Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ We finally found a billboard Toronto police think is offensive

00:00:00.320 Hello, my friends. I got a call from a very, very senior, powerful political person in Toronto

00:00:08.200 asking me to stop our truck from broadcasting a message. I'll tell you more about it. I won't

00:00:16.560 tell you everything because I agreed to take the call secretly or off the record, but it was so

00:00:22.780 astonishing. I've just got to tell you a little bit about it without giving away who called me.

00:00:27.340 In very unusual days, I should tell you, I refused the demand. That's ahead. I won't give you any more

00:00:33.260 right now, but listen to the show. You might find it interesting. But first, let me invite you to

00:00:38.440 become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. You'll see on Rebel News Plus the truck and what this

00:00:44.560 big shot was talking about. Go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe. It's eight bucks a month.

00:00:51.300 You get the video version and the satisfaction of keeping Rebel News strong so that we are independent

00:00:55.800 of these political big shots. And we do not have to jump when they call us and demand we do so.

00:01:01.920 A little interesting story for you ahead. Tonight, we finally found a billboard that the Toronto police

00:01:08.360 object to. And no, it's not in support of Hamas. It's December 19th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:13.920 You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:20.340 You know, I'm Jewish. I grew up in Calgary, which is a very un-Jewish city, very small Jewish 1.00

00:01:33.460 community. And I always thought of Toronto as the big city. And it has about 200,000 Jews in it,

00:01:42.120 which coming from Calgary, which had, when I was growing up, maybe 5,000 Jews, seemed huge. Like,

00:01:47.740 there's so many Jewish schools and synagogues and kosher restaurants, it seemed like a little

00:01:52.840 slice of Israel or like going to New York itself. That's how it felt. And the Jews were in high 1.00

00:01:58.880 stations in life in Toronto. Doctors and lawyers, even politicians. The great mayor Mel Lastman was

00:02:07.120 Jewish. And I think the Jews got along pretty well with people in Toronto. They got into construction 0.98

00:02:13.220 with the Italians. And they got along with the Greeks. It was sort of a very happy harmony. At

00:02:20.340 least that's what it seemed like to me growing up. The point I'm trying to make is that I looked

00:02:25.020 at Toronto as a pretty Jewish city, or at least a city where it was very easy to be Jewish. Well, 0.99

00:02:31.260 that's changed. I'll tell you that now that I'm a resident of Toronto. I live not far from an

00:02:37.340 intersection of Bathurst and Shepherd. Bathurst is a north-south road around which, along which,

00:02:43.340 I'd say most of the Jewish community lives. So if you were to start in Midtown and drive north on

00:02:48.800 Bathurst, you could drive for half an hour. And on each side, you would see kosher supermarkets or

00:02:54.880 schools or synagogues. You would see Orthodox Jews with their black hats and whatnot. And you would say,

00:03:01.140 oh, this is the Jewish part of town. There's the Chinatown. There's the Greek town. This is the

00:03:05.920 Jewish part of town. But a few terrible things have started happening since the October 7th, 2023

00:03:14.200 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. Now, that was a shocking attack, as you probably know,

00:03:19.560 as the largest death toll, the worst murder of Jews since the Holocaust itself. And that's a

00:03:26.600 terrible thing. And it caused a war. Israel reacted to Hamas in Gaza, and it soon spread throughout the 0.75

00:03:32.860 region. But I remember saying in those very early days, I should dig up my own quotes about it.

00:03:38.500 I was far more worried about what's happening in Toronto, in other Canadian cities, in America,

00:03:45.940 in the West, than I am about what's happening in Israel itself, because Israel has a strong military.

00:03:50.960 But more than that, Israel is awake to what's going on. Israel doesn't fool itself thinking

00:03:57.160 diversity is our strength. Israel is, I suppose you could call it multicultural and multiracial.

00:04:03.100 There's people of different backgrounds there and different religions. But it is very alert and awake

00:04:08.880 to the risks involved there. Not us here in Canada. We have a completely porous border.

00:04:14.620 And over the last, I'd say, 20 years, we have brought in so many people who, simply put,

00:04:21.320 have brought anti-Semitism with them. And a number have brought violence, or at least extreme

00:04:26.520 political activism with them. What's worse is they have been activated by foreign agents.

00:04:33.440 For years, it's been reported that the government of Iran has used Canada as their playground,

00:04:39.260 where they can whip up anti-Semitic meetings on short notice. Well, that went into

00:04:44.360 high gear after October 7th. Before Israel even reacted and responded to the attack from Gaza,

00:04:51.060 there were marches throughout Toronto condemning the Jews, threatening the Jews, accusing the Jews 0.83

00:04:57.440 of horrendous things, and calling for a genocide of the Jews. They would use words that might seem 0.74

00:05:03.900 cryptic to ordinary Canadians, like, from the river to the sea. But that just means extinguishing

00:05:09.860 all Jews within its geography, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. 0.91

00:05:15.640 Globalize the Intifada. Intifada is an Arabic word meaning pogrom, or a riot. And those ideas 1.00

00:05:23.000 have started to come true in the West, most atrociously, just the other day in Bondi Beach in Australia, 0.89

00:05:30.180 where two Muslim migrant terrorists shot dead and wounded dozens of Jewish Australians.

00:05:40.860 We haven't had a massacre on that scale in Canada yet, but I fear it's only a matter of time.

