:23:36.040 Did you seriously think, and did you seriously think that Trudeau's and Carney's RCMP wouldn't
00:23:42.300 be doing the exact same thing?
00:23:44.300 They're collecting information on non-crime hate incidents.
00:23:48.560 It straddles the whole country.
00:23:50.060 I haven't even shown you all of them.
00:23:52.280 And of course, Regina preemptively sent police to the press conference about that mosque
00:23:56.540 blaring the Muslim call to prayer in Arabic in Regina,
00:23:59.840 and they announced in advance they were ready to prosecute
00:24:02.540 if people objected in the wrong way.
00:24:06.060 Maybe it'd be quicker to list the police forces in Canada
00:24:08.960 that are not tracking non-crime hate incidences.
00:24:14.460 This isn't just theoretical, by the way.
00:24:16.060 I mean, we had a taste of it ourselves just a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:18.160 Remember when our Rebel News truck was pulled over
00:24:21.560 because a couple of cops were investigating a hate crime on our truck?
00:24:26.580 Just take a look.
00:24:27.440 I'm feeling unsafe.
00:24:29.020 Don't call me, sir.
00:24:30.180 And I don't want to talk to you at all.
00:24:31.320 What's your problem with the truck?
00:24:33.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:34.400 You can't tape me.
00:24:35.740 They're allowed to tape me.
00:24:36.740 It's a public space.
00:24:38.460 Are they allowed to tape my face?
00:24:40.460 It's a public space.
00:24:41.640 We've investigated it.
00:24:42.960 Yeah.
00:24:43.960 And yeah, it's just, it's a political statement.
00:24:46.120 Yeah.
00:24:46.440 And yeah, there's no hate crime.
00:24:48.700 Someone called the police for this.
00:24:50.220 I mean, everyone's entitled to public opinion.
00:24:53.060 This is obviously the new normal.
00:24:54.720 This is obviously conventional wisdom in police policy across the country.
00:24:59.640 It's got a kind of inertia.
00:25:01.480 I mean, it's normal now.
00:25:04.700 I mean, everyone's doing it.
00:25:05.760 I just proved that to you.
00:25:07.020 It's what you do when you want to show you care about hate, right?
00:25:11.120 That's how it's being sold.
00:25:13.360 But the massive public reaction a few days ago and the political response by Premier
00:25:17.980 Smith, that's hopeful, isn't it?
00:25:20.180 So I've got two suggestions for Premier Smith and for Mike Ellis, the minister who first supported the bus non-crime hate speech tour, but now has renounced it and I'm glad he has.
00:25:33.740 My first suggestion is that Minister Ellis, or the Premier, order all police in Alberta who are under his jurisdiction to stop collecting this information, to destroy any databases they have built, and to reassign any staff who are on these projects, or better yet, just give them severance.
00:25:54.920 They're probably not necessary and they're probably not useful anywhere else.
00:25:58.200 It's not just this non-crime hate incident stuff.
00:26:02.300 It's anything that's DEI oriented, anything that's racial preferences or gender quotas, fire them all.
00:26:11.380 Don't just let them change their title and do the same thing.
00:26:14.020 And by the way, this obviously includes the RCMP, which has a contract with the province of Alberta to provide policing in rural parts.
00:26:21.580 If the media party or the NDP party want to be the party of snitches and Facebook arrests, let them own that side of the debate.
00:26:30.240 By the way, I think this requires like a doge approach.
00:26:33.880 Remember, that's what Elon Musk's team called it a year ago in the U.S., where they really tracked down where all the money was going and they cut it to zero if possible.
00:26:43.120 And I think Alberta should do the same.
00:26:46.680 It's funding anti-Alberta ideas.
00:26:49.820 I mean, why does the government give money to Crime Stoppers at all?
00:26:52.800 If it's so valuable to the public, why doesn't the public just support it?
00:26:57.100 And then Crime Stoppers lobbies the government to go after non-crimes.
00:27:01.780 You see that circular flow of money?
