Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ CBC memo warns staff not to call Hamas ‘terrorists,’ citing politics and 'narratives'

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00:00:30.000 CBC says calling Hamas terrorists, well, it's just too political,

00:00:45.680 but they'll happily push a baseless conspiracy theory that Russian agents were behind the freedom convoy.

00:00:51.240 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed. It's August 12, 2025, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:00.000 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:11.920 Thanks, Mr. Chair.

00:01:13.480 I want to bring to the committee, amidst the chaos and the shock and the horror that so many Canadians experienced over the course of the week

00:01:26.960 with regards to the terror attack last Saturday in Israel,

00:01:31.140 A memo from the CBC was quietly circulated, not so quiet because it became public.

00:01:42.660 And it was telling journalists to avoid the word terrorist when referring to Hamas fighters in their publication.

00:01:51.200 So for those on the committee, and I think most Canadians know this by now,

00:01:57.460 but Hamas has been a recognized terrorist organization in this country for over 20 years.

00:02:05.560 And the memo, the memo that was leaked, reads as follows,

00:02:10.660 do not refer to militant soldiers or anyone else as terrorists, and do not was emphasized in bold letters.

00:02:17.600 And there's more in that memo.

00:02:19.220 The notion of terrorism remains heavily politicized and is part of the story.

00:02:23.740 Even when quoting or clipping a government or a source referring to fighters as, quote, terrorists,

00:02:28.440 we should add context to ensure the audience understands that this is opinion and not fact.

00:02:35.540 And that includes statements from the Canadian government and Canadian politicians.

00:02:40.400 So the question really is, Mr. Chair, if the Canadian government recognizes Hamas as a terrorist organization,

00:02:48.340 and rightfully should, and if you've read what the Canadian government says about that organization,

00:02:52.400 you would quite understand why they were so definitively listed as a terrorist organization.

00:02:59.760 And if you further looked at the Hamas Covenant or the revised charter from 1988,

00:03:08.000 Hamas has been clear on their genocidal intentions.

00:03:12.800 So the memo was circulated by a gentleman named George Atchi,

00:03:17.920 and he's the director of journalistic standards at the CBC.

00:03:22.400 Which, of course, gets a fair share of Canadian tax dollars.

00:03:29.620 And we would simply like to know why that direction of opinion was put forward by the CBC.

00:03:39.660 They are, after all, a news organization that Canadians pay for.

00:03:43.540 So we would expect that they would get news.

00:03:46.180 So given that Hamas has been declared a terrorist organization by the government of Canada since 2002,

00:03:55.620 and that the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel left thousands of innocent people dead and injured,

00:04:02.420 and that an email directive was sent from the director of journalistic standards of CBC News,

00:04:09.480 Mr. George Atchi, to all employees of CBC News,

00:04:13.580 directing them to downplay the coverage of the horrific, sadistic violence perpetrated by Hamas against innocent people in Israel

00:04:21.500 by not referring to the attackers as terrorists and falsely claiming that Gaza continued to be under occupation after Israel had pulled out in 2005.

00:04:31.160 And given that the CBC receives, you know, $1.4 billion in public funding through taxpayer dollars annually,

00:04:38.660 and that this committee has a mandate to review government expenditure,

00:04:43.240 I believe that the committee should, A, denounce Mr. Atchi's comments and report to this House,

00:04:50.080 and report to the House, sorry,

00:04:51.600 some in the president of CBC, Catherine Tate, to appear for two hours by herself within seven days of this motion,

00:05:00.420 hopefully being adopted by the Liberals and the NDP on this committee,

00:05:04.560 some in the director of journalistic standards, Mr. George Atchi,

00:05:09.120 and invite, of course, the CBC ombudsman, Mr. Jack Nagler,

00:05:13.100 to appear for a minimum of two hours to address the CBC's position on journalistic standards and practices.

00:05:20.620 Sometimes the CBC's bias is subtle, right?

00:05:24.880 It's buried in story selection, the kind of things they choose to cover,

00:05:29.740 like climate change and pride issues.

00:05:33.160 It's in careful wording or in what they don't cover, right?

00:05:38.000 Like vaccine injuries.

00:05:40.020 But other times, they just put it in writing, in a memo.

00:05:45.020 And thanks to Blacklock's reporter, we've now seen exactly that.

00:05:49.980 You see, Blacklock's got a hold of a 2023 letter from George Atchi,

00:05:56.440 the CBC's director of journalism standards,

00:05:59.340 explaining why the state broadcaster won't call actual terrorists, terrorists.

00:06:05.880 The reason?

00:06:07.800 The word is too, quote, highly politicized and reflects a, quote, certain narrative.

00:06:14.760 What narrative is that?

00:06:16.260 I think a truth.

00:06:18.500 Now, the letter was written seven months before October 7th, 2023,

00:06:23.880 when Hamas, a group the Canadian government has officially listed as a terrorist organization

00:06:30.420 since 2002, slaughtered 1,400 people in Israel, including eight Canadians.

