Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Remembrance Day in a country that has forgotten almost everything

00:00:00.360 Hello, my friends. It's Remembrance Day, and I think our country is forgetting so many things.

00:00:04.740 I'll take you through my thoughts on the day. I'll read to you my favorite poem called Tommy Atkins

00:00:08.720 by Rudyard Kipling, but then I'll take you through a really kooky government idea

00:00:13.580 to have civil servants join the army. I just think it's madness. I'll compare it to the U.S.

00:00:20.940 military under Pete Hegseth, and then we'll talk to Karim Assad, who was in Toronto at the

00:00:25.940 Remembrance Day ceremony this morning, and something very unusual happened. We'll show

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00:01:03.740 Tonight is Remembrance Day in a country that has forgotten almost everything.

00:01:08.260 It's November 11th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:10.940 We've forgotten so many things in Canada in the last 10 or 15 years, haven't we? We forgot what we

00:01:32.780 were fighting for once, our national identity, our culture and spirit, our alliances. We've forgotten

00:01:38.700 all of that. The past feels like a different country, doesn't it? I think in some ways we've

00:01:44.620 even forgotten right and wrong. Words have been stolen. Fascism, democracy, they don't mean what

00:01:51.560 they used to mean. They've been hijacked by people who are fascist but call themselves anti-fascist.

00:01:57.820 The left has been particularly atrocious, but now what I'm calling the troll right is matching them 0.78

00:02:04.720 too. Here's my former hero, Tucker Carlson, praising Hitler and condemning Churchill, flipping World War II

00:02:14.360 on its head, morally inverting the thing. Yeah, and I feel like we really missed our chance to

00:02:20.500 exercise genuine American exceptionalism. You can say, you know, in 1941 and say, we're just not for

00:02:30.260 totalitarian systems. We're not going to support, well, it would have been in 1939. We're not going

00:02:35.920 to do Lend-Lease. We're not going to support your totalitarian system, Joseph Stalin. Sorry, we're not

00:02:40.100 for Hitler. We're not for Stalin. We're America. We're for us. Like, that didn't seem to occur to

00:02:44.920 anybody other than Charles Lindbergh and the majority of the American population that supported that plan,

00:02:48.940 and they've been slandered ever since they, you know, ever since. And they kidnapped Lindbergh's baby

00:02:53.240 and all of it to teach him. Candace Owens was on GB News and actually wouldn't say that the Allies

00:03:01.400 should have gone to war even after Pearl Harbor. Just an astonishing thing. In the 1930s, there was

00:03:08.420 another America First movement, sort of isolationist movement saying we mustn't go to war in Europe

00:03:14.160 again after the First World War. Do you think that those America First supporters then were right? 0.96

00:03:19.980 Do you think that America shouldn't have gone into that Second World War? 0.96

00:03:23.400 Yeah. And that is a radical statement. People don't know how to deal with that because we've

00:03:27.660 all been so brainwashed by the school system to believe that, well, look how great things are.

00:03:32.100 Let me ask you about your country. Do you think that your country has become greater since? Has our

00:03:36.100 country become greater since? Absolutely not. You know, this whole idea of international liberalism.

00:03:40.140 Now it's not just about your problems. It's about solving the world's problems. Let's make sure

00:03:44.100 that in Pakistan there's a trans flag waving. No. I actually, if Pakistan does not want 1.00

00:03:49.920 to wave a trans flag, I don't even want to wave a trans flag, but why is this my business? And 0.50

00:03:53.400 they're constantly trying to pollute you to make you think that it is your business. No,

00:03:56.640 I actually am comfortable if that's going to be the newest smear that I have to wear,

00:04:01.080 that we're isolationist. Good. Good. I want to be concerned with just America's problems.

00:04:05.820 I tell you, I like Rudyard Kipling's poems more every year. I really should publish a Rebel News

00:04:12.340 poetry book with a selection of my favorites like we did for the book 1984. I like to read his poems,

00:04:19.140 and I like to read Tommy Atkins every year on Remembrance Day. And I'm going to do that now,

00:04:25.260 and then I'll tell you about a bizarre new idea from Canada's military. And we'll end the show with

00:04:30.200 some very interesting news and unique video from the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Toronto

00:04:36.120 Cenotaph this morning. And I really encourage you to stick around. It was a very unusual thing that

00:04:41.560 was caught on tape. Anyways, here's the poem by Kipling, which I really believe in. And the line

00:04:47.160 at the end always makes me choke up every year. Even though I've read this poem 20 times,

00:04:51.580 it always gets me. Let me try.

