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00:08:08.100But this is why I'm saying I'm calling BS on these polls that indicate this is not a conservative landslide anymore, but a photo finish horse race.
00:10:57.980So, like you, I was bombarded, you know, trying to get through a room like that to the media stage after doing some interviews.
00:11:05.060There was somebody leading me to the stage, you know, where the mainstream media was as well.
00:11:11.960And, like, I couldn't keep up with them because too many people are saying, hey, I love you, love Rebel News, love the work you guys are doing.
00:11:17.820And so, it's so amazing because, like you said, like you pointed out, we don't always get the love.
00:14:19.540Jealousy of never being able to control the TV during those times.
00:14:23.040But the first thing that came to mind to me was, you remember during COVID, the politicians, they would do the elbows to each other instead of like shaking hands and stuff.
00:14:33.240So, I was just like, oh, it's so fitting.
00:16:08.860I remember some RCMP goon picking you up like you were a little China doll and moving you away from the anointed one, Justin Trudeau, coming along.
00:19:17.700The party can pick who they want to pick and put forth.
00:19:20.860I will agree, though, out here in British Columbia, that it is accurate to say that there were a lot of grassroots who were upset about the candidate selection.
00:19:30.460So, I don't think that part of the question is a bad thing.
00:19:34.540But it's almost like he was like, I gotcha.
00:21:10.480But when it comes to Mr. DeJong, what do you think was the unspoken strategy in overlooking him and going with this rookie 24-year-old candidate?
00:21:43.300You know, I don't know what their strategy was.
00:21:44.880He was, you know, perhaps this young 24-year-old is more connected to some other sector that they think is more valuable.
00:21:54.000But I don't know if they anticipated that he would run as an independent.
00:21:57.280Normally, that's not necessarily an easy ride.
00:22:00.320But if things are close, as the polls suggest, although I doubt they are in somewhere like Abbotsford, but if they are close, that could be a problem.
00:22:08.640We saw that before in the last election with the PPC out here.
00:22:11.700There was a couple of ridings that lost, you know, if they had the PPC votes, they would have.
00:22:18.180So there might be a little bit of remorse.
00:22:21.320You know, this is heartbreaking because I don't know the dynamics in terms of what happened to Mr. DeJong there.
00:22:31.460But I truly believe, Drea, this is the most important election, at least of my lifetime.
00:22:40.580And I think across the board, we have to put down our battle axes and do what's right for the good of the country.
00:22:50.680And for me, I don't think there's any other alternative than being united for the Conservative Party to bring about regime change.
00:22:59.680It would be sad if these, you know, couple of ridings across the country, be it a popular independent, the PPC siphoning off some right of centre votes, if that's what costs Poliev a majority government or a government period.
00:23:20.000That's how passionate I feel about this election.
00:23:24.880Well, you know, I have much respect for Maxine Bernier and everything he did to fight during lockdowns.
00:23:35.660And I think that that should weigh a lot into people's decision on what is a practicality in this election when the Pierre Poliev Conservatives are now, you know, saying that they're going to do most of what he fought for or what he was advocating for is the PPC.
00:23:55.260They say that they're going to put some control on the immigration, make sure that it doesn't outpace us.
00:24:01.160They say that they're going to ban vaccine mandates.
00:24:03.900He even came out and said, I only know two genders.
00:24:07.560I mean, when you look at that and you look at, you know, Mr. Bernier hasn't been able to get a seat.
00:25:33.180That was probably when I first started paying attention to politics.
00:25:37.780Maxine Bernier was probably one of the first people I followed.
00:25:41.940And I think it probably could have been different, and we saw that for sure it was detrimental to the party, what ended up happening because of all of that.
00:25:50.800So, yeah, that's the thing in politics.
00:25:53.020You make one move, and it could make things crumble.
00:25:55.720We saw that in British Columbia, too, if you look at the history of why the BC Conservatives rised the way they did.
