Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Toronto has a new mayor and the rest of the country should care even if you never plan to go anywhere near the big smoke

00:00:00.000 woke corporations that just won't give up the masks and Toronto politics and what it means

00:00:05.520 for the rest of the country. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gun Show.

00:00:26.580 Well friends, you'll notice that the studio is a little bit different today because I'm

00:00:29.980 not in my home studio back in the hinterlands, as David says, of Northern Alberta. I'm actually

00:00:36.420 in the Toronto HQ as we're touring our documentary Church Under Fire, Canada's War on Christianity.

00:00:41.920 So I thought I'm in the new studio. Why don't I sit down and have a conversation with my friend

00:00:46.680 David Menzies about the things that are happening in Toronto because so goes Toronto, so goes the

00:00:52.800 rest of the country and so many of the bad ideas that are born in Toronto sort of spill upwards

00:00:59.200 into federal politics and then get imposed on the rest of us. So that's why I care about Toronto's

00:01:04.980 mayor. And then we'll talk about woke companies, woke mom and pop stores, woke corporations that

00:01:12.320 just won't give up the stranglehold on COVID regulations that they haven't. I'm curious to

00:01:18.600 see your ideas about why you think that's happening. So all that is to say, joining me now is my friend

00:01:24.520 David Menzies. Oh, well, thank you, Sheila. The hinterlands loss is Toronto's gain. Yeah,

00:01:30.300 I can't wait to get back there. The weather here, as I was just saying to Tamara Ugolini,

00:01:36.040 is oppressive. My hair is a ball of frizz and it's strange for it to be like a blazing hot,

00:01:42.580 but also simultaneously overcast and chokingly humid. It is different, but don't despair,

00:01:50.280 she-devil, because that looks like one of those $350 Yorkville hairdos, you know, 1.00

00:01:55.920 controlled yet wild. Oh, it's not controlled. No, it wouldn't be so bad, but they also took my

00:02:00.940 hair gel at the airport. Oh, no. So I'm a little bit, I'm not at my best. Now, David, I wanted to

00:02:07.680 talk to you about the election of Olivia Chow. Yes. And, you know, as Albertans, you know, we think of

00:02:14.580 Toronto thinking of itself as the centre of the universe, but it really is the centre of the

00:02:20.460 universe for politics that spill out everywhere else. For example, Toronto has a gang and gun

00:02:27.320 violence problem. So the Liberals have to do something about it or have to pretend to do

00:02:32.360 something about it. So they take the path of least resistance and grab by guns. Yes.

00:02:36.920 And now you have a progressive mayor who's more progressive than ever. What can we expect from

00:02:44.180 Olivia Chow? Because, like, she's an NDP mayor. She's not even a Liberal mayor. Yes, I think what

00:02:49.640 we can expect, and I'm praying for Olivia Chow to prove me wrong, right? But I think what we can expect

00:02:56.740 is more so-called safe injection sites. I think we can expect her to turn a blind eye to tent cities. 0.99

00:03:05.260 After all, it was her former husband, Jack Layton, who was responsible for the enormous

00:03:12.500 tent city going back some 15 years ago in Toronto. It was kind of like, let me take care of things

00:03:19.120 when there was about 12 squatters, and then it turned into like a few hundred. If you build it,

00:03:23.400 they will come. Oh, 100%. Yeah. And it ain't field of dreams. It's more like, you know, garden of

00:03:29.620 nightmares. And the so, you know, and she loves tax and spending. One of the candidates I interviewed

00:03:38.640 during the campaign, Sheila, Rob Davis, if you own a car, and or you own a house, Olivia Chow is your

00:03:45.600 enemy. So that is what I'm expecting. Like I said, I want her to prove me wrong. I don't think so.

00:03:51.540 So I can tell you, she hasn't even been sworn in. And on Dominion Day, she was there and at Nathan

00:03:58.920 Phillips Square. And instead of celebrating Canada, there was all this, you know, these 0.94

00:04:04.600 denouncements. Yeah, colonial, blah, blah, blah, blah. It made you a shame to be a Canadian. So I think

00:04:12.540 with me, and I go back many moons in this city. And I did a monologue shortly after Olivia Chow was

00:04:21.600 elected for Ezra on his show. And basically, it was this, I was looking at winners and losers.