00:04:53.840 I went into a public house to get a pint of beer. The publican, he up and says,

00:05:00.260 we serve no redcoats here. The girls behind the bar, they laughed and giggled fit to die. 1.00

00:05:06.000 I outcent through the street again. And to myself says, I, oh, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and

00:05:11.640 Tommy go away. But it's thank you, Mr. Atkins. When the band begins to play, the band begins to play,

00:05:17.920 my boys, the band begins to play. Oh, it's thank you, Mr. Atkins. When the band begins to play,

00:05:22.400 just FYI, that means when it's time for the men to go to war.

00:05:27.620 I went into a theater as sober as could be. They gave a drunk civilian room, but hadn't none for me. 0.96

00:05:33.940 They sent me to the gallery or around the music halls. But when it comes to fighting, Lord,

00:05:38.540 they'll shove me in the stalls. For it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy wait outside. But it's

00:05:43.600 special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide. The troop ship's on the tide, my boys,

00:05:48.920 the troop ship's on the tide. Oh, it's special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.

00:05:54.380 It's making Maka uniforms that guard you while you sleep is cheaper than them uniforms and their 1.00

00:05:59.740 starvation cheap. And hustling drunken soldiers when they're going large a bit is five times better

00:06:06.760 business than parading in full kit. Then it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy has your soul.

00:06:12.440 But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. The drums begin to roll, my boys,

00:06:18.340 the drums begin to roll. Oh, it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

00:06:22.940 We aren't no thin red heroes nor we aren't no blaggards too, but single men in barracks most

00:06:28.840 remarkable like you. And if sometimes our conduct isn't all your fancy paints, why single men in

00:06:35.020 barracks don't grow into plaster saints? Well, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy fall behind, 0.65

00:06:40.360 but it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the wind. There's trouble in

00:06:45.720 the wind, my boys. There's trouble in the wind. Oh, it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's

00:06:49.940 trouble in the wind. You talk of better food for us and schools and fires and all. We'll wait for

00:06:55.800 extra rations if you treat us rational. Don't mess about the cookroom slops, but prove it to our face.

00:07:01.580 The widow's uniform is not the soldier man's disgrace. For it's Tommy this and Tommy that and

00:07:06.940 chuck about the brute. But it's savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot. And it's

00:07:12.300 Tommy this and Tommy that and anything you please. And Tommy ain't a blooming fool. You bet that Tommy 0.88

00:07:17.560 sees. Very powerful. That last line always gets me. I wish we had poets like Kipling around today.

00:07:24.660 Maybe we do. Maybe they just express themselves, I don't know, writing country Western songs or

00:07:29.480 something. I'd like to find one like Kipling. But look at this news story. Let me show you something

00:07:33.960 in the news by David Pugliese, who's really Canada's leading military journalist. The story

00:07:40.200 in the Ottawa Citizen is, Canadian military will rely on an army of public servants to boost its ranks by

00:07:47.820 300,000? Federal public servants would be trained to shoot guns, drive trucks and fly drones according

00:07:54.640 to a Defense Department directive. Yeah, it's an insane story. Let me read a little bit more of it to

00:08:02.180 you if I may. But first, let me show you the picture. Actually, the photo they chose for it is

00:08:06.520 just classic. They say it's this is the public sector. Like that's that's what this photo is,

00:08:14.540 except it's not really accurate because the public sector in Ottawa is still working from home because

00:08:21.800 of COVID. I kid you not. In fact, they were going on strike or threatening strike because they didn't

00:08:26.220 want to stop working from home. I checked the demographics of the Federal Civil Service. 0.65

00:08:32.260 There's 60% female, average age is 45. Now, I couldn't get stats on fitness. But to be fair,

00:08:42.140 I don't think even paper pushers in Ottawa could do worse than the current state of the Canadian

00:08:48.300 Armed Forces. Here's another story by David Pugliese. Almost three quarters of Canadian troops are overweight or

00:08:54.180 obese. The Canadian military has higher obesity rates in the general population, according to an

00:09:00.920 internal briefing. How is that even possible? But let me read a bit from the story today about this