00:26:03.600You've got to be careful which way you step.
00:26:05.980Yeah, you know, I mean, I'm of two minds.
00:26:09.520And, again, we'll never know unless we can invent time travel.
00:26:14.120But I think it's likely Bernier would have carried the day.
00:26:20.460On the flip side, would Bernier, as the head of the Conservatives, would he have been so outspoken on so many of the issues that, you know, because I think that's one of the problems.
00:26:34.680If you become a leader of a mainstream party, you've got to rein it in a bit.
00:26:38.680And I don't know if Mr. Bernier would do so.
00:26:43.700And I think, Drea, if he didn't do so, I think there's enough appetite out there of Canadians to embrace a politician like a Maxine Bernier who says what he means and means what he says.
00:26:56.820That's what Rob Ford, our dearly departed Toronto mayor, used to do.
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00:29:35.640Explain why, because I think the two things, gun ownership and voting for the Liberals, are completely incompatible.
00:30:31.060But, you know, Drea, it's very interesting.
00:30:33.260We were, that's to say, Leapin' Link and Jay and I were kicked out of the Carney event, even though we were welcomed in as media, and they very, very quickly had buyer's remorse.
00:30:42.620There's no reason given, but as, so we had to do streeters from a public sidewalk, and it's very interesting.
00:30:49.440I was asking some of the Liberal diehards coming to the rally, what do you make of this photo of Mr. Carney and Ms. Maxwell, the recruiter of female talent, so to speak, for Epstein Island?
00:31:04.400And, you know, boy, did the lies run deep in the Liberal Party.
00:31:09.480One guy denounced me as fake news, saying that, you know, that that is an AI-generated photograph.
00:31:21.600He said, I think his words were along the lines of, I meet all kinds of people when I'm out and about.
00:31:27.480So, if Carney isn't saying it's AI-generated, why is this Minion saying that?
00:31:33.580But, here's my, the bigger question is this.
00:31:38.000Drea, I would bet my life that if that photo that we're all looking at right now, take Carney out and put Polyev in, and it is front page every single day.
00:31:53.240Well, it's a fine example of cognitive dissonance.
00:31:57.660Like, people these days, you know, it's so hard to change anything.
00:32:01.800When you bring them with the truth, especially, I would say, on the left, because they don't like debate, they don't like dissenting views, they just reject it and they can't see it.
00:32:35.240Andrea, what I said to that supporter is that if you can provide evidence that that is AI, I will issue a public retraction and an apology.
00:32:43.540But I know that evidence is never going to come.
00:33:30.580He plagiarized a whole speech and then lied about how he graduated.
00:33:36.300And so, you know, perhaps we're seeing the same thing here again.
00:33:40.240And it says that the National Post has provided 10 examples to Carney's campaign team.
00:33:47.020So, I think there's 10 different sort of examples in this essay where it's like it looks as though it is clearly plagiarized in his 1995 thesis for his doctorate in economics from Oxford University.
00:34:51.480He's copied everyone, except, and our friends at the NFA will point this out, absent in the plagiarism of the platform is revoking Justin Trudeau's odious gun grab.
00:35:33.880I've been calling him Chameleon Carney, because, like, as soon as, all of a sudden, he's, like, you know, like you said, copying Polyev's platform.
00:35:41.320But, you're right, and that says a lot about integrity, especially if you're using it, you know, you're not 10 years old when you don't really understand what plagiarism is or something like that.
00:35:52.420You're using it to actually graduate, so it's not surprising, though.
00:36:18.060It was very, very old people who, I assume, are getting their news from the state-sanctioned broadcaster, the CBC, and have no appetite to get into a debate on the issues.
00:36:32.160And so, when you're the Conservative Party, you're going up against two parties, the Liberal Party and the Media Party.
00:36:44.600Well, not to mention they're fighting for their existence in some ways, because Polyev, you know, previously was getting the most cheers for saying he's going to defund the CBC.
