Rebel News Podcast - August 27, 2026


EZRA LEVANT | Internal CBC memo tells journalists not to call 9⧸11 a terrorist attack and to say “passenger jet crashes” instead


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00:00:30.000 Tonight, the CBC is unable to label terrorism as terrorism.
00:00:46.440 It's Thursday, August 27th, 2026.
00:00:50.280 I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra LeVent Show.
00:00:54.320 Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
00:01:09.560 Riddle me this, folks.
00:01:11.420 If commercial airplanes are hijacked and then deliberately flown into buildings with the
00:01:19.920 stated goal of destroying those aforementioned buildings and killing as many innocent people
00:01:27.580 as possible in the process can you refer to such an occurrence as a act of terrorism well of course
00:01:37.200 the answer is obvious to anyone with a functioning brain but alas the brainiacs at the woefully woke
00:01:43.700 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are struggling mightily with the T word these days for
00:01:50.460 reasons that remain baffling. You know, in just 15 days, we will be marking the grim 25th
00:01:58.140 anniversary of 9-11. Anyone older than 30, no doubt remembers exactly where they were
00:02:04.640 on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. That's when four commercial jets were hijacked.
00:02:11.460 two flew into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york one targeted the pentagon in
00:02:19.020 washington dc and the fourth nosedived into a field in pennsylvania after passengers rose up
00:02:26.340 and tried to regain control of united airlines flight 93 almost 3 000 innocent people died that
00:02:35.800 day. It was disturbing, gross, infuriating, and yes, a disgusting act of terrorism
00:02:43.840 perpetrated by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Oops, did I say terrorism and terrorist?
00:02:53.500 I guess I'll never get a gig at CBC now that I have obviously offended the sensibilities of
00:02:59.840 Omar Khadr. In any event, via the foggy lens of revisionist history, the CBC would rather that
00:03:09.280 you don't jump to any conclusions regarding what happened on September 11, 2001, which is to say
00:03:17.760 the CBC thinks there's some, oh, I don't know, nuance regarding what happened on that tragic
00:03:25.760 Tuesday. The crux of the matter, there's a CBC memo that was recently uncovered from the
00:03:33.320 broadcaster's so-called journalistic standards and practices office. The memo channels the
00:03:41.140 broadcaster's, quote, long-standing language guidance, end quote, and it's nothing short of
00:03:48.260 shocking. I will read the most offensive paragraph verbatim, quote, do not refer to the September 11
00:03:57.760 attacks as terrorist attacks. The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C.,
00:04:07.620 Pennsylvania, and Manhattan. The World Trade Center was destroyed, end quote. Oh, I see those were
00:04:16.400 crashes. Yet, if you purposely pilot a vehicle into a building, is that really a crash? Doesn't
00:04:26.200 the word crash imply that an accident had occurred? 9-11 was no accident. It was a deliberate
00:04:34.520 bloodbath. So who is the author of this rubbish? Well, the Toronto Sun was the first to obtain
00:04:43.100 this memo it was signed bb as in bb gun but apparently the initials bb stand for basim
00:04:52.420 basra he's the senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at cbc news no i swear
00:05:01.600 i'm not making this up journalistic standards and public trust does it get any more orwellian than
00:05:09.520 that, given that Bibi appears to be on a jihad to suppress the truth. As for Bashra's background,
00:05:18.660 let it be known he was born in Egypt, which was the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:05:25.960 By the way, even the Egyptian government refers to the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist
00:05:32.440 organization. Golly, don't tell that to BB. He will likely furiously type up another memo and
00:05:39.840 send it straight to Cairo. Predictably, and thankfully, there has been an avalanche of
00:05:48.200 outrage regarding Bushra's whitewashing of 9-11. But incredibly, for now, the CBC is not
00:05:56.320 backpedaling nor is it apologizing rather it continues to double down applying yet more
00:06:06.120 lipstick to a pig when asked to comment on the memo CBC spokeswoman Carrie Kelly oh by the way
00:06:14.980 can I call her a spokeswoman like I didn't misgender her or anything like that did I
00:06:19.960 Anyway, Kerry Kelly stated the following, quote, CBC's longstanding policy regarding the terms terrorist and terrorism is a preference for the use of these words with attribution, a practice shared by many of the world's top journalistic organizations.
00:06:41.460 Our general manager and editor in chief has written publicly in the past on the subject, end quote.
00:06:49.040 Oh, I see. Apparently, there is indeed some complicated nuance regarding what happened on September 11th, 2001.
00:06:58.680 Oh, sure, it was a premeditated attack resulting in a gross massacre.
00:07:04.280 But, you know, maybe the West had it coming, eh?
00:07:08.120 Maybe New York and Washington were somehow deserving of such a slaughter for whatever cockamamie reason.