00:06:39.440 Women and girls were raped and murdered.

00:06:42.360 Entire families were massacred. 0.99

00:06:45.780 Babies were brutally killed.

00:06:48.700 If that's not terrorism, nothing is.

00:06:52.660 And yet four days, four days after the massacre,

00:06:58.820 Atchi sent a directive to every newsroom.

00:07:02.500 Don't call them terrorists.

00:07:04.280 Don't call them militants.

00:07:05.680 Don't call them soldiers.

00:07:06.840 Don't use the word at all.

00:07:09.140 And let's remember, Hamas recorded their atrocities and then published them so that the world could see. 0.78

00:07:19.960 For years before this, CBC routinely identified Hamas as a terrorist group

00:07:25.720 because it is an outlawed terrorist organization.

00:07:30.100 But now, suddenly saying terrorist is too loaded, too political, one label the CBC just won't touch.

00:07:40.100 And Canadians have noticed.

00:07:42.000 In 2023, according to BlackLocks' reporting, CBC racked up nearly 4,800 viewer complaints,

00:07:50.300 a 45% jump from the year before.

00:07:52.600 Most of those complaints were about CBC's antiseptic, antisemitic, both sides' coverage of Hamas atrocities.

00:08:04.680 Conservative MP Rachel Thomas put it bluntly in committee.

00:08:10.280 Listen to this.

00:08:11.140 CBC is failing.

00:08:13.100 They are failing the Jewish community. 1.00

00:08:14.880 They are failing the innocent whose lives have been lost.

00:08:17.540 They are failing Canadians. 1.00

00:08:18.740 There is a leaked memo from the director of journalistic standards who instructed journalists

00:08:24.520 to refrain from using the term terrorist in his reference or in their reference to Hamas fighters.

00:08:30.620 Now, Hamas, as mentioned, has been listed on Canada's official list of terrorists for more than 20 years.

00:08:36.920 And so this isn't a point for debate.

00:08:38.780 This isn't a matter of opinion, but rather this is fact.

00:08:41.780 And so to justify its decision, however, the CBC came out and said,

00:08:45.320 well, we just don't want our journalists to take sides.

00:08:48.220 And if they use the term terrorist, they will be taking a side.

00:08:52.140 But to that I would say, no doubt.

00:08:55.000 Of course you're taking a side.

00:08:56.460 You're taking a side against terrorists.

00:08:58.940 What other side would you want to take?

00:09:01.920 When you have 1,400 people who were massacred in an evening,

00:09:06.300 when you have women and girls who are raped and then murdered and then paraded through the city,

00:09:12.560 when you have 40 babies who are beheaded,

00:09:15.660 whose side are you on?

00:09:17.300 As if there would be some other side to take.

00:09:22.260 Of course you should be against Hamas, 0.93

00:09:24.480 which is a terrorist organization functioning in a sadistic manner. 0.95

00:09:30.060 It is pure evil.

00:09:32.380 And to suggest otherwise is alarming.

00:09:35.080 But here's where it really gets rich. 0.99

00:09:38.440 Hypocritical. 0.95

00:09:39.720 CBC only gets squeamish about taking sides when it's actual terrorists. 0.97

00:09:44.120 When it comes to peaceful Canadians they don't like but would love to label as terrorists.

00:09:49.640 Oh, they'll take sides all day long.

00:09:52.180 They'll even invent a narrative if they need to.

00:09:56.080 Let's rewind to January 2022.

00:09:59.100 I think you guys know exactly where I'm going with this.

00:10:03.280 Neil Kochsal, anchor of Power and Politics,

00:10:07.860 is interviewing Liberal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino

00:10:12.440 as the anti-mandate Freedom Convoy is rolling into Ottawa.

00:10:18.420 And completely unprompted, she just floats this fever dream into the ether.

00:10:27.800 Listen to this.

00:10:28.600 I do ask that because, you know, given Canada's support of Ukraine

00:10:33.080 in this current crisis with Russia,

00:10:35.760 I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask,

00:10:38.820 but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things

00:10:44.840 as this protest grows,

00:10:46.980 but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.

00:10:50.920 Well, again, I'm going to defer to our partners in the public safety,

00:10:55.740 the trained officials and experts in that area.

00:10:58.960 Concerns?

00:10:59.960 Concerns from whom?

00:11:01.460 She doesn't say.

00:11:02.240 No evidence, no sources.

00:11:04.000 And here's the truth.

00:11:05.780 CESIS had already denied any Russian involvement in the convoy.

00:11:10.600 Did Mendicino correct her?

00:11:12.600 Of course not.

00:11:13.560 He just deferred to his national security experts,

00:11:16.700 the same experts that had already debunked that fevered dream from Kochsal.

00:11:24.280 So here's your CBC double standard in black and white.

00:11:28.320 With Hamas, they hide behind nuance and balance

00:11:31.980 and claim moral clarity on issues of terrorist atrocities.

00:11:37.540 Well, that's just too political.

