Rebel News Podcast - May 28, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Self-inflicted collapse： Why Western cities now resemble post-war ruins


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Donald Trump is trying to make Washington, D. D.C. look pretty again. Is it working? Or is it falling apart at the seams? And what s going on with all the graffiti in the streets of the city?

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Have you seen what Donald Trump is doing to Washington, D.C.? I mean,
00:00:05.060 the physical city. He's making it beautiful. And I mean beautiful. I'll show you the pictures and
00:00:11.520 tell you the story. I really want you to see it, not just hear me talk about it. I want to show
00:00:16.420 you the fountains. I want to show you the Lincoln reflecting pool. So I want you to have the video
00:00:22.320 version of this podcast, which you can get at rebelnewsplus.com.
00:00:30.000 tonight donald trump tries to make washington dc pretty again it's may 28th and this is the ezra
00:00:49.880 Le Mans show. Shame on you, you censorious bug. You know, I got to show you something before I 0.88
00:01:07.280 get into the main topic today. Did you see the video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Trump
00:01:12.780 administration's health and human services secretary did you see him handling the snakes
00:01:18.380 uh just it that were in the outside yard of uh another trump administration official just
00:01:25.540 out of nowhere there were some snakes and rfk jr thought he would go in and grab them with
00:01:32.160 his hands and remove them it's a crazy video take a look
00:01:35.540 Honey, honey.
00:01:45.540 What are they? 0.99
00:01:51.540 Well, they were having sex, Rob. 0.87
00:01:53.540 What were they? 0.70
00:01:55.540 They were not sex. 0.95
00:01:57.540 Mocketson? Who is it?
00:01:59.540 They're not mocketsons. 1.00
00:02:01.540 Huh? They're not mocketsons. 1.00
00:02:05.540 That is not the only time that RFK Jr. has handled snakes.
00:02:11.360 Here's a crazier video of him catching a rattlesnake.
00:02:15.900 What is with this guy?
00:02:19.700 Hold on, guys. I'll be back in a flash.
00:02:35.540 This is not very good.
00:02:41.840 Now it's small.
00:02:50.900 Here we go.
00:03:05.540 he reminds me a little bit of steve erwin sort of the crocodile dundee guy i hope he doesn't get
00:03:27.060 hurt he obviously knows what he's doing anyhow only in america uh speaking of america do you
00:03:33.120 know where this image is from? Where's that? You can see free Palestine, free Gaza, and that red
00:03:40.620 triangle, which is the terrorist symbol that the Hamas terrorist group uses as in we are killing 0.95
00:03:48.000 this target. It's like their targeting symbol. Do you know where that's from? I mean, that's 0.87
00:03:52.940 obviously supposed to be a fountain. It's not functioning. It's pretty dirty and gross. Where
00:03:57.620 is it? The answer is obviously it's everywhere. I mean, most cities in the West are like this.
00:04:04.520 They allow their greatest symbols to be dirtied either by falling into disrepair and neglect or
00:04:10.740 being occupied by migrants or homeless people or drug addicts or political radicals. They can
00:04:17.100 either fall into disrepair or they can be actively disrepaired as the graffiti in this case shows.
00:04:22.360 either way it's depressing it's a sign isn't it that we live in the ruins of a superior
00:04:28.280 society that is now gone it's a little bit like that scene in planet of the apes where charlton
00:04:34.180 heston realizes where he is now i'll tell you where those photos are from in a moment um but
00:04:41.100 let me show you a few more i mean that fountain was decorative but but look at this image you
00:04:44.980 you might know this is the dilapidated central railway station in detroit michigan sort of a
00:04:50.820 symbol of the whole city. Can you imagine? Here's another. This is Pripyat, the city right next to
00:04:58.060 the Chernobyl nuclear plant. At least they have an excuse. There was a nuclear accident, an explosion
00:05:03.940 in the reactor core. What's Detroit's excuse? A few years ago, I visited Hiroshima in Japan. That's
00:05:10.620 one of the two cities that were actually nuked by America. And this is completely rebuilt.
00:05:19.040 It's all modern.
00:05:20.120 It's immaculately clean.
00:05:21.740 It's a hive of activity.
00:05:23.880 That one building has been preserved in the state it was after the bomb went off as part of the memorial.
00:05:31.460 There's a very impressive memorial and museum in that city.
00:05:35.940 And that one building is kept the same, but everything around it has been rebuilt.
