Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Pipeline blockades in BC, Suing Postmedia, Yaniv in Toronto

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back

00:00:19.520 at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.

00:00:23.080 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:24.760 Well, there's this huge resource development project in British Columbia that's going to benefit all British Columbians, including the Indigenous.

00:00:33.780 So why is there a group of radicals protesting this project, and why are they seemingly getting away with delaying it?

00:00:42.440 Kian Bextie flew out to the B.C. hinterland to get the goods, and wow, it's quite the story, folks.

00:00:48.460 And why did a National Post journalist go out of his way to ban rebel reporters from the Alberta legislature?

00:00:57.160 Just wait till you hear what Ezra Levent has to say about this latest egregious act of those in the media who actually embrace cancel culture.

00:01:07.400 And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:01:12.800 And I'll share some of your responses regarding our video about that travelling freak show known as Jonathan and Mama Yaniv. 0.75

00:01:20.620 Can you believe it, folks? He was recently catfished.

00:01:24.100 He was tricked into believing that a young girl was residing at Sick Kids Hospital.

00:01:29.520 And this sick puppy Yaniv actually travelled all the way from Vancouver to Toronto to meet a fictional child to do God knows what.

00:01:41.320 Thankfully, there was no child to harm, but the Yanivs got to meet me again. 1.00

00:01:46.780 And oh boy, they hated every second of it.

00:01:50.240 Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:01:52.720 The development project in beautiful British Columbia remains stalled for absolutely no good reason.

00:02:04.400 After all, this project would be an economic shot in the arm for the region.

00:02:08.880 And almost everyone is on board, including all of the native bands in the area.

00:02:13.540 But alas, there are some agitators trying to derail this project.

00:02:17.820 And because they claim this is all about taking a stance in the name of Indigenous justice,

00:02:23.720 well, suddenly this project has become a political hot potato and to heck with the rule of law.

00:02:31.460 And with more on this incredibly frustrating story is none other than the man who ventured way out into the B.C. hinterland to get the goods,

00:02:40.400 my colleague Kian Bexty. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:02:44.480 Hey, David.

00:02:44.940 So, Kian, what is the real reason these demonstrators are trying to put the kibosh on such an important project

00:02:54.500 that is going to benefit and even enrich so many people?

00:02:59.480 Because they're eco-radicals funded by eco-extremists.

00:03:03.760 It really has nothing to do with the Indigenous label that they've, you know, sort of put this movement under.

00:03:11.900 You and I know both that the eco-environmental movement is about three crises behind us right now.

00:03:21.220 That's why Greta Tunburton is sort of irrelevant. 1.00

00:03:23.920 So to keep up with the sort of chic SJW narrative, they have to tie it into some sort of race-based issue.

00:03:34.340 So these eco-radicals who don't live anywhere near the area, they live three traditional territories south of Blue River. 0.56

00:03:43.900 They come up to Blue River and they set up this blockade.

00:03:47.480 And they've been there now for quite some time.

00:03:50.820 The police won't lay a finger on them.

00:03:53.020 They won't arrest them no matter how lawless they get.

00:03:55.920 And the townsfolk are just fed up at this point.

00:04:00.200 You know, Ken, you said a lot there, and I'm going to try to analyze it.

00:04:04.880 First of all, this idea of them being eco-activists.

00:04:08.420 Now, I'll put the record of Canadian oil and gas development against any country in the world.

00:04:17.700 In fact, our boss, Ezra Levent, wrote the wonderful book, Ethical Oil.

00:04:21.240 Well, if these people were really concerned, I don't know, about saving the planet or cleaning up some kind of ecological disaster,

00:04:29.460 you could spin a globe and pick several countries that have odious records when it comes to resource management.

00:04:37.400 Why don't they go there?

00:04:38.660 Why are they campaigning against a country that's known for ethical resource development?

00:04:45.740 Well, because the money is, you know, it's money that's coming from the United States.

00:04:50.180 It's money that's coming from these eco-radicals that are hell-bent on focusing on Canada. 0.99

00:04:55.800 Their interest isn't necessarily on the oil that is moving.

00:05:01.700 It's not about just stopping the industry.

00:05:04.620 It's about stopping the industry in Canada very specifically because they're Marxists.

00:05:10.240 They understand that by doing this, they're rearranging the political structure of the area.

00:05:15.640 They're rearranging the economic structure of the country.

00:05:19.860 And if they, you know, if they can take money from those doing, you know, it's a wealth redistribution program at the end of the road.

00:05:30.560 And, Kian, you also mentioned they've tried to embrace the narrative of this being a race-based issue.

00:05:38.880 It's the indigenous versus white colonialists, I suppose.

00:05:43.840 And yet, what a false narrative that is, isn't it, Kian? 0.86

00:05:46.600 As you showed in your report, all of the Native bands and so many of the Natives you spoke to,

00:05:52.500 they want this to go ahead.

00:05:53.960 They want these good, high-paying, sustainable jobs.

00:05:57.920 So why aren't these eco-activists, fake indigenous, why aren't they being called out on this 1.00

00:06:06.020 and just have the authorities move in and get this project going?

00:06:11.000 Well, that's what we hope this document, mini-documentary does at fakefirstnation.com.

00:06:15.940 People can go and watch it, and it exposes them for what they are.

00:06:19.540 The mainstream media has completely ignored what is going on in Blue River.

00:06:23.060 It's become a lawless town where the color of your skin determines whether or not you're allowed to break the laws.

00:06:29.320 You'll see in the video some atrocious behavior on the part of those eco-radicals driving down the highway, 1.00

00:06:34.740 hanging outside of vehicles while waving flags.