00:09:07.680 new master plan. Quote, the Canadian forces are counting on public servants to volunteer for

00:09:13.520 military services. It tries to ramp up an army of 300,000 as part of a mobilization plan, according to

00:09:19.920 a defense department directive. Ha! I'm sorry! Federal and provincial employees will be given a one-week

00:09:25.680 training course on how to handle firearms. Oh, a whole week, would you? Drive trucks and fly drones,

00:09:33.180 according to the directive signed by Chief of Defense Staff General Jenny Carignan. We'll talk more about

00:09:39.660 her in a moment. And Defense Deputy Minister Stephanie Beck on May 30th, 2025. Can you imagine

00:09:45.500 these they-them COVID mask-wearing socialist workers handling firearms? You know what? Maybe if it got

00:09:55.560 feds used to firearms, I don't know, maybe they wouldn't be so scared of them. I don't know. It's

00:10:00.220 just a crazy idea. This is never going to happen. It's crazy that it's a window into the mind of the

00:10:05.680 leadership of the military. What does it even mean, though? Would they do basic training or not?

00:10:11.620 What's a kooky idea? They actually addressed that a little bit later. They say the entry criteria for

00:10:15.660 the supplementary or other reserve should be less restrictive than the reserve force for age

00:10:20.580 limits as well as physical and fitness requirements, the document said. Lower standards of fitness?

00:10:28.400 The military is already fatter than average Canadians. They want to lower it again?

00:10:33.340 And I'm not making fun of women and I'm not making fun of people whose average age is 45. I'm 53. I wish I

00:10:41.400 was 45. But that's your secret weapon. That's holy smokes. Do you think that this idea will on balance

00:10:51.560 recruit more people or drive more actually good people away? I mean, remember this extremist

00:10:58.300 saying that traditional values is a sign that you don't belong in the military?

00:11:02.680 What they're saying on a subject, like becoming more extremist, like and if someone you know was

00:11:09.420 very believed in equal gender rights, but all of a sudden are leaning towards like traditional values,

00:11:18.720 and that might be a sign that they're becoming more extremist. But yeah, they're doing such crazy

00:11:24.900 things like putting tampon machines in men's washrooms and barracks. Do you think that drives

00:11:31.600 away more regular guys than it attracts trans soldiers? If you knew that the Canadian army would 0.98

00:11:39.220 now be stuffed with government bureaucrats as opposed to warriors, what do you think is a military-aged

00:11:43.800 man who wants to serve? I mean, just to show you what a real country's military is like, or a country

00:11:50.280 with the real military rather. Here's the new ethos in the U.S. Army under Pete Hegseth. He's their new

00:11:57.160 Secretary of War. By the way, they renamed the Secretary of Defense as the Secretary of War. Just take a look at

00:12:02.600 this ad. A little bit different, isn't it?

00:12:07.480 No more distractions. No more electric tanks. No more gender confusion. No more climate change worship. 0.92

00:12:19.080 We are laser focused on our mission of warfighting.

00:12:22.680 We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars we end,

00:12:32.760 and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. It's called peace through strength.

00:12:39.640 You look into the eyes of these young Americans who are giving up the best years of their

00:12:43.560 life in a uniform to serve their nation. They are incredible.

00:12:50.280 Through our power and might, we will lead the world to peace. Our friends will respect us. Our

00:12:56.040 enemies will fear us. And the whole world will admire the unrivaled greatness of the United States military.

00:13:02.760 We will replenish the pride of our armed forces and the recruitment crisis.

00:13:20.040 We don't fight because we hate what's in front of us. We fight because we love what's behind us.

00:13:25.560 God bless you. God bless our armed forces. God bless our men and women serving overseas. And God bless

00:13:35.720 the United States of America. That's exciting. That's encouraging. That's inspiring. That's

00:13:44.200 patriotic. I mean, obviously it's war mongering. It's from the Department of War. Although Trump in it

00:13:51.400 clearly says, the best is when you have peace through strength. In fact, that's the whole

00:13:56.680 name of that video. You're so strong, no one ever wants to fight with you. That's the American way.

00:14:03.000 Here's our answer to that. Let me quote,

00:14:08.520 After the initial entry into the ranks, the public servants would be required to do one

00:14:12.600 week's worth of military training each year, but would not be issued uniforms. Medical coverage

00:14:17.480 would be provided for their annual military service, but that time would not count towards

00:14:21.800 their pensions, the director pointed out. I'll just tell you right now, they ain't joining.