00:05:46.340 As you know, a Jewish day school in Toronto called Beiskaya Mushka has been attacked on three separate

00:05:52.700 occasions by gunshots. A synagogue on Bayview Avenue in Toronto has been vandalized on ten separate

00:06:00.300 occasions. As you know, we've covered it quite regularly. Pro-Hamas protesters walk through Jewish

00:06:08.080 residential communities shouting at men, women, and children they encounter in the streets.

00:06:13.260 There have been vandalisms, uttering of threats, assaults, and all sorts of other mischief.

00:06:18.720 And to see the way that they've been treated with kid gloves as compared to, say,

00:06:22.920 the truckers is astonishing. And that's the subject of my monologue today.

00:06:27.420 I've seen how the police can react when they want to. I've seen them brutally arrest and jail

00:06:33.400 and punish the truckers. I've seen what they've done to the men in Coutts, Alberta, some of whom are

00:06:39.020 still in prison. That's what the government does to politically disfavored groups. In the case of

00:06:44.600 Tamara Leach, people who oppose forced vaccines or forced lockdowns, those are the worst people. 0.97

00:06:51.440 But people who walk through Jewish communities, and these are foreign nationals, mind you. These

00:06:55.880 aren't fellow Canadian citizens. I don't think fellow Canadian citizens would even do that.

00:07:00.720 These are foreign nationals under the direction of foreign governments walking through our streets

00:07:05.760 in Canada and screaming anti-Semitic abuse at people. It's outrageous, but it has been tolerated for

00:07:12.600 two years. And in the wake of the Bondi massacre, a lot of people in Canada said, oh my God, we're

00:07:18.220 next. We're so obviously going to be next. One of the things that I think upset me the most about

00:07:23.940 Bondi Beach in Australia was that the Jewish community, which had gathered to celebrate Hanukkah

00:07:29.900 on the beach, they had guards. I think they had five guards there, but they were unarmed.

00:07:35.660 What use is that? Are you going to challenge a terrorist to an arm wrestle or something? If you don't

00:07:41.620 have a firearm, what exactly are you other than an usher or something? Well, it's the same thing 0.78

00:07:47.580 here in Canada. There are dozens of Jewish schools and synagogues and Jewish centers, community centers,

00:07:54.000 and none of them have armed guards. An armed terrorist, like we saw in Australia, would cut

00:07:59.020 through them like a hot knife through butter. And gun crime is rampant in Ontario. It's not hard,

00:08:04.420 and the rest of the country too. It wouldn't be hard for a terrorist to get a hold of a firearm

00:08:09.580 and do horrific things in Canada, just like they did in Australia. And so the last week in Toronto

00:08:15.120 has been interesting. As the Jewish community realizes what happened in Bondi Beach could just

00:08:20.980 have easily have happened in Canada. And if we don't do anything about it, it probably will.

00:08:26.060 Now that sparked this interesting conversation on radio, where Canada's pro-Hamas mayor,

00:08:35.460 Olivia Chow, Toronto's pro-Hamas mayor, who refuses to show up at most events, who is so totally 0.97

00:08:42.340 dedicated to the pro-Hamas movement, she, obviously feeling the scrutiny, was asked why none of these

00:08:51.560 pro-Hamas protesters are charged. They utter threats. They block roads and sidewalks. They commit

00:08:59.980 assaults. They violate noise regulations with their PA systems where they shout at Jews. And I'm not 0.97

00:09:08.080 even talking about the actual hate crimes. I'm talking about the crime crimes. Why have there

00:09:13.160 been so few, if any, charges? Well, here's what the mayor said. So at some point, they said they have a

00:09:20.240 lawyer at the police headquarters that looked at cases and said, okay, there's no hope of you

00:09:27.460 getting anywhere, so don't bother. So, which is why sometimes they don't do charges. And I think the

00:09:33.500 chief is coming to your... He's here tomorrow. He'll be in that chair. Yeah, exactly. Ask him about that.

00:09:39.280 I'm never confident it's a very comfortable chair, but... Ask him about that because I've asked. I've asked

00:09:46.200 exactly the same thing. Why can't you arrest more and charge more? A, there's the human rights,

00:09:51.900 the charter rights concern, and that some of the charge is basically thrown out. So why keep doing

00:09:58.360 it if it doesn't work? Right. The mayor, in other words, is implying that she thinks there should be

00:10:03.960 charges laid, but there aren't. And it's because of the bloody police department. And in particular,

00:10:09.980 there's a lawyer at the police department named Falguni Debbath who won't let any charges go through.

00:10:15.540 Well, that's quite newsy, isn't it? Well, next up was Toronto's police chief who was invited on the

00:10:21.780 same channel to answer. And he said that the mayor was making it up. Well, he didn't quite use that

00:10:28.280 language, but he basically called her a liar. Here, take a listen. And when the mayor says that

00:10:33.560 there is a lawyer who is advised, do not engage, do not arrest, is she in error? Well, listen, I don't

00:10:40.240 know where she's getting that narrative from. She says you. Yeah. Well, we didn't have a discussion

00:10:44.580 that would suggest quite the way that's been framed. So. So the mayor is saying there ought to

00:10:50.980 be charges, but the general counsel, the senior lawyer, the police is stopping them before they

00:10:56.500 can be made. And the police chief is saying that ain't true. Well, our friend, Joe Warmington wrote

00:11:03.900 about this in the Toronto Sun and named the general counsel, the lawyer involved. I mentioned her name