00:07:15.860 so it's not really you know terrorism classic gotta look at all those root causes and all that
00:07:24.280 jazz and after all as the old chestnut goes one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
00:07:31.040 and blah blah blah blah by the way just in case i've got it wrong and boshra is correct
00:07:38.400 i referenced the cambridge dictionary to see how this august publication defines terrorist
00:07:45.620 here goes quote someone who uses violent action or threats of violent action for political purposes
00:07:55.740 end quote well folks i rest my case now the mastermind of 9-11 was osama bin laden who
00:08:03.660 headed up al-qaeda until some u.s navy seals sent him on a blissful journey to meet up with his
00:08:10.960 promised 72 voluptuous black-eyed virgins. Bin Laden was an Islamist who hated the West
00:08:19.140 and decided to wage war against the West, even though the wealthy Bin Laden grew up in a world
00:08:25.740 of privilege. But never mind. What's more, do you know that Saudi Arabia, the country most of the
00:08:33.960 9-11 terrorists originated from refers to 9-11 as an act of terrorism? Can the irony be more
00:08:42.360 perverse or profound than that? Saudi Arabia has no issue calling terrorism terrorism,
00:08:48.620 but the CBC considers such a term to be a little two-third rail, a little too complicated,
00:08:56.240 a little too maybe offensive to certain people? Seriously? Of course, what's really gross about
00:09:04.500 this story is that this garbage is not emanating from some loser keyboard warrior operating out
00:09:12.640 of his mother's basement. Rather, this dreck comes courtesy of the CBC, which is publicly funded
00:09:19.920 to the tune of about 1.4 billion dollars per year. At this point, I must mention that 26 Canadians
00:09:29.660 died on 9-11. I wonder what the family members of the deceased are thinking right now
00:09:36.920 when they see their tax dollars being used by the CBC to act as an apologist for what happened
00:09:45.900 some 25 years ago. And in the days ahead, what other memos can we expect from Bozo Boshra?
00:09:54.880 How about this? Hey, don't refer to Paul Bernardo as a serial killer. He was just some dude who
00:10:00.460 went out on a few bad dates. Oh, and don't refer to October 7th, 2023 as the single biggest one
00:10:07.680 day massacre of Jews post Holocaust. That was merely a most peaceful protest that occurred
00:10:15.380 in Israel. And for what happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, let's drop that whole day
00:10:24.180 of infamy libel and refer to this event as a demonstration against the U.S. military-industrial
00:10:30.820 complex. Yeah, that's the ticket. Oh, more irony. The CBC forever justifies its taxpayer-funded
00:10:40.080 corporate welfare because it sees itself as a watchdog against misinformation and disinformation
00:10:48.960 and yet this entity can't call terrorism terrorism it can't label a terrorist a terrorist
00:10:57.360 well you're looking at the very definition of misinformation and disinformation when the cbc
00:11:03.940 believes the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 were merely some unfortunate plane crashes.
00:11:14.080 So the question arises, what is the motivation of Basim Boshra? Does he subscribe to an Islamist
00:11:22.260 doctrine? Or does he perhaps suffer from next-level suicidal empathy? Who knows? I mean,
00:11:31.140 if 9-11 doesn't meet the benchmark of terrorism, then what does? In the final analysis, enough is
00:11:40.860 enough, which is to say, please, can we finally get around to defunding the CBC? It has become
00:11:47.980 increasingly clear that our state broadcaster has devolved into a propaganda arm run by Islamists
00:11:56.480 and Marxists. Hey, if that's the way the CBC wants to roll, fine by me. Just don't manufacture
00:12:05.000 this crap on the taxpayer dime. You know, folks, if Bassem Bashra can't call terrorism, terrorism,
00:12:17.620 then really he's got to go especially given that this guy is paid by the taxpayer in fact this
00:12:26.980 latest cbc fiasco it's not just a slap in the face to taxpayers but it's also a slap in the
00:12:33.420 face to patriots so can you do me a favor can you go to firebassem.com that's firebassem.com
00:12:43.060 Put your name on that signature and tell the uber-woke CBC, enough is enough.
00:12:56.000 On a sidewalk, ma'am.
00:13:00.120 I can't hear you, sorry.
00:13:03.520 We've been told that there's illicit activity.
00:13:07.900 Pardon me?
00:13:08.980 By people in the neighborhood, your neighbors.