00:14:26.680 But no matter how this works out, I just got to think the Chinese and Russians just have to be 1.00

00:14:32.120 absolutely laughing at this. You know, Pete Hegseth in the United States, he actually goes on workouts

00:14:38.040 with the troops just to show that he's an active leader. He's not a desk-bound, paper-pushing general.

00:14:43.880 Just a reminder, here is Canada's absolute tippy-top military officer, leading by example and having

00:14:53.000 a good cry. Today is a significant milestone in the history of the Canadian Armed Forces,

00:15:01.160 and it is also a very difficult day. A day on which we are confronting a painful truth.

00:15:09.720 America's military will kill you. Canada's military will apologize to you.

00:15:23.880 Why are we doing this? I think it's a trick, the purpose of which is to lie to Donald Trump about

00:15:31.080 our commitment to the military. Mark Carney did this same thing a few months ago when Trump wanted a

00:15:35.880 stronger border patrol. Alberta actually hired new sheriffs with drones and sniffer dogs, like

00:15:43.640 Alberta actually hired more, but not Mark Carney. He said he would, but he actually just renamed existing

00:15:50.440 paper pushers as border guards. Same thing here. Carney will just rename these bureaucrats who do a week

00:15:58.040 of camping every year as reserves. They don't even have a uniform. So he can count their massive

00:16:03.720 salaries as part of our NATO spending. We really do take advantage of the Americans when it comes to

00:16:09.640 defense, don't we? Yeah, I'm not proud of it. Stay with us for more with Karima Sad.

00:16:23.960 It's Remembrance Day and across the country at 11 a.m. there were ceremonies, there were moments of silence,

00:16:29.640 and there was a remembrance of things past. We stopped thinking about modernity, we put our cell

00:16:35.400 phones and our emails away just for a moment to think about how things were, but something new

00:16:41.000 crept into the recognition of Remembrance Day. And I've heard of this popping up all over the country,

00:16:47.560 the opposite of remembrance, where instead of thinking about the way things were, we're sort of

00:16:52.920 trying to add or hijack the ceremonies. Take a look at this video by our friend Joe Warmington of

00:16:59.720 Toronto Sun, and tell me if you can detect the stowaway, the interloper, the new addition

00:17:07.560 to these Remembrance Day ceremonies. Take a listen.

00:17:10.680 I now wish to invite Cadets Flight Sergeant Minyalov and Warrant Officer 2nd Class Rainbird

00:17:16.520 to share the land and an ancestral acknowledgement with us.

00:17:30.920 We acknowledge the land we are meeting on as a traditional territory of many nations,

00:17:35.720 including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee,

00:17:40.920 and the Wendat people, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

00:17:47.880 We acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13, signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit. 0.94

00:17:53.480 We also acknowledge the Williams treaties, signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.

00:18:04.040 We acknowledge all treaty peoples, including those who came here as settlers,

00:18:08.360 as migrants, either in this generation or in generations past, and those who came here involuntarily,

00:18:14.520 particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.

00:18:28.920 Thank you.

00:18:33.080 You can hear someone shouting, and I am certain it's someone shouting their outrage at a Remembrance Day ceremony

00:18:43.080 for the dead being transformed into a land back acknowledgement. And something that I haven't seen before

00:18:50.200 is the accusation that Canada was a participant in the transatlantic slave trade. This is tantamount to

00:18:58.280 a funeral. We attend, we're somber, we have a moment of silence. It's like a funeral because indeed it is

00:19:05.080 a recognition of tens of thousands of Canadians who died, and someone thought they'd graft on their

00:19:12.120 little woke saying. Here's another angle of that same Toronto cenotaph, this one filmed by our friend

00:19:17.640 Karima Saad, who shows the man who was upset, and it's hard to hear what he said, but the timing of it,

00:19:25.560 I think he was outraged that instead of talking about Remembrance Day, some woke, I'm surprised

00:19:32.680 they didn't talk about Sankofa Square. As you know, they renamed Young and Dundas Square Sankofa

00:19:39.160 Square after some tribe in Ghana. Here's another angle on the same protest. I'm calling it a protest 1.00

00:19:45.080 because one man protested the land acknowledgements. Take a look.