00:11:39.020 But with peaceful Canadian truckers,

00:11:42.100 with blue collar uprisings,

00:11:44.580 they run wild with conspiracy theories about dangerous foreign plots.

00:11:50.100 Even the RCMP called the convoy peaceful.

00:11:53.600 Organizers told their supporters to report any troublemakers to police.

00:11:58.140 And at no time did any of those four individuals not cooperate with the OPS.

00:12:02.880 Not to my knowledge.

00:12:08.040 And the same was true with the Ontario Provincial Police.

00:12:11.320 In your view, was the Emergencies Act necessary to end the protest in Ottawa?

00:12:18.760 Well, that's a loaded question.

00:12:22.680 I'm a police officer.

00:12:24.720 Parliament gives us legislation.

00:12:26.240 We don't make legislation.

00:12:27.660 They provide it to us and we use it to the best of our abilities.

00:12:30.880 They gave us a piece of legislation to use.

00:12:33.320 We were thankful for it and we used it to the best of our abilities

00:12:35.680 to incorporate in our plan.

00:12:39.320 And in your view, was there a police solution to the demonstrations?

00:12:44.160 A police solution?

00:12:45.880 Policing or policing solutions?

00:12:47.360 There was a solution and we reached that solution.

00:12:50.520 We had some help with EMCPA, the Emergency Managed Civil Protection Act

00:12:55.120 regulations that we have with the province and the Emergencies Act.

00:12:58.620 But in my humble opinion, we would have reached the same solution

00:13:03.620 with the plan that we had without either of those pieces of legislation.

00:13:07.880 Within around the same timeline?

00:13:10.040 Yes.

00:13:10.540 But the CBC and the rest of the legacy media

00:13:13.100 still painted the convoy as Canada's January 6th.

00:13:17.100 Complete with shadowy Russian agents.

00:13:19.760 Except there were no threats to national security.

00:13:24.860 At all.

00:13:25.720 I think the superintendent's evidence was that there were no threats that materialized.

00:13:30.520 And he said there were no credible threats to national security.

00:13:34.640 Do you agree with that?

00:13:35.900 I do agree with that.

00:13:38.140 I do agree with that.

00:13:39.200 And that's a very important part and piece,

00:13:42.020 is that when you move from strategic intelligence into operational and tactical intelligence

00:13:46.940 and establishing thresholds for mandates and thresholds for charges,

00:13:52.060 that further analysis needs to be done to determine whether it's credible

00:13:56.260 and whether that threat actually came to fruition.

00:13:59.580 And this is why Canadians don't trust the CBC.

00:14:03.240 They don't just report the news.

00:14:05.060 They decide the side they're on first and then they build the journalism to match it.

00:14:11.280 They don't do what we do at Rebel News and that is follow the facts wherever they lead us.

00:14:17.460 And let me be clear here.

00:14:19.120 I'm not against bias in journalism.

00:14:20.980 Uh, I think it should come as no surprise to you that I am conservative

00:14:24.600 and I see things through a conservative worldview and I report through a conservative worldview.

00:14:30.660 But what I am about my viewpoint is honest.

00:14:35.820 And I don't insult you by thinking that you can't see it too.

00:14:40.500 And I don't expect you to pay for it unless you want to.

00:14:44.060 And at the CBC, you're forced to hand them a billion and a half dollars a year

00:14:53.540 for their insults and their narrative building and their half-truths.

00:15:00.220 Stay with us.

00:15:01.100 I'll show you some real journalism done a lot better for a lot less right after the break.

00:15:05.400 It's our own Lincoln J with a story of unpaid rent

00:15:07.980 and allegations of criminal activity taking place at a residence in Brantford, Ontario

00:15:14.320 as a landlord tries to evict a troublesome tenant.

00:15:19.720 You don't want to miss it.

00:15:21.180 Stay with us.

00:15:27.820 Lincoln J reporting for Rebel News.

00:15:29.980 A few weeks ago, I received a panicked phone call from a woman named Lila Protopapa,

00:15:34.560 who is a landlord in Brantford, Ontario.

00:15:36.440 She claimed that criminal activity was taking place on her property.

00:15:40.960 Lila and her family have owned four four-plex rental properties in Brantford since 1984.

00:15:47.500 In November 2024, they began renting one of their bachelor units to a man named Jeff Haggett.

00:15:53.880 Lila alleges that various criminal activities were occurring in and around the unit,

00:15:58.120 people coming and going at all hours,

00:16:00.460 extreme amounts of garbage piling up outside,

00:16:03.920 and other concerning behavior.

00:16:05.660 On top of that, the tenants stopped paying rent in February 2025.

00:16:10.760 After months of back and forth with the landlord and tenant board,

00:16:13.980 Lila was finally able to obtain an eviction order. 1.00

00:16:17.420 I decided to drive down to Brantford to see for myself what exactly was going on at this property.

00:16:23.620 On the first day, I spoke with Lila and some of the other tenants to gather more insight into the situation.