00:27:03.800 Government money goes to Crime Stoppers.
00:27:06.340 Crime Stoppers lobbies the government to go after non-crimes.
00:27:10.940 Zero all that stuff out.
00:27:12.620 If anyone really wants to donate to Crime Stoppers, fill your boots.
00:27:16.280 But why should taxpayers sponsor censors like that?
00:27:19.360 And by the way, if the U.S. is anything to go by, if you cut off the funding for these activist groups,
00:27:25.360 you will soon find that the volume of attacks on the province will plunge.
00:27:30.120 But here's my second idea.
00:27:31.700 So idea number one, just shut this all down, defund it, fire everyone you can.
00:27:38.260 But here's point number two.
00:27:40.120 How about do something that doesn't just play defense?
00:27:42.560 How about go on the offensive for once, proactively fighting for freedom,
00:27:48.400 moving the freedom ball down the field?
00:27:50.600 I have a personal story.
00:27:51.800 You may remember that about 20 years ago, I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed and I was investigated and prosecuted for 900 days.
00:28:00.340 I had the magazine, the Western Standard at the time.
00:28:03.660 And my investigators and prosecutors were something called the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
00:28:08.880 Remember that? I mean, here's part of my interrogation. Remember this?
00:28:12.440 Your intent and purpose of your article with the cartoon illustrations published on February 27, 2006.
00:28:20.620 Why is that a relevant question?
00:28:26.040 Under Section 3.1a, it talks about intention, purpose.
00:28:33.800 We would like to get some background as well.
00:28:36.060 Is it, you'd like to get some background, or does this determine anything?
00:28:39.900 If we publish what we publish, the words in the picture speak for themselves.
00:28:45.160 Are you saying that one answer is wrong and one answer is right?
00:28:52.080 Well, is a certain answer contrary to law?
00:28:56.680 No.
00:28:57.640 So if I were to say, hypothetically, that the purpose was to instill hatred, incite hatred, and cause offense, are you saying that's an acceptable answer?
00:29:09.640 I have to look at it in the context of all the information and determine if it was indeed.
00:29:14.560 oh, I was so handsome then. But that was a disgrace. It was a national scandal. So much
00:29:21.860 so that Prime Minister Stephen Harper actually repealed the federal version of that same
00:29:27.540 censorship law from the Canadian Human Rights Act. But I wasn't charged under the federal
00:29:33.340 Canadian Human Rights Act. I was charged under Alberta's Human Rights Act. Section three,
00:29:40.880 to be precise. Let me read it to you. There's a lot of extra red tape, but I'm just going to
00:29:45.380 read the key parts. Discrimination re-publications notices. Section 3.1.
00:29:52.140 No person shall publish, issue, or display, or cause to be published, issued, or displayed
00:29:57.420 before the public any statement, publication, notice, sign, symbol, emblem, or other representation
00:30:02.480 that indicates discrimination or an intention to discriminate against a person or class of persons
00:30:10.280 or, and this is the key part, is likely to expose a person or class of persons to hatred or contempt.
00:30:17.500 So let me just translate from the legalese.
00:30:20.240 If you publish anything that might, that is likely to, expose a person to hatred or contempt, those are feelings.
00:30:28.860 If you publish anything that could cause a person to have hard feelings about someone else,
00:30:35.760 that's against the law in Alberta.
00:30:38.160 That's what I was charged with 20 years ago.
00:30:40.760 There's a lot more details, but that's the heart of it.
00:30:44.700 Why is that still Alberta law?
00:30:47.640 Why is that censorship provision that was so flagrantly abused against me and Western Standard, why is that still on the books?
00:30:55.020 So a bunch of bureaucrats and lawyers can get a government job.
00:30:59.500 I mean, if the Edmonton Police Service needs to be chided, and indeed they do, shouldn't the provincial government be consistent and repeal that authoritarian law?
00:31:09.420 Why leave it out there?
00:31:11.060 You're going to go after someone else?
00:31:12.620 I mean, my own view is to repeal the entire Alberta Rights Act.