00:19:53.800 Thank you. The vigils entries today, the sentries are wearing period uniforms from the First and Second

00:20:01.080 World Wars and current day. They are led by Warrant Officer Duff.

00:20:05.640 Should you wish to follow today's program on your own device, you can find it online at

00:20:13.000 Toronto.ca forward slash let's leave for that. No, no, no, it's not fair to him, it's not fair to him,

00:20:23.160 it's not fair to him. Please don't impede my movement.

00:20:25.480 I'll be singing our national anthem, which will be followed by the last post.

00:20:29.960 The silence, the lament.

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00:20:42.440 The silence, the silence, the boca, the voice, my blood, the rain, the rain, the wine, the bere hearing, the happiness, the Purple Site.

00:20:46.520 A Frauen in Jehoic Dance, the Two-Antonis ceremony, in all the delle Emerdoo nuevajé. 0.58

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00:23:07.480 pity that we weren't able to catch up with him and sort of get some more insight into

00:23:15.380 what was going through his mind.

00:23:17.280 I don't have any family members who fell in the war, but if I did, I would be thinking

00:23:23.440 about them and who they were and the memory of them, and it would tick me off if someone

00:23:29.240 would start the whole remembrance by talking about slavery, which I'm sure, I mean, just

00:23:36.040 historically speaking, slavery in Canada was a very minor affair.

00:23:41.540 It was rooted out decades before Canada became an independent country.

00:23:46.260 There was no significant slave trade in Canada.

00:23:49.240 To be quite candid, the number one slaveholders in Canada were Indian bands, especially the

00:23:54.540 Haida and the Mohawks.

00:23:59.200 To have that aspersion dumped on Remembrance Day would be like, it reminds me a tiny bit 1.00

00:24:05.320 of the, you know, the fundamental, you know, that church, I forget the name of the, it's

00:24:13.600 a quirky offshoot of a church that protests at funerals with signs that says God hates 0.99

00:24:21.860 fags. 1.00

00:24:22.440 That's what the Westboro Baptist Church. 0.99

00:24:24.460 Yeah.

00:24:25.460 Yeah.

00:24:26.460 Westboro Baptist Church.

00:24:27.460 And like, it just, it feels like not the place to take care of other political business.

00:24:33.740 What do you think?

00:24:34.740 I think what's happened with land acknowledgements is that they have become rote and pretty much

00:24:44.100 boilerplate.

00:24:45.020 And they start off everything from school board meetings, police board meetings, and obviously

00:24:52.020 this Remembrance Day ceremony.

00:24:53.800 And I think that that diminishes any effect that would otherwise be intended.

00:25:00.620 Now, as for the intended effect and how or why that became part of the rituals that we

00:25:12.800 engage in as a society, I will say, I asked people on X what their thoughts were.

00:25:21.700 Does this enhance or distract?

00:25:23.940 Enhance in the sense of maybe there is space to hold all types of thoughts and, you know,

00:25:32.620 remember beyond just the sort of narrow scope of Remembrance Day.

00:25:38.520 And then on the flip side, distract because Remembrance Day is a ceremony specifically for

00:25:44.340 this.

00:25:44.700 And, you know, there is the, I think it's on November 8th, the Indigenous Veterans Remembrance,

00:25:54.440 right?

00:25:54.700 So there is also kind of a separate ceremony that's dedicated for that.

00:26:00.100 So the general consensus, and mind you, it's obviously not a statistically, there's no methodology

00:26:09.720 to this apart from asking people who were online and saw it.

00:26:13.680 But the general consensus seems to be that this is a distraction and they would prefer

00:26:17.700 to see less of these performative types of actions and kind of a return to a focus on

00:26:27.540 the core, what this day is about or what it's always been about.

00:26:32.900 Yeah.

00:26:33.060 You know, the two major wars, Canada participated a little bit in the Boer War and a little bit

00:26:38.680 in the Korean War.

00:26:39.460 But the two major wars in terms of casualties were the First and Second World Wars.

00:26:43.660 So that's 1914 and 1918.

00:26:48.100 No one who participated in World War I had any connection to slavery.

00:26:54.120 Slavery, what little of it there was in Canada, was outlawed almost 100 years earlier.

00:26:59.740 It's just, you're right to say those land acknowledgements are so hollow and boilerplate.