00:04:27.820 Now, obviously, the winner of the mayoral election is Olivia Chow. She is the new mayor. Congratulations,

00:04:35.460 Olivia. Then you got to look at the losers. Well, it's everybody from number two to 102. There was 102 0.98

00:04:41.920 candidates. I think you're an uber loser. And that would be 83 of the candidates if you lost to 1.00

00:04:48.120 Molly the dog. Molly the dog came in ahead of 83 other candidates. And yet, I also look federally,

00:04:57.520 we have the blackface liberals in power. In fact, I don't think there was a single conservative 416 1.00

00:05:05.120 area code writing in Toronto. At Queen's Park, we have a progressive conservative premier,

00:05:13.900 Doug Ford. Heavy on progressive. You stole the words right out of my mouth. I mean, one of the

00:05:19.940 platforms they ran on, Sheila, was bringing back normalcy to the sex ed curriculum by the McGinty

00:05:26.080 Wynn liberals. It is way worse. And you have a milquetoast minister of education, Stephen Lecce,

00:05:32.860 who literally runs away from parents. But on the category of losers, you know who else I put on 0.86

00:05:40.080 that list? You're looking at me. I'm thinking right now, as far as Eastern Canada is concerned,

00:05:46.660 is there any room anymore for a person such as I, someone that wants a conservative government,

00:05:54.020 someone that wants a politician that says what he means and means what he says? Because even when we

00:06:00.020 have an alleged conservative provincial government, it's anything but the case, it is just another

00:06:06.800 shade of liberal. And maybe has the indoctrination, Sheila, has it been so profound, and also with the

00:06:17.060 media in on the federal government take that I mean, they're the paint, the paid trade, train seals.

00:06:24.340 So I have to wonder if maybe my beloved city of my birth, and my province, it's moved on for people

00:06:33.200 like me, we have to think of going elsewhere. Maybe it's out west, because I feel utterly betrayed

00:06:40.680 and abandoned. So what is the problem? Is it that people here sort of east of Winnipeg? Do you not even

00:06:50.400 know what it is to be conservative anymore? Is it just that, you know, that the mainstream media and

00:06:57.200 the liberals, although I'm repeating myself there, have created this avatar of a boogeyman of what a 0.99

00:07:02.480 conservative is in their mind, that it's this racist, radical, homophobic, tire burning maniac, 0.97

00:07:10.400 I'm only a couple of those things, and not all of those things. Do they not realize that there's 0.96

00:07:16.180 just somebody who generally just wants to be left alone and wants accountable government?

00:07:19.940 Yeah, I think you're right, Sheila. I think, as I say, when it comes to the adherence of Marxism,

00:07:27.360 or the advertising makers on Madison Avenue, get them young, get them forever. Yeah. And I think

00:07:36.120 it's been a long game, maybe 50 years in the making.

00:07:40.340 China has a 100-year plan. Yeah. You know? Exactly. And I think it's been a complete, 0.98

00:07:49.000 like, most of the school boards, as far as I can tell, in southern Ontario, are Marxist

00:07:55.520 domains. Right. And regardless of religion. A hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the Catholic 0.95

00:08:02.040 school board. Just as bad, if not worse. Catholic in name only, you know. And one of the few wins

00:08:06.120 was the York Catholic District School Board, which voted against the raising of the pride

00:08:12.940 flag. But that was just a two-vote margin. I think it was six to four. So just barely came

00:08:19.940 through. And believe me, you, that battle's not over. Because the spirit unicorn set, they're

00:08:26.600 going to go to the human rights commissioners, who are unelected, non-accountable. And I can see

00:08:33.320 them forcing that upon Catholic school boards. And when they say, what else? Well, the what

00:08:40.140 else will be, your public funding is gone. That is where the end game is going to be.

00:08:45.780 But, and when we look at Marxism, and people say, oh, you know, that's such a gross exaggeration. But

00:08:51.840 I don't think it is. It's beyond left-wing or progressive or liberal. That's not harsh enough.