00:06:37.120 It's absolute anarchy in that town, and it's all a result of the police being too scared to do anything.

00:06:43.360 Keep in mind, it's the RCMP in rural D.C.

00:06:45.820 It's not the OPP who report to Doug Ford.

00:06:48.940 It's the RCMP who, at the end of the day, even though they have to go a little bit through John Horgan's attorney general, minister of justice,

00:06:58.800 at the end of the day, their final report is to Brenda Luckey, Justin Trudeau's hand-picked RCMP commissioner.

00:07:04.960 And the last thing Justin Trudeau is going to do is intervene when it comes to a race-based issue like this,

00:07:11.240 because you know as well as I do, he takes the knee when it comes to enforcing the law.

00:07:16.220 Oh, he doesn't just take the knee.

00:07:17.800 He puts on blackface and he dresses up as an Indian, as in the nation of India. 0.96

00:07:23.880 So I know he's all in there.

00:07:25.640 But you raise a good point, Kian.

00:07:28.300 If there was some political will, where does the buck stop with this project?

00:07:32.760 Is it Premier Horgan or is it Prime Minister Trudeau?

00:07:38.600 A bit of both.

00:07:40.640 John Horgan has said that the pipeline's happening.

00:07:44.160 He's accepted that.

00:07:45.680 But that doesn't mean he's going to lift a finger to help.

00:07:49.820 Justin Trudeau technically owns the pipeline.

00:07:52.320 So if he's not the one that is actively fighting for it to go through, it makes you wonder why he paid $10 billion or something like that to buy out the pipeline in the first place.

00:08:06.800 This is all just like when you're a level-headed, thoughtful person looking at this from the outside, you can't help but think that you as the taxpayer have gotten screwed around so hard on this project.

00:08:20.440 It was going to go ahead.

00:08:22.160 All they needed is a competent law enforcement organization to enforce the law so that they can be sure that if the court said, yeah, we're all good to go, then the pipeline would be built.

00:08:32.940 But there was no faith that that would happen.

00:08:34.500 So Justin Trudeau had to buy this pipeline for Kinder Morgan, losing out costing taxpayers about $10 billion.

00:08:39.560 Now, although that's already a sunk cost, there might not even be any return on investment if these radical indigenous eco-extremists are allowed to just continue sitting on that plot of land, stopping any sort of construction. 0.65

00:08:56.260 It's directly hurting the pocketbook of every mom and dad in the country who invested in this pipeline, knowing that the court said, yeah, it's good to go ahead.

00:09:07.660 Unbelievable.

00:09:08.180 Kian, exit question.

00:09:10.520 I'm going to ask you to do a little crystal ball gazing.

00:09:13.300 Where does it go from here?

00:09:15.260 And I mean, I'm thinking back to earlier this month, well, it began in June, actually, the occupation of Nathan Phillips Square by a group called Afro-Indigenous Rising.

00:09:25.520 They broke the law the very first day they stayed overnight.

00:09:28.480 You're not allowed to camp on the public square.

00:09:30.740 But it wasn't a day one thing.

00:09:32.280 It was day 21 until the police finally moved in and said enough is enough.

00:09:38.180 So is that the thinking?

00:09:39.700 Let these, you know, let these infants have their tantrum. 1.00

00:09:44.320 Let them scream and shout.

00:09:46.200 And A, hopefully they'll get bored or run out of money and leave.

00:09:49.740 Or is it a matter where the government's finally going to say, look, you've had your say.

00:09:54.520 You've been there for months.

00:09:56.420 Enough is enough.

00:09:57.360 How does this play out in the future, Kian?

00:10:00.980 They're not running out of money anytime soon.

00:10:04.280 You know, as well as I do, who's funding these radicals.

00:10:08.860 So they'll be there as long as it takes.

00:10:10.640 They'll be there until the RCMP finally grow a pair and pull them off, which they will eventually have to do.

00:10:16.720 Once the pipeline is about to be laid through that creek, and once they need to build that man camp there, the police will eventually have to arrest them.

00:10:28.240 I just don't see any other way.

00:10:30.000 Right now, the collateral damage are the townsfolk who have to put up with this individual.

00:10:38.260 Her name is Canhouse Manuel, who not only does her family own a gas station, they have to put up with this radical extremist standing on their streets, shouting at children, calling them rapists, calling them racists, screaming at women, screaming at any indigenous man who does not agree with her, who happens to be working.

00:10:59.980 For the pipeline, they have to deal with someone like this, someone who is, I have to watch my words here so I don't get sued, although I presume she won't use the colonialist court to fight back, but she's a radical extremist who is dangerous to the community. 1.00

00:11:19.260 She is hurting young children with her words, making them think that they're rapists, going home to their parents and asking them, Daddy, what is a rapist? 0.97

00:11:30.980 Why did that indigenous woman call me a rapist? 1.00

00:11:34.260 It's such a sad situation for that town who have no police force presence to back them up and keep them safe.

00:11:41.600 It is sad, and we're going to have to wrap it here.

00:11:43.860 Kian, welcome to Justin Trudeau's Canada in 2020. 0.98

00:11:46.680 A major development project is in the ditch and in Blue River.

00:11:51.220 There is a two-tier race-based justice system playing out every day.

00:11:55.640 What an absolute disgrace.

00:11:57.320 You, my friend, and our cameraman, Mocha, did a fantastic report on that.

00:12:01.300 So thank you once again, and let's hope this project gets back on the rails sooner rather than later.