00:13:13.060 hi sir do you have any drugs i didn't hear that with your face diaper on hey folks we're in
00:13:23.120 beautiful brampton ontario and i have another story of there goes the neighborhood
00:13:28.360 david menzies for rebel news here in beautiful brampton ontario and folks what can i tell you
00:13:36.840 we have another yet another there goes the neighborhood type of story we've been bringing
00:13:44.620 you lots of these stories lately and I'm with Jim not his real name and as you can see we're
00:13:51.640 blurring his image and we're distorting his voice and what this story is all about is that
00:13:58.200 Jim lived in a relatively quiet neighborhood and then about six months ago on one of the streets
00:14:06.520 on that neighborhood namely Truman Street uh well a crack house for lack of a better term
00:14:13.680 open for business and what Jim sees on a daily basis is drug use drug deals in the human
00:14:25.060 trafficking front prostitution and people overdosing by the dozens it is no longer a
00:14:33.980 pleasant place to live and perhaps worst of all the authorities seem to be completely useless
00:14:41.400 in restoring peace to the neighborhood so jim let's start at the beginning you said you noticed
00:14:47.480 this trend about six months ago it's one particular house with a trailer in it what do you observe
00:14:55.020 going on well you hit the nail on the head with uh you know describing it but i'd like to add
00:14:59.560 another thing there's also daycares in the area multiple registered housing daycares you know all
00:15:04.840 sorts of uh new children at uh at risk you know it's not just like drug dealing it's prostitution
00:15:10.440 it's human trafficking it's you know now the whole area itself is now you know it's contaminated with
00:15:16.360 just evil um i don't i don't understand why the city would have to uh you know take so long to
00:15:23.400 do something or why they would even ignore me at this point um it's it's come down to a
00:15:30.040 how do i say it's a horrible situation that they've refused to clean up and i have to see
00:15:36.680 crackheads or whatever drug they you know decide to do they're od'ing on my lawn they're od'ing on
00:15:42.040 neighbors lawns you can't you can't raise them with those people you don't want to go near them
00:15:46.600 either because they could you know cause harm to people around um it's not just a trailer it's a
00:15:52.040 a human trafficking trailer um they've now enclosed their gazebo to lord knows what inside of it i've
00:15:58.040 seen someone sleeping in a tin shed you know like you buy at home depot um that's become you know a
00:16:03.560 new issue um the house itself um in the last six months has just gone completely you know to hell
00:16:10.440 and the neighborhood is now suffering because of that and jim i can ask you do we know who owns
00:16:15.960 the house it was for sale a couple years ago so now i assume it is a tenant instead of a landlord
00:16:23.560 tenant situation it's not the actual owner i hope it's not the actual owner there was one point
00:16:28.520 there was a truck full of mattresses for about two months that that's been cleaned up in the last 30
00:16:32.920 days but we were dealing with something just gross and weird for for so long and that's what caught
00:16:38.120 my that's what caught my eye originally was the trailer and the mattresses and just the weird
00:16:42.760 situation and then when i started prying into it it started becoming an issue of oh wow no they're
00:16:48.360 doing something they're allowed they're selling drugs oh wow they're doing human trafficking
00:16:53.000 oh wow why is nothing being done so bylaw was first and then i reached out to the city and
00:16:58.680 then it only goes up as high as a secretary it's not something that's you know very hidden you know
00:17:03.560 it's it's it's all in plain sight and for the city not to do anything for the police not to do
00:17:07.880 anything you have to be mad you have to you have to start asking questions and this is why you know
00:17:12.680 i've reached out to you so jim what what is the unspoken reason the city and the police are not
00:17:21.080 doing anything about this because clearly there are actual laws being broken so where's the law
00:17:27.960 enforcement i mean that's the million dollar question at hand here um i think um just like
00:17:33.480 like how it is across Canada in general, whether it be, you know, here in Ontario, across whatever it may be,
00:17:40.020 everyone has this catch-and-release policy, it seems to be.
00:17:42.760 It seems to be the government policies are just let them go, let them do their thing.
00:17:46.940 Even to the point of, I assume, I've seen it before, you know,
00:17:50.180 the government is giving them avenues and giving them opportunities to use drugs and all, you know,
00:17:55.620 accessories to smoke drugs and all that, you know, whether it be crack pipes or, you know, we've seen that, you've seen that.
00:18:01.420 They give them the products to do it. So of course they're going to do it. You're enabling drug addicts to keep being drug addicts. Nothing will ever change at that point. I don't know why the mayor feels that that is a good representation of Brampton because it's right across from the new hospital. They're expanding the new hospital. There's people there every day. There's people breaking shovel ground like two months ago.
00:18:29.200 You think that they would want to clean up the area before they start building the new additions and all that.
00:18:33.800 Who do you have more contempt for?
00:18:35.300 I can hate them all equally. I have enough hate in my heart.
00:18:38.000 It's not one of those things where I have to pick one person or another.
00:18:41.300 I can hate the crackheads and the drug addicts and whatever they're doing, fentanyl, whatever may be under the sun.
