Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Are 15-minute cities about convenience or climate change？

00:00:00.000 15-minute cities and other things the mainstream media tells you are conspiracy theories.

00:00:04.800 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:24.460 If you got all your news from the mainstream media,

00:00:26.500 you would believe that 15-minute cities are just a zoning plan for municipalities

00:00:34.160 that will increase the convenience in your lives,

00:00:37.600 and not, as I like to call it, the ant farm that they're going to put you in and then close the lid.

00:00:46.520 But they've been around for a long, long time.

00:00:48.380 My guest today has done her research on them,

00:00:51.880 as she tends to do on things that are climate change motivated.

00:00:55.420 We're also discussing AstraZeneca's CEO and his quest for net zero health care.

00:01:04.180 Remember this?

00:01:05.080 And finally, we can also save a lot of carbon.

00:01:07.920 Because people don't know, but the health care services actually produce 4% of carbon emissions in the world.

00:01:16.920 That's on average in the world, but in advanced countries like the U.S.,

00:01:21.780 and I'm sure it's the same in Canada,

00:01:23.800 8% of carbon emissions come from the health care sector.

00:01:27.260 And it's mostly in hospitals.

00:01:29.120 So going to a hospital is bad for you, bad for your health,

00:01:31.480 but you cost money, and also you generate a lot of carbon.

00:01:35.060 So if we can keep people out of the hospital and cure them quickly,

00:01:38.520 we will really affect people, but also countries and societies in a big way.

00:01:46.240 So the guy who wants you to get on a never-ending round of boosters

00:01:50.940 that don't work, that are individually packaged,

00:01:56.960 wants you to be concerned about the climate footprint of your health care services.

00:02:04.360 Hmm.

00:02:05.120 Seems legit.

00:02:05.800 Tonight, my guest is Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science.

00:02:09.980 We're talking about all that, plus what she has described as a blood libel 0.98

00:02:14.780 by former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair and one of the current NDP MPs, Leah Gazan.

00:02:21.780 So here's Michelle Sterling. 0.92

00:02:31.220 So joining me now is my friend and good friend of Rebel News and the show,

00:02:35.140 Michelle Sterling, from Friends of Science.

00:02:37.180 And I wanted to have Michelle on because she's sort of a Calgarian or Calgarian adjacent. 0.99

00:02:42.380 I don't want to give out the exact location of the climate cabin.

00:02:45.320 But you've done some real research, Michelle, into Calgary's climate plan.

00:02:51.120 And before we started recording, we sort of talked about how cities have become the focus

00:02:56.500 of these climate plans as some countries reject them because they're overly expensive.

00:03:04.320 Cities become the fallback and cities tend to be more progressive.

00:03:07.360 And as you pointed out before we started recording, that's where the majority of the population lives.

00:03:11.620 So all you need is a few mayors on the side of the climate scare.

00:03:14.940 And there you go.

00:03:16.060 An enormously expensive climate plan, as is the case in Calgary.

00:03:19.380 Mm-hmm.

00:03:20.560 Yes.

00:03:21.240 Well, you know, I did a recent presentation for Alberta Prosperity Project,

00:03:27.380 which was on lockdowns in 15-minute cities and how lockdowns were the open door to the fourth industrial revolution.

00:03:34.780 So if you want to look at these 15-minute cities, you can go back to deadline 2020,

00:03:41.980 which was written in 2016.

00:03:44.980 And in it, this was written by a consulting firm called Arup.

00:03:50.600 And in it, they proposed that every person should have a carbon footprint of 2.9 tons CO2 equivalent, CO2E it's called.

00:04:00.660 And presently, Canadians have about a 17 tons CO2E carbon footprint.

00:04:08.540 So the intention of these 15-minute cities is to reduce your carbon footprint.

00:04:15.120 Yes, it's true that it's nice and convenient to be walkable.

00:04:18.880 In my Calgary area, Beltline Bankview, I love walking down the street there.

00:04:24.240 It's a fabulous part of town.

00:04:26.440 It's great.

00:04:27.720 But you can also, you know, I also love driving to Chinook Centre.

00:04:30.820 I love driving up to Market Mall.

00:04:33.680 And, you know, it's a great part of the city.

00:04:36.860 I love going up to the ethnic supermarkets up in the northeast, you know, Tata Mall and all those fabulous places.

00:04:45.820 I buy my Indian clothing and scarves up there.

00:04:49.060 So, you know, as long as I can get around the city as I choose, fine.

00:04:55.620 But that's not the objective.

00:04:57.360 And I'll tell you why.

00:04:58.300 If you look at the exponential roadmap that was issued in the fall of 2019, one of the things that these climate zealots wanted to do was to reduce personal mobility and traffic, transportation to 3%.

00:05:15.560 So, what happened during lockdowns?

00:05:19.040 That's really what happened, right?

00:05:21.160 Because people did not go to work.

00:05:25.720 People did not have the opportunity to drive to all the little shops that they like to go to.

00:05:31.080 They can only go to the big stores.

00:05:32.780 So, you know, that was a huge limitation.

00:05:37.100 And there were restrictions on how often you could go and where you could go.

00:05:41.660 You might be questioned about why you were out and about unless you were on foot, even if you were on foot.

00:05:47.680 What else happened?

00:05:48.660 Oh, of course, the hospital shut down.

00:05:51.020 So, on a normal day, there would be thousands of people worldwide.

00:05:55.540 There would be millions of people going to and from medical appointments, hospital interventions, visiting people at hospitals.

00:06:03.120 That was all cut off, right?

00:06:04.960 So, only essential needs were treated at hospitals.

00:06:09.620 And schools.

00:06:10.980 On a normal day, parents would be driving their kids to school if it was far enough.

00:06:15.500 School buses would be out in number, driving millions of kids all over the place every single school day.

00:06:23.200 All cut, right?

00:06:24.500 So, this exponential roadmap came out in September of 2019.

00:06:29.300 And I believe that it was implemented on the back of the initial COVID lockdown.

00:06:34.200 I'm going to say that I think that COVID is real.

00:06:37.340 I think that people were probably justified in saying, you know, it's a new condition.

00:06:43.680 We're not sure what it is.

00:06:44.900 Let's lock down for a couple of weeks, a month.

00:06:47.840 Fine.

00:06:49.000 But subsequent to that, I think that the climate zealots, with the powers that be, simply took that opportunity and tried to lock down.

00:06:59.760 And I'll tell you why I think that.

00:07:01.580 Because in 2015, Ivo DeBoer, who was the executive chair of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, that's the political arm of the climate movement at the UN, he said that in order to meet Paris targets, we'll have to lock down the economy for two years.

00:07:22.800 Funny, eh?

00:07:23.800 Funny, eh?

00:07:25.800 And so, this deadline 2020, which was initially written up for all the C40 cities.

00:07:33.300 And remember, the cities of the world host about 70% of the world's population.