00:05:39.840 It's beautiful now and safe, too, obviously. 0.85
00:05:43.000 In fact, it's safer than Detroit, which is kind of incredible because a nuclear bomb did not go off in Detroit, and yet it is more dangerous and in greater disrepair than Hiroshima and China. 0.72
00:05:53.980 Just amazing.
00:05:54.460 What about Canada, though?
00:05:56.860 For years, the cowards of the Ontario legislature kept the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald covered in a wooden coffin so as not to offend anyone.
00:06:06.380 I'm serious.
00:06:07.020 In the same city, Young Dundas Square, sort of Toronto's weak attempt to copy New York's Times Square, Olivia Chow renamed that square Sankofa Square because radicals claim that Dundas and Young Dundas was for the abolition of slavery, but it wasn't fast enough in his political steps to abolish slavery.
00:06:30.360 So they renamed the whole square Sankofa Square after an African tribe that it turns out they were absolutely engaged in slavery themselves.
00:06:40.040 They captured fellow blacks and sold them to slave traders.
00:06:46.360 So it is literally named after a slave trading tribe now, as opposed to an abolitionist.
00:06:52.820 It's a form of defacement, isn't it?
00:06:54.740 By the way, Yonge-Dundas Square is unsafe.
00:06:57.180 It's overrun with drug addicts and petty criminals, sometimes worse.
00:07:01.700 Of course, it's not just Toronto.
00:07:03.920 Here they are removing the statue of Sir Johnny MacDonald from the city hall in Victoria.
00:07:09.200 I'm surprised they haven't renamed Victoria itself.
00:07:11.920 It's named after the greatest colonizer in the world, the empress of the British Empire, Victoria.
00:07:20.200 It wouldn't surprise me if they rename it pretty soon.
00:07:22.960 And here they are in Winnipeg tearing down Queen Victoria's statue itself.
00:07:28.500 I mean, these are all related things.
00:07:31.080 Letting buildings fall into disrepair, letting statues fall into disrepair,
00:07:36.320 or positively, proactively tearing them down. 0.99
00:07:40.940 I mean, that's what the Taliban does, don't they?
00:07:42.960 They destroy statues, and for the same reason, to repudiate the past,
00:07:47.120 to level it down to zero, to make you forget it, to turn it into a rumor.
00:07:51.240 You know, not too long ago they vandalized the statue of Sir Winston Churchill right
00:07:56.400 across from the UK Parliament.
00:07:59.740 Our friend Meyer Tusi went out to scrub the graffiti off, good for him.
00:08:04.180 One of the few places in the world I visited where not only are they cleaning things up,
00:08:08.440 they're trying to rebuild the city in a glorious traditional aesthetic, is Budapest, Hungary.
00:08:14.340 Under Viktor Orban, who until very recently was Hungary's long-serving prime minister,
00:08:18.880 he made this a big focus.
00:08:20.280 was actually thrilling and so exciting to walk through the city. Every building being built in
00:08:27.020 that beautiful imperial style, such a symbol of Hungary's national self-confidence and cultural
00:08:33.760 self-confidence and a love for their own history, not a hatred for it, not condemning yourself
00:08:39.920 like Trudeau did to us every month, the guy who said we're an illegitimate country, a genocidal
00:08:45.920 country. You know, you say that sort of thing long enough, talk about land acknowledgements
00:08:50.540 and how we stole the land. You say that long enough and someone's going to take you up
00:08:54.480 on it, like a court, for example. Of course, Canada is in decay, just like the rest of
00:09:01.640 the Western world. But look at this. Donald Trump, he cleaned up, you know, the huge reflecting
00:09:07.920 pool outside the Lincoln Memorial. Donald Trump cleaned it up, fixed it up. It's beautiful
00:09:14.200 now. He's beautifying the whole city. He's doing the same thing. He's building a mighty ballroom
00:09:20.380 at the White House. Private money, not government money, by the way. And that's what those images
00:09:25.320 were that I showed you in the beginning. There was this fountain that he cleaned up. Look at the
00:09:31.140 before and after pictures here also. Like he's just tightening up the city. Look at these beauties.
00:09:39.020 And I'm also, I suppose, talking about the National Guard there. It's beautiful to see them
00:09:42.920 making washington dc safe rather than the murder capital it once was it's showing respect for the
00:09:50.060 city and respect for the people and self-respect here's what i showed you before contrasted with
00:09:55.520 how it was until trump fixed it here's another shot you know you don't need to have a glorious
00:10:04.400 imperial style fountains like you might see in ancient rome or whatever you don't need
00:10:09.980 statues and grand edifices. You can have more simple things. You can just keep them clean.