00:18:46.900 They should know that that's wrong and that they're on a fast track to death and that's whatever.
00:18:53.600 And they're ruining my community with their said drug addiction or whatever, maybe mental illness that isn't checked.
00:19:01.280 But also it's the council members for turning a blind eye and making it go this far.
00:19:05.560 It shouldn't have gone this far.
00:19:06.820 It should have just been a by-law enforcement and that's how it should have just stopped right there and not,
00:19:12.160 oh hey, by-law enforcement's being ignored, oh wow, they're doing crackdowns.
00:19:15.760 They shouldn't have had this opportunity to do drug dealing.
00:19:18.940 They shouldn't have had this opportunity to do human trafficking, which is another thing.
00:19:21.520 You can turn a blind eye in this province to drug dealing.
00:19:23.860 That's just no surprise.
00:19:26.180 But it's the human trafficking that blows my mind
00:19:28.320 that they're able to turn a blind eye to.
00:19:29.900 You think in today's society with, you know, feminism
00:19:32.680 and, you know, obviously speaking out movements
00:19:35.320 left, right, and center about people,
00:19:36.960 you think at the end of the day that human trafficking
00:19:39.060 would be the first thing to get checked.
00:19:41.620 But here we are.
00:19:42.940 Let's go to Truman, see what we encounter.
00:19:51.520 well no answer at the front door so let's uh try the side door oh hi sir yeah do you live here by
00:20:01.400 any chance no i don't oh is the homeowner home okay do you know who the homeowner is yeah yeah
00:20:07.740 but he's not here okay my name's uh david menzies with rebel news and i'm just here doing a story
00:20:14.220 there's been neighbors complaining about drug dealing prostitution happening here nothing like
00:20:20.880 do you nothing like that okay then is there anyone else here that can talk to us no
00:20:29.600 oh hello sorry okay all right then i'm just wondering if i could speak to somebody uh
00:20:39.360 yeah we're allowed to we're telling you not to okay well
00:20:50.880 very odd if the allegations are true that there's illegal drug use and prostitution going on here
00:20:57.760 his concern is that we're filming from a public sidewalk but so folks as Jim the whistleblower
00:21:06.400 mentioned there are indeed two trailers in the backyard and there is a gazebo and it seems to
00:21:16.960 to be covered up with some tarps and all is quiet right now I imagine the fellow we bumped into has
00:21:26.980 sounded the alert but hey how are you sir are you the homeowner okay
00:21:36.820 as you saw again what Jim told us frequently there are people on bicycles with backpacks
00:21:48.060 and those are he alleges the drug runners and that fellow was wearing a mask for some reason
00:21:57.180 I know I'm pretty sure the mask mandates for COVID are over so maybe it's about concealing
00:22:02.820 identity the good old-fashioned reason for wearing a mask but there is some activity going on in the
00:22:11.120 house it's impossible to guess how many people are here but we'll just hang around on this sidewalk
00:22:20.960 and see what we can do and hopefully I can give my business card to one of the residents to pass
00:22:27.800 on to the homeowner whoever that might be i'm not very hopeful they would do that but we'll see
00:22:38.040 hi sir do you have any drugs i didn't hear that with your face diaper on
00:22:47.000 did you hear what he said what
00:22:51.560 that screams prostitute
00:22:53.080 to him yeah see they know each other he's got his wallet out with cash
00:23:23.080 I'm on a sidewalk, ma'am.
00:23:28.940 I can't hear you.
00:23:30.220 Sorry.
00:23:32.320 We've been told that there's illicit activity.
00:23:36.700 Pardon me?
00:23:39.000 By people in the neighborhood.
00:23:40.980 Your neighbors.
00:23:44.920 Well, you're making life difficult for them.
00:23:48.720 it looks like what Jim told us is correct we've seen people come and go on bicycles with backpacks
00:23:58.040 there are some ladies back there whether they're ladies of the night I don't know but we're just
00:24:06.140 trying to get their side of the story and it doesn't seem that they are going to be forthcoming
00:24:12.220 with that well folks I guess it was a fool's errand to come here but it's our mantra it's
00:24:17.840 always get the other side of the story uh what's more there's an element of danger at play here
00:24:24.700 uh i don't think we're you know dealing with um common sense people and they could be prone to
00:24:34.640 violence so really i don't see any other reason to hang around we tried with multiple people who
00:24:42.280 are on the property to see if they would come on camera and they wouldn't. But clearly, as you can
00:24:49.340 see by the trailers in the backyard, a bylaw infringement, by the way, it would seem to me
00:24:58.680 that there is some monkey business going on here. And as Jim told us, whether it's the city of
00:25:05.380 Hamilton or the Peel Regional Police? Nothing to see here. Move along, move along. For Rebel News,
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