00:07:40.300 So, if you can reduce the carbon footprint of every single urban dweller to 2.9 CO2e, then you have partially accomplished your goal of meeting Paris targets.

00:07:56.960 And in fact, that's what former mayor of Edmonton, Don Iveson, said in a published report, and it's in the Lockdown Alberta Prosperity presentation.

00:08:08.220 He said that cities are going to solve the climate problem.

00:08:12.820 Yeah.

00:08:13.080 And, you know, talking about 15-minute cities, it's a new thing that people are talking about.

00:08:17.760 But I think people are just becoming awake to what 15-minute cities are.

00:08:22.020 They've been in the works, as you said, since, you know, 2019, maybe even sooner.

00:08:27.920 They were written into the zoning code in Alberta back in 2020, or in Edmonton, I guess.

00:08:35.200 Edmontonians are just becoming aware of this.

00:08:37.140 And, you know, the excuse the mayor says, oh, it's just a zoning code to make it more convenient for people to live there.

00:08:44.400 And I see it as, as I said before we started recording, you have to build the ant farm before you pour in the ants and then close the lid so that your ants can't escape.

00:08:55.000 And that's what I think is happening here.

00:08:56.400 You can't tell people you can't leave your neighborhood until you put everything you think they need in the neighborhood.

00:09:02.160 And then it just becomes a bit of an open-air climate prison.

00:09:05.820 Right.

00:09:06.300 And, you know, if you look at the origination of the 15-minute city, it started in Europe with a fellow named Carlos Moreno.

00:09:14.400 And he's an urban planner.

00:09:16.440 Now, in places in Europe, you know, you have these very old cities, 2,000-year-old cities like Barcelona, London, England, Paris, where they were planned for foot traffic and maybe some wagons and horses.

00:09:30.160 They were not planned for cars.

00:09:31.820 And especially in Europe, I think it was in around 2008, Europe incentivized diesel cars over conventional ice cars because they said, oh, well, there's less CO2 emissions from diesel cars, except that there's more nitrous oxides and smog soot from diesel cars.

00:09:53.460 So they incentivized diesel cars to save the planet and unintentionally ended up with horrible air pollution.

00:10:03.000 At times, Paris's air pollution is worse than that of Beijing because of this.

00:10:08.280 So they did have a need to fix the air pollution issue.

00:10:12.060 They started doing alternate days license plates for driving in the city.

00:10:17.220 They came up with all kinds of incentives to try and keep people to stay home or take public transit.

00:10:23.080 So they have a real issue there, but they also have extremely high density.

00:10:28.620 We have a just transition or sorry, we have a 15-minute cities presentation also on our blog or on our website that I did for us,

00:10:37.600 which talks about how Barcelona has a population density of something like 14,000 people per square kilometer.

00:10:46.820 So that would be like all the population of Butasquan or Camrose or Brooks.

00:10:52.080 For Saskatchewan.

00:10:53.840 Yeah, right.

00:10:54.920 Okay, all crammed into a few blocks.

00:10:57.000 So, yeah, it makes perfect sense in a context like that to try and create more green spaces for people to try and limit their need to travel by providing services as close as possible.

00:11:10.680 But, you know, we have lots of space here.

00:11:13.360 It's minus 40 or minus 19 or whatever it is.

00:11:16.760 It's cold a lot of the time here, snowy and icy.

00:11:19.560 So, you know, as an older boomer, even when I can walk to the store, if it's icy out, I'm not going to walk there.

00:11:27.860 It doesn't matter if it's 15 minutes or half an hour.

00:11:30.360 I'm just not going to go because, you know, people who are older and even young people, if you slip and fall on the ice, you're finished.

00:11:38.280 So, you know, it's not applicable to Canadian cities for the most part.

00:11:43.420 That's what I'm saying.

00:11:44.720 Yeah, there was another thing you pointed out.

00:11:47.200 Sorry to interrupt.

00:11:47.700 In one of your Friends of Science videos, I'm sure it was you, that one of the reasons the new world was settled was because people were trying to escape the overcrowding and population densities in Europe.

00:12:02.900 And so what are we doing now, like a century later, replicating it?

00:12:06.580 That's right.

00:12:07.040 I don't know if I have that book here, but yeah, here it is.

00:12:11.460 Yes, exactly.

00:12:12.440 And see, this is where the climate zealots continue to make the big mistake.

00:12:19.280 This is not a sponsored comment.

00:12:21.060 I just love this book, though.

00:12:22.300 It's terrifying.

00:12:23.560 It's terrifying.

00:12:24.900 These are the pioneers who came here to the new world.

00:12:30.200 They were sold on the idea that this is the new Andalusia.

00:12:33.420 Because we're on the same latitude, everyone thought, well, you know, it'll be the same kind of weather over there.

00:12:38.700 So they were completely unprepared for the fact that North America is horribly cold.

00:12:44.300 Our winters are terribly long.

00:12:45.780 Our growing seasons are really short.

00:12:48.300 And also, the reason why they left, as you said, they wanted freedom.

00:12:53.620 They wanted to have access to land.

00:12:55.260 They wanted to escape this structured class system that didn't allow them to have any mobility. 0.98

00:13:00.280 Some of them were prostitutes. 1.00

00:13:02.100 You know, some of them were orphans. 0.93

00:13:03.780 Some of them were prisoners.

00:13:05.020 I mean, this was their key to freedom.

00:13:07.780 And for the state over there, it was a way of getting rid of people that were just sort of costing the system.

00:13:13.200 Useless eaters, I guess you would say in today's terms. 0.81

00:13:16.400 You know, let's put them on a boat and send them over there. 1.00

00:13:18.620 We don't care.

00:13:19.140 If they survive, great.

00:13:20.640 Then we'll get more beaver pelts and furs.

00:13:23.660 Because they'll have to trade with the local Native people. 0.99

00:13:26.540 And if they don't survive, who cares?

00:13:28.680 So, but yes, the whole point of coming here was to be free.

00:13:34.480 And, you know, just going back to for a moment on the population density thing, the irony of Edmonton and Calgary, for instance, trying to create 15-minute cities where all your resources are in one place, the irony is found in a book by, what's his name?

00:13:53.400 Josh O'Kane, he wrote a book called Sideways, which is about the Sidewalk Labs experiment of Google in Toronto.

00:14:02.220 And they were planning to take the waterfront area, which I think was around 12 acres, and turn it into a smart city, right, where everything could be all in one place.

00:14:12.100 And one of the obsessions, apparently, of Larry Page, who's one of the founders of Google, and Sergey Brin, they're obsessed with transportation.

00:14:21.640 They don't want people driving individual cars.

00:14:24.080 They want them using automated, you know, self-driving taxis, basically, that you can call up anytime you want.

00:14:32.100 Anyway, with the, with this, this smart city, one thing that always pops up, and it's also in the Simpsons movie, is how to put a dome over it.

00:14:42.840 Right.