00:10:15.220 You can keep them clean from graffiti. You can arrest people and punish them for defiling the
00:10:20.980 things that belong to everyone. You can move drug addicts and homeless people along for their own
00:10:25.820 sake, as well as for your self-respect. It's about glorifying the nation, the city, the people. It's
00:10:30.520 about something bigger than any one of us. It's about feeling pride in the community and your
00:10:34.760 neighbors and your joint commitment to living together. That's why Antifa and Hamas and the 0.99
00:10:39.760 woke left want to tear down and destroy, want to vandalize, want to defile. When was the last time 0.68
00:10:44.960 you saw right-wing graffiti on a statue, like you saw that free Palestine graffiti? Have you ever
00:10:50.380 seen that, in fact? You know, they want to tear down the cultural glue that binds us together.
00:10:55.940 They want to replace it with their own thing. They want to tear down anything that's beautiful.
00:11:00.260 Sometimes they build the ugliest things in the world. Have you seen the new Barack Obama
00:11:05.180 presidential library you know every president when they are done they set up a library which
00:11:11.420 their papers are there and it's a place for study and meetings and it really embodies the spirit of
00:11:16.260 the person there look at barack obama's extremely ugly presidential library i mean a scientist could
00:11:25.120 not make anything more ugly it's like someone compared it to a world war ii anti-aircraft
00:11:31.100 bunker. Just incredible. How different from Trump, who's taken the opportunity of the 250th
00:11:38.580 anniversary of U.S. independence to reassert that the public square should reflect the best ideals
00:11:44.500 of the public, not to be an encampment for drug users. Here in Canada, though, our courts have
00:11:53.920 just declared that homelessness is a civil right. We deserve what we get, don't we?
00:12:01.900 And stay with us.
00:12:02.760 I've got a few interesting things ahead.
00:12:13.040 Hey, welcome back.
00:12:14.120 You know, our friend Keith Wilson,
00:12:15.620 who talks to us so much about Alberta independence,
00:12:18.360 especially from a legal point of view,
00:12:19.720 he recently debated Jason Kenney,
00:12:21.820 the former premier of Alberta who was run out of town
00:12:24.540 by his own party for not standing up for the province.
00:12:27.740 They had a debate, courtesy of the Aristotle Foundation in Calgary.
00:12:32.340 Here, take a look. Here's some excerpts from that very interesting clash of ideas.
00:12:38.560 Let me share with you why it is that I believe Alberta should become independent.
00:12:46.500 And why I'm doing what I'm doing and speaking in favor of it, not just here but everywhere else,
00:12:52.480 is that when I look at the situation we have today in Alberta,
00:12:57.780 I look at our history and I look at our place in Canada,
00:13:02.740 in North America, and in the world.
00:13:06.120 And when I look at the resources that we're blessed with,
00:13:08.640 the people that we're blessed with,
00:13:10.100 the culture that we're blessed with,
00:13:12.300 I conclude that by every single objective measure
00:13:15.940 that I can think of,
00:13:18.020 and I've asked myself and reflected on this a lot,
00:13:22.480 is, will my kids, will my grandkids, and will my neighbors be better off in an independent Alberta
00:13:32.180 or by staying in Canada? And every time I run that calculation, I always come back to the same
00:13:39.400 conclusion. So that's one vision. The other thing that I see is the path that Canada is on.
00:13:50.500 Frankly, it's dark in my view. We see reckless spending. The Trudeau and Kearney governments
00:14:00.400 have racked up more debt than every other government combined. We're talking about
00:14:07.480 debt servicing hitting $80 billion. We have policies, two-tier justice system, out of
00:14:15.760 controlled immigration. We have policies coming from Ottawa that, frankly, are authoritarian in
00:14:23.720 nature, especially when you look at their censorship. And I see the plight of the younger
00:14:32.880 generation. I see how they're choosing not to have children because they can't afford it or they feel
00:14:40.580 they can't. They can't afford housing. This is a serious situation. I'm seeing the inflation,
00:14:48.680 how all those workers I saw when I was walking over doing construction, how each month their
00:14:56.080 money becomes worth less. And I go, holy smokes, this is not good. We have a choice. And I think
00:15:06.560 some of the things that Jason and I agree on is that there's serious problems in Canada. We might
00:15:11.440 disagree on what the specific problems are or whether certain issues are in fact a problem.