00:27:06.600 And I don't even think people think deeply about them, except for we see in British Columbia

00:27:11.220 now, they sort of mean it.

00:27:13.600 The courts are saying, oh, maybe we will give the land back.

00:27:16.600 And there's new swaths of land in British Columbia where Aboriginal title has been discovered

00:27:21.580 by the courts.

00:27:22.340 I don't know.

00:27:22.800 I think it's a distraction.

00:27:24.260 But everyone else there in the crowd looked very sober and very dedicated to it.

00:27:30.180 Other than the land back acknowledgement and the heckler, it looked like a very sober affair

00:27:35.140 and it looked like very dignified affair.

00:27:38.520 Yeah, I would agree with that assessment.

00:27:41.720 Everyone was there and, you know, silently paying their respects and following along with

00:27:48.860 kind of the, you know, how the agenda was set by the organizers.

00:27:54.700 I'll be honest with you.

00:27:55.660 I'm a little bit surprised that there were no pro-Hamas people there or pro-Palestine people

00:28:00.420 or, and there's both in Toronto.

00:28:04.500 I'm sort of surprised that that flag was not unfurled or something.

00:28:10.080 Maybe those folks know that would have been a massive PR backfire.

00:28:14.480 I've seen that happen before someone who was a Taliban supporter presented at a, at a

00:28:21.660 Remembrance Day, but it actually looked like either by their own good judgment or police

00:28:26.800 action, they were kept away from, from the Remembrance Day ceremony.

00:28:30.780 At least I didn't see any.

00:28:32.700 No, there was nothing of that nature.

00:28:35.900 Um, and that's been consistently the case, at least in, in Toronto, um, every year since

00:28:41.720 October 7, um, there have been no disruptions, um, with the exception of in, uh, I think it

00:28:48.840 was 2023, there was a lone individual, um, who took an opportunity to denounce war, um, during

00:28:59.220 the moment of silence, uh, which wasn't very well received by the people around her.

00:29:04.680 Yeah. I mean, that's a tough line there because of course the horror of war is one of the

00:29:09.520 lessons of Remembrance Day, but to be a pacifist in that moment does feel contrary to the spirit of

00:29:14.860 it. Hey, let me ask you about one more thing. First of all, thanks for that footage. It was

00:29:18.440 very unique footage that you and your team got. Um, let me turn back the clock a couple of days

00:29:24.220 till I think it was on Sunday. Every Sunday for a couple of years now, there's been dueling

00:29:30.200 protests, uh, on Bathurst Street and Shepherd, which is actually near where I live. And that's,

00:29:35.300 I got arrested there once for, uh, not leaving when the cops told me to. Anyways, the Jewish 1.00

00:29:41.100 protests, which supported Israel and waved Israeli flags, they called it quits. I think the ceasefire

00:29:47.220 and the return of the hostages marked the end of their rationale. So they said, but the pro-Palestine,

00:29:53.820 and I think some of them are pro-Hamas protesters, are still going, um, you and your camera team

00:30:00.880 were there. Let's just take a look at what this protest did. It looked like there was nothing for

00:30:08.500 them to do with that street corner. So they started going down a residential street and sort of heckling

00:30:14.100 and haggling with Jewish residents in a Jewish neighborhood. Here, let's take a look.

00:30:18.720 We have a population that have no plans of a firm since the creation of this fake state in 1948.

00:30:29.400 Her population is dwindling by the second.

00:30:35.400 Oh, genocide's over. 1.00

00:30:39.880 Oh, fuck this stuff. 1.00

00:30:42.120 This is public, this is public. You don't own it. 1.00

00:30:44.620 This is not...

00:30:45.340 We're going to stand here, we're going to stand here.

00:30:49.020 Guys, just, just, just go.

00:30:54.640 Let's go. 1.00

00:30:55.300 You teach your kids how to kill babies? 1.00

00:30:57.300 Yeah? 1.00

00:30:57.900 Zionist, Zionist. 0.76

00:30:59.600 Okay?

00:30:59.920 You don't own this.

00:31:01.820 This is not occupied Palestine, okay?

00:31:03.840 I actually do need to get my car to the driveway.

00:31:05.580 Yeah, we're over here, over here, over here.

00:31:08.300 Be a decent human being.

00:31:10.020 Be a decent human being.