00:14:43.560 But when you look at Edmonton and Calgary, what do we have?

00:14:46.520 Edmonton, we have West Edmonton Mall.

00:14:50.280 It basically is a dome city.

00:14:52.860 Right.

00:14:53.200 We have Chinook Center and the other fabulous malls in Calgary, Market Mall, you know, Tata Mall.

00:14:59.180 These are domed cities, except that, you know, some do not have attached residential facilities.

00:15:05.620 But in fact, this is a place where you can go, and all of your 15-minute shopping is right there.

00:15:11.360 Of course, you do have to drive to it.

00:15:13.500 But once you're there, you can spend the whole day there.

00:15:15.980 And many people do.

00:15:17.460 You know, and you can have transit stops nearby, which cities have arranged.

00:15:22.880 So, you know, they're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

00:15:27.420 And because of lockdowns, I think people now are very suspicious.

00:15:32.760 Probably four years ago, these ideas would have flown quite well.

00:15:37.240 And the whole idea of, oh, a green space and having things local, that would be fabulous for me.

00:15:44.060 People probably would have bought into it.

00:15:45.700 And now people see, wait a minute, 15-minute city.

00:15:50.020 They're blocking off main roads.

00:15:51.780 What happens when they bring the robot dogs and the robot police, and when I try to leave, they want my digital ID, and I don't have permission, or my social credit score isn't good enough, or I don't have enough digital currency to take the bus downtown or call the auto-driving, self-driving taxi.

00:16:12.400 People see that.

00:16:13.400 They understand now.

00:16:14.420 Wait a minute.

00:16:15.580 Yeah.

00:16:16.120 Yeah.

00:16:16.360 And they say they're doing it to alleviate traffic congestion.

00:16:20.100 Sure, sure, sure.

00:16:21.800 You know what?

00:16:22.780 I think a lot of people see the car as one of the great equalizers of humanity, where, you know, long-distance transportation was only available to the wealthy for a very long time.

00:16:33.460 And then the advent of automobiles being affordable to normal people, to middle-class people, I think it was a great liberator for humanity.

00:16:46.460 People could travel for leisure instead of just, you know, for emergencies.

00:16:51.300 It became something that people did for fun that they never did before.

00:16:54.940 And having the vehicle taken away from you and having that ability to travel taken away from you for nearly three years, I think the left has overplayed their hand here.

00:17:06.000 Well, I think it was a grand experiment because, ironically, the Smart Cities project, which apparently Justin Trudeau had been planning with Eric Schmidt for some time in advance, you know, they went to great lengths at Waterfront to make sure it was an independent evaluation.

00:17:23.480 And then when it was announced, Justin Trudeau said, yeah, well, Eric and I have been working on this for a long, long time.

00:17:30.780 And everyone's like, wait, you have?

00:17:33.240 Anyway, it was abruptly cancelled in May of 2020.

00:17:36.700 Why?

00:17:37.180 Because there was no need anymore because the entire world had gone into a smart city.

00:17:42.700 The entire world became a smart city because they were observing.

00:17:46.500 And we know that we were surveilled by Health Canada, by the armed forces and all kinds of people all over the world were surveilling everyone's habits and cell phones during lockdowns.

00:17:58.540 And they probably drew on their experience of trying to design the smart city.

00:18:02.880 And I now have forgotten what the question was that you had.

00:18:05.940 It's okay.

00:18:07.200 Anyway, it's great.

00:18:08.200 So, you know, people understood it, that this could be a very compromising situation.

00:18:19.280 Oh, yes, we were talking about cars.

00:18:20.600 Sorry.

00:18:21.080 Yeah, I wanted to say that.

00:18:22.520 You know, during World War II, my mom was a driver in England.

00:18:26.940 And she often used to tell me how before the war, she would go with a neighbor who was a mechanic and he had to deliver cars all over England.

00:18:36.400 And she would tell me how she thus traveled all over England.

00:18:39.380 And at the time, I was thinking, okay, so what?

00:18:41.960 And then it struck me when she was telling me about becoming a driver of one and three ton trucks that had no synchronized gear and no modern clutches.

00:18:53.340 You know, they had, it was manual stick shift.

00:18:56.940 Yeah.

00:18:57.400 As they say, if you can't find them, grind them with the gear. 0.69

00:19:01.020 If you were a tiny little five foot two and a half woman like my mom was, why in heck would you ever want to do this? 1.00

00:19:08.200 Well, thousands of women joined the Auxiliary Terrestrial Service so that they could learn to drive because they wanted that freedom. 0.88

00:19:17.080 And after that, that freedom proliferated because people knew how to drive.

00:19:22.820 They were all light duty mechanics like Princess Elizabeth.

00:19:27.060 The late Queen Elizabeth was a light duty mechanic. 1.00

00:19:29.840 She served over the fence from my mom at the Welsh Girls School. 0.82

00:19:34.440 So, you know, this driving was the expression of freedom as was flying.

00:19:39.620 You know, it, my uncle who was lost in the war, he, he wrote letters to my mom about how much he loved lying, how much he loved that freedom, you know, being up there above the clouds.

00:19:50.980 And I think millions of people relate to that.

00:19:54.460 Yeah.

00:19:55.000 And it was taken from us.

00:19:56.860 I wanted to ask you about the just transition, which I think is anything but just.

00:20:04.200 I mean, just transition into unemployment, I guess.

00:20:06.660 But along with the just transition is this claim that it's okay if we phase out your job because we're going to transition you into all these sustainable jobs that don't exist, that have never materialized.

00:20:21.300 We saw this play out in real time with the coal phase out here in Alberta, where they decided to close up the coal mines in towns that relied on coal for the local power plant.

00:20:32.400 And the green jobs that were to replace those phase out jobs, they never materialized to the point where these towns are devastated.

00:20:41.100 And sometimes people are underwater on their mortgages.

00:20:43.920 And we saw a suicide spike.

00:20:47.180 Yeah, well, you know, it's a fallacy that there's a just transition.

00:20:51.080 First of all, wind and solar supply, almost nothing of the world's energy supply.

00:20:55.500 And in Canada, people like to say, oh, our grid is very clean because of hydropower.

00:21:01.380 We don't make a hydro dam with wind and solar.

00:21:03.900 You make it with fossil fuels.

00:21:05.960 So we recently did a video explainer on the so-called Sustainable Jobs Act, which there's terminology now to replace just transition.

00:21:15.940 And again, you know, if you go back to how things are made, you find that things are only made with oil, gas and coal.

00:21:24.860 So while in this sustainable jobs plan, they're claiming, oh, we're going to create a new market called, you know, critical minerals.

00:21:33.860 And we could clean energy Canada, which is a tides make way offshoot, is claiming that, oh, the new market will be EV batteries and the critical mineral supply chain for them.

00:21:44.900 And, well, as it turns out, what do you need to go mining?

00:21:49.860 Right.