00:15:16.580 Probably not. But what I'm going to suggest to you is that the challenge I believe Jason has,
00:15:25.100 respectfully, and those who are Federalists, is they have no plan. There's just simply no way 0.78
00:15:31.620 in our constitutional framework, the way Canada is structured democratically for Canada to be
00:15:41.620 fixed. You know, we've had the Meach Lake failed, Charlottetown failed, equalization referendum
00:15:48.640 passed by then-Premier Kennedy, and Ottawa didn't even pick up the phone. So we have a
00:15:57.800 constitutional amendment formula that's impossible to meet. It's only going to be
00:16:02.480 amended if we propose something that Quebec sees is not in its interest. And I don't begrudge them
00:16:06.980 for that. They've got the power, they may as well use it. So I just do not see any pathway forward
00:16:14.660 where the legitimate concerns and the disconnect between Alberta and Central Canada and even some
00:16:23.640 of the other provinces can be mended. I see no one has yet from the Federalist side offered any
00:16:31.620 viable plan to change things. What's unique about Canada is we have the 1998 Quebec succession
00:16:41.440 reference case where the Supreme Court of Canada laid out a legal pathway for a province to vote
00:16:48.260 on a referendum on a clear question in a clear majority to create a binding obligation,
00:16:53.280 positive legal duty for good faith negotiations for the people in that province to have exercised
00:16:59.220 their political free will and their right to self-determination.
00:17:03.460 What a Canadian thing, eh?
00:17:05.720 Now, so when I look at all of the challenges and all of the tactics and the efforts that
00:17:14.320 have been made. You know, we had the West once in. You know, we've tried loyalty. We've tried 0.82
00:17:21.880 patience. We've tried to reform the Alberta. We helped elect Brian Mulroney. We created the
00:17:28.680 reform movement. The West helped elect Stephen Harper. And we sent Jason Kenney to Ottawa as
00:17:35.900 part of that project. And we're told, send the right people, make the right arguments,
00:17:41.460 build the right condition, and the right coalitions, and Confederation will work.
00:17:48.640 Well, it's been proven wrong time and time again.
00:17:53.260 So, we have so much going for us.
00:17:59.640 You know, we have the third largest reserve of oil in the world.
00:18:02.700 We have a young entrepreneurial workforce.
00:18:08.160 90% of our trade is with the largest economy in the world that is right on our border, closest to us.
00:18:18.520 We've all seen countries from far afield come with gifts to President Trump to try and get a little bit of access to that market.
00:18:28.460 And what an opportunity.
00:18:30.880 Meanwhile, we have Prime Minister Carney saying
00:18:33.200 our relationship with the United States has come to an end
00:18:36.100 or something to that effect, and let's embrace Europe.
00:18:40.720 So we've got so much going for us.
00:18:44.860 We have a larger economy than New Zealand, Finland, Portugal,
00:18:52.080 Greece, Hungary, Kuwait, Qatar, Iceland, Luxembourg,
00:18:56.060 and I could keep going, over 100 sovereign nations.
00:19:00.280 We have a situation where we've contributed
00:19:05.780 over $700 billion in net fiscal transfers to Ottawa,
00:19:10.240 and Alberta receives roughly 65 cents back from Ottawa
00:19:14.940 for every dollar we spend or send to them.
00:19:18.360 And we have a diversified economy.
00:19:20.140 It's not all just oil and gas.
00:19:22.100 We're blessed with that.
00:19:23.140 Third largest reserve of oil and gas in the world.
00:19:25.880 so my conclusion is that Canada is no longer an optimal size of governance but Alberta is
00:19:41.700 we have what it takes to go on our own and I'm not talking about carving out Alberta and bringing
00:19:47.860 in dollies and trucks and moving it away we can continue to have excellent neighbors in Canada
00:19:54.960 But we'll be able to negotiate with them from a position of strength, and we will be able to move away from effectively being a colony of Ottawa that dictates to us and causes us to say,
00:20:09.760 Sir, please may I work a little bit harder so I can give you more?
00:20:14.600 And that's the situation we've been in, and the MOU is a manifestation of that.
00:20:19.160 So my view is the right thing for the future, to follow the legal pathway, a legal process for Alberta to become independent and redefine its relationship with Canada.
00:20:29.680 Thank you.
00:20:32.040 In fact, I believe Alberta is the most Canadian of provinces because we have been by far the biggest recipients and I would say beneficiaries of interprovincial migration.