00:16:29.500 I returned a few days later to document the eviction, which was carried out by the sheriff,

00:16:35.280 a representative from the Court Enforcement Office of the Superior Court of Justice.

00:16:40.140 Watch the footage, come to your own conclusions, and let me know in the comments what you think about this situation.

00:16:45.780 Let's check it out.

00:16:46.980 My name is Lila Proto-Papa.

00:16:48.980 I live in Brantford, Ontario with my family.

00:16:52.520 My family has owned these properties behind me for 41 years.

00:16:58.580 At 21 Dundas Unit 5, there's been a tenant that we rented to just one gentleman back in November.

00:17:05.600 We thought he was going to be a very good tenant.

00:17:07.760 We had renovated the building.

00:17:09.420 We had renovated the apartment.

00:17:11.160 There's been a lot of shady activities happening here with drugs and prostitution.

00:17:15.780 It's like a magnet.

00:17:16.800 It attracts a lot of problems.

00:17:18.700 The main issues we find are like the needles lying around, them dumping their garbage,

00:17:24.780 constant issues of traffic and drug deals going on.

00:17:29.040 Does police do anything here?

00:17:30.660 No.

00:17:31.440 Not at all.

00:17:32.300 I involved Dan McCreary, the councillor of Ward 3 here.

00:17:35.680 I thought he would get, you know, quick intervention and my problems would be solved.

00:17:39.700 Unfortunately, it augmented the problems.

00:17:42.340 They sent some bylaw officers and they charged me more money on my property taxes 0.96

00:17:46.720 because of the garbage that they accumulate.

00:17:54.740 It's always the responsibility of the landlord to take care of the property maintenance.

00:17:59.160 I understand that.

00:18:00.440 But when there's an intervention from outside bringing garbage inside, that becomes a problem.

00:18:07.160 This was to be a clean area.

00:18:08.500 And then the garbage that's already there from other tenants that we put there for the week

00:18:13.740 to be, you know, put to the side of the curb, that gets all mangled up.

00:18:18.280 That gets all broken up because they kind of look for things in the garbage,

00:18:21.760 which is really, really distressing.

00:18:24.100 So, as you can see, the garbage mess behind me, this is three days after garbage day.

00:18:29.700 The garbage day here is Tuesday night.

00:18:32.320 Me, my mom and brothers come out, we clean it up, we take everything to the curb,

00:18:37.020 and three days later, this is what we have to deal with.

00:18:39.680 As you can see, the opposite side of where the problem is, absolutely clean.

00:18:44.960 No bags, no garbage, no nothing.

00:18:47.520 There's been countless of people now that have admitted that they come here to buy their drugs off of Jeff.

00:18:53.940 So, from February 1st, he stopped paying.

00:18:56.920 Here we are in July, almost the end of July.

00:18:59.460 And we have five, six months in a row, unpaid, you know, becomes a problem.

00:19:10.100 Who is it?

00:19:12.040 I can't protect you.

00:19:13.500 Who is it?

00:19:15.020 It's the landlord.

00:19:16.100 Okay, one second.

00:19:17.780 Okay.

00:19:19.180 Hi.

00:19:20.820 Hi.

00:19:21.520 Hi.

00:19:22.140 Is Jeff here?

00:19:23.480 He's not here right now, no.

00:19:24.420 Oh, okay.

00:19:24.920 He's just packing everything up now.

00:19:26.080 Oh, you're packing up.

00:19:26.880 Yeah, I want my rent.

00:19:28.460 Yeah, he's just, I'll talk to him.

00:19:30.120 He's just gone out for probably about half an hour.

00:19:33.320 He'll be back for about half an hour.

00:19:34.500 I really need my rent paid, because you guys have been here so many months,

00:19:40.140 they've not paid me anything since February 1st.

00:19:44.180 I'll let him know.

00:19:46.200 I'll let him know.

00:19:46.800 And we're now, like, the end of July.

00:19:49.820 I also want to consider that we haven't had hot water or heat the entire winter.

00:19:53.280 No, you've had hot heat.

00:19:54.140 No, no, no.

00:19:55.140 You paid for the heat.

00:19:55.800 We had to pull the bylaw, thank you.

00:19:57.080 No, you paid.

00:19:57.640 You registered with the city.

00:20:00.360 There was no fire alarms.

00:20:01.860 There was no carbon monoxide.

00:20:04.160 You took out the fire alarms.

00:20:05.780 I had everything done here.

00:20:07.340 The fire department mentioned that he has had nothing but problems for years.

00:20:10.340 No, you took everything out.

00:20:11.700 No, no, no.

00:20:12.260 You've ruined my place.

00:20:13.980 What do you think, though, about, like, families living here, and, you know, there's people

00:20:17.300 passed out here.

00:20:18.300 People claim that there's needles and stuff.

00:20:20.360 None of my friends do needles.

00:20:21.760 None of us do needles.

00:20:22.600 Or crack pipes.

00:20:23.400 None of that.

00:20:24.060 I will show you my arms.