00:21:50.660 Lots of oil, gas and coal.

00:21:52.380 You need tons of it, you know.

00:21:54.560 And there's actually not a critical mineral supply chain that exists in the world to meet any of these net zero or net 2050 targets.

00:22:07.440 It just doesn't exist.

00:22:09.020 There's not enough mines.

00:22:10.160 There's not enough time to create the mines to get a mine up and running takes at least 16 years.

00:22:17.680 So unless there are already thousands of mines in Canada that are on the verge of approval, we won't be hitting any 2030 or 2050 targets.

00:22:27.980 And like I said, you know, it's horribly devastating.

00:22:31.660 If you've got a mine in a remote area, how do you think they get that stuff out of there?

00:22:36.160 Well, you've got to clear a forest, build a road or a railway, maybe even a landing strip, depending on where you are and what you have to bring in.

00:22:45.080 You have to truck in all kinds of cement.

00:22:47.160 You've got to put up power lines or you've got to build on site a power generation unit.

00:22:51.980 And what's it going to use?

00:22:53.620 It's not going to be wind and solar and it's not going to be hydrogen.

00:22:56.880 It's going to be oil, gas or coal.

00:23:00.160 So, you know, these are just practical realities.

00:23:04.020 So the whole sustainable jobs thing is another unicorn fantasy by the green movement.

00:23:10.720 And unfortunately, the problem is we're being pushed into this stuff, we're spending lots of money on it, and we're going to get stuck halfway without sufficient energy to drive society, without enough money to complete some of these projects, and without enough energy, resources and infrastructure to go back to our present working state.

00:23:36.540 You know, they're going to run us into the ground, like in Europe. 1.00

00:23:40.620 It's very dangerous.

00:23:42.280 Now, you've actually pointed out the problem with the push for green cars, because, you know, as you know, Canada has mandated that all new vehicle sales by, I think, 2035, they have to be net zero cars.

00:23:58.200 But we don't have enough grid to charge these cars.

00:24:03.660 So, they're going to force you to buy these cars, which don't work all that well in minus 19, which it is today.

00:24:10.700 And they don't work all that well across vast distances, which is the case in Canada.

00:24:16.340 So, we've got cold and vast distances.

00:24:19.120 Combine those two, you have almost no range.

00:24:22.020 And how are you going to charge them with a grid that doesn't have enough capacity?

00:24:27.960 Right.

00:24:28.500 And the problem is that the people in Ottawa are looking at it and saying, oh, well, we just need to put in more chargers.

00:24:35.780 Well, they have to plug into something.

00:24:38.280 That's it.

00:24:38.860 Yeah.

00:24:39.120 And so, you can put in a few that have a diesel generator hiding in the background.

00:24:43.540 That's not really solving the problem, is it?

00:24:46.460 But, in fact, Kent Zare, who's a professional engineer, did an analysis for us some years ago.

00:24:54.120 And he found that we would have to build the equivalent of eight Site C dams because we need an additional 10,000 megawatts of power.

00:25:03.320 And, subsequently, someone just wrote me a couple of weeks ago and told me that Site C is actually only putting out half its nameplate capacity.

00:25:12.540 So, that would mean 16 to 19 Site C dam equivalents.

00:25:16.980 Site C dam started back in the 1980s.

00:25:20.540 It's billions of dollars over budget.

00:25:23.240 These projects take the minimum of 20 to 30 years to build.

00:25:27.740 And they cost a fortune.

00:25:30.660 So, you know, we don't have the time, if time is the factor, to build these additional power generation facilities.

00:25:39.620 And that's just for EVs.

00:25:41.160 You know, the intention of Net Zero 2050 is that everything would be electrified, right?

00:25:46.040 That your home heating would be electrified, that you would not cook with natural gas.

00:25:50.640 You would cook only with, you know, instant pots.

00:25:53.720 And what are those special?

00:25:55.940 Induction stoves.

00:25:56.660 Induction stoves, yeah.

00:25:57.840 So, again, I want to point out to people, these are sophisticated marketing schemes that are dressed up in green.

00:26:06.260 So, if they can sell you an induction stove because they think that you think that you're saving the planet, good for them, you know.

00:26:13.320 But look at everything through that eye of marketing and you'll start to see the whole climate movement in a completely different light.

00:26:20.140 Well, and there's no pleasing these people also.

00:26:22.880 I mean, Site C Dam, you would think, okay, these people should be, these people, the environmentalists, they should be in favor of this because it's hydroelectricity.

00:26:33.420 But no, you have the likes of David Suzuki complaining about Site C Dam.

00:26:38.480 Again, I go back to a video that you did where you noted that David Suzuki simultaneously is against Site C Dam, but also complained that there was nowhere to charge his electric vehicle as he went across the country.

00:26:51.480 And he couldn't make the connection between the two.

00:26:54.760 Yeah, yeah. 0.94

00:26:55.360 No, it's ludicrous.

00:26:56.980 You know, we need people who understand how energy works and how the power grid works.

00:27:03.240 And unfortunately, the power grid is very, very, very complicated.

00:27:07.280 And I want to make a point here.

00:27:08.880 You know, the Market Surveillance Authority just issued a report that Alberta had seven grid level three alerts in 2022.

00:27:19.300 That means that they were about to start rolling blackouts.

00:27:22.560 So that means that we were on the brink of a very serious energy situation in Alberta, in Alberta, where we have all of this energy.

00:27:33.820 Why is that?

00:27:34.700 It's because of the NDP climate policy from 2015, where they accelerated coal phase out and they got rid of the most modern plants that we had.

00:27:45.420 These are now being converted to natural gas.

00:27:48.280 But in the interim, we're a thousand megawatts short from December 2014.

00:27:54.480 We're a thousand megawatts short of dispatchable power today.

00:27:58.740 And that's a real risk.

00:28:00.820 That's a real risk for the province, for business, for hospitals.

00:28:05.020 And now we have these crazy doctors of Cape trying to phase out natural gas. 0.68

00:28:12.300 Well, Alberta runs on natural gas now.

00:28:14.780 What are you going to run your hospital on?

00:28:16.800 What are you going to make your PPEs from and your little mask and your little visor?

00:28:22.500 You know, we have entered a time of societal madness where facts and evidence mean nothing anymore.

00:28:30.520 Yeah. And, you know, you just said that Alberta runs on natural gas.

00:28:35.100 I'm going to correct you there because it's not entirely true because when we are experiencing these grid shortfalls, we end up buying coal fired electricity from Wyoming and Montana.

00:28:46.180 Our good neighbors save us.

00:28:48.040 But while we phase out coal here, and as you say, you know, like we had, you know, almost to the point of rolling brownouts, we are the Saudi Arabia of coal.

00:29:02.560 I think we have 800 years of clean burning coal under our feet.

00:29:05.800 It leaches out of the ground all over the place.

00:29:08.040 It's there.

00:29:08.760 You can kick a riverbank and coal comes out.