00:20:44.620 More people in Alberta who have been born in other provinces than is the case in any other part of Canada.
00:20:51.080 And indeed, nearly half of people in this province are born elsewhere.
00:20:56.880 They're Albertans by choice and not chance.
00:21:00.500 And for so many of those Albertans, their primary loyalty, while they love Alberta and are proud of it and want it to thrive and prosper,
00:21:08.000 their primary loyalty is to our country, to Canada.
00:21:12.300 that we worked constructively within the federation to elect a national government
00:21:17.340 that agreed with us on these things.
00:21:18.840 Quite frankly, we did that even during the Khrushchev years.
00:21:21.860 With very few MPs from Alberta, the Khrushchev government, let us not forget,
00:21:26.900 approved and incentive all of the major oil sands projects,
00:21:30.060 which took our oil production from less than 2 million barrels a day
00:21:34.100 to 5.5 million barrels a day today.
00:21:36.820 Today, I continue to fight as premier to ensure the completion of the Trans Mountain expansion, which has been a game changer for our products and our exports.
00:21:48.040 In creating coalitions across the federation to challenge the unconstitutionality of the Federal Impact Assessment Act, Bill C-69, and we won at the Supreme Court of Canada on that.
00:22:00.720 We won in our constitutional challenge against the federal plastic span.
00:22:04.840 We won in our challenge of the Emergencies Act at the federal court.
00:22:12.580 And, you know, a trifecta of winning on those issues.
00:22:17.400 We've won the battle of public opinion in the rest of Canada about the need for increased oil and gas production and pipelines.
00:22:23.660 Super majorities in every province, including British Columbia and Quebec, support pipelines, LNG, and increased energy production.
00:22:33.720 And our current premier has won in this memorandum of understanding in a commitment of the federal government to build another West Coast pipeline to repeal the emissions cap, to repeal the clean electricity standard.
00:22:48.740 We won in getting elimination of the retail carbon tax.
00:22:52.000 We won in getting equivalency agreements for methane regulations, reducing the cost on Alberta industry.
00:22:59.460 We won in getting a commitment to accelerated approvals.
00:23:02.800 We're going to win with TMX optimization, which will be another 300,000 or 400,000 barrels a day of coastal exports.
00:23:09.100 I believe if we put our shoulder to the wheel, we'll win with a version of Keystone XL to increase shipments to the United States.
00:23:17.940 30 seconds.
00:23:18.260 And so I think we, as Canadians, need to take yes for an answer.
00:23:23.200 Canada's institutions, with all due respect, are corrupt.
00:23:27.360 And we've all witnessed it.
00:23:29.420 We've all witnessed it.
00:23:31.960 And it's tragic, and it's sad.
00:23:34.600 And you know whose hearts bleed the most when they see it?
00:23:38.060 The veterans.
00:23:39.680 Because that's not what they fought for.
00:23:41.980 That's not what they fought for at all.
00:23:43.660 The Canada that exists today is not the Canada they fought for.
00:23:47.460 And the reality is, you know, bankruptcy in 1936, Alberta ain't going bankrupt.
00:23:55.100 Ottawa is. We need to separate from them.
00:23:57.920 When you're told to be careful about what you tear down that fence,
00:24:01.580 the truth of the matter, the sad truth of the matter is,
00:24:04.560 that fence that Mr. Kenny describes is laying on the ground, rotting,
00:24:09.600 and we need to build a new one for us.
00:24:11.540 i don't think and i have not thought for a long time that four more seats in the house of comments
00:24:23.900 would solve the problem that faces the future of our province and the future for our kids and
00:24:29.920 grandkids i've come to the conclusion that the problem is much deeper in canada that
00:24:35.720 that the structure of confederation is a failed experiment and what i mean by that
00:24:43.240 is i think canada is too large to be an optimal unit of government the we have regionally diverse
00:24:51.280 economies we have regionally diverse cultures have you met somebody from vancouver island and
00:24:58.360 then met someone from newfoundland right and then met an alberton in between it's my view
00:25:04.560 that we it's not an optimal size and it's not a matter of reallocating seats our economies are
00:25:12.280 different our cultures are different Albertans in my view have a very unique culture we have a
00:25:18.360 hard-working culture we don't want governments to tell us what to do we want governments to get
00:25:22.340 out of the way we want to take risk and so I think tweaking representation doesn't solve it
00:25:29.540 It's not an optimal size, but Alberta is.