00:08:59.180 And certainly, let's differentiate between what liberals are today and classical liberals,

00:09:05.320 the likes of a Dan McTague, for example. Or a Dave Rubin. Exactly. If you're a classical

00:09:11.620 liberal, as the saying goes, you're a conservative today. Yeah, the Overton window has completely

00:09:15.900 shifted. Exactly. And I think the only, so I painted a picture of doom and gloom and indoctrination,

00:09:24.400 where even parents are getting locked out and trespassed from school board meetings. It's just

00:09:31.340 insane. What's the solution? I think, Sheila, the only solution is to take a page from the left

00:09:37.980 and start to indoctrinate all these institutions that have gone so woke, so left. And again,

00:09:46.560 it's not going to happen in five or 10 years, maybe 50 years from now. And so those parents who are

00:09:52.980 right of center, I think you want to raise your children to be that way and to maybe get jobs

00:10:00.440 within the system and be agents for change, because that's how the left pulled this off, I believe.

00:10:06.900 That's a great point. For someone like me, I encourage my kids to just get a trade. Don't even

00:10:13.200 go to one of those brainwashing factories. But there is something to be said for not walking off the

00:10:18.660 battlefield of ideas and just leaving it to the left. You know, Sheila, you're so right. And I mean,

00:10:24.180 if you go into a university course, and you're going to get a major in gender studies, there's 0.53

00:10:30.320 only one job that leads to teaching gender. Exactly. Those jobs. But I once did a book review on it was

00:10:39.200 a book called blue collar and proud of it. And it was a gentleman in Massachusetts. And he realized in

00:10:47.540 the first half of the first semester of college, this wasn't for him. So what did he do? Well,

00:10:54.740 he got a pickup truck, a trailer, a couple of lawnmowers. And he started cutting grass in an

00:10:59.040 affluent suburb of Boston. A few years later, guess what? He's earning millions of dollars has a staff

00:11:07.740 of 26, I think, rolling in money. And I think that one of the roadblocks to kids pursuing the trades,

00:11:19.160 it's their parents. Oh, I don't want them working with their hands. Oh, I want a fancy multi letter,

00:11:25.820 you know, diploma after their name. But those are not the jobs that are out there. Those are not the

00:11:32.900 jobs that are paying big bucks. I mean, I know a plumber. Yeah, he drives a van Monday to Friday,

00:11:39.600 you know, his weekend cars, it's a Porsche 911. Yeah, I'm from the oil patch. You don't have to

00:11:43.980 tell me how you can make a lot of money with your back in your hand. There you go. Doing hard work.

00:11:48.200 I think a lot of it too is and we'll get back, we'll circle back to Olivia Chow in a second here. But

00:11:52.960 a lot of it too, is the guidance counselors in high schools, they are shoehorning everybody into

00:12:00.220 university. Yeah, as opposed to the trades. And then we are bringing in immigrants to deal with 1.00

00:12:05.060 the labor shortage in the trades. Yeah. I agree. And, and even I mean, you know, in Toronto,

00:12:13.820 you have multi generational welfare families. Yeah. And I'm looking at all the roadblocks to 0.91

00:12:20.260 getting ahead. So those families would include white families, right? So you can't play the race

00:12:26.800 card. I'm discriminated because of race. They're able bodied. So you can't say, well, I'm in a

00:12:31.080 wheelchair. I've got limited opportunities, perhaps. No, it's just that dad was on welfare and granddad

00:12:37.000 was on welfare. You're missing something here. Okay. It's not the dad that's on welfare. It's the mom

00:12:42.840 that's on welfare because dad is not in the picture, which is the number one reason why people languish in

00:12:48.140 poverty is we incentivize the destruction of the family. Fatherlessness is a huge, huge issue

00:12:55.040 that is adversely affecting society. And you can put up all the community centers and basketball

00:12:59.920 courts and hire social workers. It will not take the place of having a strong male role model in the 0.91

00:13:07.980 family. Having your parents married is the number one predictor of success. It predicts recidivism

00:13:13.560 rates, criminality, poverty, your ability to graduate high school, to go to post-secondary

00:13:19.920 education. It's if your parents are married. 100%. And Sheila, you know, and I'm not knocking

00:13:25.980 people when they're down, but welfare is like a temporary thing. It's not a lifestyle. Yeah. And

00:13:31.640 it wasn't supposed to be a multi-generational lifestyle. And I can tell you, as I've said to

00:13:36.200 you before, my favorite form of exercise is cycling. It's why I'm merely fat as opposed to circus fat.