00:11:09.620 a moment ago, Falguni Debbath. Now, not a lot is known about her. I've seen reports that she was born

00:11:14.620 in Pakistan and that she worked once at the United Nations in some sort of war crimes inquiry. And those

00:11:22.280 three things aren't necessarily alarm bells. But when you have someone who comes from Pakistan,

00:11:26.900 which is an inherently anti-Semitic country, it's an Islamic supremacist country. It's a terrorist 1.00

00:11:32.240 country, really. It's where a lot of terrorists are from, who works for the UN, which is an inherently

00:11:37.640 anti-Semitic organization. And on war crimes or other matters like that, which typically means

00:11:44.500 accusing America and Israel and those things, one would want to know, well, is this woman the reason

00:11:50.400 that there have been few, if any, charges made? It's an excellent question. And it comes not from mere

00:11:57.060 speculation, but from this war between the mayor and the police chief. And so our friend Joe

00:12:03.200 Warmington wrote about it in the Toronto Sun and he did a good job. Holy smokes did the police ever

00:12:09.580 unleash on him. They sent a hail of emails threatening him in bizarre ways. But to their credit, the Toronto

00:12:16.520 Sun stood by their man. It was quite something. Stephanie Sayer, the press attache for the Toronto

00:12:25.660 police said to Joe that there would be consequences to him if he continued to report it and didn't delete

00:12:31.880 his stories. What does that mean? Would he be sued? Would he be arrested and maybe charged with

00:12:39.180 something? No charges for the Hamas supporters, just charges for a journalist who embarrasses the

00:12:44.140 police chief? Or would there be more? I mean, the police are packing heat. What would they do exactly

00:12:49.060 to Joe? To the Sun's credit, they backed him up. We saw that and we thought, we have a lot of

00:12:53.880 questions about this too. This is a real news story. So we deployed our big, beautiful billboard

00:12:58.740 truck, asking simple questions. Who is Falguni Debnath? Is she the reason that these charges are not

00:13:06.100 made? Who's telling the truth? The mayor or the police chief? Here's a little look at David Menzies

00:13:11.100 with our big, beautiful truck parked right outside police headquarters.

00:13:15.860 Hey, detective. Is Ms. Debnath setting policy for the police? 0.83

00:13:25.020 Why are my questions instilling fear in the hearts of those who are packing heaters? I don't get it.

00:13:35.360 Hi, ma'am. How you doing? Good. What do you think about the lawyer for the police service,

00:13:41.460 Falguni Debnath, setting policy in terms of who to arrest and not to arrest?

00:13:46.700 To be honest, this is the first time I see this. Oh, okay then. All right.

00:13:50.780 Sorry. Are you going to sign our petition to fire the chief?

00:13:55.240 I have to go now. Oh, okay then.

00:13:57.860 Have a nice day. What do you think about the lawyer setting policing policy?

00:14:02.400 No. No. I feel that that's skipping due process, which should apply to everyone fairly and equally.

00:14:12.760 So that's not fair, I would say. I couldn't agree with you more, sir. I thought the whole

00:14:17.680 idea of law enforcement is that when you see a crime, you make an arrest and you let the courts

00:14:22.580 sort it out, right? Gather the evidence and hand it over to the judge. And that's their job to weigh in

00:14:28.680 on that, not anyone below them. Link and Jay and I have been here for about half an hour.

00:14:33.820 We've got another half hour to go before college turns into a tow-away zone. And you know they would

00:14:40.380 love to tow-away this baby. That would be a trophy catch for them, wouldn't it? But it's funny,

00:14:46.720 absolutely no engagement with any of the cops. I'll take that as a W compared to, oh, I don't know,

00:14:55.300 getting arrested. Happened to me five times last year, three times by the Toronto Police Service.

00:15:01.960 Happened to my boss, Ezra, once last year, just for practicing journalism in public.

00:15:06.980 Hey guys, what do you think about Falguni Debnath? Is it okay that she's setting police policy?

00:15:16.940 Hi sir. What do you think about Falguni Debnath setting police policy?

00:15:20.900 Thanks. Have a good day. Okay. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Hi ma'am. What do you think of Falguni Debnath

00:15:27.680 setting policy for the police? Is it me? Is my English not understandable? Or am I encountering

00:15:37.760 a disproportionate number of deaf people working at police headquarters? Well, holy smokes. Did the 0.99

00:15:44.280 police effort to silence Joe ever backfire? Not only did Joe continue to write his story in the

00:15:49.680 Toronto Sun, but we brought our beautiful billboard truck, which cannot be missed. It's so big and

00:15:55.120 bright and every cop going in and out of the police headquarters would have seen it. Wouldn't surprise

00:16:00.540 me if the police chief himself sort of peeked through the blinds to see that truck. Well, I think the

00:16:05.720 police know better than to call us up and threaten us, but they contacted Joe again to threaten him.