00:31:11.020 Driver rights. 0.76

00:31:11.680 Teach your kids how to be decent humans. 0.99

00:31:13.740 Teach them not how, not how to kill babies like Zionist too, okay? 1.00

00:31:17.420 I'm not the one intimidating people. 0.99

00:31:18.880 No one intimidating, no one.

00:31:19.720 You're the one intimidating us for telling us to move along.

00:31:21.800 I am the one.

00:31:22.300 Yeah, yeah.

00:31:22.800 You have, you have no reasonable of us.

00:31:24.540 Stop threatening us.

00:31:25.300 Okay, stop.

00:31:26.680 Okay.

00:31:27.040 Now, Karim, on one hand, I'm a free speech guy.

00:31:29.860 I really am, and I try really hard to be consistent, even for people I disagree with.

00:31:34.140 And on the one hand, walking on a public street, not trespassing on private property, not uttering

00:31:39.860 threats, well, that's something that I do, and that's something I want to protect.

00:31:44.100 On the other hand, when you're walking into a Jewish neighborhood, because it's a Jewish 1.00

00:31:49.780 neighborhood, and your goal is to antagonize and harass, I don't know, but that seems to

00:31:55.080 be like it's coming up on harassment.

00:31:58.220 Now, you know, you're out in public, you can take a heckle or two.

00:32:02.000 It's not a crime.

00:32:03.240 But I'm worried that this group of professional protesters that shows up every Sunday, chanting

00:32:09.420 their support for, in some cases, Hamas, I think that they're trying to cause a ruckus 0.95

00:32:15.760 with moms and dads in the Jewish community, in the neighborhood, who have nothing to do 0.59

00:32:20.980 with Israel or politics.

00:32:22.760 They're just Jewish. 0.98

00:32:23.600 What do you think?

00:32:24.200 So as you noted at the outset, there have consistently been pro-Israel supporters, and that was an outlet

00:32:37.020 for this group to sort of direct their expression.

00:32:42.600 This week, that didn't happen.

00:32:44.480 And so I believe that is why we saw a departure from the norm and a group set out into the residential

00:32:53.880 area, looking to do what?

00:32:58.040 Were they hoping to run into someone?

00:33:01.780 Were they, you know, planning to get a different kind of footage that they can use for their

00:33:07.480 videos?

00:33:07.940 I can't sort of comment on what the intention was.

00:33:12.460 But what actually happened was they did, in fact, run into this lady and her family, as

00:33:19.240 we saw.

00:33:20.920 And, you know, it kind of devolved.

00:33:23.080 It wasn't a productive conversation of any sort.

00:33:27.200 And what's striking about all of this is that there was a significant police presence.

00:33:32.620 There usually has been for the past two years.

00:33:37.020 And this week, with no pro-Israel demonstration to sort of manage, I thought it was an interesting

00:33:46.780 choice for police to just sort of stay in the positions that they were and not follow along

00:33:55.360 to ensure that there's no breach of the peace, whether from protesters or if someone, you

00:34:01.820 know, is antagonized by seeing them and acts out inappropriately.

00:34:06.680 Regardless, there should have been a police presence, I think, just given the track record

00:34:13.400 of this intersection.

00:34:14.520 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:34:15.660 I mean, the police were there.

00:34:17.160 I don't quite know why they didn't walk into these residential neighborhoods.

00:34:22.120 Here's James Pasternak, the local city councilor, who was just outraged by that.

00:34:26.240 Take a look.

00:34:26.740 I'm standing in the corner of Bathurst and Shepard on a weekday, and things are quiet

00:34:32.200 now.

00:34:32.980 And that's the way we want it to be.

00:34:35.320 We want protesters to find somewhere else to gather.

00:34:38.680 We want the anti-Israel protesters to stay away.

00:34:42.820 There's no embassy here.

00:34:44.720 There's no consulates here.

00:34:47.260 There's no government buildings here.

00:34:49.400 There's no city squares here.

00:34:50.900 This is a residential neighborhood, and we want you to stop coming up here and harassing

00:34:56.380 the Jewish community.

00:34:57.440 So let's keep things calm.

00:34:59.520 Let's let police do what they have to do in law enforcement and the other parts of the

00:35:03.340 city.

00:35:03.800 And let's stay away from Bathurst and Shepard on Sunday.

00:35:07.480 Well, Karima, very interesting stuff.