00:12:06.920 Thank you again, Kian.

00:12:08.560 Thanks, Stephen.

00:12:09.720 And that was Kian Bexte in Calgary.

00:12:12.300 Keep it here, folks.

00:12:13.140 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:12:26.800 Thank you again, Kian Bexte in Calgary.

00:12:56.800 Kian Bexte in Calgary.

00:13:26.800 Other than Rex Murphy and Conrad Black, there's not much difference between the Post and the Toronto Star anymore.

00:13:47.220 And I tell you this because you're not going to believe this.

00:13:51.920 The decision to ban us yesterday was made by the National Post.

00:13:57.500 I'm serious.

00:13:58.640 Here's the two-line letter they sent our lawyers banning Sheila and Kian.

00:14:03.060 I'll read you the whole thing.

00:14:04.000 It's sent from a National Post email during office hours by a National Post employee signing it as a National Post employee.

00:14:12.980 Let me read it.

00:14:13.780 From Tyler Dawson, tdawson at postmedia.com, to Michael Swanberg and Kelly Clark.

00:14:21.160 Those are our Edmonton lawyers.

00:14:22.700 Subject, application by Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kian Bexte to join the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery.

00:14:29.900 Good morning.

00:14:31.620 I have been elected as president of the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery Association as of our annual general meeting this morning.

00:14:37.920 I'm writing to inform you that the gallery has voted to reject the applications of Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kian Bexte of the Rebel News Network Limited for membership to the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery Association.

00:14:50.120 Take care.

00:14:51.480 Tyler Dawson, Alberta correspondent, National Post.

00:14:55.180 Here's Tyler Dawson.

00:14:59.000 He's exactly what I'd expect him to look like.

00:15:01.680 He was one of the National Post leftists who signed that letter demanding that Rex Murphy not be allowed to write conservative things.

00:15:09.120 Now he's trying to censor us.

00:15:11.360 You can read his letter for yourself at LetUsReport.com.

00:15:14.200 In fact, can I recommend you click on over to LetUsReport.com?

00:15:17.660 Because this story has actually been percolating for a month.

00:15:20.820 There have been a lot of lawyers' letters going back and forth behind the scenes before now.

00:15:25.580 We didn't publicize this because we didn't want to make a fuss.

00:15:28.340 We just wanted access to the public legislature to do our jobs as journalists.

00:15:33.000 I don't know what the National Post has to do with that.

00:15:36.080 We didn't want to fight with them.

00:15:37.760 We just wanted to report on the politicians there.

00:15:40.680 But as you can see, we won't be allowed to because the National Post says so.

00:15:46.600 Wow, I remember the glory days of the National Post when it was launched by founder Conrad Black back in October 1998.

00:15:54.240 It was a great read.

00:15:56.180 And full disclosure, I freelanced for every section of the Post for at least a decade.

00:16:02.640 That National Post was unapologetically right of center and conservative and a champion for freedom of speech and freedom of expression and, of course, freedom of the press.

00:16:12.400 But to paraphrase that Oldsmobile ad tagline from the 1980s, this is not your father's National Post.

00:16:20.420 This current post is not about going to bat for freedom, but rather a rag that embraces cancel culture.

00:16:27.640 Again, wow.

00:16:29.200 And without further ado, here is the Commander-in-Chief himself, Ezra Levent.

00:16:33.040 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.

00:16:34.620 Thanks very much, David.

00:16:35.480 You know, I love the National Post also.

00:16:37.060 In fact, I worked for them on their editorial board for two years.

00:16:40.140 And even after I left, I continued to write op-eds for them, maybe even a hundred.

00:16:45.000 I'd have to add it up.

00:16:46.320 But they're really the newspaper I love the most because of those early days, that spirit, that conservative, freedom-loving spirit to be contrarian.

00:16:55.480 When I worked there, I had a catchphrase of my own when I was in an editorial board meeting and we were arguing which approach to take.

00:17:04.180 My zinger was always, we already have a Globe and Mail in Canada.

00:17:07.880 As in, we don't need two.

00:17:10.640 Yes.

00:17:11.000 And that was always a way to shake people, oh, yeah, right, we can be different.

00:17:14.740 We don't have to follow the other guys.

00:17:16.640 So the National Post is 22 years old now.

00:17:19.580 It'll be 22 in October.

00:17:20.880 And congratulations to it.

00:17:22.740 But you know what?

00:17:23.880 It's an awful lot thinner than it used to be.

00:17:25.740 And I guess every newspaper is.

00:17:27.680 But if it was thin but quality, so much of it is what's called wire copy, just sort of generic stuff written by other journalists and other newspapers that they just put in.

00:17:38.500 They pay a very small fee because a hundred newspapers print the same thing.

00:17:42.500 It's just filler.

00:17:44.240 There are a couple of great voices there, Rex Murphy and Conrad Black himself, and a few others.

00:17:49.320 My old friend Terry Corcoran still writes sometimes.

00:17:51.660 But you know what?

00:17:52.080 You can count on one finger's hands the quality conservatives there.

00:17:55.880 The rest of it, it's really gone cancel culture.

00:17:58.100 Remember, this is a place where 30 of their active reporters signed a letter denouncing Rex Murphy.

00:18:03.560 So it's rotten to the bone.

00:18:04.380 To their top talent.

00:18:05.380 They denounce him.

00:18:06.100 Unbelievable.

00:18:06.780 So as are two questions then.

00:18:08.940 A, what happened to the National Post in recent years?

00:18:12.660 And B, who in blue hell is Tyler Dawson?

