Tamara Ugolini and Sheila Gunn-Reed discuss the new legislation in Nova Scotia that bans people from using public lands. Plus, we read some hate mail and fan mail. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops.
00:10:45.360He said, if your house is surrounded by woods, also stay out of those woods.
00:10:48.660Now, I don't think he can't fine you according to his legislation.
00:10:51.620But he didn't make that clear in his announcement.
00:10:54.320And then he says, like, if there's a short trail, like, you know, like 50 meters from the parking lot to the, to the lake to go fishing, you can do that.
00:11:56.400He says, well, the Crown would never pursue such absurd charges for a one week hike, would they?
00:12:02.860Checks notes, double checks, seven year custodial sentence, being sought for leech slash barber mischief trial, the longest mischief trial in Canada's history, I might add.
00:12:15.160I mean, okay, maybe the Crown would seek it, but they'd never get it.
00:12:22.080So, like, don't hold your breath, because what the government wants, they will get.
00:12:26.700And I think, I don't remember where else I saw it.
00:12:29.880I saw pastors taken away in handcuffs by the government of the premier that made it part of Canada's official foreign policy to defend people against religious persecution at the hands of the state.
00:12:44.900But, for example, I don't think Jason Kenney can go to China, given his strong condemnation when he was in Harper's cabinet over the treatment of Uyghurs and Christians by the Chinese government.
00:12:58.380And yet, first opportunity he got in Alberta, he was like, yeah, close the churches, take away Pastor James Coates in handcuffs.
00:13:06.980So, yeah, let us not forget the lessons of the last five years.
00:13:12.600Exactly. Well, and people are like, oh, well, isn't this a charter violation, right?
00:13:17.000Because we're supposed to have freedom of mobility and assembly and all these things, but not if COVID, again, taught us anything.
00:13:23.140Not if they want to invoke that reasonable clause that justifies restricting all of your previously held and thought that we had indefinitely chartered rights.
00:13:34.280So, no, this is not necessarily a charter violation because they can just justify it and use your tax dollars to do so.
00:13:49.380And that is indeed true, but so was banning you from flying across one of the largest countries on the face of the earth to visit your dying mother, which is what happened during COVID if you were unvaccinated or if you didn't want to produce your vaccination status in solidarity with people who were not.
00:14:08.140So, we can say these things are charter rights violations all they want, but they will impose them and then they might be overturned after the fact, as is the case with the Emergencies Act, right?
00:14:20.980Like, the Emergencies Act, we all knew it was unconstitutional, the use of it against peaceful protesters in the nation's capital, but that was not determined until after people's bank accounts were seized and peaceful protesters were arrested or taken out of town and left by police in minus 40 with no jackets and after grandmothers were trampled by the police horses.
00:14:45.820So, you know, by the time we figure out that this is unconstitutional, it'll be November, you know.
00:14:53.760Or of next year or three years from now.
00:14:57.940And, you know, taking out of the COVID playbook once again, the Ministry of Natural Resources has put out a post calling people to snitch on their neighbours.
00:15:07.800If you see something that looks like a violation of the burn ban or woods restrictions, please report it to us by calling and there's their number.
00:15:16.620And please remember that some people will have travel permits to go into the woods, primarily to work.
00:15:22.800So, yeah, just promoting that climate of snitching on your neighbours, but also being like, only rat on them cautiously, because some of them may have applied for our absurd travel permit to go into the woods.
00:15:42.060I mean, this is just next level, you know, as we say, climate lockdowns, COVID 2.0 was the test grounds for the next phase, which I argue is this, here and now.
00:15:55.760So, if you have to go into the woods for work, let's say you work in forestry.
00:15:58.880I would say that forestry is less intrinsically safe, it's an industry term, than fishing, because in these high fuel load areas.
00:16:15.580This is one of the things we learned about Jasper, is that the federal government let the park get so dry and the fuel load so high that they were worried that mechanical clearing would ignite the forest.
00:16:29.860Like, going in there with chainsaws and logging equipment and dozers to clear the forest would cause a spark that would ignite the forest.
00:16:41.640So, Tim Houston's nonsense doesn't make any sense to me, because if it's so dangerous that someone can't go there and cast a reel, then how could you allow logging activity in the forest also?