00:20:25.440 There's no needles found.

00:20:26.060 Yeah, there's needles found every day here.

00:20:28.380 And it has to come from here?

00:20:29.860 I'll show you.

00:20:30.620 No, none of my friends have ever touched a needle.

00:20:32.720 We collected.

00:20:33.740 I don't care what you collect.

00:20:34.780 It doesn't mean anybody here did it.

00:20:36.160 We collected a lot of needles around here.

00:20:38.200 Go look around the side of the building.

00:20:39.420 Go look around the side of the building.

00:20:40.760 I have a look.

00:20:41.480 Who did that? 0.94

00:20:42.120 Your f***ing up store's neighbor just throwing it out the window. 0.96

00:20:44.340 Why are you blaming just her? 1.00

00:20:45.900 Get f***ed. 0.98

00:20:47.020 What do you have to say about the claims that he made about the water? 0.99

00:20:50.520 The water and stuff?

00:20:51.520 Yeah, right.

00:20:52.680 Well, they are registered with the city with the water.

00:20:55.700 With the water tank.

00:20:56.900 I pay for the water, not them.

00:20:58.980 We've called the firefighters here several times because they lit the place on fire on the balcony.

00:21:03.540 I've tried to do an N5, an N6, an N4.

00:21:06.280 If you don't know the viewers what they are, an N4 is for eviction. 0.96

00:21:11.400 An N6 is when there's crime, illicit activity.

00:21:14.400 An N5 is when there's disturbance to other tenants.

00:21:17.620 I mean, I did all the forms and then you kind of go to the next step and then you apply to the board to have them removed.

00:21:23.700 But the process is very, very arduous and long.

00:21:26.940 The sheriff is going to come here to evict the tenant on July the 29th.

00:21:31.540 Yeah, it's great.

00:21:32.560 Thank you.

00:21:33.580 Thank you.

00:21:38.860 Hi, Jeff.

00:21:39.900 Hi.

00:21:41.000 It looks like you're getting your stuff packed out.

00:21:42.960 Yeah.

00:21:43.420 I'm getting a sense of relief because it's been such a long time we've been waiting for this day.

00:21:50.440 Hey, Jeff.

00:21:51.120 Yeah?

00:21:52.260 So you had this many people living in a bachelor?

00:21:54.840 Really?

00:21:55.240 Just come over to help me move.

00:21:56.480 Oh, yeah? 0.90

00:21:56.920 Get the f*** out of here. 1.00

00:21:58.620 You f***ing dude. 1.00

00:21:59.360 So what's with all the garbage out here, man? 1.00

00:22:02.760 I'm a f***ing slob. 1.00

00:22:04.420 You're a slob? 1.00

00:22:05.540 Yeah. 1.00

00:22:05.820 You like it? 0.84

00:22:06.820 Where's the f***ing free checks? 0.99

00:22:08.160 Where the f*** are you guys, eh? 0.97

00:22:09.380 So why didn't you pay rent? 0.98

00:22:11.380 Because it didn't f***ing turn on the hydro or f***ing hot water. 0.64

00:22:15.020 That's not on you? 0.96

00:22:16.580 No, it's f***ing not. 0.82

00:22:18.800 I pay it, but they wouldn't turn it on. 0.92

00:22:20.720 Okay. 0.92

00:22:21.260 I got f***ing credit. 0.77

00:22:22.120 Call them up. 0.55

00:22:22.920 Yeah?

00:22:24.360 All right.

00:22:24.840 This guy's got a track record.

00:22:25.720 So what about all the people that would be passed out of your unit here?

00:22:28.920 You think that's safe for families?

00:22:31.380 They're buying dope. 1.00

00:22:32.520 F*** lots of it. 0.99

00:22:33.120 You want to buy something? 1.00

00:22:34.140 I'll sell you something right now.

00:22:35.260 So you're selling dope. 0.99

00:22:36.060 I got a f***ing pocket full. 0.99

00:22:37.660 So do you...

00:22:38.400 Do you want to buy something or not?

00:22:39.500 So you sell...

00:22:40.260 Do you want to buy something or not?

00:22:41.600 So you sell dope to people.

00:22:43.460 They pass out in front of your unit.

00:22:45.500 There's families around here. 1.00

00:22:46.780 F*** you say. 1.00

00:22:47.420 Whatever you say. 1.00

00:22:49.100 You think that's safe for kids?

00:22:50.720 Whatever you say. 0.99

00:22:51.900 You're f***ing God. 0.97

00:22:54.420 That's a great example you're setting for children, you know? 0.98

00:22:56.960 You should think about them when you're doing that.

00:22:58.680 We're in a pure place. 0.95

00:22:59.340 Don't f***ing lie. 0.91

00:23:00.420 Yeah. 0.97

00:23:01.280 Yeah.

00:23:01.620 I can see that right now.

00:23:03.700 You should be really proud of yourself. 1.00

00:23:05.780 F*** you now when I come down here and f***ing condone you. 1.00

00:23:08.120 What's that? 1.00

00:23:09.540 Can you say that again?