00:16:11.700 I mentioned the police spokesman Stephanie Sayre, who said that the appearance of our truck was quote,

00:16:18.640 a direct result of Joe's reporting. So she was blaming the truck being there on Joe. In a way,

00:16:27.420 I suppose it's indirectly true because we followed the story and learned about the police threat from Joe

00:16:32.920 and we acted on our own to deploy the truck. But holy smokes, a media aid, a media communications

00:16:42.060 director who does not like the media and thinks she can silence them. Now, to their credit, they

00:16:47.260 haven't tried to threaten me the same way they threatened Joe. And I think it's because Joe has

00:16:51.420 sort of other bosses on top of him, whereas I suppose I only answer to our viewers. But a funny thing

00:16:58.280 happened yesterday, and I want to be very careful how I describe it, because I was asked if I would

00:17:04.060 take a phone call from a very, very senior person in the Toronto police. And if I would take that phone

00:17:11.420 call on a confidential basis and not report it, would I take a phone call off the record? And I thought to

00:17:18.040 myself, well, if I say no, I'm not going to get the phone call and I won't know anything. But if I take a

00:17:23.060 phone call off the record without reporting it or recording it, at least I'll have some information that

00:17:27.780 might make and color my other work, even if I can't report it, I can know it. And I'd be no further

00:17:34.200 behind. So I agreed to accept the phone call on those conditions. And I'm going to honor those

00:17:38.440 conditions, because I don't want people to think that if I agree to keep something private, that I'll

00:17:43.460 break that promise. But let me just tell you, it was most astonishing. And I'll just sum it up by

00:17:49.480 saying, I was asked by this extremely senior person to withdraw the truck and no longer ask the

00:17:57.140 questions. To which I said, well, has the mayor withdrawn her accusation? Because that's really

00:18:03.220 all we're doing. You saw the truck. It's based on what the mayor said. The mayor says that this lawyer,

00:18:10.060 Falguni Dembath, at the Toronto police station is the reason that none of these pro-Hamas types are

00:18:16.940 getting charged. If the mayor still believes that, if she still says that, if she still accuses of that,

00:18:25.380 I'm going to report that news. If the mayor recants and says I was mistaken, okay, we'll report that as

00:18:32.400 well. And maybe we'll have to change up the truck. I have never in my 10 years of running Rebel News

00:18:39.760 received a phone call like the one I received. And I'm not going to say anymore to identify who it was.

00:18:45.360 And I'm not going to particularize what was said. Suffice it to say that we were asked to take that

00:18:51.000 truck down and we weren't, and we didn't rather. In fact, to make the point, we sent the truck out

00:18:56.540 again today. What's going on here? What's going on here? Well, on the immediate level, there's an

00:19:03.340 attempt to intimidate. I mean, I don't know. They must not know me if they think that a call from a big

00:19:09.040 shot cop is going to make me afraid. You know, I actually ended the phone call. I'll tell you what I

00:19:15.120 said. I said, call anytime. And if you want to meet me, feel free to arrest me. That's what I said

00:19:20.060 to him. I was being a little bit cheeky, but yeah, no, we don't roll over for anybody. If we do

00:19:26.240 something that's wrong, and if you can convince us we've done something wrong, we'll correct it or

00:19:31.520 retract it or whatever. I mean, every now and then we get it wrong, but we reported what the mayor said.

00:19:37.680 We got it right. We don't take instructions from police. We're not in a police state. And in fact,

00:19:43.540 we think the police in Toronto are not living up to their duties to arrest actual criminals.

00:19:50.260 And you know that they've been arresting rebel news reporters time and time and time again. I just

00:19:55.800 made a joke about me being arrested. But in fact, I was arrested at that very intersection I've been

00:20:02.300 describing to you at Bathurst and Shepherd here. Remember when I was arrested? Acting Inspector Ford told

00:20:08.120 me they had a media area for you and you guys stayed in it. We did not came back. We did not.

00:20:12.120 Well, because it's not up to him to say you have free speech there, but not here. Well,

00:20:15.800 yeah, because you're inciting this crowd and then it breaches the peace. Well,

00:20:19.880 your presence is inciting them. And that's exactly what you're trying to do. I'm a Jew. No,

00:20:23.960 because you're trying to incite. I haven't tried to incite them. I want to take a picture

00:20:27.560 of the hate crime that you're on the other side. You didn't need to walk over. No,

00:20:30.920 I wanted to go. Okay. Now I'm going to tell you to move over there. And if you don't cross the road,

00:20:35.240 you'll get arrested for breach of the peace. So you're refusing to leave. I'm refusing to leave.

00:20:41.000 Why? Because I'm a Jew. I'm a citizen and I'm your boss. And I don't leave because you say Jews

00:20:48.840 in the interest of keeping peace here and public safety. You're under arrest for breach of the peace.

00:20:52.840 Take them in. I was arrested for standing on the sidewalk. There was a horde of dozens of pro-Hamas 0.64

00:21:02.360 activists who were standing right there and they weren't arrested themselves. You see my point?

00:21:06.840 Why would they arrest me? Did Falguni Debnath say, oh, you can arrest the Jew, but not the Muslims? 0.99

00:21:13.400 What was the legal advice there? I wonder. Or our friend David Menzies, who's been arrested time and

00:21:18.280 time again, simply for reporting on these Hamas extremists? Here's a sample of some of those.

00:21:23.960 What's wrong with you guys? We told you, who are you guys? What do you mean you guys?

00:21:36.040 See this? My grandfather spent five years of his life fighting the Nazis. You think I'm going to bend the 0.64

00:21:43.480 knee to the Islamo Nazis? No. What crime on my committee? Come on. Enforce the law. Obey your oath office. 0.93

00:21:51.480 Obey your oath. Yeah. What am I doing here? Huh? Hey, hey.

00:22:11.800 Goodbye.

00:22:17.000 I'm going to go.

00:22:19.000 Back to your protest.

00:22:21.000 Back to your protest.

00:22:23.000 Back to your protest.