00:25:35.140 We are an absolutely optimal size when you look at our geography, our landmass, what we're blessed with, our people, our diversified economy, our access to markets.
00:25:46.680 So I just think every time I look at this, the conclusion I come to is Alberta needs to exercise a legal pathway to independence.
00:25:53.380 we have to convince ottawa not to do something and they don't care what we think 200 million
00:26:06.100 dollars for a spaceport that's a gravel pad phoenix pay system they can't even figure out
00:26:13.320 how to pay employees and now they want to spend 40 4.2 billion building a new system there's no
00:26:20.780 accountability. Our voice doesn't matter. When Alberta's independent, if our politicians are
00:26:26.900 misusing our tax dollars, if they're behaving recklessly and carelessly and spending $200
00:26:31.860 million on a spaceport, we can fire them. Albertans who are concerned and support
00:26:41.080 independence understand we're at an existential moment. They understand that this is a rare
00:26:46.780 moment in time of convergence of opportunity and convergence of threat. If we're not successful
00:26:53.420 with independence, we know there's likely to be a split in the UCP and the NDP is likely to
00:26:59.680 be the next government. That's just a reality. So that's why I and many others are going to work
00:27:06.260 really, really hard to convince those who are not yet ready to support independence that now is the
00:27:12.040 time. It's absolutely viable. Respectfully, all the other sides got is fear. They have no plan.
00:27:18.780 It's always go back and ask for more. Be patient. Patience is not a solution to the opportunity
00:27:25.500 that's before us. Okay. Thank you, Keith. Let's be true to the memory of those people
00:27:33.140 who we honor on Memorial Drive, on Remembrance Week. Let's remember that they lie under those
00:27:39.320 maple leaves in foreign soil. Let's not be so quick to diminish the sacrifices of those generations
00:27:46.200 of proud Albertans, also proud Canadians, who have built one of the most prosperous, generous,
00:27:53.400 and thoughtful places on the face of the earth. We owe it to them, just as we owe it to the future,
00:27:58.600 to build this province and this country, a strong Alberta in a strong Canada.
00:28:03.740 What you're hearing is no plan. What you're hearing is fear. And what you're hearing is emotion. Those veterans that died did not fight for the values that Ottawa is seeking to impose on us, the censorship.
00:28:18.540 and literally trampling on our rights.
00:28:28.280 So $1 trillion in investment has left.
00:28:32.420 I am confident, as are people in the investment community that I speak with,
00:28:39.620 that if Alberta moves towards independence,
00:28:42.120 they know they won't have the obstacle of Bill C-69, net zero,
00:28:46.440 and all of this other ideological extremist policy imposed on us by Ottawa,
00:28:51.380 and we won't have to convince Ottawa to change the law.
00:28:54.920 We'll be able to do it ourselves.
00:28:58.740 It is virtually impossible to amend the Constitution of Canada.
00:29:02.000 But you can't separate without amending the Constitution of Canada,
00:29:06.280 which is a paradox, unless you go down this road
00:29:09.400 of the unilateral declaration of independence.
00:29:11.640 And as I say, what happens the next day when Ottawa cancels your passport?
00:29:15.240 Good luck.
00:29:16.440 Hey, welcome back.
00:29:25.460 I want to show you a very short story.
00:29:27.180 It's just, it was of interest to me because very close to my house, a 14-year-old girl
00:29:32.480 went missing and a lot of people went looking for her and was she kidnapped?
00:29:37.780 Did she run away?
00:29:38.980 We took our billboard truck and we put a picture on the side and a phone number just to help
00:29:43.600 spread the awareness that she was missing in case anyone saw her.
00:29:46.440 She was gone for two weeks. I hate to say it. I feared for the worst. And some atrocious people
00:29:51.320 were tearing down posters to find her because she was a Jewish girl. Could you imagine that
00:29:56.240 politicizing that? Well, here's my little report from the scene today when police announced that
00:30:01.960 she had been found. Ezra Levant here for Rebel News. I'm at Earl Bales Park, which is a very
00:30:08.740 large urban park in the heart of North Toronto, where a few days ago, a 14-year-old girl named
00:30:14.220 Esther or Esty went missing. And soon there was calls for her to be found. People had search
00:30:21.360 parties. Police actually set up a command center here in the park and days turned into many days.
00:30:28.740 And I think people were terrified that the worst was at hand. Rebel News actually deployed our
00:30:33.580 billboard truck as part of the effort, having her picture and name and phone numbers to call.