00:17:00.060Let me know in the comments if he's doing that, because at least that would be consistent.
00:17:04.460Like, look, I don't want that done, but at least it would be consistent.
00:17:07.580And I just think this is, governments love the taste of power.
00:17:13.600And we knew that they wouldn't want to just forget all the lessons they learned during COVID.
00:17:20.640You can get people to snitch on other people, you can ban people from traveling, you can control them and everything that they do, and lock them in doors.
00:17:31.360And here we are, doing it all over again.
00:17:43.700He took to X to post a little, I don't know if we'll play all of it, but it's about a two and a half minute video, breaking down the woods ban because it causes fire.
00:18:04.700I'm in Petersfield Provincial Park in the most tyrannical province of Canada, which is North Scotia, with my fuzzy friend Axel, where we walk pretty much every single morning.
00:18:15.540And here you can see that this area is taped off because that trail is the woods.
00:18:22.120But this area is not taped off because that's not the woods.
00:18:30.000And there is a sign here that says, trail closed due to extreme fire hazards.
00:19:18.540Half minutes of pointing out the absolute nonsensical nature of this ridiculous new legislation.
00:19:26.940You know, Sheila, as you said, it just doesn't make any sense.
00:19:29.400It was like the COVID restrictions we had here in Ontario, gatherings of five or more were not allowed.
00:19:37.740And I remember going out with my family and there was six of us and, you know, we all live in the same household.
00:19:43.680But because we were over that five or more person threshold, we had the police called on us.
00:19:50.640This was like very early days, like beginning of April 2020.
00:19:53.500We went to the local rock pebble beach to throw rocks into the water because there was quite literally nothing else to do.
00:20:01.020They also closed the forests and all of the like outdoor public outdoor spaces.
00:20:05.920And so we went down to this small little like hidden tucked away beach to throw rocks in the water with my kids who had been cooped up inside for almost a month.
00:20:14.480And which was, I guess, for their health.
00:20:18.620And someone called the police because we had six people outside during a restriction order of five people.
00:20:26.040Only five people or less were allowed to be outdoors gathering in a group.
00:20:33.860So it's like, what, we're allowed to congregate inside when we live in the house, but we're not allowed to come outside and stretch and get some fresh air.
00:20:41.900And then this is supposed to be for our health and safety.
00:20:44.960These are the things that the government does that just don't make sense at all.
00:20:49.180And then they promote you to snitch on your neighbors when they're like, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense.
00:20:56.240And then you get your snitch lines and that become overrun with these Terrans who become so empowered by the fact that they can like do their part.
00:21:09.620And it's like this moral superiority that they feel.
00:21:13.260And then the police can no longer, you know, respond to actual crime because they're having someone who's walking on the edge of a restricted forest.
00:21:23.440But that's because it butted up with the other forest that wasn't restricted.
00:23:25.620Well, and when good, well-meaning and moral superiority people call the cops to snitch on their neighbors, communism also grows.
00:23:35.060Uh, so thanks Nana Awake for your comments.
00:23:37.200The system, the system can't stay active unless people are actively participating in it.
00:23:44.220And that's why I thought, you know, those people who were, you know, for whatever reason, they chose vaccination, but they didn't participate in the vaccine passport program.
00:23:52.520They just thought, if my friends can't go out and have a drink, I'm not going either.
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00:28:50.660All right, and I see we just have a super chat to get to before we move on.
00:28:56.460I think it kind of relates to the property, the Nova Scotia government trying to infringe on people's, what they do with their property.
00:30:13.720Well, I don't have any rights to my property if I'm being forced to sell it to the government for what the government decides it's worth, or I go to jail.
00:30:22.860That's just one example of how we don't have property rights in this country.
00:30:26.660Your land can be expropriated by the municipality if they decide, oh, well, we're going to use it for something.
00:30:33.120We even see the expropriation of land being abused by the municipality saying, oh, we're going to expropriate your land, your farmland or whatever,
00:30:43.000and we'll pay you what we think it's worth, and then we are going to sell it to a developer for more money.
00:30:49.060Why? Because that high-density housing they're going to put on it is going to generate more tax revenue for the municipality.