00:13:43.760 So you're looking good in that new suit. Well, thank you. I'm just sweating my buttocks off

00:13:49.360 these days. But I go, you know, once you go north of Elgin Mills in Richmond Hill, you get into farm

00:13:57.720 company, farm country rather, sorry. And I can tell you what I see. The people doing the planting and

00:14:05.020 the maintaining of the fields and the harvesting, they are from Mexico and the Caribbean. And I'm not 1.00

00:14:12.280 knocking these people. In fact, they work like you wouldn't believe out in the sun in unforgiving

00:14:18.860 conditions. My point is, Sheila, if that, if we have unemployed people, if we have people in welfare,

00:14:24.660 just sitting at home, eating chips and watching cartoons, how come we can't get a legitimate work

00:14:32.080 fair program in place where a van comes, picks up people, drives them a half hour, you know, north of

00:14:37.820 the city into farm country. And yeah, it's going to be hard work. But you know, as the saying goes,

00:14:44.080 give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach him to fish, feed him for life. But this is like

00:14:49.480 completely off the table. Why is it off the table? Right? And again, I am not condemning those workers

00:14:55.440 from the Caribbean and Mexico. I mean, the way in which they work is just fantastic. But how do we have

00:15:02.560 unemployment and welfare? And yet we have to ship in temporary workers? To me, it doesn't compute.

00:15:09.880 No, it doesn't. And it's just active participation in the economy. You and I exchange labor for a

00:15:17.120 paycheck every day for cash. Why wouldn't we expect somebody else to do that for their paycheck,

00:15:23.740 paycheck from the government? But I want to circle back to Olivia Chow, because that's, that's why I

00:15:29.700 promise these people I would talk to you. I worry that Olivia Chow is going to hatch more bad ideas 1.00

00:15:40.760 for the liberals. And we're already seeing this with her. First of all, public safety should have

00:15:46.580 been a huge issue in the Toronto election. It really wasn't based on who won. And she is pursuing

00:15:56.120 this safe injection idea, which causes just a circle of social decay around these safe injection

00:16:03.020 sites. And as an Albertan, I look at this and I think, where's your evidence to be continuing to

00:16:10.980 do this? And yet this just happens in progressive big cities all across the world. Yeah, you're so

00:16:16.820 right. And I've spoken about when I got to meet Danielle Smith last, back in March at a Toronto

00:16:22.280 Business Function. She talked about the Alberta model, which was police going out to these people

00:16:29.240 who are addicts. And if they're violent. Yep. And saying, look, we can do this the easy way or the

00:16:34.180 hard way. The easy way is we're going to put you into this. Essentially, it's a dormitory. Yeah.

00:16:38.440 And we're going to, you know, you're going to get three squares, but you know, they're going to teach

00:16:42.400 you how to cook, how to shop, because a lot of these life skills are lost on these people.

00:16:46.540 Exactly. Or you can go to jail. So they take the dormitory approach. And still get treatment in

00:16:52.360 jail, though. Yes. Yeah. And but this idea of maintaining addiction, I think that is a progression

00:17:00.840 of cruelty. You know, I think this is setting up a system, Sheila, where people who are addicted to

00:17:08.260 the most horrible drugs you can imagine. Poison. Poison. It is poison. And tell me, where's the

00:17:13.800 compassion? Where's the love? Where's the outreach in having someone who is seriously addicted?

00:17:20.020 And you know what? Sometimes I'll tell you, the other night I was walking north on Yonge Street

00:17:24.640 from about King to college. And we're talking about this is the area where some nice restaurants,

00:17:31.960 playhouses. And it was nighttime. And I'll tell you what I saw. I saw basically it was almost the

00:17:41.240 setting for The Walking Dead. It was people in a zombified condition. I'm not trying to make fun

00:17:47.260 of them. I'm just telling you that they were just polluted out of their minds. I'll tell you another

00:17:53.160 thing I saw. I didn't see a single police constable walking the beat or, for that matter, a cruiser.

00:18:00.460 And I think that is, there's a saying cops have called FIDO. It's an acronym.