00:29:11.480 And we've decided to go off it in favor of natural gas, which we're not at capacity yet.

00:29:17.960 So we have to buy coal fired electricity at an increased rate from our neighbors.

00:29:23.860 Right.

00:29:24.240 Yes.

00:29:24.660 And I will mention, we do have a couple of coal plants that are still online.

00:29:28.520 Yeah.

00:29:29.000 They're running at maximum capacity practically every day.

00:29:31.960 And so that creates a stable baseline.

00:29:34.260 You know, like people like Pembina Institute say, oh, there's no need for baseload power anymore because they don't understand how the power grid works.

00:29:43.920 After all these years of being activists, they're busy thinking that, you know, wind and solar can provide.

00:29:50.340 Well, there are many days in those grid alerts, you'll find that there was no wind and no solar.

00:29:55.260 And when there's no wind, actually the wind turbines draw from the grid to keep from freezing up.

00:30:00.740 So they're actually on the grid in winter, as well as being frequently useless.

00:30:08.460 And again, you know, if they're a complementary system with a small penetration, fine.

00:30:15.980 You know, sometimes they can be valuable.

00:30:17.940 But what's happening now where the push is to go all wind and solar, it's an impossible equation.

00:30:24.220 And it will only end in tears and Albertans will be stripped of their wealth.

00:30:29.180 These 20 and 40 year PPAs that cities are signing.

00:30:33.880 You know, they've got the cities signing these power purchase agreements for 20 and 40 years and renewables.

00:30:39.420 These are going to bankrupt the cities and bankrupt the taxpayers.

00:30:44.520 And they're very hard to get out of.

00:30:46.600 You know, once you realize, holy mackerel, this is costing us a fortune, but we're not actually getting energy from it.

00:30:52.700 So what are we going to do?

00:30:54.300 Well, pay up.

00:30:56.340 Yeah.

00:30:56.800 Or when a big snowstorm hits, as was the case in Texas a couple of years ago, when you only have green energy on the grid because it was incentivized in Texas.

00:31:04.200 Again, Texas, same problem as Alberta.

00:31:06.660 Lots of energy, but incentivized through the federal government in the United States to put up all these wind turbines.

00:31:13.820 They get hit with a snowstorm and they've got no capacity on the grid.

00:31:17.720 And people died in an energy rich state because they relied on green energy.

00:31:25.220 Yeah.

00:31:25.400 700 people died.

00:31:27.100 Terrible.

00:31:27.420 And that could easily happen in Alberta.

00:31:29.260 Yeah, I think to a greater extent, just because of the cold associated with our snow that they didn't have there, it frees pretty quick here.

00:31:37.940 Now, I wanted to ask you something you just you touched on briefly about the push for net zero health care.

00:31:44.420 And so we see it from these crazy activist doctors.

00:31:48.280 That's nothing new.

00:31:50.120 But now we're seeing it from the people who got very, very rich on the lockdowns of COVID during the pandemic.

00:31:57.880 Sort of now we see as the left says the intersection of two ideas where we've got climate change and pharmaceuticals coming together.

00:32:07.100 And finally, we can also save a lot of carbon because people don't know, but the health care services actually produce 4% of carbon emissions in the world.

00:32:19.360 That's on average in the world.

00:32:20.560 But in advanced countries like the U.S. and I'm sure it's the same in Canada, 8% of carbon emissions come from the health care sector.

00:32:29.340 And it's mostly in hospitals.

00:32:31.520 So going to a hospital is bad for you, bad for your health, but you cost money.

00:32:34.600 And also you generate a lot of carbon.

00:32:37.420 So if we can keep people out of the hospital and cure them quickly, we will really affect people, but also countries and societies in a big way.

00:32:48.480 About the net zero health care, this is really a thing.

00:32:53.060 And it's shocking and ugly to see the CEO of AstraZeneca talking about it.

00:32:58.120 Because, of course, if you're running a factory producing vaccines, you're probably using a lot of energy and it's not coming from oil, gas and coal.

00:33:08.820 And he's talking about how expensive it is to go to a hospital.

00:33:11.740 So you shouldn't go.

00:33:12.900 And if you have a vaccine, then you won't have to go.

00:33:14.900 Well, that's absurd because people go to hospitals for many other things, broken limbs, car accidents, accidents around the house, blood pressure, whatever.

00:33:25.640 Thousands of different ailments are treated at hospitals.

00:33:28.320 So these people are now thinking that, well, the best hospital, the greenest hospital is the one you don't build.

00:33:36.980 This is a direct quote from, I think it's called Greener Healthcare.

00:33:44.700 It's an NGO in the States.

00:33:46.940 There's also a paper in the British Medical Journal called Net Zero Health Care, where the proponents, two of whom are from Canada, from the CAPE organization, are saying that, you know, because the world pivoted so quickly during COVID lockdowns, it should be easy to cut health care emissions in half by 2030.

00:34:12.020 That's in seven years.

00:34:13.580 So they're not talking about turning off a light switch.

00:34:17.020 They're talking about actively reducing care.

00:34:21.800 And the reason I say that, we have examples of that, certainly in the UK, where elderly people were treated with midazolam and morphine when it was not necessarily in their best interest and they died of it.

00:34:39.000 And some of the hospitals there are being questioned under caution now.

00:34:42.400 And in Canada, the proliferation of the MAID program, because if you have people voluntarily die, then you don't have to treat them in hospital.

00:34:54.420 So it's one way to solve the waiting list of the medical services in Canada and, you know, and appear to be a compassionate provider who wants to give you dignity.

00:35:10.740 And in some cases, it is true that people would choose that path.

00:35:15.400 But now that they're planning to expand it to mental health care, you know, you are the carbon that they're trying to reduce.

00:35:26.260 It's sickening.

00:35:27.020 Yeah, especially when we've seen young people infected with this climate change anxiety.

00:35:33.700 Young people are saying that they're depressed, that they worry about the end of the world, thanks to the constant inundation of climate doomsday propaganda.

00:35:44.700 We've seen people self-immolate.

00:35:49.280 I think it was on the steps of the Supreme Court in the United States.

00:35:52.640 A grown man, by the way, did this to protest climate change.

00:35:57.920 And now, as you rightly point out, Canada is changing the protocols around the MAID program to extend it to include people who are mentally ill.

00:36:07.140 So, where does this leave us?

00:36:10.700 Right.

00:36:11.040 And there's another report by that same consulting firm, Aroop, the one that did the deadline 2020 for the cities.

00:36:18.080 And it talks about how the carbon footprint of medical services in different countries around the world and Canada is in the top 10 of a huge carbon footprint.

00:36:29.580 Well, yeah, because we're in a really vast, cold country.

00:36:33.280 What do you think?

00:36:33.900 And the other day, I saw someone comparing our system to that of Austria and saying, oh, how fabulous the system is in Austria.