00:23:10.880 I don't know if I'm going to come down here and word you.

00:23:12.840 You condone this? 1.00

00:23:13.920 F*** you now. 1.00

00:23:14.960 Huh? 1.00

00:23:15.800 Well, there's kids around here, man.

00:23:17.720 Well, go then.

00:23:20.040 There's kids around here.

00:23:21.000 You got people passed out here.

00:23:24.220 Drug paraphernalia.

00:23:25.480 Where's that?

00:23:25.860 And there's kids, man.

00:23:26.860 Where's that?

00:23:27.400 What do you think about that? 1.00

00:23:28.620 F*** off. 1.00

00:23:29.680 You want to play around here, eh? 1.00

00:23:31.620 And you, like, obviously it's not safe for you to play.

00:23:34.280 We sometimes play back here, but if we see anyone over there, we just run this way inside

00:23:39.520 the house.

00:23:40.240 See, I feel bad for you kids that live around here, you know?

00:23:43.420 Like, I remember being a kid growing up, you know?

00:23:45.400 You're running around, you're exploring, right?

00:23:47.000 This is not a safe place right now to explore, and hopefully with them leaving, it's going

00:23:53.180 to be safe for you and your friends.

00:23:55.360 Yeah, I hope.

00:23:56.780 It's important to clarify that this unit here is a bachelor, okay?

00:24:01.760 And we've counted roughly seven people crawl out of this bachelor.

00:24:08.660 Just think about that.

00:24:09.680 That many people crammed into that tight of a space.

00:24:13.040 They live there.

00:24:13.620 They're there every day, all day, all night.

00:24:15.960 I asked him why people are passed out in front of his unit, and he used to show me

00:24:20.440 photos of that.

00:24:21.660 He said they're buying dope.

00:24:22.960 Doing dope, I guess.

00:24:24.700 Like, what do the cops do about this?

00:24:26.960 Absolutely nada.

00:24:28.440 Nothing.

00:24:29.520 How many times have the cops come?

00:24:31.320 How many reports do I have?

00:24:32.640 How many incident numbers do I have?

00:24:34.760 In conclusion, I even called crime stoppers.

00:24:37.740 Have they done anything?

00:24:39.600 Nada.

00:24:40.320 What about the kids that are around here? 0.97

00:24:41.880 Where's that f***ing guy at? 0.98

00:24:43.920 I'm not kidding. 1.00

00:24:44.640 Get the f*** away from me, you f***ing d***. 1.00

00:24:47.460 Very nice. 1.00

00:24:48.380 I have a 10-year-old kid.

00:24:49.400 I don't need him to see some junkie overdose behind my place or on a parking lot real close

00:24:56.400 or in the park.

00:24:58.080 And it's getting rough. 0.97

00:25:00.000 Cops won't do s***. 0.98

00:25:00.920 My son saw a lady from that unit 5 come to the side of the building with two men, and

00:25:06.600 they gave her a bag and she gave them money.

00:25:09.560 He's 10, so not good. 1.00

00:25:12.100 And then my daughter as well, the same crackhead lady, she called her a stupid, ugly whore. 1.00

00:25:17.560 My daughter's 12. 1.00

00:25:18.420 You see people are still coming by for whatever reasons.

00:25:34.300 What's that?

00:25:34.880 He seemed like a good guy in the beginning.

00:25:38.620 He had good references.

00:25:40.820 Believe it or not, he was on ODSP.

00:25:45.140 We thought they'd be a good tenant, but it turned out to be this nightmare.

00:25:48.320 You want to take someone's word, which isn't worth anything anymore, because they tell you

00:25:53.680 what you want to hear.

00:25:55.200 They'll lie on their references.

00:25:56.740 They'll lie, lie, and until they get those keys in their hands, they shut the door, and

00:26:01.900 then that's when you see who they are.

00:26:03.480 You saw Lloyd previously in the video, and at the time, they were still living here.

00:26:07.280 He was a little worried about showing his face on camera.

00:26:09.500 Now he's okay.

00:26:10.860 He does maintenance for the properties here, and Lloyd is going to bring us inside the

00:26:15.660 unit, right, Lloyd?

00:26:16.360 Yep.

00:26:16.940 All right.

00:26:17.380 Go ahead.

00:26:18.320 Yeah, you lead the way.

00:26:33.260 All right, so, like, I'm wondering if they were actually living like this, or if this

00:26:41.280 is the clutter from, you know, moving that we'll never really know.

00:26:46.360 Not really, no.

00:26:46.940 Because you've been inside the unit, right?

00:26:48.940 Yes, I was in the unit when it was for, before they moved in.

00:26:52.920 Everything was brand new.

00:26:54.540 Everything looked really nice.

00:26:56.220 All new paint, new floors, new everything.

00:26:58.760 And this is how it ended up.

00:27:00.140 Look at this.

00:27:01.220 How to prepare your crack pipe.

00:27:03.680 This seems to be like an official government pamphlet.