00:18:15.920 Well, I think the National Post just forgot the old saying, personnel is policy.

00:18:21.280 If you start hiring the woke leftist grads out of Ryerson Journalism School, don't be surprised if you do that for three, four, five, six, ten years, that that is who you become.

00:18:35.700 And the National Post has hired a bunch of woke millennials.

00:18:40.620 We hire conservative millennials here at Rebel News because we believe it's important.

00:18:45.420 But why aren't they hiring the conservative millennials? 0.94

00:18:47.620 I don't know.

00:18:48.380 I don't really know.

00:18:49.340 Well, I think it's because they used to be run by a man who cared about ideas, Conrad Black.

00:18:53.960 Now they're owned by a New Jersey hedge fund called Chatham Asset Management.

00:18:59.880 Most people don't know that.

00:19:01.760 The National Post and all the post-media newspapers, so Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Regina Leader Post, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Montreal Gazette, so many newspapers, and those are just the big dailies.

00:19:15.860 They're owned by a hedge fund in New Jersey, and I got nothing against New Jersey, love the place.

00:19:20.200 But they don't care about ideas, they care about money.

00:19:23.800 And so...

00:19:25.340 Well, they're not going to make money with that dead dog with fleas. 1.00

00:19:28.520 Well, except for, actually, they are the number one recipient of Justin Trudeau's bailout.

00:19:33.880 There you go.

00:19:34.220 They get $140,000 per week.

00:19:36.400 So there really is only one reader they care about now, and it's Justin Trudeau.

00:19:40.760 So, listen, I like the post still, but they've started doing mean things to us.

00:19:46.080 They've started stealing our work.

00:19:47.420 For example, Kian Bexte flew to Winnipeg, did some photojournalism.

00:19:51.220 So we had to fly him out there.

00:19:52.420 We paid Kian. 0.98

00:19:53.240 He did the work.

00:19:53.960 He had the initiative.

00:19:54.820 And they just stole his photo and used it in their own media.

00:19:59.940 And I wrote to them.

00:20:00.580 I was very...

00:20:01.480 I made a big fuss.

00:20:03.000 And they said, oh, sorry, sorry.

00:20:04.480 I'll never do it again.

00:20:06.100 But then, again, with Kian, actually, he was traveling to Vancouver, got some great video

00:20:10.580 footage of himself being attacked by Jonathan Yaniv.

00:20:13.260 It was crazy footage.

00:20:14.520 And it's just...

00:20:17.060 I just want to let you...

00:20:17.800 I'm going to describe this so you know it couldn't have been an accident.

00:20:20.700 They took the video that we produced.

00:20:23.580 They downloaded it.

00:20:24.900 Yeah.

00:20:25.740 Stripped off our marks, like our little in the corner that's something that says Rebel News.

00:20:29.340 That's called a bug.

00:20:30.380 That little...

00:20:30.740 It looks like a tiny little bug in the corner.

00:20:33.800 Removed our bug.

00:20:35.840 Reuploaded it to their own website with their own post-media branding on it and sold ads on it.

00:20:42.020 So they literally...

00:20:43.280 So it couldn't have been an accident or a whoopsie to download ours, strip our markings off it,

00:20:48.740 reupload it with their markings, and sell ads.

00:20:51.060 A video that we probably, if you add it all up, spent $2,000 to make.

00:20:55.800 These are the big bullies.

00:20:57.460 And that's how they treat us, a competitor.

00:20:59.380 And let me close with...

00:21:00.240 Oh, go ahead.

00:21:00.720 Oh, two things about that, Ezra.

00:21:02.260 So not only do they steal our stuff and use it in an unauthorized fashion,

00:21:07.460 they don't even give us credit.

00:21:09.560 They don't say courtesy of Rebel News.

00:21:11.260 Yeah.

00:21:11.560 Secondly, what just stuns me here is that if we're, for whatever reason, not worthy enough,

00:21:19.320 at least in Tyler Dawson's eyes, to walk into the Alberta legislature and report,

00:21:24.400 how is it that us, the unworthy, the untouchables, are producing content

00:21:29.920 that they are ripping off and monetizing for themselves?

00:21:33.980 Exactly.

00:21:34.560 I mean, they've got to pick a lane.

00:21:36.360 Either we're terrible, terrible, terrible journalists who should never be allowed anywhere,

00:21:40.140 or we're great journalists so great they want to steal our stuff, which is illegal, by the way,

00:21:46.000 and we're suing them.

00:21:46.940 Now, I filed the lawsuit against them for the copyright theft in January in Toronto,

00:21:51.960 but I didn't even tell anyone.

00:21:53.040 I mean, obviously, I served the lawsuit on Post Media, but I didn't make a fuss about it,

00:21:56.900 because I thought, I don't need to go to war against the National Post.

00:22:00.860 It was clearly not the president of the company who made that decision.

00:22:04.140 It was probably some photo editor or someone.

00:22:06.320 So I didn't make a huge fuss about it.

00:22:07.620 I don't even think I told you.

00:22:08.540 Maybe I did in a staff meeting, but I didn't make a fuss about it.

00:22:11.720 But they just keep doing it.

00:22:13.940 And then what happened on this week, we applied to be a member of the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery,

00:22:20.380 which is just what it sounds.

00:22:22.040 It gives you access to the building to interview the premier, the opposition leader, the MLAs.

00:22:28.800 I don't know why we need the permission of our competitors to get into the building.

00:22:32.900 It's not their building.

00:22:33.860 We don't have anything to do with our competitors.