00:36:41.280 Well, Austria is the size of a postage stamp.

00:36:44.020 Right.

00:36:44.220 So, you have all of your medical services in your 15-minute city.

00:36:49.840 Yeah.

00:36:50.520 And everybody can get to it in a hop, skip, and a jump.

00:36:53.900 So, of course, that also cuts a lot of the cost of providing service.

00:36:59.840 Whereas here, you know, we have a diverse number of specialists.

00:37:03.360 They're very spread out across the country.

00:37:05.780 And they're not concentrated in one place where, you know, if you need two or three different kinds of treatments, you can't go to all of them in the same place.

00:37:14.400 Because we're just too small a population and too big a country.

00:37:18.820 And health care is just such a very diverse set of needs for people that it's very difficult to solve them all in one place.

00:37:29.940 But, of course, that brings me to the next point where I believe that deepfake doctors and AI are the next solution.

00:37:38.480 So, when they say, oh, well, you're going to have health services within your 15-minute city.

00:37:44.580 Well, that sounds pretty good.

00:37:46.280 You know, in Calgary, I can walk down the street to what's called the Rockwood Medical Center.

00:37:50.640 And there's a few doctors there and a pharmacy.

00:37:53.980 So, that's handy.

00:37:55.540 But that, you know, we can't create that everywhere because there's not enough doctors.

00:38:00.060 So, they're going to create these little pods.

00:38:02.400 And there's an example in the lockdown video that I did for Alberta Prosperity.

00:38:07.420 An example from France where they have like a little medical pod with a bed and all kinds of instruments.

00:38:14.640 The patient goes in, sits down, and on the screen, there's a doctor telezooming in from somewhere.

00:38:22.380 And as you use these different things to investigate yourself, the doctor and AI read the information and resolve whatever issues you may have and provide a prescription or whatever.

00:38:36.160 So, in one sense, this could be helpful.

00:38:40.340 It could be wonderful.

00:38:41.540 As an older person, I wonder if the prescription will be one that will kill me.

00:38:46.420 And I'm serious about saying that.

00:38:47.880 Yeah.

00:38:49.280 Because, you know, Net Zero 2030 and Net Zero 2050 just happen to coincide with when all the boomers enter retirement years and when all of the boomers die. 0.74

00:39:01.700 And this is going to be a huge burden on society in terms of health care and in terms of pension draw and in terms of retiring workers and in terms of loss of skills in the community because the boomers will be out of the workforce for the most part. 0.96

00:39:19.880 So, you know, I believe that there is a depopulation agenda in process, unfortunately, and, you know, on climate change, right?

00:39:31.820 Too many people.

00:39:33.440 But again, you know, if you read, what's his name?

00:39:37.000 Where did it go?

00:39:38.340 Peter Zahans' book.

00:39:39.600 I just had it.

00:39:44.080 Anyway, Peter Zahans' book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning, about the global collapse.

00:39:49.940 He writes in that book quite extensively about how the world is actually naturally depopulating.

00:39:56.320 We don't need to do any of these things.

00:39:59.280 So, I think that people should really wake up to these possibilities.

00:40:05.540 Yeah, and I've seen Elon Musk talk about how he thinks there are not enough people having babies right now.

00:40:13.660 Right.

00:40:14.220 And I'm inclined to believe him.

00:40:15.880 He seems to be a bit of a futurist.

00:40:18.040 Right.

00:40:18.620 Yes.

00:40:19.220 Oh, here's the other one.

00:40:20.520 Yes.

00:40:21.460 Well, Peter Zahans is a demographer, geographer.

00:40:25.440 So, this is the book that Peter Zahans talks about how demographics worldwide are collapsing and the implications of that.

00:40:34.200 And this one is by Dr. Aaron Cariotti in the U.S.

00:40:41.080 And he's talking about the impending biomedical security state.

00:40:46.000 So, you know, the concerns about the 15-minute city are also correlated to digital ID, digital currency, the fourth industrial revolution by our friend Klaus Schwab.

00:40:59.500 So, you know, which is really lockdowns opened the door for that because they destroyed a lot of the conventional systems.

00:41:07.740 And now to rebuild, these solutions, these biotechnical solutions will be offered.

00:41:13.520 And I think the people who want to do these things to us have quickly identified who would be compliant and how quickly society can be compliant with these things.

00:41:23.400 Now, I wanted to, before I take up almost your entire morning, I wanted to ask you or talk to you about something that is not climate change related, but also something that you work on in the pursuit of truth.

00:41:37.280 And that is the residential school issue.

00:41:41.580 And you said to me, I'd like to talk about the statements of NDP former leader Thomas Mulcair, but also NDP MP Leah Gazan, I think is how you say her name.

00:41:54.980 So, the floor is yours, Michelle. 0.55

00:41:56.620 Take it away.

00:41:57.220 Yeah, well, recently, in October of last year, the entire House of Commons voted to recognize the residential schools as a genocide, which is completely untrue.

00:42:10.120 Not even the Truth and Reconciliation Committee ever came to that conclusion.

00:42:15.260 They concluded that it might be termed a cultural genocide, but that's quite different than actively trying to murder thousands of people, which is what genocide is really all about.

00:42:25.200 So, Thomas Mulcair recently came out saluting Leah Gazan, saying that her motion now to have anyone who questions the residential schools as genocide treated as a hate speech denier, equivalent to a Holocaust denier.

00:42:45.880 And so, he said that in his article, he said things like that, you know, anyone who's seen the reports knows that these schools were killing people and that they were designed to destroy people's lives.

00:43:00.760 And this is also not supported by the evidence.

00:43:04.660 Now, what's interesting is that it turns out that Mulcair has a thesis called the Pinocchio Syndrome, where, and this was written about in a book published in Quebec, and I have a reference to a Le Divoire story on it, where he feels that you can lie to the media because they probably aren't going to check you.

00:43:24.220 And I would say that this is the case, and I would say that this is the case, and it does a true disservice to all the people involved, including those who were harmed in residential schools.

00:43:36.800 Because we now have set up kind of an adversary situation in society that should not exist.

00:43:46.280 If you actually read the history of residential schools, if you read the work of Robert Carney, who is an eminent Canadian historian, he's also the father of Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor.

00:44:02.840 He was a residential school administrator.

00:44:05.120 He also wrote many deep and thoughtful articles about residential schools, acknowledging the problems with them, but also pointing out the value of them.

00:44:18.120 And I think it does a disservice to all the people who served there in that time, when the residential school, in many cases, was the local social service net.

00:44:28.320 They took in all kinds of people, the sick, the lame, you know, they really did their Christian duty to support the local community.

00:44:37.080 And so, yes, are there graves at some of these places?

00:44:40.820 Yes, there probably are.

00:44:42.140 Who's in them?

00:44:42.960 Well, we're not sure, because most of the kids who went to residential schools were well documented.

00:44:48.400 And the deaths were also well documented.