00:36:56.420So, now it's a whole new level of propaganda.
00:36:59.980Oh, you're right, Drea, because the media has skin in the game.
00:37:04.280You know, mainstream media, I hate to break it to them, it's a sunset industry.
00:37:09.460You know, they are losing listeners and viewers and readers.
00:37:14.320They can't sell the amount of advertisements they used to.
00:37:17.520What ads they do sell, and take it from me, folks, you're getting maybe 10% or 15% of what you could get for an ad a couple of decades ago.
00:37:27.240And without bailouts, you know, they don't have a business plan.
00:37:33.100You know, and it's so rich, isn't it, Drea?
00:37:34.580I love it when the snobs in the mainstream media, when we have a campaign and we ask our viewership for a donation, oh, look at Rebel News, there they go, begging again.
00:38:07.040I think it's more odious that every two weeks when you're getting paid, I've got the mainstream media taking do-re-mi out of my bank account in an involuntary fashion.
00:38:19.840And to lie about, you know, people like us, Canadians like us.
00:38:26.180Now, we have some breaking news that came in, so I think we're going to replace that with the next, the Carney thing we were going to talk about next.
00:38:33.200Breaking news coming out of the White House, I guess, President Trump discussing his conversation with our selected Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
00:38:51.860He's going through an election now, and we'll see what happens.
00:38:55.660But we are, we have Liberation Day, as you know, on April 2nd, because, and I'm not referring to Canada, but many countries have taken advantage of us, the likes of which nobody even thought was possible for many, many decades, for decades.
00:40:08.820I think Trump doesn't want Carney to become the prime minister.
00:40:14.220And I think his strategy, and I might be wrong, but this is my theory, is to look so chummy, chummy and good with Carney that people are going, wait a minute.
00:40:25.940Why are these two all of a sudden buddies now?
00:40:30.520And I think Trump is trying to poison the waters in terms of Carney support.
00:40:36.540I think that's a really good theory, but I also think my head hurts from trying to figure out what Trump thinks these things and what he's doing and why he's saying what he's saying.
00:40:47.100I mean, we know that Mark Carney is going out claiming that Pierre Polyev worships Trump, which is totally false and untrue.
00:40:55.720And, you know, shortly after that became very prevalent, we did see Trump come out and say, you know, he doesn't like Pierre Polyev basically because Polyev doesn't like him.
00:41:07.240And I think he used the word like stupidest, stupidly.
00:41:09.980So you're right, so you're right, your theory could be right where Trump is coming out and really acting like he really likes Mark Carney and he doesn't like Polyev.
00:41:21.980The language, the more respectful language, I say, I should say that you pointed out when he's referring to PM Mark Carney is consistent.
00:41:33.980Actually, that tweet that you had up to our great producers, if you scroll down just a little bit, somebody put a screenshot of when he said he spoke to Prime Minister Trudeau.
00:41:44.200And actually the language, he didn't refer to him as the governor or anything like that in there, too.
00:41:49.640He did speak the exact same way pretty much when he had a phone call with Trudeau, just like he did with Carney, if you scroll down.
00:41:58.840But what does really stand out is he says he speaks about him as though he will be the prime minister for sure coming through, which is quite interesting.
00:42:09.320But again, the mainstream media isn't going to inform their echo chamber that it feels it now looks like they're so chummy-chummy.
00:42:16.800They're not going to, you know, make that stand out to their people.
00:42:20.660No. And on the flip side, this is the opposite of diplomacy.
00:42:25.600I think when Carney says our old relationship with the U.S. based on integrated economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.
00:42:39.080Our border with the U.S., it's the longest undefended border in the history of the world.
00:42:45.920And for Carney, who doesn't even have a mandate, I mean, he's prime minister and name only, for goodness sakes, saying that this relationship is over.
00:42:58.660Well, it's very reckless conversation.