00:27:06.680 Yes, they come from the government with a lot of your NARCAN kits and stuff like that.

00:27:12.560 Um, you can tell where they were doing their s**t crushed uphill here.

00:27:17.740 So how many people on average do you think we're living in here?

00:27:20.540 Uh, the one guy admitted there was 14 people at one point.

00:27:24.880 In this room.

00:27:25.880 In this unit.

00:27:28.300 It's a room.

00:27:29.420 Yeah.

00:27:29.800 It's literally a room.

00:27:30.740 Yeah.

00:27:31.640 Right here is a crack pipe.

00:27:33.340 They've just left it on the kitchen counter next to some bread, some spices.

00:27:38.060 What's next for you guys?

00:27:39.800 A new apartment.

00:27:41.180 To live in?

00:27:42.400 Yeah.

00:27:42.680 Let's just say the government offered, like, a rehab or something to get you guys clean,

00:27:47.620 you know, working, stuff.

00:27:48.940 Would you guys take that help?

00:27:54.760 Maybe.

00:27:56.380 The government isn't offering that, so.

00:27:59.220 If they were, though, would you guys consider it?

00:28:02.460 Would consider it.

00:28:03.720 I understand, like, a lot of people say it's a mental health thing, but at the same time,

00:28:08.560 maybe they should get some help.

00:28:09.600 I think if you've got two legs and a heartbeat, you can go out there and work just like the

00:28:14.180 rest of us.

00:28:14.840 I know even a lot of the centres and that, you're supposed to go to get help, they're

00:28:19.140 now handing out types of drugs and free drug supplies and everything else so that they

00:28:25.060 can continue using instead of getting them the help that they need.

00:28:28.340 I do sympathise with people that are in the depths of addiction.

00:28:31.720 It's tough.

00:28:32.400 As well.

00:28:33.140 And, you know, it doesn't help when you have people in high places making it seem like,

00:28:38.300 you know, it's okay, instead of trying to get them out of their lifestyle.

00:28:41.960 100% no.

00:28:43.260 Obviously, they have people that care about them and, you know, they need help and they

00:28:47.620 need, someone has to step up and do something because whatever it's doing right now, it's

00:28:51.840 just not working.

00:28:52.600 I reached out to Larry Brock and then after his campaign, I congratulated him for winning,

00:28:56.880 but I was supposed to get an appointment.

00:28:59.200 He promised me an appointment to see him after at his office.

00:29:02.380 It never happened.

00:29:03.060 So it's official, the sheriff has come.

00:29:05.880 They've placed this posting on the door, notice of vacant possession, and the attendant

00:29:12.800 has officially been evicted.

00:29:16.060 The sad reality in Canada is that hard drug use is running rampant through cities and communities

00:29:21.280 all across the country.

00:29:22.380 If you want to see people in the depths of addiction receive treatment, rather than being

00:29:27.000 encouraged to continue this lifestyle, visit our website, helpnotharm.ca, sign the petition,

00:29:33.920 and have your voice heard.

00:29:35.300 Thanks for watching the video.

00:29:42.700 Well, we always turn over the last portion of the show to you.

00:29:46.660 And I know these are your letters to Ezra, but I'm hosting the show today while Ezra's

00:29:50.260 away for a couple of days, so you're going to get my responses, and I hope that's okay.

00:29:55.980 So your letters to me come by way of Ezra's interview with Justice Center for Constitutional

00:30:04.340 Freedom's lawyer, Marty Moore, and he was speaking on Premier Tim Houston's ban on hiking because

00:30:13.720 walking in the woods is going to cause lightning and arson.

00:30:17.860 And I know this is a divisive issue, even amongst conservatives, but there are ways to balance

00:30:26.260 our rights with public safety regarding fires.

00:30:31.420 I'm an outdoors woman.

00:30:33.840 I am a conservationist, and people like me don't start irresponsible fires.

00:30:39.920 We worry about being intrinsically safe during times of high fires.

00:30:45.640 And so I won't be doing any fire lighting while I'm in the bushes, but walking through the

00:30:53.760 bushes, that's not going to do anything. 1.00

00:30:57.400 And in fact, it might even make people a little safer because you'll have people there who would

00:31:04.360 notice a fire.

00:31:06.920 But I don't know.

00:31:08.320 I don't work for the government.

00:31:09.340 So apparently there are smarter people than me coming up with solutions.

00:31:15.780 David Hines writes, so did Premier Houston, in effect, just admit that Nova Scotia, like

00:31:20.640 many other provinces, is not practicing good forest management?

00:31:23.820 Just asking.

00:31:24.800 Well, I do know that the federal government should not be providing any input into this

00:31:28.860 because they definitely don't provide good forest management in the forests that they are

00:31:32.980 in charge of, like Jasper.

00:31:37.640 And in fact, the fire only really came under control once the province of Alberta got involved

00:31:44.220 because the federal government did not appropriately manage the forest in Jasper National Park here

00:31:53.820 in Alberta that was damaged by Pine Beetle for the better part of a decade.