00:22:25.000 Back to your protest.

00:22:27.000 Back to you.

00:22:29.000 They're about to pray.

00:22:31.000 They're about to pray.

00:22:33.000 We're praying.

00:22:35.000 We're praying.

00:22:37.000 Stop hearing this.

00:22:39.000 We're praying.

00:22:41.000 You're praying.

00:22:43.000 We're praying.

00:22:45.000 We're praying.

00:22:47.000 We're praying.

00:22:49.000 We're praying.

00:22:51.000 Hey, hey.

00:22:53.000 That's my guy.

00:22:55.000 That's my guy.

00:22:57.000 Hey.

00:22:59.000 Do you see why this is an important story?

00:23:22.740 They're threatening Joe Warmington, and I think they tried to intimidate me, but either I 0.99

00:23:27.920 was too stupid to understand it or too stubborn to go with it. 0.97

00:23:31.800 They're trying to stop coverage, stop asking questions about the mayor's accusation that 1.00

00:23:37.860 the police itself refused to prosecute pro-Hamas extremists.

00:23:42.740 And in so doing, in making threats against Joe Warmington, I'm guessing they were trying

00:23:49.080 to threaten me. 1.00

00:23:49.700 I'm just too stupid to realize it. 1.00

00:23:51.480 They were showing, they were taking a harder line against peaceful journalism than they 1.00

00:23:57.500 do against pro-Hamas activism.

00:24:00.020 The fact that they arrested David time and again, and even arrested me, but wouldn't

00:24:04.620 arrest these foreign nationals who are not only whipping up anti-Semitism, but are breaking

00:24:10.120 the law in the ways I outlined earlier.

00:24:12.700 Don't you think this is quite a news story after all?

00:24:15.320 I should tell you the people of Toronto think so.

00:24:17.480 So here's an image from the Toronto Sun website, which shows the hottest stories by view count.

00:24:24.260 You might think that the story I've just described is a little bit of inside baseball that no

00:24:28.420 one would care about.

00:24:29.140 Well, if that's what you think, you'd be wrong.

00:24:31.600 The number one story on the Toronto Sun website is precisely Joe Warmington describing this.

00:24:37.460 I think we've got a problem in Toronto.

00:24:40.320 We have some sort of blockage.

00:24:42.300 And it rings true that it could be this Falguni Devnath. 0.92

00:24:46.440 Alas, she isn't talking to any journalists.

00:24:48.940 So all we have is our speculation and the mayor's accusation.

00:24:54.300 I'm less concerned about politics and gossip and inside baseball than I am about the fact

00:25:00.560 that every week these pro-Hamas activists take to the streets.

00:25:04.600 And every night somewhere in the greater Toronto area, there is some anti-Semitic vandalism,

00:25:10.220 shooting, Molotov cocktails in Montreal, vandalism of synagogues.

00:25:16.200 That's actually what I'm worried about.

00:25:17.780 And I'm worried that if someone like those Bondi Beach terrorists came to the idea that

00:25:23.320 they were going to take steps and murder some Jews, they could find it easy to do so. 1.00

00:25:27.920 In fact, I see in the papers today that there was a young man who was already caught up in 0.91

00:25:34.440 our justice system, who was arrested with firearms and was planning to kill Jewish students,

00:25:41.780 female, girl, Jewish students.

00:25:44.480 He was planning on it and he was arrested before he had a chance.

00:25:47.960 Now, had he acted on his plans, I don't know if he could have been stopped.

00:25:52.760 I truly think it's only a matter of time before one of the hundreds of thousands of extremist 0.59

00:26:00.020 anti-Semitic Muslim migrants to this country says, I'm going to do what ISIS encourages me to do,

00:26:06.860 what Hamas encourages me to do, and what the hero and the martyrs in Australia did. 0.92

00:26:13.000 I'm very worried about that.

00:26:14.680 And I'm worried about that because nothing has been done.

00:26:19.000 And if the reason nothing has been done is because of a Pakistani-born United Nations lawyer

00:26:24.880 at the Toronto Police Service who stops any charges from being made, well, that's an important story

00:26:30.420 to tell.

00:26:31.340 And I'm glad the Toronto Sun is telling it.

00:26:33.440 I'm glad Joe Warmington is not scared. 0.99

00:26:35.560 And I'm glad I'm obviously too stupid to realize when I'm being threatened by a senior 0.99

00:26:40.260 member of the police. 0.99

00:26:41.960 Stay with us.

00:26:43.660 More ahead.

00:26:49.000 Hey, welcome back.

00:26:54.220 You know, the other day we announced that Tamara Leach, the Joan of Arc of the Truckers, 0.96

00:26:59.420 is joining Rebel News.

00:27:00.740 And that was a bit of work to accomplish because we had to approve her job description with her 1.00

00:27:06.960 probation officer.

00:27:07.920 I know that sounds nuts, but remember she's under house arrest.

00:27:11.040 So we need to let the government know every time she has to go and do a story, come to

00:27:17.700 a meeting, travel, and it's a bit of a hassle.

00:27:20.660 But on the other hand, I look at it as a way that she can be productive and do things.

00:27:25.540 And of course, she worked with Rebel News before she was sentenced by the court.

00:27:29.480 So this is a continuation of that.

00:27:31.280 So Tamara Leach was very exciting. 0.96

00:27:32.800 But you may have seen, and keen-eyed viewers who love their Rebel videos would have seen,

00:27:39.160 that we have recently brought on board another journalist, too, who has done, I don't know,

00:27:43.720 three or four stories already.