00:30:55.420In a country with real property rights, that wouldn't happen.
00:30:59.080We just saw bank accounts being frozen during the Freedom Convoy for political opinions.
00:31:08.040Your money is your property, and it cannot be just expropriated from you for political reasons.
00:31:17.460When you're not guilty of any sort of crime, your property is just taken from you.
00:31:23.940These are all ways that Canadians do not have property rights, and in a real country, we would protect those things.
00:31:36.060I just shared the link to it in the channel if we want to show it on screen, but a homeowner in the town next to me in Port Hope is having or was having their property mandated to be acquired by the Ontario government for the second time in 20 years so that the government could expand the 401 rate along the perimeter of their property.
00:32:01.240And they were coming in saying, you know what, we don't really have a say.
00:32:04.200They actually weren't even offering them any financial compensation to take their land.
00:32:10.960It was a sliver off of their property, but their home has already been expanded onto, their property rather, has already been expanded onto once before, and it puts their house so close to this four-lane highway, which is going to be expanded into sticks.
00:32:28.920Yeah, there they are, the original time that it was expanded onto their property.
00:32:32.920So, no, we don't have property rights in this country, and for anybody who wants to check out that story, I think I did a follow-up as well, because finally after this story hit, the government actually backed off.
00:32:44.480And I think they're probably just waiting out the homeowner, because they are an elderly couple, sadly.
00:32:50.620They're just, yeah, they'll just wait them out, and then as soon as they go, they'll snatch up that entire piece of land and use it as they may.
00:32:58.820But the homeowner said, you know, it's a white elephant, and they were getting nowhere.
00:33:02.780They finally came to the media, and then the government backed off.
00:33:05.960Actually, maybe I should reach out to them, see if there's a follow-up there, because this is, you know, two years ago.
00:33:11.360Maybe something's changed, because I see them doing the clearing now for this 401 expansion, and they're going to basically put, like, a major route.
00:33:19.020But you'll see in the report, there's a bridge there that you have to go under to get to their property, and the government or the highway will be expanded there, and that will turn into a major route, an off-ramp, and their property butts right up against that newly, that proposed intersection.
00:33:39.080So, anyway, also, if we truly ever owned our property, then why do we pay taxes until we die on it, right?
00:33:47.160Because if you don't pay your taxes, they'll come in, and they'll see, you know, they'll put a lien on your property, on your house, what have you.
00:33:52.980So, if we really owned the land, then why do we perpetually pay tax on it?
00:33:57.320Yeah, well, and if you're a farmer, if you've ever tried to drain a waterway that is making your land unusable, let's say for hay,
00:34:07.340and you want to trench it, you can get in trouble for that.
00:34:12.180So, the laws in this country say that you can use the water on your own land, but you don't actually own the water, and you're not able to really,
00:34:24.140you don't have ownership of the water itself, you don't have the ability to impede public access to navigable waterways,
00:34:32.840and the government can declare anything navigable, even a seasonal runoff stream.
00:34:38.860If people want to just come onto your land to use the seasonal stream, and the government has decided that it's navigable, you can't stop them.
00:34:48.760We're still, the government water inspectors can just wander around all over your property all the time.
00:34:53.720In a real country, with real property rights, that stuff wouldn't go on.
00:34:59.140Yeah, that's what was happening to this property owner, too.
00:35:01.260The government, like the surveyors, were just coming onto his property, unannounced, without even asking, staking it, and doing various surveying,
00:35:10.320and he was really frustrated, and had really gotten nowhere.
00:35:15.240And then, of course, that's where media comes in.
00:35:17.420And so they seemed to back off for a little bit, at least temporarily, after we did that report.
00:35:22.640And, of course, I reached out to the other side, and tried to get comment.
00:35:26.360But typical bureaucracy, there's just no answers anywhere, and they'll just do as they please,
00:35:31.560and eventually hope that you give up, which most people sadly do.
00:36:10.620Our death has been predicted many, many times.
00:36:14.260But over the last 10 years, we have really, I think we've broken the system.
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00:37:25.160Heavy on the progressive, questionably conservative.
00:37:27.900Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has announced that just today, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan took the next step toward building new cross Canada pipelines that will protect our energy security.