00:18:05.400 F it. Drive on. So in other words, if this looks like trouble, if this looks like this is going to

00:18:11.440 be a situation where the defund the police. This feels like paperwork. Yep. Oh, I don't think it's

00:18:17.300 the paperwork. No, I think it is. You know, if they end up in an altercation with a visible minority

00:18:22.360 or a vulnerable person, they've got to deal with the activists now for the crime of saving their own

00:18:28.380 lives. A hundred percent. And I can tell you back in 1987, Peter Ustinov, he had that famous quote,

00:18:35.500 Toronto is New York as run by the Swiss. That ain't the case anymore. No, no, no. It's quickly 1.00

00:18:44.520 devolving into Portland. And it pains me to see it because again, as in Albertan, we're taking a

00:18:50.320 completely different approach. They call it safe supply here. Yep. In Alberta, our addictions and public

00:18:56.880 safety ministers call this palliative care. Yes. Because you are providing a slow, assured death

00:19:03.680 for the addict. And it's not just about the addict. It's about their families who suffer alongside them,

00:19:08.500 but it's also about the communities. And, you know, we talked about it on the live stream today. We're

00:19:12.580 filming this on Monday. You'll see it on Wednesday, friends at home. But we talked about how these safe

00:19:19.260 supply, safe supply sites cause just chaos and violence. It's costing the lives of innocent

00:19:26.460 Torontonians now. Like when a few days ago, a beautiful mother of two young children shot 1.00

00:19:33.540 in Leslieville, which if your audience doesn't know Toronto, it's a pretty gentrified area.

00:19:39.320 Yeah. And what the media is not covering, Sheila, is the fact that there is a so-called safe injection

00:19:45.320 site. And it looks like the speculation that is, is that there was a turf war between the dealers.

00:19:53.200 By the way, and even if you support safe injection sites, so-called, the idea of putting one

00:19:59.740 next to a daycare center, are you out of your minds? Right. And that's another thing about these

00:20:05.360 sites, Sheila, is that sometimes it's not only the addicts that are just prolonging their death

00:20:12.480 spiral by visiting them, but you have people gaming the system. For sure. Claiming to be our addicts,

00:20:19.020 getting the supply, and then selling it. Right. I mean, this is madness. Yeah. Yeah. And the people

00:20:26.580 of Ontario are paying for it all. Like you are sponsoring drug dealers. Yep. At this point.

00:20:33.400 Why do you think public safety wasn't an issue as big as it should have been in this election?

00:20:38.300 Do you know it was with the right of center candidates? Oh, for sure it was. I mentioned Rob Davis.

00:20:42.840 It just didn't resonate with the voter. And that I find very confusing. Yeah. Because what's left of

00:20:48.080 the Toronto Sun is just shootings. Yeah. And by the way, in fairness to Olivia Chow, she wasn't mayor 0.58

00:20:55.640 the last eight and a half years. Right. This is on John Tory, the fake conservative. Right.

00:21:00.540 You know. And to the liberals. The liberals also, they've reduced mandatory minimum sentences on a

00:21:06.120 whole host of gang-related crimes. Yep. Which will only make it worse. You are 100% right. All 10

00:21:11.460 premiers and the three territorial leaders. Imagine this, Sheila. I mean, it's uncanny. Across the board,

00:21:16.820 United. 13 out of 13, right, are saying, get those bail laws tightened up. Last week, we had a guy,

00:21:24.940 there was video on the subway. And it's chilling because people are just shooting video or trying

00:21:31.700 to blend into the wallpaper. As this young man, he's clearly trained in mixed martial arts.

00:21:38.240 He's using self-defense tactics, which is holding the guy at bay until he pulls out a knife and

00:21:44.880 multiply stabs him. You know. And guess what? When they catch this guy, this animal. As long as he

00:21:52.820 didn't honk his horn, he should be out that day. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But guess what? He is out on bail.