00:27:45.380 And I thought, well, good heavens, let's invite her on the show to do a proper introduction. 0.99

00:27:49.720 Joining us now via Zoom is our latest talent, Scarlett.

00:27:54.660 Grace, Scarlett, great to see you.

00:27:56.660 And thanks for your work over the last couple of weeks.

00:28:00.600 Welcome aboard.

00:28:01.420 Thank you.

00:28:03.080 I'm having a blast.

00:28:04.140 Doesn't feel like work at all.

00:28:05.860 You know what?

00:28:06.600 I feel the same way because these are things that I want to talk about.

00:28:09.840 These are places I want to go.

00:28:11.700 So going with the Rebel brand, a few things happen.

00:28:15.140 First of all, a lot of people know Rebels.

00:28:17.480 So they know, okay, this is going to be populist.

00:28:20.100 This is going to be on the side of the little guy.

00:28:22.500 And in the case of, you know, the Palestinian protests, people know we're on the side of Canadians

00:28:28.780 and we're not on the side of the Palestinian.

00:28:31.440 Hamas. 0.73

00:28:32.020 We're not on the side of people shrieking about she had.

00:28:34.220 So when you wear that Rebel hat or that Rebel shirt to go out there, our reputation precedes you.

00:28:42.980 You yourself have a strong reputation.

00:28:45.620 Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about yourself?

00:28:47.400 Yeah, well, I guess my life changed when I went to the Freedom Convoy in 2022.

00:28:54.720 And I went kind of on a whim.

00:28:56.220 I first saw the whisperings of it on Facebook and I was like, yes, somebody's doing something about this.

00:29:01.680 Full support.

00:29:02.220 And then last minute, I decided to go to Ottawa.

00:29:05.760 I thought it was just going to be the weekend and I ended up staying three and a half weeks and it changed my life in every way.

00:29:11.560 I met all of the new people that I know now through that.

00:29:15.180 I wasn't afraid to hold my opinion back anymore.

00:29:18.360 I was in the art scene before.

00:29:19.540 So, you know, very left dominated.

00:29:21.300 But the Freedom Convoy freed me.

00:29:23.460 So I just kept speaking up and speaking my mind and it's eventually led me here, I guess.

00:29:29.780 You know, it was a crucible for so many people to wake up and it changed things.

00:29:36.340 I mean, Erin O'Toole was deposed as leader of the Conservatives, Jason Kenney in Alberta.

00:29:42.360 So it had huge seismic effects in politics, in journalism, and I think in the hearts and minds of millions of Canadians.

00:29:48.840 So your story is interesting and it's not unique.

00:29:52.260 A lot of people, that was their awakening.

00:29:55.460 I have seen you on a number of occasions at some of these street, I'm not going to say street battles,

00:30:01.680 but there have been street protests in Toronto, pro-Israel ones.

00:30:06.820 And I'm also going to say pro-Hamas. 0.99

00:30:08.260 And people say, oh, why are you saying pro-Hamas?

00:30:10.400 They're really pro-Palestinian.

00:30:12.020 No, no.

00:30:12.800 At these protests I've been to, they are pro-Hamas. 0.95

00:30:15.900 They even once had its reenactment of Hamas leader Yaya Sinwar. 0.87

00:30:19.740 A lot of them dress like terrorists.

00:30:23.020 I've seen you there as an activist.

00:30:26.160 Why don't you tell me a little bit about that?

00:30:27.660 Well, October 7th happened.

00:30:32.220 And at that point I wasn't fully informed of the entirety of the Palestine-Israel conflict.

00:30:39.860 I knew a little bit.

00:30:41.200 I talked about it with my mom in the past, but I didn't know everything.

00:30:45.740 But my initial reaction was to, I was hurting for Israel after the horrendous footage we saw.

00:30:51.040 Oh my God.

00:30:51.900 And then I don't even think it was two days later.

00:30:54.640 I was in Ottawa for a freedom-related event.

00:30:57.700 And I saw my first pro-Palestine protest.

00:31:00.420 I had to look up what the flag was.

00:31:02.000 I didn't know anything.

00:31:02.880 And then I saw that these people were supporting what had happened on October 7th.

00:31:09.520 And my mind was blown.

00:31:10.600 I'm like, after what I just saw, there were people in our streets, in the Capitol, supporting this.

00:31:15.800 So I took a step back and I was like, I need to educate myself.

00:31:19.740 I took like a month or two just reading, watching documentaries, talking to people,

00:31:24.400 and eventually came back to my initial instinct to stand with Israel, even more so now that I've learned more.

00:31:32.320 And the fact that more people aren't speaking up for the Jewish community here even,

00:31:37.000 you don't even have to be standing up for Israel, but the Jewish people here blows my mind. 1.00

00:31:41.740 Like, we learned about this in school.

00:31:44.320 We learned about what happened leading up to World War II.

00:31:48.200 It's history repeating.

00:31:50.000 And because people are not speaking up like I am, I feel like I have to be even louder.

00:31:55.620 Wow.

00:31:56.160 I mean, I share your view.

00:31:58.360 I'm not so concerned about Israel.

00:32:00.260 I think Israel can take care of itself. 0.59

00:32:01.880 It's a tough little country.

00:32:03.440 I'm worried about Canada.

00:32:04.920 I'm worried about threats of violence here.