00:31:18.020 I mean, who would object to that except the usual suspects?
00:31:21.900 Why not defund them and remove that piece of authoritarian architecture from our laws?
00:31:28.120 I always say to politicians, you're going to be in a controversy.
00:31:32.160 That's what politics is.
00:31:33.260 There's going to be a campaign.
00:31:34.300 There's going to be a ballot question.
00:31:36.360 Why not choose your own controversy rather than letting your enemies choose the controversy, choose the battlefield?
00:31:43.860 I mean, if you're going to have a fight over something, wouldn't you rather fight where the public is overwhelmingly on your side, but your opponents just can't help themselves?
00:31:53.460 I mean, it reminds me of the debate about keeping men out of women's and girls' sports and bathrooms and changing rooms.
00:32:02.300 That is such an obvious winner.
00:32:04.740 I think severely normal Albertans are like 90 to 10 on that one.
00:32:10.080 And yeah, let the opposition and let the media party cheer for trans people in change rooms.
00:32:17.660 Yeah, that's a controversy that the conservatives are going to win every single time.
00:32:21.460 removing this censorship power from the books, repealing it. I'm going to guess that's probably
00:32:27.860 an 80-20 split. But wouldn't it be wonderful from a political candidate's point of view
00:32:33.600 to be on the free speech side of that battle against you? Some CBC government censors,
00:32:39.780 some whiny lawyers. And frankly, I think the conservative base could use a tonic like that,
00:32:46.760 a shot in the arm like that, a bit of a pep talk like that, given some of the pro carny politics
00:32:51.540 in the province these days, what a winning issue this would be to strike a blow for freedom of
00:32:57.640 speech and freedom of thought, command the police to drop this censorship and repeal this provision
00:33:04.760 that was so brutally abused. So yeah, congratulations to the premier and the public
00:33:10.040 safety minister for giving the Edmonton police service addressing down. But just so they know,
00:33:16.340 nothing has actually changed other than a tweet was taken down. The Edmonton police are still
00:33:22.100 investigating non-crime hate incidents, as is the Calgary police, as is the RCMP. And I haven't even
00:33:29.460 checked woke cities like Medicine Hat and Lethbridge, but I think I know the answer in
00:33:33.800 advance. So there's still work to do. But in politics, the work doesn't often get much better
00:33:39.940 or more rewarding than that. Now, does it? Stay with us for more.
00:33:46.340 Well, what do you think of all that?
00:33:55.120 I like Danielle Smith's belief in freedom of speech.
00:33:57.620 I simply think she didn't really focus on this.
00:34:00.320 It was so low-key and low-profile.
00:34:03.420 It wasn't until there was a social media eruption that she weighed in.
00:34:07.720 I think she can seize the initiative.
00:34:09.660 I'd love to see him.
00:34:10.860 Anyways, I was going to now have a face-to-face interview with Alexa Lavoie,
00:34:15.540 our very brave reporter who just got back from Spain.
00:34:18.300 In fact, she was in the office today.
00:34:19.900 It was her birthday.
00:34:20.740 We had some cake.
00:34:21.720 But before I had a chance to sit down and interview with her,
00:34:24.780 she had to run and catch the train to go back home.
00:34:27.480 So unfortunately, I'm not in a position to have a live conversation with her.
00:34:32.340 But what's so exciting is they're back from Spain now,
00:34:35.940 but they have so many reports they're still editing
00:34:38.540 because while they were there on the ground,
00:34:40.100 they didn't want to spend their time editing.
00:34:41.900 They wanted to film, film, film, film, film.
00:34:43.760 and they've been editing on their flight home
00:34:46.960 and they're editing today
00:34:48.020 and they're going to finish editing on the weekend.
00:34:49.800 In fact, I talked to our head of video, Efra Monsanto,
00:34:52.060 who says that we still have half of our work from Spain
00:34:55.620 that we haven't even published yet.
00:34:57.020 So I'm very excited about it.