00:30:38.540 Frankly, some people had given up hope and others took advantage for an anti-Semitic crusade.
00:30:44.580 It was absolutely shocking.
00:30:46.220 There were posters, missing child, you know, if you see her call this number.
00:30:52.400 Nothing to do with politics. 0.68
00:30:54.420 A 14 year old girl gone missing and who knows what happened to her.
00:31:00.120 Anti-Semitic activists around town started tearing down those posters.
00:31:04.840 There's some sort of political statement was absolutely disgusting and outrageous sign of how things are in Canada in 26, 2026. 0.99
00:31:14.000 Anyways, amazing news, almost miraculous today.
00:31:16.880 Police announced that Esty has been found in a matter of minutes.
00:31:20.020 We expect to have a press conference here and we'll have that story for you.
00:31:23.780 It's with great relief that I can confirm that Esther was located by members of the Toronto Police Service earlier this afternoon.
00:31:32.180 As the initial reports informed you, she appears to be in good physical health.
00:31:37.460 That said, as you'd expect, she has been taken to hospital to be examined both physically
00:31:43.220 as well as for medical staff to assess what emotional toll the situation may have cost her.
00:31:49.860 I can advise that she was located in a home here in Toronto.
00:31:53.620 our investigation will now turn to whether or not there is any evidence of criminality
00:32:01.240 associated to her prolonged disappearance it is for this reason along with esther's and her
00:32:08.120 family's obvious right to privacy that i will not be able to comment further at this time
00:32:13.580 we understand she was with an adult male who owned a house in rickstown so not commenting
00:32:18.500 on that now, as you'll appreciate. And as I said, the next phase of the investigation
00:32:23.560 is, was there any criminality related to her prolonged disappearance?
00:32:29.960 Has anyone been charged? Anyone arrested at this point?
00:32:32.220 Not at this point.
00:32:33.140 Who was at the home?
00:32:34.480 We're not commenting on that. I can tell you, investigators are actively looking into that.
00:32:39.880 Who resided in the home? What are they all about? That is happening as we speak right now.
00:32:45.320 Did she know the people in the House before this?
00:32:48.760 I don't know.
00:32:49.720 Did she know that people were looking for her?
00:32:51.960 I don't know. I don't have that information.
00:32:53.560 Like I said, folks, this is really the earliest stages of this.
00:32:57.400 The investigation, the next phase of the investigation is just starting.
00:33:01.160 Is there any indication of politics or anti-Semitism behind this?
00:33:06.040 I have no information to suggest that.
00:33:08.040 What are your comments on people pulling down posters
00:33:12.440 that announced she was missing and asked people to call police.
00:33:16.760 What do you make of that?
00:33:17.980 I mean, I can't think of anything more unethical than that type of behavior. 0.99
00:33:22.540 It's absolutely ridiculous.
00:33:24.520 Anyone that would make any effort to disrupt our attempts to locate Esther,
00:33:31.220 nobody can ever justify that.
00:33:33.300 Are there any lessons that you've learned that you might apply the next time?
00:33:36.200 Or do you feel that everything went sort of by plan?
00:33:40.520 Well, these things are obviously very fluid and dynamic.
00:33:43.580 I am very proud of the investigative efforts undertaken.
00:33:47.540 In situations like this, we will always take away what we've learned.
00:33:53.040 We will debrief this and we will assess, are there things that we could do better next time around?
00:33:58.060 But I want to reiterate, we put everything we had into this investigation and we're just so relieved that we've located her.
00:34:06.280 thousands of people came out to help from all walks of life not just from our community but
00:34:12.640 from the entire community people as far as Hamilton people as far as Mississauga we had
00:34:18.060 old people young people children wherever they could poster wherever they could spread the word
00:34:24.140 everybody was willing to do what they needed to do to bring a child home regardless of whether
00:34:30.280 they knew esther or not well we just finished a police press conference here in north york
00:34:36.700 in north toronto in earl bells park where the command post had been set up for these past two
00:34:42.100 weeks esther a 14 year old girl found uh far away from here found in someone's home now the police
00:34:50.580 didn't have a lot of details that they say that the investigation is ongoing i asked if there was
00:34:55.460 any politics or even anti-Semitism involved alluding to possibly kidnapping. There was no
00:35:02.080 information. Apparently she's in, she appears to be in good enough health, although she's at a
00:35:09.680 hospital being checked both physically and for the psychological trauma of whatever she's been
00:35:14.440 through for two weeks. Not a lot of information from the police other than she's being found.