00:43:02.780I mean, let's be honest, if something really goes down, we really need the U.S.'s help.
00:43:10.740So, yeah, it's actually literally dangerous to say stuff like that, especially with someone like Trump, where you don't know.
00:43:18.020You might just be like, OK, fine, you know, I'm done with you guys.
00:43:21.300A hundred percent. And the sad fact is, look, I'm a proud Canadian like anyone else, but we need the U.S. in those realms more than the U.S. needs us.
00:43:51.420We're going to make sure that we inflict as much pain as possible to the American people without inflicting pain on the Canadian population.
00:44:03.720And that's the reason we've done two rounds of 30 billion and 30 billion.
00:44:08.420And the last 65 billion, it will hurt.
00:44:12.460I'll be very, very frank, but I've talked to a tremendous amount of people going to events.
00:44:18.540And I'm very transparent by saying we have two options here.
00:44:22.680We either roll over as a country and he runs us over 15 times and gets what he wants.
00:44:27.900Or we feel a little bit of pain and we fight like we've never fought before.
00:44:34.760Yeah, the only time I've ever seen Doug Ford fight like he's never fought before is when there's only one remaining slice of cherry cheesecake on the table.
00:44:45.840Anyway, Drea, I'm astonished by that kind of rhetoric.
00:44:50.880It didn't work earlier this month when, you know, Ford got into a game of chicken with Trump about cutting off electricity from three states.
00:44:59.820And it turns out, well, Doug Ford was pedaling a tricycle with training wheels and Trump was behind the wheel of a Hummer.
00:45:09.480And I don't mean that EV abomination General Motors sells now.
00:45:12.860I mean an old school Army Jeep fossil fuel burning Hummer.
00:45:17.100And Ford ended up in the ditch and pretty much almost took the Ontario economy with him.
00:45:24.020And you remember the rhetoric then, he's going to cut the power with a smile on his face.
00:45:30.340You know, Drea, how does someone who is an allegedly seasoned politician like Ford say stuff like that?
00:45:36.860If you had to make this threat, and correct me if I'm wrong, wouldn't you say, folks, we're backed into a corner.
00:45:44.580I don't want to do this, but there's no other option.
00:45:47.240But to let, you know, Americans freeze in the dark and he's going to be smiling during a brutal winter?
00:45:54.680You know, you hit so much on the nail there.
00:45:57.300What really stands out to me is that he is also saying we are going to inflict pain on the American people.
00:46:04.720Like he specifically targets the citizens of America rather than the state, which is just such extreme language.
00:46:13.720And to put into perspective, you know, what you're bringing up about him, we're going to cut off the electricity to the people.
00:46:21.420That is the doom and gloom sort of excuse that out here in British Columbia, our Premier David Eby is using to try to justify passing this Bill 7 bill.
00:46:35.600If you guys haven't looked into this, this is very scary for the whole country if this takes root.
00:46:41.140So please check out my reports at our website called StopEby'sPowerGrab.com.
00:46:48.500But anyways, this bill will give him complete authority over so much stuff.
00:46:53.040And he is using the example, well, what if Trump cuts off our electricity?
00:46:58.340This is why I need all of this wartime measure like power out here in British Columbia.
00:47:04.200So he's using that as a worst case scenario to need this bill to pass, to get all of this power.
00:47:11.540Meanwhile, you have Doug Ford just like, yeah, we're going to cut off the power.
00:47:25.160So you have Doug Ford out here essentially being more extreme in this economic war we're having than, you know, the so-called bad guy Donald Trump.
00:47:36.100And you know, Drea, Eby clearly subscribes to the political ideology of never let a good crisis go to waste.
00:49:30.700I think we have to take one last ad break and we have a few subjects we can choose from.
00:49:39.100What I'd like to get to is the Toronto Blue Jays in their season opener making the PR disaster of the year involving a fan's hat, if you can believe it.