00:37:40.420And apparently secure tens of thousands of jobs for Canadian workers.
00:37:44.840Of course, all of this is because of Trump, not because we're actually wanting to, like, develop Canadian resources and be energy independent and all these things we could have been doing and harnessing for decades.
00:37:58.400No, it's now in response to Trump taking direct aim, he says, at our economy.
00:38:03.560Canadians are uniting like never before to protect our country and our workers.
00:38:14.660Today they're taking steps and the steps are not actually action.
00:38:20.560So if you follow that link, the government is actually just releasing a request for proposal to conduct a feasibility study exploring how to best establish a new economic and energy corridor.
00:38:34.840So, like, they're not doing anything tangible to, like, break ground and get anything going now.
00:38:39.920They're just putting out a tender bid for somebody to do a survey.
00:38:53.640This is all just nonsense and talk and money wasted on an RFP because how do we get around the fact that Mark Carney has given the anti-provinces a veto over this stuff?
00:39:07.960We have British Columbia and Manitoba and Quebec have said, no, thank you.
00:39:16.920If we're going to act like a bunch of Balkan countries, okay, then let us be a Balkan country and we'll just start negotiating with the United States directly as a free and independent Alberta then.
00:39:29.760Yeah, it's so funny because he says right in there, Canadians are uniting like never before.
00:39:37.180And it's like, well, maybe you have three of the provinces on board, but where is everybody else?
00:39:41.560Because they're not united at all on this.
00:53:21.860I probably had bingo fingers just from taking their money, you know, like just yellow.
00:53:25.460But that was my first job, and it taught me work ethic and how to interact with different people, people I would never come across with in my regular life.
00:53:36.200It just sort of teaches you people skills more than anything.
00:53:39.900I feel like I already had a work ethic.
00:53:41.300I was a farm kid who wanted a job at 14.
00:53:44.220But just to interact with other people, that's an important skill that I don't think a lot of young people have these days.
00:53:51.280And just, yeah, it teaches you the people skills, how to handle customers, how to handle cash, which also I'm seeing so much more out of these kids.
00:54:01.360No, they can't get you back change without looking at the computer or at the till when it spits out how much you should be getting back.
00:54:08.500And these are skills that are very much needed, and we need to prioritize, once again, our youth having access to them.
00:54:16.620So there's another post here that I wanted to throw to you, Melissa Lansman is a provincial member of, sorry, the federal member of parliament, shadow minister.
00:55:01.420It's a pattern, and it makes you wonder why Canadians deserve answers.
00:55:06.140And this is in, she reposted, shout out to Immigration Minister Michelle Rempel-Garner's post about the liberals ceasing to update information regarding the number of people coming into Canada.
00:55:21.960It's, you know, almost five minutes, so we won't go through it.
00:55:24.660But yeah, why the bigger, broader question here is why are the liberals hiding these numbers?
00:55:29.440Right. You used to be able to know these things.
00:55:33.720And I think the one that they really want to hide from us is how many people came to this country as temporary foreign workers or temporary students and then did the old switcheroo once they got in the door or tried to and then just went missing in the system.
00:55:47.900Who got here as working down at the lube shop and then claimed refugee status from India, the world's largest democracy.
00:55:58.300And then now are waiting their hearing seven years down the road, wherein they will marry a Canadian citizen, have Canadian children who will then sponsor the entire family over from India.
00:56:11.120Yeah. And she's right. It sure makes you wonder why.
00:56:15.720And it's because they never want you to know just how bad the problem is.
00:56:19.460And Michelle Rempel-Garner has a very unique take on this because I should tell you she's an economist.
00:56:25.320And she used to serve as the Minister of Western Economic Diversification under Stephen Harper.
00:56:30.660So she is also someone who knows how labor market trends are adversely affected by over-immigration.
00:56:38.800And it's one of the things she talks about quite frequently.
00:56:41.600Um, so I think, I think Pierre Polyev has the right woman at the job for immigration and she's not scared to talk about this stuff.
00:56:50.460Like, you know, the first thing they say is you're a racist and she's, no, these people are being criminal.
00:58:10.580Is there just, uh, somewhere in this vast land, we just don't have any idea where they went to.