00:44:52.700 They're on the record.

00:44:53.620 I mean, you know, these were religious order schools.

00:44:57.160 How do we know, going back in history, who, say, Justin Trudeau is related to from France?

00:45:04.940 Because all of these Catholic churches have records.

00:45:08.760 Who married who?

00:45:10.040 Who is related to who?

00:45:11.180 So, this is how, you know, when you go on Ancestry.com, this is how you find out your ancestors, because of all these church records.

00:45:19.320 Because until very recently, it was the church that kept all these records.

00:45:24.720 So, you know, it's really a blood libel that Thomas Mulcair has thrown upon all Canadians in claiming, making these outrageous claims that he did in his recent CTV article.

00:45:38.100 And for Leah Gazan to claim that people should not be allowed to question genocide at residential schools.

00:45:47.860 Well, how did Senator Gladstone survive that school and become a senator?

00:45:53.900 Have you read any of Thompson Highway's work, where he talks about how this gave him the leg up that he needed?

00:46:01.200 You know, these stories are swept aside because of the tragic stories that are the only ones that capture the headlines.

00:46:09.720 So, it's really, it's a terrible thing.

00:46:13.340 And obviously, we need to have freedom of speech.

00:46:16.840 We need to be able to question everything and to do so in a scholarly manner with evidence.

00:46:24.160 When you take away people's freedom of speech, what happens is, according to Amartya Sen, who is a very well-respected economist in the world and scholar,

00:46:37.200 what happens is the society tends to collapse and you end up with people dying of famine.

00:46:43.380 So, you know, this is a very serious issue trying to limit speech in Canada.

00:46:53.040 And, I mean, going back to what we were talking about with my mom driving in World War II,

00:46:58.840 like, 12 of my Jewish relatives were murdered in Poland.

00:47:03.220 And my uncle was lost in a night raid over Essen, trying to stop the World War II and the Holocaust that was going on. 0.89

00:47:15.480 So, he was fighting for freedom.

00:47:21.160 My mom was fighting for freedom. 0.97

00:47:22.860 My dad was fighting for freedom.

00:47:24.780 My other uncle, who landed at Dieppe and was wounded there, was fighting for freedom.

00:47:29.740 And these freedoms are gradually being taken away by people who are very left-wing, ill-informed on the historical events and people who are climate zealots.

00:47:47.380 You know, and as I've told you before, ultimately, Deutsche Bank would like to have an eco-dictatorship.

00:47:53.740 And I think all these things are intertwined, ultimately.

00:47:57.380 Yeah, that's my commentary.

00:48:00.660 No, I completely agree with you.

00:48:02.540 It's part of a broader issue of making questioning the official narrative illegal or cancelling you if you question the official narrative.

00:48:11.920 And even if the left is right on all of these issues, let's say they're 100% right on residential schools. 0.96

00:48:18.720 Let's say they're 100% right on climate change.

00:48:21.620 Let's say they're 100% right on COVID.

00:48:24.120 It should never be illegal to be wrong.

00:48:26.160 And that's what they want.

00:48:29.520 Right.

00:48:30.280 Yeah.

00:48:31.240 Yeah.

00:48:31.760 And, you know, society has progressed through persistent questioning of the so-called consensus.

00:48:37.780 This is part of a statement from the National Academy's press on being a scientist, responsible conduct in research.

00:48:47.900 And the statement is that, you know, it's hard-nosed skepticism and persistent questioning against the consensus that has actually made society progress.

00:49:00.460 And you can see that especially in medical science where, you know, for many years, people used to have their stomachs removed if they had ulcers because it was believed that there was some weird thing going on.

00:49:15.700 And it was only this one doctor who thought, you know, that's funny.

00:49:18.740 I think that it's a bacteria.

00:49:19.940 And he ended up drinking some of the fluid from someone's stomach.

00:49:25.220 Yeah.

00:49:25.680 He infected himself on purpose and found and discovered, yes, it's the H. pylori bacteria.

00:49:31.060 This is what's doing it.

00:49:32.740 And thus, we were able to resolve a very serious health issue.

00:49:38.300 But, you know, they called him crazy at the time.

00:49:40.840 Or Emil Simmelweis, right, who wanted people to wash their hands after doing an autopsy.

00:49:47.780 You shouldn't be delivering a baby right after unless you really wash your hands.

00:49:52.760 Well, they called him crazy too.

00:49:55.380 But guess what happened during COVID?

00:49:57.500 Wash your hands, right?

00:49:58.640 And that is one of the main ways to prevent infection.

00:50:03.180 Yeah.

00:50:03.500 I mean, just look at eugenics. 0.92

00:50:08.100 You know, all the fancy, all the smart, all the progressive people who thought of themselves as compassionate believed in eugenics. 0.96

00:50:19.120 If not for skepticism, we would be still doing phrenology.

00:50:23.400 They'd be measuring my head to decide if I were worthy of reproduction.

00:50:28.640 But it was skeptics, people who said, you know what?

00:50:32.400 But I'm willing to go against the grain and see and be unliked, really.

00:50:40.160 Be a renegade in my time in pursuit of the truth.

00:50:44.680 And we need more people like that.

00:50:46.040 And I think you're one of those people.

00:50:47.880 Oh, thank you.

00:50:49.180 I just can't shut up.

00:50:50.500 No, it's great.

00:50:52.820 Michelle, tell us how people can find the work of Friends of Science and more importantly, support the work of Friends of Science, because you guys are just this little tiny mom and pop shop operation.

00:51:05.280 You guys make great videos.

00:51:06.660 By the way, I watch them all and rewatch them and rewatch them because I feel like I'm learning so much.

00:51:11.200 But you're really up against multi-billion dollar green, I'll call them corporations. 0.87

00:51:18.420 They say they're NGOs.

00:51:19.920 They say they're charities.

00:51:20.760 But quite frankly, they are part of that greenwashing marketing scheme.

00:51:24.460 So how do people help you fight your David and Goliath battle?

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00:52:33.440 So that's all.

00:52:35.560 Free and civil debate, as you say.

00:52:37.540 That's all you ever wanted.

00:52:39.340 Michelle, thanks so much for coming on the show.

00:52:41.840 And thanks so much for your dogged pursuit of the truth, even when it's unpopular.

00:52:46.660 And even when it seems as though you're up against all the forces of the universe sometimes.

00:52:52.660 Thank you.

00:52:54.680 Speaking of reserving the right to be wrong, I've got a letter to Sheila that I'll answer today.

00:53:05.640 But I should tell you how to get in touch with me.

00:53:07.940 If you have a question or comment about the work that I do here at Rebel News specifically on the show,

00:53:14.060 it's really easy to get a hold of me.

00:53:15.300 I'll give you my email right now.

00:53:17.300 It's Sheila at RebelNews.com.

00:53:18.920 I'll put gun show letters in the subject line so that I know it's related to the gun show and it's easier for me to find.