00:35:19.520 And the fact that things are not yet being fully disclosed suggests there may be some criminality here.
00:35:27.120 Again, the police very tight lipped.
00:35:28.660 If I had to say the purpose of today's conference, it was one purpose, just to let people know she was found alive.
00:35:36.840 She's recuperating in hospital and the search is over.
00:35:40.260 But the police matters sound like they are not over.
00:35:44.860 I'm proud of the community.
00:35:46.120 It sounds like thousands of people participated in looking for her.
00:35:50.160 There was a $25,000 reward that was put up by private citizens.
00:35:54.700 And I want to say thanks to our own Rebel News truck driver who drove a billboard truck around with her picture and the phone numbers to call for a number of days.
00:36:04.980 The police did not say how she was finally found.
00:36:08.780 It sounds like something that's still in confidence because police are still investigating.
00:36:14.400 Anyways, it's very good that this story has a happy ending.
00:36:18.080 It's not unthinkable that after a two week absence, the worst could have happened.
00:36:23.040 Thank God that wasn't the case here for Rebel News in Earl Bales Park in North York, Toronto.
00:36:28.800 I'm Ezra LeVance.
00:36:31.840 Well, let me read your letters to me on Alberta.
00:36:35.620 Doug Gary says, I still haven't heard one good reason for Alberta to stay in Canada.
00:36:39.500 And that's the question I'll be asking federal politicians when they come to Alberta this summer.
00:36:43.300 and they better have a good answer or don't even show up in Alberta.
00:36:47.660 Well, you know, so many of the Federalist arguments sound like this.
00:36:52.480 Know your place.
00:36:55.060 John says, Alberta, Minnesota should change places.
00:36:58.440 Well, you know, actually Rebel News sponsored a poll a few months ago
00:37:01.940 and most Albertans do not want to join the United States.
00:37:04.800 I think they just want to be masters of their own house.
00:37:07.120 You know, matrice chenou.
00:37:08.860 That's actually a phrase that Quebec used, wasn't it?
00:37:11.880 And there's a point there. I don't know if you saw Avi Lewis, the new head of the NDP. He was saying Quebec separatism, that's classy. That's OK. Alberta separatism, that's bad. Here's a clip of that.
00:37:23.380 According to that, the NDP would recognize 50. We have a position, the Sherbrooke Declaration on on the question of sovereignty in Quebec. The sovereignty, the separation movement in Alberta has no point of comparison with the historic sovereignty movement in Quebec.
00:37:39.000 This is a mega-aligned, potentially funded, disruptive movement that has been really thrown into national prominence by Danielle Smith addressing this question that a portion of her base, a small minority of Albertans, the vast majority of whom want to stay in Canada, don't want to have a referendum that will rip the country apart.
00:38:02.380 So that principle is from the point.
00:38:03.680 It's not the same thing.
00:38:05.900 And there isn't the history.
00:38:10.000 I think this is a flash that's been driven by an extreme portion of Danielle's base. 0.95
00:38:16.520 And she's got a big problem on her hands. 0.95
00:38:18.620 She tried to have a question for a question, and it's going nowhere.
00:38:22.000 Nobody's happy.
00:38:23.140 But this is an internal Alberta problem right now.
00:38:26.240 And I don't believe that there will ever be a referendum.
00:38:28.420 The court has already decided that you can't just proceed to rip the country apart when you haven't dealt with the underlying issue of the land.
00:38:34.860 an indigenous rights in title. So I don't, what I'm saying very clearly, and I'll say it in English
00:38:39.340 just to be perfectly clear, is the margin of victory in an Alberta referendum is irrelevant
00:38:44.700 right now because I don't believe there will be a referendum. Last letter from Brenda who says,
00:38:49.620 the Pathways Project is a green scam that will line Carney's wallet. Albertans do not want it.
00:38:56.540 Pathways Project is this idea of carbon capture and piping it and storing it. It's ridiculous. 0.97
00:39:02.540 is it's a make-work-busy-work project 0.53
00:39:04.400 that just imposes a massive cost on the oil industry.
00:39:07.740 There's no other oil producer that does it.
00:39:09.520 There's no market for carbon dioxide.
00:39:12.180 It's fake. It's Enron accounting.
00:39:14.620 And Mark Carney deeply believes in it.
00:39:17.200 Well, that's our show for the day.
00:39:18.860 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here
00:39:20.860 at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
00:39:22.740 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:39:32.540 We'll be right back.