00:22:35.460 We just want Sheila Gunn-Reed and Kean Bexley to be able to walk into the building.

00:22:40.100 And the press gallery, for some reason, controls the little passes that you have.

00:22:44.760 So we just apply to them and say, hey, can we get a pass?

00:22:46.740 I don't know why we have to talk to our rivals, competitors, and people we're suing for that permission.

00:22:52.420 But I thought, well, maybe they don't like me.

00:22:54.360 So I had the friendliest lawyers in Alberta write the letter.

00:22:58.180 I know you're thinking, that's a joke.

00:22:59.300 No, it's not.

00:23:00.240 There's a law firm in Alberta that represents all the journalists of Alberta whenever they're sued.

00:23:04.240 They only do defense work for journalists.

00:23:06.560 So they're well-loved by journalists because they always defend freedom.

00:23:09.960 Fred Kozak is the senior lawyer.

00:23:11.620 There's other lawyers.

00:23:12.720 And he really is one of the nicest men you'll ever meet.

00:23:15.840 And he's like a guardian angel for journalists.

00:23:18.160 So I thought, you know, if Fred and his company, Reynolds Murth, write this letter, really friendly, just laying it out and saying, hey, here's a little bit about Kean.

00:23:27.600 Here's a little bit about Sheila.

00:23:28.720 Can you give them a pass?

00:23:30.040 My name isn't even on there because maybe they don't like me or something.

00:23:33.380 So I thought, let's have the friendliest pro-media law firm write the friendliest letter, just saying, hey, guys, got a couple of journalists, Kean and Sheila, they're good guys.

00:23:42.640 So the whole goal there was to lower the temperature and not pick a fight.

00:23:46.840 That's why, I mean, I could have written the letter myself.

00:23:48.600 Sheila and Kean could.

00:23:49.360 But I thought, let's have the friend to all this law firm.

00:23:53.140 Well, they ignored it.

00:23:54.840 So the law firm wrote again.

00:23:56.440 They ignored it.

00:23:57.160 So I think the law firm wrote a third time that we're spending money on this.

00:24:01.980 And then we get this email out of the blue from this character named Tyler Dawson, who I didn't really know much about him, but I Googled him.

00:24:10.020 And he just hates Rebel News and me and Kean.

00:24:13.580 I don't even know why.

00:24:14.680 I don't know if I've ever even encountered him in my life.

00:24:18.220 Maybe I have, but I certainly have forgotten him if I have.

00:24:20.700 So he's had this five-year vendetta against us.

00:24:23.280 And that's fine.

00:24:23.780 I mean, I don't care.

00:24:24.600 But for him to be the judge of whether or not we can walk into the legislature building and put a microphone to Jason Kenney, why would he be the judge?

00:24:34.120 So here's what we did.

00:24:35.420 When we got this letter from Tyler Dawson of Post Media, on Post Media, stationary is not the word, but it said Tyler Dawson, Post Media.

00:24:45.000 It was from his Post Media email account sent during work hours.

00:24:49.440 So it was very clearly a Post Media thing, and it had to do with Post Media's business, journalism.

00:24:54.740 So we served notice on Tyler Dawson and Post Media's Toronto lawyers that we're going to sue them not for being mean, not for, well, I'll tell you what for, for violating the Competition Act.

00:25:10.240 Because, I don't know.

00:25:10.820 That's serious.

00:25:11.680 It's extremely serious.

00:25:13.760 Five years ago, there were two major newspaper chains in English Canada.

00:25:18.100 There was the Sun, and there was, it had different names, Can West, Southam, Post Media, whatever.

00:25:24.300 So, for example, in Calgary, the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun were rivals.

00:25:28.900 In Edmonton, the Edmonton Journal and the Edmonton Sun were rivals.

00:25:32.520 Post Media bought out the Sun newspapers.

00:25:37.220 So now, both newspapers in the big cities are owned by the same company, and the National Post.

00:25:43.260 So the top five newspapers in Alberta, which give a simulation of competition, they're all owned by the same company, Post Media.

00:25:50.920 And frankly, they all run almost identical stuff.

00:25:53.400 So they needed the government's permission for that kind of anti-competitive merger.

00:25:58.080 It would be like if Coke bought out Pepsi.

00:26:00.060 Actually, it's not the same, because who cares if Coke buys out Pepsi?

00:26:03.980 I mean, really.

00:26:04.960 But if your sources of news and opinion in one town are all controlled by the same guy, a New York hedge fund, the New Jersey hedge fund, there's a problem.

00:26:13.600 So the Competition Bureau had a five-month investigation into Post Media's plans to buy out the Sun.

00:26:20.040 And that's a very long, that's like an audit.

00:26:22.760 Imagine being audited for five months.

00:26:25.260 That's not pleasant.

00:26:26.240 And the Competition Bureau said, we will permit this only because of four things.

00:26:34.060 That there are digital competitors to Post Media.

00:26:38.380 That's us, David.

00:26:40.060 That there are free daily newspapers that are competitors.

00:26:43.220 Well, they're already gone, David.

00:26:44.600 And there were a couple other reasons.

00:26:46.460 But so it was, I won't say it was a grudging approval, but it was, all right, this is very anti-competitive.

00:26:52.060 But as long as these four things are there, maybe it's okay.

00:26:55.820 Well, Post Media, by stealing our stuff, by engaging, by refusing to deal with our intellectual property claims, by being bullies corporately.

00:27:05.660 I'm not talking about hurting my feelings.

00:27:07.020 I'm talking about stealing our stuff.

00:27:08.840 And then finally, by presiding over the press gallery that bans us.