00:32:06.840 I'm worried about, you know, people shrieking, people walking through residential areas,

00:32:11.660 shrieking at anyone who looks Jewish.

00:32:13.440 Like, I can't believe what's happening here.

00:32:15.760 Forget about over there.

00:32:16.960 I'm worried about Canada.

00:32:18.760 Well, there's one more story.

00:32:20.480 In fact, let me throw to the next story, because in the last couple of weeks, you've done a few things.

00:32:25.320 You've covered the weekly protests at this intersection of Bathurst and Shepard.

00:32:32.260 Let me just throw to a clip of that.

00:32:34.640 And then I want to show another clip where you went to Markham, Ontario, which is part of the greater Toronto area,

00:32:41.720 to talk about an MP who crossed the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals.

00:32:46.940 So first, here's one of your first reports at that weekly protest where Palestinian and Jewish Canadians face off.

00:32:57.300 Here, take a look.

00:32:57.800 Australia was blessed with this modern-day Maccabee who spoke the word of God and spoke the truth. 0.98

00:33:08.280 Rabbi Schlanger is now dead, but his message of truth will echo throughout the ages.

00:33:16.480 Are you seeing a lot of parallels with what's happening in Australia and here in Canada as well?

00:33:22.160 Absolutely.

00:33:24.100 I mean, it can happen right now, for all we know.

00:33:28.300 It's devastating.

00:33:30.560 There's a great phrase.

00:33:31.840 I don't know who came up with it, but first they come for the Saturday people, then they come for the Sunday people.

00:33:37.180 Exactly.

00:33:39.240 Is there a reason that we're in the Jewish neighborhood,

00:33:42.340 the largest Jewish neighborhood in Canada today after the first night of Hanukkah?

00:33:50.720 Nobody has an answer why we're in a Jewish neighborhood on the first night of Hanukkah, no?

00:33:56.560 Scarlett, now you were saying that this was actually a special event.

00:34:00.200 There was a menorah lighting for the holiday of Hanukkah,

00:34:03.260 but it looked like the Hamas side was there still blasting away.

00:34:07.860 And they sort of swarmed you, but you kept your calm, you were well composed.

00:34:15.800 Tell me a little bit about that.

00:34:18.020 Yeah, so like I explained in the report, the pro-Israel rallies that were at the intersection of Bathurst and Shepard,

00:34:24.560 they actually concluded in October once all of the living hostages had returned.

00:34:28.520 But the pro-Hamas side continued to show up every Sunday in the same neighborhood.

00:34:34.620 And because they didn't have a specific crowd to target,

00:34:37.180 they started going through residential areas, carrying on doing their thing.

00:34:40.600 So they are there every Sunday anyways.

00:34:44.260 But we have come back this past Sunday for the first night of Hanukkah, for the menorah lighting.

00:34:49.500 And yeah, of course, I interviewed people in the Jewish community.

00:34:55.400 And then towards the end, we were like, maybe we can get an opinion from the other side.

00:34:59.440 Let's see how it goes.

00:35:00.740 Normally, the police do not let anybody from the Israel side of the street cross the street to the pro-Palestine protesters.

00:35:09.640 But I think because I was doing journalism, I had the guise of being with the press.

00:35:14.720 They let me that time.

00:35:16.480 And the police just watched as they swarmed me, tried to have a conversation,

00:35:22.700 asked a few of them why they thought it was appropriate to be there on the first night of Hanukkah.

00:35:27.380 No justifiable argument, of course, just shrieking, yelling around me.

00:35:32.340 But I've done that before.

00:35:33.460 I'm used to it.

00:35:34.380 Yeah, protesting against a Jewish holiday sort of shows it's not about Israel or this land or that land.

00:35:41.320 They just don't like Jews, which I think they'll admit if they're candid. 1.00

00:35:45.720 You were also – you had a tough job.

00:35:48.040 Markham is an interesting place.

00:35:50.340 And their MP just switched sides.

00:35:53.060 I understand from reports that he had met with the Chinese embassy just a few days earlier.

00:35:59.260 And I haven't seen an answer to that.

00:36:02.280 I don't know if he's confirmed or denied that.

00:36:04.480 But an MP, a Chinese-Canadian MP, in a rioting that is hotly contested by the Chinese influence – I'm not talking about Chinese-Canadian influence.

00:36:13.960 I'm talking about the People's Republic of China is messing around.

00:36:17.600 This is one of the 11 districts that was compromised.

00:36:19.960 And suddenly, a Chinese-Canadian MP crosses the floor.

00:36:24.280 Looks pretty fishy.

00:36:25.740 You went there.

00:36:27.100 And ordinary people on the street, a lot of them were not comfy with it.

00:36:30.860 Here's a clip of your streeters in Markham.

00:36:33.200 Conservative to Liberal crossing the floor?

00:36:35.160 Yeah, it's great.

00:36:36.120 You think it's a good thing?

00:36:36.980 Oh, yeah.

00:36:37.460 The Red Liberal government sees itself as a player.

00:36:40.780 It is picking winners and losers through that age-old enemy of human progress, central planning, and interventionism.

00:36:49.720 Absolutely.

00:36:50.640 He is, to me, he's a two-head snake.

00:36:53.720 Did you support him as a Conservative?

00:36:55.820 Yes.

00:36:56.620 Yes.

00:36:57.200 So do you feel like you're being represented by the switch?

00:37:00.720 Well, I don't think.