00:34:58.780 And instead of interviewing Alexa,
00:35:00.320 which I will do another time,
00:35:01.520 but she had to hop on the train,
00:35:03.220 let me present to you one of her reports
00:35:05.060 that has not yet been seen.
00:35:06.580 You take a look.
00:35:07.220 And if you like this, go to MigrantReports.com for more.
00:35:10.060 I'm Alex Salavoie for Rebel News, and we have now spent two days reporting on the ground in Ceuta,
00:35:20.280 an autonomous Spanish territory located on the North African coast, just like Melilla.
00:35:28.020 Last week, these two Spanish enclaves were overwhelmed by a massive wave of illegal crossings.
00:35:36.520 Here in Ceuta, more than 60,000 mostly military-aged young men crossed illegally by sea,
00:35:45.560 climbed border fences, and poured into a city of only 83,000 residents.
00:35:52.820 And this happened just behind me.
00:35:56.160 Think about that.
00:35:57.240 In just days, a number equivalent to most of the city's population crossed the border illegally.
00:36:06.520 But what happened here is far more complex and far more disturbing
00:36:11.520 than what the mainstream media is showing you.
00:36:14.520 Instead of investigating how the border collapsed, who entered, where they went,
00:36:21.520 and why authorities lost control,
00:36:25.520 much of the media is trying to reduce the entire story to a humanitarian crisis.
00:36:32.520 They want you to see only victims.
00:36:35.760 They do not want you to see the security failure
00:36:39.520 and the reason behind this invasion.
00:36:42.960 And they certainly do not want you asking who is responsible.
00:36:48.660 That is why you need to follow migrantreports.com,
00:36:53.280 where we are bringing you the reality from the ground,
00:36:57.320 not the Polish version approved by the political establishment.
00:37:02.280 and please consider donating to help offset the cost of this journalistic mission.
00:37:08.920 Now, here is what the media is not telling you.
00:37:12.760 Before the massive crossings at the El Tararal border even began,
00:37:19.080 I'm talking about this border, Ceuta was already facing another wave of illegal migration
00:37:25.960 on the opposite side of the city, near the Benzu border.
00:37:30.840 The situation became so serious that authorities had to close the area.
00:37:38.340 So this was not one isolated incident.
00:37:42.140 Ceuta was being pressured from multiple directions.
00:37:46.720 And Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez does not want the public to see the full scale of what his government has allowed to happen.
00:37:57.500 When did recognizing rights become something radical?
00:38:01.500 When did empathy become something exceptional?
00:38:04.500 Spain is above all a welcoming country, and this is the path we choose.
00:38:09.500 Dignity, community, and justice.
00:38:12.500 People who entered illegally are now spread throughout Ceuta.
00:38:17.500 We saw some in the city center, but many more are living in the mountains,
00:38:23.500 mountains, bushes and isolated areas surrounding the city.
00:38:29.500 Near the border, largely hidden from the public view,
00:38:33.500 there is also a migrant facility mainly housing women and minors.
00:38:39.500 It's packed! Thousands of people are reportedly being housed,
00:38:44.500 processed and cared for while local residents are left
00:38:49.500 wondering when their city will return to normal.
00:38:53.980 Then there is the earlier wave of arrivals near Benzou.
00:39:00.040 We went there ourselves.
00:39:01.940 We saw thousands of migrants from countries
00:39:05.680 including Yemen, Nigeria, and Senegal.
00:39:08.980 Many were gathered outside migrant processing centers.
00:39:13.100 We saw thousands of migrants from countries
00:39:15.760 including Yemen, Nigeria, and Senegal.
00:39:19.100 Many were gathered outside migrant processing centers.
00:39:22.560 Even more were spread across the nearby beaches.
00:39:27.260 And when we spoke with them, several told us
00:39:31.220 that the military and police had not taken the information.
00:39:36.440 You live inside of that?
00:39:38.480 No, actually, we are.
00:39:39.860 You are sleeping at night there?
00:39:41.100 Yeah.
00:39:42.100 They don't have any bed for you?