00:58:18.220Um, and that's another thing that, you know, Trump has been pointing out as how lackluster Canada's systems are for keeping track of people that should not be in this country and the porousness of our borders, because then they're coming to and fro.
00:58:36.980And, um, there's a story just posted yesterday that the LaSalle police caught a man trying to enter Canada from the U.S. by kayak, because there's just so many different routes that you can take to come to and from these, between these countries.
00:58:58.540Um, one of their officers made an unexpected discovery early Wednesday morning, finding a man from the U.S.
00:59:05.360And it was, like, accidental how they found him.
00:59:09.140So he was conducting commercial property checks, which travels along the river's edge of the Detroit River, and they just saw a guy in a kayak with two backpacks coming from the other side.
00:59:24.360Yeah, and, and so much for the enhanced border security when you're just stumbling upon people crossing illegally.
00:59:34.020Um, and if, you know, Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln Jays reporting out there in the Quebec border were any indication, I mean, the RCMP quite literally got stuck in a ditch while they're trying, while they're supposed to be surveying the border crossing.
00:59:49.040Um, they have the same cameras that Lincoln and Alexa put up, right?
01:00:09.740I don't think we should put as much of this on the RCMP as maybe we do, because, uh, I think they are apprehending them, but they're being told to release them into the country by immigration officials.
01:00:23.360So I think that, like, if they are apprehending him, and I think, I mean, they caught this guy in a backpack in a kayak, so, I mean, but that's just, you know, one example, but I think they, immigration officials say, okay, well, steps from here, don't detain them, ICE style, let them go and we'll give them an immigration hearing, even if they crossed into the country illegally.
01:00:49.100Like, I don't, I don't know what they're supposed to do.
01:00:53.500Yeah, that's, yeah, that's a good point.
01:00:57.080And until things start to change, and I have my severe doubts under Lina Diab that anything will, um, it's just more conversations, right?
01:01:08.540I hope, uh, the, the borders are, um, I'll have a report out hopefully later today on what he's doing.
01:01:18.220We're having more conversations as people leave on their own.
01:01:22.140With this just, uh, this morning, Caledon man, wait till we hear how Caledon he is, uh, man charges after, charged after almost $25 million worth of suspected cocaine found hidden in a truck at the Canada-U.S. border crossing.
01:02:07.040was subsequently arrested and was transferred to the custody of the RCMP.
01:02:12.460He's been since charged, uh, with importation of cocaine, possession of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
01:02:28.200I bet he is a temporary foreign worker because trucking is just filled with temporary foreign workers.
01:02:35.900Oh, and it's becoming so treacherous out on the, the highways here in Ontario.
01:02:40.520The 401, like, the, the amount of, of accidents and things that you're seeing now, um, it's actually frightening to get onto the 401 at this point, knowing also the complete racket of truck licensing that happens in this province.
01:03:01.040Uh, let's get to some of the chats and then we'll wrap up.
01:03:03.860We've got one from Cicely Bardowell, uh, who's donates just about every single day.
01:03:21.860I get, I would say five years ago, but I think we're past that.
01:03:25.500I think Albertans realize that the system is entirely broken and there will not always be a government in Ottawa that is conservative and that respects us.
01:03:36.160And so while we would have a shore to reprieve, we would go back to the same old, same old, being treated as a colony.
01:03:47.360Um, but even a colony is better treated than us because a colony, you want to extract the resources from the colony, but they don't even let us do that.
01:03:56.000So, I get Pierre's point, but I, I just think it's, uh, our mindset has shifted, I think, over the last little bit.
01:04:06.060Uh, Jay Peterson, also a regular donor to the show, regular veer, 20 bucks.
01:04:10.720Pierre seems to think this is all about us working harder for still nothing.
01:04:14.780This is about ridiculous federal taxes and equalization, elected and equal Senate, free speech, right to bear arms.
01:04:30.460It's not even about, uh, finally getting a government that respects us in Ottawa.
01:04:35.300It's, as I said, it's just a temporary fix to a systemic and structural problem that will always be unless we have an or else on the table for these people.
01:04:46.260So, yeah, I think that wraps up the super chats.
01:04:50.920We hit the headliners for four minutes past the hour.
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