00:37:01.680 It looked tough to get people – I mean, it's hard to get people to stop and talk, especially when it's cold out.

00:37:08.040 But you spoke to one Chinese-Canadian who said she was not pleased at all by this.

00:37:13.200 Do you think this is just going to blow over?

00:37:15.220 Because there was another MP from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, who crossed the floor a few weeks ago, too.

00:37:19.720 I guess there's really nothing you can do about it.

00:37:21.580 But are the grassroots in Markham – do they seem angry?

00:37:26.000 Yeah.

00:37:26.580 Yeah, they do.

00:37:27.600 There's been – there was a protest last week, or I believe on Monday, in front of his office that we covered.

00:37:33.580 And then there's going to be another one tomorrow at, I believe, 2 p.m.

00:37:37.400 They're not happy.

00:37:38.500 And they have a reason to be upset.

00:37:40.160 They voted for a Conservative candidate, not a Liberal one.

00:37:43.820 Unfortunately, as it seems with most Liberal scandals, I think the Liberals are just going to try and ignore it until it blows over.

00:37:53.240 But I don't think that protesters are going to stop anytime soon.

00:37:56.720 Yeah, very interesting.

00:37:57.940 Well, Scarlett, welcome aboard. 0.51

00:37:59.080 And I know you're going to learn our tricks of the trade from our whole team, whether it's our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, our managing editor, Tamera Ugolini, David the Menzoid Menzies. 0.94

00:38:10.100 There's a whole bunch of people here who have been doing that rebel style of journalism for years, and we're at your disposal.

00:38:16.600 We look forward to your work.

00:38:17.860 You know, you're going to take a break over Christmas, as all of us will, but you're going to start with the – I think you're going to be doing something in the field tomorrow.

00:38:25.400 But I'm really looking forward to starting the new year with a bang with you, and thank you so much for joining our team.

00:38:30.480 I think you've got the number one element of being a rebel, and I told you this when we interviewed you for the position.

00:38:36.020 The number one thing a rebel news journalism has to have is courage.

00:38:41.520 Courage to say something that someone might not want to hear.

00:38:46.720 The courage to speak truth to power.

00:38:48.540 You showed that courage when you were at Bathurst and Shepard, were surrounded by screaming pro-Hamas protesters, and you didn't blink.

00:38:55.560 So I think you've got the courage in spades, and the rest will come in time.

00:38:59.220 So congratulations.

00:39:00.760 Thank you so much.

00:39:01.580 Thanks for having me.

00:39:02.240 I'm really excited.

00:39:03.160 Right on.

00:39:03.540 Great to see you.

00:39:04.060 That's Scarlett Grace, the latest rebel. 0.93

00:39:06.780 Stay with us.

00:39:07.600 Your letters to me next.

00:39:11.520 Hey, welcome back.

00:39:18.780 Your letters to me on Michelle Rempel-Garner's conversation about immigration.

00:39:24.400 Rina says, I agree with Michelle on all immigration issues 100%.

00:39:28.780 I think a little more needs to be done above what Michelle has mentioned, the only way to get back to normal immigration standard before 2015. 0.75

00:39:38.320 Remigration, that's the word. 1.00

00:39:39.420 We have to send these folks home.

00:39:43.100 Donald Trump's doing it.

00:39:45.420 Nandar Farage says he's going to do it.

00:39:48.460 Austria looks like they're going to do it.

00:39:50.700 Sweden is doing it in a small way.

00:39:52.960 I think Denmark and Norway might as well.

00:39:55.600 I think it's the only way to fix the problem, because it's untenable.

00:39:59.860 Memory Lane Canada says, I live in the same neighborhood as you, Ezra.

00:40:02.660 I'm not Jewish, but I, too, share your concerns about the chips and hummus group at that exact corner every weekend, because simply by living in this neighborhood, I become Jewish by association.

00:40:11.980 I've been in this neighborhood for over 35 years.

00:40:14.040 It is not the neighborhood it was prior to 2020.

00:40:16.720 Now, coincidentally, things began to change in 2015.

00:40:19.240 Yeah, in 2015, Justin Trudeau, first of all, switched sides on the Palestinian-Jewish-Israel question, but more importantly, let in literally millions of people who not only hate the Jews, but hate Christians and hate Canada, too.

00:40:35.400 Paul Kaye says, all you have to do is look at the present immigration minister, and you will know why it's a complete mess.

00:40:42.320 Oh, our current immigration minister, I mean, they really give it to the weakest member of cabinet each time.

00:40:47.620 It's crazy.

00:40:49.360 Fantable says, Canada is finished, destroyed beyond repair.

00:40:53.280 Well, you might be right, but there's enough chance that you're wrong that it's worth fighting.

00:40:59.420 And I think people are starting to get fed up.

00:41:01.560 Remember, it wasn't just Michelle Rempel-Garner who said that.

00:41:04.380 When I spoke to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith a few days ago, she said she was in favor of dramatic changes to immigration, including a new rule that you couldn't get social services in Alberta until you paid in for, I think she said, 10 years.

00:41:17.740 So that would dissuade a lot of people from coming to this country and maybe get the remigration process happening.

00:41:24.700 Well, that's our show for today.

00:41:27.020 Until next time, on behalf of all of us at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:41:34.380 Thank you.

00:41:36.240 Thank you.

00:41:42.680 Thank you.

00:41:52.180 Let's go.

Rebel News Podcast - December 20, 2025

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