00:53:25.920 And I get sometimes hundreds of emails a day.

00:53:29.580 So sometimes they sneak through the cracks.

00:53:32.460 And also, again, that's sort of the deal with the letter that I'm going to read today.

00:53:38.700 But also don't hesitate to leave a question or a comment on wherever you're watching us on whatever platform you're watching us on,

00:53:46.520 be it Rumble or YouTube.

00:53:48.740 Sometimes I go looking over there for your comments, too.

00:53:53.840 So it's not exclusively email letters to Sheila.

00:53:57.360 But I will answer an email letter to Sheila today.

00:54:00.960 And sometimes I forget that people don't know things.

00:54:06.180 Like, I don't know what the public doesn't know and I should not assume.

00:54:11.860 And that's, I guess, a lesson to me is I shouldn't assume that people who don't work on the internet or in broadcasting,

00:54:20.960 I shouldn't assume that they don't know how YouTube works.

00:54:25.680 So if this person took the time to type out an email to me,

00:54:32.280 then I assume or I should assume that maybe more of you have these same concerns,

00:54:39.520 but you just didn't take the time to write to me.

00:54:42.020 So let me answer this question or these questions on behalf of everybody who might be wondering this one thing in this email.

00:54:52.120 And it comes from Brian.

00:54:53.460 I'm not going to say Brian's last name.

00:54:55.020 It doesn't really matter.

00:54:57.120 I'm going to be honest with you.

00:54:58.260 The email is slightly passive aggressive, but I'm not going to take it personally.

00:55:03.460 He writes, Sheila, maybe you wouldn't mind answering a couple of questions for me.

00:55:07.660 I always try to follow Rebel Daily on Rumble, but all of a sudden I can't get it on Rumble.

00:55:12.100 I have to watch it on YouTube.

00:55:13.160 But now I wonder how live you really are when you have started putting captions for the hearing impaired on the bottom of the screen

00:55:19.600 and the printed phrases are on the screen long before you actually speak the words yourself.

00:55:23.560 And FYI, whoever is putting this on the screen can't phrase or even spell things properly,

00:55:30.320 and nobody there seems to even care that there might be a slight problem.

00:55:34.280 It's okay if you ignore this request as I have sent queries to Ezra and Rebel in the past and have not received an answer to any of them.

00:55:41.440 It will just leave me with my probably correct views about what's happening to Rebel News.

00:55:47.440 What's happening to us, by the way?

00:55:49.000 What do you think is happening to us?

00:55:50.400 And all the wonderful people that used to work there.

00:55:53.880 Please correct me if I'm wrong.

00:55:55.060 Thanks, Brian.

00:55:55.660 You know, Brian, I'm going to correct you because you are wrong.

00:55:58.860 Now, I host Rebel Daily, or I co-host Rebel Daily.

00:56:05.620 I think the majority of the time, more than any of the other on-screen talent,

00:56:11.260 except for David Menzies, who is the anchor of the show.

00:56:14.200 And let me assure you, we are live, always live, when we record Rebel Daily.

00:56:22.560 Because not only am I a journalist here at Rebel News, but I also do other things at the company.

00:56:27.280 I'm the head of editorial.

00:56:30.360 And so my mornings are consumed with journalism, and I have editorial stuff and duties in the afternoon.

00:56:38.240 That's how the sausage gets made here at Rebel News.

00:56:40.800 And I have a lot of meetings that take place in the afternoon, too.

00:56:44.200 But whatever I'm doing, whatever I am doing, I have to drop it all so that I can be in this exact chair

00:56:54.940 talking to that exact camera with the studio in my ear at 11 a.m. Alberta time

00:57:02.180 so that I can be 100% live and completely unscripted when I co-host Rebel Daily.

00:57:08.800 So let me assure you, we are live.

00:57:11.420 I don't know why you would think we aren't live, but we are live.

00:57:15.180 If we weren't live, would we leave some of the ridiculous stuff in, or would we edit that out?

00:57:23.160 Right?

00:57:23.560 And as far as not being able to find us on Rumble, 24 hours ago, as I'm recording this,

00:57:32.300 24 hours ago, I was co-hosting Rebel Daily with my friend and colleague Tamara Ugolini

00:57:38.240 because normal anchor, David Menzies, was off on special assignment.

00:57:45.200 And so I just popped open the Rumble app on my phone.

00:57:48.720 And 24 hours ago, 64 comments.

00:57:54.720 Rebel Daily Roundup posted by myself and Tamara Ugolini.

00:57:59.660 We were talking about Trudeau crying racism instead of investigating foreign influence in our elections.

00:58:04.560 And David Suzuki bashing the Freedom Convoy.

00:58:07.380 So we are indeed on Rumble.

00:58:09.120 I don't know what's going on, why you can't find it, but I just double-checked both on my phone, but also on my computer.

00:58:15.660 So I went through the app, but also through the website.

00:58:18.100 And yes, indeed, we are there.

00:58:21.380 Now, as far as the closed captioning being wrong, that's YouTube's AI.

00:58:26.560 Again, let me assure you that no Rebel News employee is involved in the improper captioning of our live show.

00:58:39.380 That's YouTube's AI.

00:58:42.180 If you're watching it after the fact, the AI adds the closed captioning for the hearing impaired.

00:58:50.100 So, I'm sorry if you assumed that the people who work behind the scenes here at Rebel News are barely literate, but that isn't the case.

00:59:01.300 It's YouTube's AI.

00:59:02.940 Now, maybe that's my fault.

00:59:05.100 Maybe the AI cannot pick up my uniquely Albertan turns of phrases.

00:59:12.340 Turns of phrase.

00:59:13.580 Maybe that's how you say it.

00:59:14.500 Maybe it doesn't do well with my slightly nasally Northern Alberta accent.

00:59:20.820 I realize I do have that a little bit.

00:59:23.760 Maybe, you know, Silicon Valley-based YouTube doesn't do well with me.

00:59:29.160 But, again, no human being at Rebel News is involved in getting those closed captionings wrong.

00:59:37.580 So, to summarize, we are live.

00:59:41.680 We are on Rumble.

00:59:42.660 No human being that works at Rebel News is getting the closed captioning wrong.

00:59:47.380 Oh, and one last thing.

00:59:49.480 As I said, we do get hundreds of emails a day.

00:59:52.900 All of us do.

00:59:54.000 We do our very best to answer them, but sometimes they slip through the cracks.

00:59:58.920 So, that's why I thought I would take the time to answer this email today to clear up some things.

01:00:03.820 Because if Brian's got questions, maybe the rest of you do too.

01:00:07.560 So, that's that.

01:00:09.860 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

01:00:11.780 Thank you so much for tuning in.

01:00:13.000 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

01:00:15.740 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

01:00:18.880 Thank you.

01:00:27.920 Thank you for listening!

Rebel News Podcast - March 02, 2023

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Are 15-minute cities about convenience or climate change？

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