00:35:09.340 I love the fact that you are on the street where it happens.

00:35:12.720 Toronto is the biggest city in Canada, and I think it really has a lot of news.

00:35:17.000 We have Alexa Lavoie on the ground in Montreal, who's showing us similar things.

00:35:21.800 Very crazy.

00:35:22.720 You call your series of reports Protest Mania.

00:35:27.020 I think that is a good name for it.

00:35:30.200 It's inspired, of course, by my love of wrestling.

00:35:34.580 And, you know, as they say, wrestling is life, but it truly is in the context of protests where

00:35:41.260 you have kind of extremes, and things are not always what they appear to be.

00:35:47.560 Well, listen, it's great to have you.

00:35:48.660 Thanks very much, and thanks for bringing the excellent footage as you always do.

00:35:52.040 Cheers.

00:35:52.580 All right.

00:35:53.040 There you go.

00:35:53.840 Karima Saad.

00:35:55.120 Stay with us.

00:35:55.980 Your letters to me next.

00:35:57.320 Hey, welcome back.

00:36:07.580 Your letters to me.

00:36:08.720 The first one on the Reuters study.

00:36:10.740 Wasn't that funny, eh?

00:36:12.840 Blessed Canuck says, Rebel News isn't forced onto Canadians.

00:36:15.920 We must choose to watch, unlike the CBC.

00:36:18.840 I take your point.

00:36:20.800 I mean, I really don't watch regular TV.

00:36:22.660 In fact, I don't think I have a subscription to it anymore.

00:36:25.000 I haven't in a long time.

00:36:25.760 But there used to be something called Basic Cable, which every cable company in Canada

00:36:30.720 was required by law to provide to you, and you had to pay for it.

00:36:35.800 And the CBC and CBC French and CBC News World were all on it.

00:36:40.540 It was forced into your home, whether you watched it or not.

00:36:43.740 Obviously, Rebel News is completely different.

00:36:46.860 And it's just, you know, I just keep thinking that we're bigger than global news.

00:36:51.020 Isn't that incredible?

00:36:52.020 You know, a couple of decades ago, I had the honor of meeting the founder of Global TV.

00:36:58.120 His name was Izzy Asper.

00:36:59.160 He was from Winnipeg.

00:37:00.760 And I think he would, I don't think he would be pleased with what's happened to global.

00:37:05.960 I mean, they've wrecked the place.

00:37:07.680 It's owned by Chorus now.

00:37:09.400 It's a penny stock.

00:37:10.680 I mean, I was kidding when I said we should buy it.

00:37:13.300 But it's trading for less than 8 million bucks.

00:37:15.260 If you had $4 million, you could buy global and all the radio stations with it.

00:37:22.080 Now, it's a money loser, so you'd be buying a money-losing enterprise.

00:37:25.540 But how the money have fallen.

00:37:28.140 42 Dash says, CBC gets mentioned a lot, but not in a positive way.

00:37:32.740 That's why it's number one.

00:37:34.060 There's something to it.

00:37:35.040 I mean, my biggest skepticism about this Reuters study is that, you know, I looked at that word,

00:37:40.420 how many Canadians mention it.

00:37:42.600 I don't know exactly what that means.

00:37:44.060 It's not the same as how many Canadians watch it.

00:37:47.180 It's who knows about it, who knows the word, who mention it.

00:37:50.500 I really don't believe that, you know, the BBC is in the top five broadcasters or news sources.

00:37:57.300 I just don't believe it.

00:37:59.020 Maybe I should, but I just don't.

00:38:01.920 I think that people have heard of the BBC, so they say it.

00:38:06.100 Everyone's heard of the CBC.

00:38:07.820 But if you say rebel, odds are you've watched it.

00:38:11.020 Because we've only been around 10 years.

00:38:12.600 It's not like, you know, everyone's heard of the Globe and Mail.

00:38:16.460 Everyone's heard of things that have been around for decades.

00:38:19.040 Anyway, I was sort of excited to see that study.

00:38:20.900 Even though they're a pretty left-wing group, I was still happy to see it.

00:38:24.660 Well, this is our show for today.

00:38:26.560 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:38:29.820 to you at home, good night.

00:38:30.980 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:38:32.700 Thank you.

00:38:32.760 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - November 12, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Remembrance Day in a country that has forgotten almost everything

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