00:21:57.160 Of course he is. You know. And he is so brazen and breaking so many bail conditions. He doesn't

00:22:03.600 care. I wonder right now, as we talk, is he back out on bail? So, yeah, you have 13 out of 13 saying,

00:22:10.720 do something about it. There was something about the blackface liberals where they think that

00:22:15.980 letting people out early, taking a psychotic mass murderer like Bernardo and putting him in medium

00:22:23.580 security prison, getting rid of bail conditions, that this is compassion. We're going to show this

00:22:30.540 hardened criminal, we're going to give them some breaks, and they're going to turn their lives 0.97

00:22:34.440 around. You know what? Maybe that works sometimes. The other times, you're just enabling animals.

00:22:40.800 Well, the reason the liberals reduced those mandatory minimum sentences was

00:22:44.160 because they said it was part of their battle against systemic racism, which is, I think,

00:22:51.160 is completely outrageous because they're releasing these hardened, violent criminals back to the

00:22:56.120 minority communities that they terrorize. You're 100% right. And, you know, keep in mind, I think back 1.00

00:23:02.420 to about five years ago, Sheila, we had a very successful program in the Toronto District School Board

00:23:09.800 area. It was cops in schools, right? And the loony left said, oh, this is oppressive. These are symbols

00:23:20.980 of you fill in the blanks. And by the way, a lot of these officers were diverse officers, right? You

00:23:27.020 know, they were persons of color. A lot of them are cops who came sort of from an underprivileged

00:23:33.000 background who want to give back to help the kids. Right. So we had the whiny, greasy wheel of

00:23:38.060 activists. And guess what? You saw black mothers at these school board meetings saying, look,

00:23:45.120 my kid just wants to put his head down and learn, okay? He doesn't want to be shaken down at lunch 0.97

00:23:51.100 hour for his lunch money, right? And no, no, you don't know anything. And these cops were given the

00:23:59.760 boot. And in those at-risk schools, it's a bully's paradise. They bent the knee to the thugs. And

00:24:06.700 somehow this is the name of the unholy trinity of diversity, inclusion, and equity. How? You know,

00:24:13.520 you've got minority students who are being preyed upon by the bullies. Where's the love?

00:24:21.020 Well, they've replicated what they've done in minority communities now in schools. 0.89

00:24:25.140 Yeah. Now, we could probably talk forever, but I'm just watching the clock here. I wanted to ask

00:24:34.120 you about this desire of certain small businesses, but also big businesses, to hang on to the COVID

00:24:42.760 fear with both hands. And you recently covered a comic book store that did this. And I guess

00:24:52.980 before we get into, like, tell us what happened, but I have questions. Comic books used to sort of be on

00:24:59.780 the, sort of, you know, they would push the limits. They, I look at pop culture as sort of leading the

00:25:09.200 way and not following. And yet, comic books are woke. Comic movies are woke. It's all just been woke.

00:25:17.640 And I think maybe it's part of that, you know, where I always say, I'm not sure we won the Cold

00:25:24.360 War. Like, we just stopped fighting. No, you're right. You know, it's, it's funny. Well, to give

00:25:28.500 your viewers, Sheila, a backstory. It's a store on Bloor in, uh, I guess, um, Midtown Toronto called

00:25:35.720 Thunderstruck. And a customer went in, his name is Nataniel Clavero. And the clerk is Dobromila

00:25:43.780 Calco. Well, anyways, Clavero, uh, tried to get into the shop, was unsuccessful because he was not

00:25:50.160 wearing a face diaper. Um, what year is this? Exactly. Um, you know, this lady has a lot of comic 1.00

00:25:58.000 books and graphic novels. Maybe she should stock a few calendars. Right. It's July, 2023. She's in

00:26:04.220 the Twilight Zone. Yeah. And it gets surreal. Um, one, uh, and, and people can go to the video that we

00:26:11.420 posted because we went down to the store to try to get her side of the story, which she wasn't

00:26:15.920 interesting, interested in giving, which, which is very odd. She says, you don't have the whole

00:26:19.860 story. I said, well, aren't you making my point for you? Yeah. Show us your surveillance video.

00:26:24.840 If we got our facts wrong. Nope. Nope. Get out of here. So, um, basically what she did is she grabbed, 0.83

00:26:32.580 uh, Nataniel's phone, right? And you can hear it's still recording and you can hear him on the phone

00:26:39.340 saying, look, just give me my phone and I'll leave your store. And she says, no, I'm calling the cops

00:26:46.960 like lady on yourself. Uh, cause you're, you've confiscated a phone. It gets even more surreal.