00:27:13.660 That is the, that's almost a dictionary definition of being a cartel, a trust, as it's sometimes called, an anti-competitive club.

00:27:24.300 And look, I really don't care what Post Media does.

00:27:26.660 I mean, I'm sad that they've become a super thin, liberal, woke thing.

00:27:31.060 But that's not my business.

00:27:32.880 I'm not a subscriber.

00:27:33.780 I don't care.

00:27:34.220 But for them to say, hey, Rebel News, this up-and-coming competitor, we are going to ban you from our place of business without any explanation, without any due process.

00:27:46.240 We're not going to invite you to the trial of you.

00:27:48.740 The guy who's going to preside over this is a longtime hater.

00:27:51.860 I wasn't familiar with Tyler Dawson.

00:27:54.260 Google his Twitter account.

00:27:55.320 He's been hating on the Rebel for years.

00:27:57.620 So he's the judge.

00:27:59.440 That's, so we wrote a letter to their Toronto-based, high-priced Competition Bureau lawyer, I think her name is Catherine Kaye or something, at Stikeman Elliott.

00:28:11.220 That's, that's a big shot.

00:28:12.880 And we wrote a letter saying, this is exactly what you promised the Competition Bureau you would not do.

00:28:19.880 Get ready to rumble.

00:28:21.400 And, you know what, if I was post-media, first of all, they're, they're, they're losing money all the time.

00:28:28.240 So I don't know if they need another lawsuit.

00:28:29.920 But it's not even the money.

00:28:32.820 They're breaking the law by banning.

00:28:35.500 It would be like, well, I mean, there's a lot of anti-competitive business out there.

00:28:39.380 Amazon, the way it tries to shut down rivals, it's destroying the book industry.

00:28:43.600 But at least that's just through offering lower prices and better service.

00:28:47.780 I mean, we use Amazon to buy and sell stuff.

00:28:50.700 We're not compelled to.

00:28:52.480 It's just, well, it's cheaper and it's faster.

00:28:55.580 Post-media isn't saying, hey, customers of news, hey, news readers, we're cheaper, faster, better, smarter than rebels, so come over to us.

00:29:04.120 That's not really being monopolistic.

00:29:05.920 That's just being the best in the marketplace.

00:29:08.260 What post-media did was illegal anti-competitive behavior.

00:29:11.240 They said, we are going to ban you from physically walking into the legislature.

00:29:18.560 And we're not even going to give you any reason.

00:29:20.460 We're not even going to tell you how we came to the decision.

00:29:22.840 We're banning you.

00:29:23.980 Ha ha. 1.00

00:29:24.560 Sucks to be you. 0.98

00:29:25.620 Sorry, guys. 0.98

00:29:26.900 We'll see you at the competition, Bureau.

00:29:29.460 Get ready to lose.

00:29:31.400 And I call that playing with fire.

00:29:33.560 And exit question, Ezra, because we're up against the clock here.

00:29:37.360 I'm curious, behind the scenes, was this decision made by this Tyler Dawson, who is pretty low down on the post-media totem pole, I would imagine?

00:29:47.420 Or was there an executive, a publisher of post-media that said, oh, no, no, the rebel journalists do not get in?

00:29:54.380 What do you think it is?

00:29:55.520 Because if it was Tyler Dawson acting unilaterally, I mean, how did he even think he had the authority to do this in the first place?

00:30:04.300 Well, because the legislature press gallery, just like the parliamentary press gallery, they pick and choose favorites all the time.

00:30:10.160 I mean, the federal press gallery has banned rebel, but they accredit Xinhua and the People's Daily.

00:30:16.900 Those are two Communist Party of China outlets.

00:30:20.640 So what is that all about?

00:30:23.040 To answer your question, I don't know for sure, but I would think it's just the culture of the media.

00:30:28.360 I call it the media party.

00:30:29.760 I mean, I've been using that term for years.

00:30:31.780 I think they just think that they're better than us, and this is how they've always gotten away with it.

00:30:36.920 So, of course, and of course, the rebel is bad people, and of course, we'll do this with impunity.

00:30:43.100 I don't believe there was a big boss at post-media who said do this.

00:30:48.760 But it is extremely clear that there's a culture at post-media.

00:30:52.560 Listen, the same people that stole Kean's photograph, the same people that stole Kean's video, downloaded it, re-uploaded it with their own branding.

00:30:59.480 I'm not saying that was directed by the king of post-media down there in Chatham, New Jersey.

00:31:05.680 Of course not.

00:31:07.300 You know, you're a vulture fund manager in New Jersey.

00:31:10.440 You don't care about Canada at all.

00:31:11.900 You can't find Canada on the map.

00:31:13.540 You're just interested in dollars.

00:31:15.120 So, yeah, the boss of post-media down there in New Jersey, he didn't orchestrate it, but there's a culture of do what we want.

00:31:21.900 We're the biggest game in town.

00:31:23.200 As long as we please Justin Trudeau, we'll get our $140,000 a week. 0.99

00:31:26.960 The rebel are a bunch of losers because they're not cool like us. 0.97

00:31:30.460 And steal what you can from them because even if they sue, good luck. 1.00

00:31:34.640 We've got to bank a lawyer.

00:31:35.520 So, you know what?

00:31:36.360 I want to see some justice.

00:31:37.840 And in the meantime, I've called on all my friends to send a message to post-media that, sorry, that's not cool to be part of the cancel culture.

00:31:45.400 So, guys, if you are a subscriber to post-media, and I say this as an almost day one employee there.