00:32:02.440 And then they didn't mechanically clear the forest because they're worried it might look ugly.

00:32:10.060 You know what's ugly?

00:32:11.140 When one third of the town is burned down.

00:32:14.040 But yeah, there have to be better ways to do this.

00:32:18.120 There just has to be better ways than banning people who can't afford any other form of recreation 0.80

00:32:31.720 than keeping people out of the forest.

00:32:38.820 It just, I don't, there has to be a better way.

00:32:42.120 Anything can be outlawed in the name of safety and in the public good, right?

00:32:46.540 Like any, any action.

00:32:50.460 Normally we try to make an effort to balance people's charter rights with public safety,

00:32:55.020 but that sort of went out the door five years ago.

00:32:59.160 And governments have forgotten what it used to be like in the before times

00:33:02.940 when they actually had to find a way to respect people's rights.

00:33:10.480 But now they just think they can tromp all over them.

00:33:14.180 Jane Vandervleet says, this is the woods.

00:33:18.320 This is not the woods.

00:33:19.740 Those both look exactly the same.

00:33:22.000 Hilarious.

00:33:22.500 That is on, in relation to a video posted by a veteran who has since been issued a $25,000

00:33:32.600 plus I think surcharges.

00:33:34.220 So $2,800 fine for walking in the woods.

00:33:37.760 And he pointed out the absurdity of it all.

00:33:39.540 So what the government considers woods versus what is actually woods.

00:33:44.540 And they, you know, as the meme goes, these two pictures are the same, but one is illegal

00:33:49.220 and one isn't for safety.

00:33:52.520 But if, if you have to be out of that one for safety, why aren't you out of that one?

00:33:57.560 Like, it doesn't make any sense.

00:33:58.780 And that's the whole problem with all of this is that the rules don't make any sense.

00:34:04.420 It's just like during COVID where deadly COVID in the grocery store only traveled counterclockwise.

00:34:12.660 So if you were walking in the grocery store clockwise, you were safe.

00:34:18.100 But in the Black Death, it came counterclockwise.

00:34:20.040 If you were sitting in a bar, having a drink with your friend, if you were sitting perfectly

00:34:28.860 safe, man alive, if you stood up and you got yourself over three and a half feet and you

00:34:34.820 weren't wearing a mask, the deadly COVID, it has some sort of altimeter on it that was

00:34:44.480 more deadly if you stood up without a mask on.

00:34:47.820 Um, it's all just performative. 0.95

00:34:51.020 It's just to see who will follow blindly the dumbest things because somebody in authority 0.96

00:34:58.120 told you. 0.64

00:35:00.200 Bruce Hatchison, who, uh, normally writes into me, Bruce, I won't be jealous.

00:35:08.520 Um, but Bruce normally writes into my show, the gun show on Wednesdays.

00:35:14.580 Uh, but I also see that he, uh, I thought I was his favorite, but he's writing into Ezra

00:35:20.340 too.

00:35:20.840 So Bruce says humanizing the enemy is the left's ploy to propagandizing the masses. 0.99

00:35:26.940 If they make vile people like Palestinian terrorists look pathetic and helpless, they'll 0.98

00:35:31.460 arouse the public's sympathies. 0.99

00:35:33.240 Oh, I think we're talking about the staged, um, hungry people, um, where newspapers in the

00:35:40.880 United States were publishing Hamas propaganda that were completely staged photographs to

00:35:48.420 show how the Israelis were starving the Palestinians in Gaza.

00:35:54.340 Well, it's not true.

00:35:55.180 If anybody's starving in Gaza, it's because Hamas is scooping all the aid and it's being 0.58

00:36:03.100 looted on its way in.

00:36:04.620 Can friction of shoes on grass and soil start a fire?

00:36:08.360 If so, Blaine Higgs is right, but I call BS because I doubt that a brush with the brush

00:36:14.900 couldn't create a big enough spark to ignite tinder dry material.

00:36:19.920 And what a disappointment Blaine Higgs is.

00:36:24.620 There are a lot of people currently disappointing me with their overreaction to this.

00:36:29.200 Um, and again, I say, if you can just throw everybody's rights at the door in the name

00:36:34.720 of public safety, then you can do that for anything, right?

00:36:39.900 You're supposed to damage people's rights the least in an emergency, not just throw them

00:36:49.360 on the, uh, bonfire of civil liberties as it were.

00:36:52.680 Yeah, COVID, governments learned something, but so did I.

00:37:01.500 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:37:02.960 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:37:04.320 Thanks for everybody for bearing with me as I throw a show together while Ezra's away.

00:37:09.660 Um, and it's my show today.

00:37:12.680 So I'll say my tagline.

00:37:15.120 If you find me offensive, maybe don't find me at all.

00:37:22.680 But I'll say my tagline.

Rebel News Podcast - August 13, 2025

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ CBC memo warns staff not to call Hamas ‘terrorists,’ citing politics and 'narratives'

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