00:39:43.260 Night, no food, no water.
00:39:45.320 We cannot reach the water behind this one, I'm sorry.
00:39:48.060 Are you free to live and walk around and go and take some water?
00:39:53.180 We are free to go to the beach, seeking for some water and just getting back.
00:39:56.940 That's it?
00:39:57.480 Yeah, food, no, zero.
00:39:59.340 Do you have like military who are looking and surveying what you're doing?
00:40:05.100 They're not looking, they're looking in the forest, the fire forest.
00:40:08.340 Ah, okay.
00:40:08.840 But now we are safe in here.
00:40:10.900 Okay.
00:40:12.440 Did they actually took all your information, your passport and...
00:40:16.260 They didn't take anything.
00:40:17.520 They didn't take anything?
00:40:18.520 They didn't even talk to us.
00:40:20.520 So they don't know the name or who is there?
00:40:24.520 They don't know anything?
00:40:25.520 They didn't ask you any information?
00:40:27.520 No at all.
00:40:28.520 No clear record of who had entered.
00:40:32.520 So now thousands upon thousands of unidentified people
00:40:37.520 are moving around a small city of just 83,000 residents
00:40:42.520 and authorities cannot even say who they are.
00:40:46.520 where they came from, where they are going.
00:40:51.520 That is not border security, and it's done on purpose.
00:40:56.520 Let's also be clear about what we observed.
00:41:00.520 The overwhelming majority were young men,
00:41:04.520 Muslim background.
00:41:06.520 The small number of women had to be separated
00:41:10.520 because of concerns for their safety,
00:41:13.520 including the risk of sexual violence.
00:41:17.020 What about the residents of Ceuta?
00:41:20.920 We then spoke with members of the Guardia Civil.
00:41:25.220 They told us that people were not being arrested
00:41:28.720 across the city if they entered the country illegally.
00:41:33.220 They also could not tell us when or even if
00:41:37.320 everyone would be deported.
00:41:40.320 Some may be returned, but when?
00:41:43.220 How many?
00:41:44.420 And under what process?
00:41:46.920 They couldn't give us clear answers
00:41:49.220 because by their own admission, they did not know.
00:41:54.160 And then we witnessed perhaps the strangest part
00:41:58.860 of this entire operation.
00:42:01.380 At the border, there are two completely different routes.
00:42:06.280 There is the formal crossing where identification is checked,
00:42:11.120 information is verified and photographs are taken then there is another route through
00:42:18.560 a ditch beside the border you can see it just right there with all the garbages on the ground
00:42:26.000 people without passports or identification are simply directed back into Morocco through that
00:42:32.960 No record of who went in and out, no photograph, no proper identification, no meaningful consequences for entering illegally.
00:42:44.960 After crossing the border, overwhelming the city, damaging public property and spreading fear among residents,
00:42:53.960 some are simply walked back and told goodbye.
00:42:58.960 This is not a serious immigration policy. It is a political surrender.
00:43:05.960 Pedro Sánchez and his government have sent a dangerous message.
00:43:10.960 Spain's borders can be tested, breached and overwhelmed and the consequences may be minimal.
00:43:18.960 That message will not stop at Ceuta. It will spread across Spain and it will spread across Europe.
00:43:27.960 Europe, a continent already struggling with uncontrolled migration, failed integration
00:43:34.560 and political leaders who refuse to defend their own borders.
00:43:40.220 A country that does not control its border is not fully in control of its future.
00:43:47.800 And right now, under Pedro Sanchez, Spain is losing control.
00:43:53.020 There is much more to come.
00:43:54.960 Stay tuned for truthful independent journalism at MigrantReports.com and if you appreciate
00:44:01.960 the work we are doing here on the ground, please donate and help us continue bringing
00:44:08.740 you the stories the mainstream media refuses to tell.
00:44:13.480 Border was open.
00:44:14.480 Yes.
00:44:15.480 It's open.
00:44:16.480 It's open?
00:44:17.480 Yes.