00:31:52.280 I wasn't there exactly on the first day, but I was there 99 to 2001, very early days, 20 years ago.

00:31:57.600 I love that place.

00:31:58.620 I love Conrad Black.

00:31:59.580 I love Rex Murphy.

00:32:01.700 I love a handful of the early days, guys.

00:32:05.160 But that ain't, it ain't your father's, that's supposed to anymore.

00:32:08.340 Call 416-383-2500.

00:32:12.860 You have the phone number.

00:32:14.160 Well, I used to work there.

00:32:15.400 I used to work there.

00:32:16.120 That's fantastic.

00:32:16.680 So, that's the phone, 416-383-2500 during office hours.

00:32:21.400 Now, you'll get an automatic answering machine.

00:32:23.600 You've got to press zero to talk to someone.

00:32:25.120 Please don't be mean.

00:32:26.620 The person who answers the phone is probably the most honest person in the whole shop.

00:32:30.060 And just say, look, we're canceling our National Post subscription because you guys are being, not being conservative.

00:32:36.040 You're being bullies.

00:32:36.740 You're being censors.

00:32:37.860 You're shutting down your competitors.

00:32:39.980 And you know what?

00:32:40.720 It's over $300 a year to be a subscriber to the National Post.

00:32:43.720 You don't need that.

00:32:44.420 Why don't you put some of that money in your pocket?

00:32:47.280 Subscribe to Rebel if you want.

00:32:49.080 Or, you know, frankly, you can read Rex Murphy's column on the internet for free.

00:32:54.620 That's pretty much all that's left in that paper.

00:32:56.840 And I know I'm sounding sort of tough, but these people are literally trying to put us out of business.

00:33:03.340 When you say to reporters, you cannot go to the place to do your work, how is that different than a ban on working?

00:33:13.060 I mean, of course, they can work from their home.

00:33:14.860 But we want to go to the legislature where the politicians are, where the news is, where the press conferences are.

00:33:19.560 And some nobody, Tyler Dawson, says, no, you can't, and I'm not going to tell you why.

00:33:26.440 Well, who even asked you?

00:33:27.620 Well, the answer is we ask them because they control the passes.

00:33:29.760 I will sue until I'm dead to win this.

00:33:35.100 I will put, because this strikes to the very core of freedom of the press.

00:33:39.740 And some loser at Post Media, where I used to work as a loyal and productive employee, is telling me I can't work today.

00:33:49.060 Tell it to a judge, buddy. 0.62

00:33:50.740 Well, Ezra, on that note, I'm just going to pat myself on the back.

00:33:53.680 I was ahead of the curve.

00:33:54.620 I canceled my subscription in 2018.

00:33:57.040 And folks like Ezra said, yeah, politely cancel your subscription and tell them the reason why.

00:34:01.700 And as for the people running the National Post, that ain't the National Post anymore.

00:34:05.820 How about a rebranding of your newspaper?

00:34:08.600 How about regional compost?

00:34:11.460 That comes to mind.

00:34:12.880 Keep it here.

00:34:13.460 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:34:20.600 Hey, Jonathan, you need.

00:34:22.800 What brings you to Toronto?

00:34:26.280 What brings you to Toronto?

00:34:27.680 Have you been catfished?

00:34:31.240 Why were you going to a hotel to meet a miner?

00:34:34.420 Can you call 911?

00:34:36.140 Oh, absolutely.

00:34:37.340 Call 911 if you want.

00:34:39.400 So, Jonathan, why were you going to a hospital here?

00:34:42.580 I knew it.

00:34:43.020 Just back here.

00:34:44.960 Just back here.

00:34:46.120 Jonathan, are you still stalking miners?

00:34:48.760 Just back here.

00:34:50.340 Are you still stalking miners?

00:34:51.700 You know what you do?

00:34:52.280 You go?

00:34:52.920 You have to leave a space.

00:34:54.380 Oh, I do?

00:34:55.140 Yeah.

00:34:55.460 That is the 6th.

00:34:56.380 Or what?

00:34:57.080 You're going to ram your iPad into my neck again? 0.58

00:34:59.400 That is the 6th. 0.61

00:34:59.460 That is the 6th.

00:34:59.480 That is the 6th.

00:34:59.600 That is the 6th.

00:35:00.040 Mama Yaniv.

00:35:00.680 That is the 6th.

00:35:02.260 So, Jonathan, what brings you to Toronto?

00:35:04.460 You cannot come.

00:35:05.200 You flew all the way to Toronto from British Columbia to stalk a child? 1.00

00:35:11.880 You're crazy. 0.98

00:35:12.880 Why are you going to a hospital to meet somebody you've never met? 1.00

00:35:15.820 It's none of your business.

00:35:17.120 It's none of my business?

00:35:18.240 No, it's none.

00:35:18.680 Why are you aiding and abetting this person?

00:35:21.420 I don't hear.

00:35:22.280 You understand?

00:35:23.260 Huh?

00:35:23.680 You understand that you're going to be arrested.

00:35:26.220 Oh, am I?

00:35:27.100 Yes.

00:35:27.360 For practicing journalism?

00:35:29.580 You will be.

00:35:30.420 Yeah.

00:35:31.840 That's interesting.

00:35:32.940 I need police immediately.

00:35:34.180 I just want to be for you.

00:35:35.100 Yeah.

00:35:36.660 Jonathan, why are you preying on miners?

00:35:38.760 Why are you calling Jonathan when you know she's a girl?

00:35:42.960 Why are you calling Jonathan?

00:35:44.860 Why are you discriminating against gender?

00:35:47.420 You just said he and him.

00:35:49.740 Why are you humiliating?

00:35:51.100 You just said he and him.

00:35:52.380 Why are you humiliating?

00:35:54.420 You know exactly what her name is.

00:35:55.100 But you just used the male pronouns.

00:35:56.840 You know what her name is.

00:35:58.560 You just used the male pronouns.

00:36:01.560 You know.

00:36:02.780 You know what her name is.

00:36:05.820 You know what her name is.

00:36:06.820 Why is he preying on miners?

00:36:08.520 You're not going to embarrass him.

00:36:11.120 Yes.

00:36:11.400 You don't come close to him.

00:36:12.680 Huh?

00:36:12.860 You know me.

00:36:13.760 You're not coming close to him.

00:36:14.320 Oh, you just called him him.

00:36:16.060 Go away.

00:36:16.380 Go away from me.

00:36:17.300 You just called him him.

00:36:18.640 Go away.

00:36:19.280 I'm not touching you.

00:36:20.420 Go away from me.

00:36:20.980 I'm not touching you.

00:36:21.780 Right now.

00:36:22.280 I'm on a public sidewalk, sir.

00:36:23.680 I'm not touching you.

00:36:24.340 There's COVID restrictions.

00:36:25.640 I'm asking you nicely.

00:36:26.680 Yeah, I'm walking backwards.

00:36:28.180 You're walking towards me.

00:36:29.440 You don't have a right to harass him.

00:36:31.240 Go away. 0.96

00:36:31.880 Ma'am, this is a predator. 0.91

00:36:33.200 You don't have a right to harass him.

00:36:35.200 I am.

00:36:36.300 They're walking to me.

00:36:37.560 Why did you travel 3,000 miles to meet a minor at SickKids Hospital?

00:36:41.520 You can blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:36:46.980 I know.

00:36:47.480 It's called freedom of speech.

00:36:48.060 I need to.

00:36:48.640 Blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:36:49.200 Yeah.

00:36:49.540 It is called freedom of speech.

00:36:52.020 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:36:53.940 Her name is Jessica. 0.99

00:36:55.460 What kind of genitalia does he have? 1.00

00:36:57.620 What the f**k is your problem? 1.00

00:36:59.620 What kind of genitalia do I have? 1.00

00:37:01.740 Hey, carny fans. 0.99

00:37:03.140 Don't despair that The Freak Show has been canceled due to political correctness.

00:37:07.380 I mean, hey, who needs to gaze upon Lobster Boy or the bearded lady when you've got Jonathan and Mama Yaniv crisscrossing Canada these days on their gender bender tour? 0.99

00:37:18.640 Here's the back story. We were tipped off by a source that Jonathan had been catfished.

00:37:24.160 In other words, someone had fabricated a completely fake personality.

00:37:29.640 She told Yaniv she was flying to Toronto with her sick daughter.

00:37:33.040 She also told Yaniv not to go to Toronto and to leave her alone.

00:37:38.620 But apparently being able to visit a little girl while confined to a hospital bed was irresistible bait for Yaniv. 0.87

00:37:47.300 And so it was that Yaniv communicated with this person to state that he too was en route from Vancouver to Toronto Sick Kids Hospital to see them as well.

00:37:57.920 Now, keep in mind, Yaniv had never met the woman he was texting with.

00:38:03.420 He had never spoken on the phone. He had never seen a video.

00:38:07.780 All he was going on was one fake photograph.

00:38:11.820 But apparently that was good enough for him to hop aboard a plane for a cross-Canada journey with Mama in tow to boot.

00:38:20.860 How sick is that?

00:38:22.920 In any event, here's what you had to say about the latest exploits of the yucky Yanivs. 1.00

00:38:29.380 Penguin Queen writes,

00:38:31.100 I don't understand why someone would set up a fake relationship with Yaniv but then tell them not to go.

00:38:36.920 I'm confused.

00:38:37.740 Well, Penguin Queen, I think this is what's known as the art of the con.

00:38:43.020 The sort of proposition that would make Tom Sawyer blush.

00:38:46.120 You set up a premise that is alluring to Yaniv, i.e. that there is a female child confined to a hospital bed and then you tell them do not come.

00:38:56.700 So there is an element of forbidden fruit here making the bait all the more irresistible for this sick puppy.

00:39:03.800 It's absolutely nauseating but thank God this child is indeed a fictional construct.

00:39:09.400 Zephyr Sky writes,

00:39:11.400 I'm so proud of Rebel for only calling Yaniv a he.

00:39:15.360 Well, thank you, Zephyr.

00:39:16.620 Hey, I'm just calling it like I see it, like the umpire behind home plate. 0.96

00:39:20.780 If this thing has male genitals, well, in the words of Austin Powers, 0.99

00:39:25.060 it's a man, man. 0.99

00:39:27.040 And I just don't care what this thing identifies as.

00:39:31.100 I just really don't.

00:39:32.560 And Hope Bernava writes,

00:39:36.080 I love that he's dropping toiletries from a hotel as he runs away.

00:39:40.520 Yeah, me too because, you know, whenever I check into a hotel, I always steal some rolls of toilet paper.

00:39:47.140 You never know if your plane might be diverted to Venezuela, for example.

00:39:52.660 Hey, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:39:55.540 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:39:56.980 See you next week.

00:39:57.780 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:40:01.800 Good night.

00:40:02.560 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - August 01, 2020

Rebel Roundup： Pipeline blockades in BC, Suing Postmedia, Yaniv in Toronto

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