00:44:18.480 It's open but not now.
00:44:19.480 Not now?
00:44:20.480 Now it's over.
00:44:23.480 Why, why do you say it was open?
00:44:26.240 Who told you that?
00:44:28.660 Morocco.
00:44:29.500 Morocco?
00:44:30.340 The government?
00:44:31.280 Yes.
00:44:32.120 The government say, it's open.
00:44:34.860 He says, go, go, go to Sibja.
00:44:37.400 He say, like that, like that.
00:44:39.360 Go to Sibja, go to Sibja.
00:44:41.900 And after that,
00:44:43.240 go, go, go, go, go.
00:44:44.460 And after that, we,
00:44:46.200 we think, say to the media,
00:44:49.180 come back, come back with children.
00:44:52.200 Why?
00:44:52.940 I don't know they say go and then come back yes I don't know is it is it
00:45:01.100 strange it's asphalt but it's a crazy man in Morocco he in open the front
00:45:11.400 chair she says go to go to Sipcha and after the and after then just two day
00:45:18.560 or three days we think he's a come back my children come back my children the
00:45:26.720 police the Moroccan police they helped you we help you if you wanna if you wanna
00:45:31.800 go to a subject but no not help you but if you wanna did they help you like the
00:45:38.360 police they they say they show you the way yes yeah yeah yeah yeah so they
00:45:44.240 help you yeah close the door of the front chair now it's it's it's the door of
00:45:57.480 front chair it's closed do you know that yeah it's closed you want to go to the
00:46:02.140 front chair but if you want to go to Morocco it's a it's a not sure it's a
00:46:11.880 not a good idea do you feel abused by the king no like they say go go go but no
00:46:20.220 no nothing is happening no not the king just the justice there it's not so you
00:46:28.860 don't want to come back no no me yeah I don't want to come to look for a better
00:46:35.820 alive and god willing to be able to support our parents i just received a rock my colleague
00:46:43.980 efrain flores mocento and i traveled to ceuta to cover the invasion of 60 000 illegal migrants
00:46:51.980 who flooded this small autonomous spanish territory in north africa we went because
00:46:59.420 we know we cannot trust the mainstream media to tell the full truth about mass immigration
00:47:05.880 Ceuta is being invaded, and this crisis could spread like wildfire across Europe and eventually reach Canada.
00:47:15.920 Donate at MigrantReports.com to support our independent journalism.
00:47:20.600 Here is a short report from our time on the ground in Ceuta.
00:47:25.700 So the military just told us that we can't be on this portion of the beach.
00:47:29.980 So, they asked us to go the other side, but we wanted to show you that the government just added a new floodable barrier.
00:47:41.980 One level more of protection, but is it that enough?
00:47:45.980 Because we saw that people were not just passing by the sea, they were passing on top of the fence.
00:47:51.980 We saw it live, that people were not just passing over here, they were just jumping over.
00:47:58.980 We know that around here there is some area that it's really dangerous, especially at night.
00:48:04.580 We are here because we wanted to see the aftermath.
00:48:07.860 You can see that they cleaned pretty well the beach so far.
00:48:12.740 This area is still, like, full of trash.
00:48:15.460 And over there as well, like, seriously, over there is disgusting.
00:48:20.980 But today, someone who worked in the hotel industry told us that those invaders are now
00:48:31.700 everywhere around the city. So they are not just in one particular place, they are everywhere.
00:48:38.740 And sometime at night, it can be pretty dangerous. So just to mention that as soon as we got off of
00:48:44.820 of the ferry from the mainland to here,
00:48:48.300 we saw right away some people sleeping,
00:48:52.020 I will say dying, into the grass.
00:48:56.740 It was pretty shocking.
00:49:08.780 Pretty interesting.
00:49:09.820 I don't know if you can see,
00:49:12.240 But people were passing by this tunnel.
00:49:15.080 You can see trash really far away in the tunnel.
00:49:18.140 I don't know if there is some people still inside of it.
00:49:22.360 So we are now entering in a very dangerous area.
00:49:26.980 So pray for us.
00:49:29.360 But I think it's important to show all sides of the story.
00:49:33.200 We have been told that it's pretty dangerous for, you know,
00:49:38.260 people who are trying to steal, to attack you. So I have my 360 just to make sure we will be fine.
00:49:47.740 We came to Spain to look for a better life and God willing to be able to support our parents.
00:49:54.520 I just received a rock.
00:50:04.000 they're throwing rocks just receive a rock let's start walking away yeah
00:50:11.840 when we say that some people don't have the same values than others look at the trash all around
00:50:19.760 we saw videos of the man standing here during the invasion but look at the number of trash
00:50:27.680 that they let all around. This is literally a lack of respect and a
00:50:40.160 lifestyle that is not compatible with the Western values. We keep our stuff
00:50:49.440 clean, we make sure that everything is clean around, but look at that. This
00:50:55.520 Just remember me some places in Africa where I traveled to in the past.
00:51:03.560 Hey, welcome back.
00:51:04.640 I got some letters from you about Spain.
00:51:08.140 The first is from Falcon Library, who says,
00:51:10.960 There's only one law of human history.
00:51:12.980 Land belongs to whoever is strong enough to take it and strong enough to hold it.
00:51:16.680 If your people aren't strong enough to hold it, someone else will take it from you.
00:51:19.600 And then everything in that land, including you and your home, your farm, your factory, will now belong to them.
00:51:24.100 You can ignore this law, but it has always existed and still does.
00:51:27.860 Well, that's what's so interesting.
00:51:29.400 I'm not an expert in Spanish history, but I have studied a little bit the Muslim invasion of Andalusia, which is what they called Spain.
00:51:38.900 And they really went so far up there.
00:51:41.920 And they held most of it for hundreds of years.
00:51:46.280 I think part of it was held for 700 years.
00:51:49.480 And yet there was a Spanish resistance that never gave up.
00:51:53.040 And 1492, a lot of the expulsion of the Muslims and the retaking of Spain, the Reconquista, it was called.
00:52:03.160 Imagine holding on to a hope, a dream, a loyalty for so many centuries.
00:52:08.880 I don't know if we have the mettle to do that, but Spain did.
00:52:13.840 Spain retook itself.
00:52:16.840 But just in a blink of an eye, it's giving it away again.
00:52:20.660 At least the first time they fought, they lost.
00:52:23.640 They were fighting as they lost.
00:52:25.020 It's incredible to me to see how easily the Spanish government is giving away their own country.
00:52:31.840 Me naturally says Spain literally asked for this.
00:52:34.960 They voted for it.
00:52:36.420 Well, the Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez is a piece of work.
00:52:39.700 He's anti-American, anti-Western.
00:52:41.740 He's in the vein of an AOC or a Mamdani.
00:52:44.740 He's a radical leftist.
00:52:46.420 He's a globalist.
00:52:47.340 You probably remember about a month or two ago when he waved a wand and gave amnesty to what he said was a million foreign migrants.
00:52:55.540 It turns out it's closer to half a million, he said.
00:52:58.300 It turns out it's closer to a million.
00:53:00.360 And so he, you know, he, while this crisis was happening, I think he went on vacation.
00:53:06.160 He tweeted his favorite rock and roll songs.
00:53:09.080 Like he just, he was not seized with his invasion of Spain as a crisis.
00:53:14.040 To him, it's just his allies coming.
00:53:17.240 Because remember, politicians on the left, they see these migrants coming not only as future votes, but as clients for the globalist state, for the welfare state.
00:53:30.080 And demographically, if they stay long enough, they'll take over the political system.
00:53:35.660 Exhibit A would be, I guess, the United Kingdom itself.
00:53:38.540 So, yeah, very interesting story.
00:53:40.040 I'm so glad that our friends Alexa and Efron went over there, and there'll be more videos to come.
00:53:45.800 Well, that's our show for the day.
00:53:47.740 Until next week, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
00:53:51.800 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.