00:26:53.540 This, um, gentleman elderly could be about 80 years old, uh, walks in and I guess cause it's a

00:27:00.300 comic book star, Sheila, he reinvents himself as the Cape crusader Batman. He said, he doesn't know

00:27:06.020 who's who in the zoo. It's like walking into a movie, but he's assuming, I guess the dynamics male,

00:27:11.760 you know, be female victim. Yeah. So he isn't, he assumes a linebacker stance and is blocking

00:27:18.080 the door for him to leave, which I think might be borderline forcible confinement. And, uh,

00:27:24.820 he says that he's going to make a citizens.

00:27:27.400 Don't do that. Grandpa bought Batman. Anyways, a few cops, by the way, the, it was pointed

00:27:34.280 on the comment section that I read and I never noticed this at first. The good Samaritan

00:27:39.580 citizens arrest Batman, old guy, he's not wearing a mask, but I guess because he's on her side,

00:27:46.100 no, no harm, no foul. I wouldn't, he didn't know.

00:27:48.140 Well, the cops come, they're not wearing a mask either. No problem there. So, you know,

00:27:52.980 cause the COVID cooties won't, you know, infect somebody. The uniform protects you.

00:27:58.040 100%. And this is 2023. Our chief medical health officer, Kieran Moore, back in March,

00:28:07.580 2022. So almost a year and a half, the mandates were lifted. And it's inexplicable, Sheila, because

00:28:13.540 this was the crowd, follow the science, follow the science, you know, the.

00:28:17.800 Listen to the public health officer.

00:28:19.160 100%. I am. And, and then, oh, he's lifted the mask mandates. Well, I'm sure this lady knows a lot

00:28:28.480 about selling comic books. I don't think she knows a lot about being a medical doctor, a scientist when

00:28:36.880 it comes to virology, et cetera. So what makes you take this position of mandating masks on people,

00:28:46.140 especially, I mean, for goodness sakes, we know these face diapers don't work. They're non-medical

00:28:50.280 masks for goodness sakes. Right. And again, Sheila, maybe back in 2020, when this was, we didn't know

00:28:58.720 what was going on. Maybe when you wanted to obey the law or the bylaw set by the, you know, social

00:29:05.500 distancing, a number of people in the store at some time wearing masks. But that's in the distant

00:29:11.720 rear view mirror. Why is this person still mandating that? And I think, you know, and this

00:29:18.440 is something our beloved boss Ezra Levanta said, Sheila, and I totally agree with it, that I think

00:29:25.140 by this time, if you're clinging to those mandates, if you're still wearing a mask, you're young and

00:29:30.440 you're healthy and you're outdoors or by yourself in your car, it's no longer health and safety.

00:29:36.560 It's no longer trying to, you know, help the world get rid of a pandemic. It's a political

00:29:44.160 statement. It's saying, I support big government. I support big lockdowns. I'm compliant. Yes. I

00:29:50.540 support being told what to do. I think that's what's going on. And it's shocking. And I'll tell

00:29:56.100 you, there's plenty of comic book shops where Nathaniel can go and bring his business. I'm not

00:30:02.700 wishing ill upon anyone. But my key question was, why are you doing this? I never got an answer.

00:30:09.980 Yeah. People who still wear masks, I jokingly call them NDP lawn signs for your face. But really,

00:30:16.380 I know how you voted. You got that thing on your face. You're scowling at me. You're still following

00:30:21.420 the marks that they haven't peeled off the floor of the grocery store. I know exactly how you voted in

00:30:26.620 this last election. I don't have to guess whose lawn sign you had on your lawn because you still have

00:30:31.460 it on your face. Yes. Oh, and if I may add, I'm sure if this person, because these people you speak

00:30:37.960 of will also have, if they have a Twitter account, the LGBTQ plus flag. For sure. And their gender

00:30:47.120 pronouns. Oh, and the little like needle emoji after their name, like two or three of them. So,

00:30:53.080 you know, they got both jabs and a booster. Hashtag boosted. Yeah. Yeah. So I know exactly what team

00:30:59.400 you're on. Sorry to interrupt. No, I was going to ask you, this brings up a greater issue. And I know

00:31:02.900 Olivia is probably like, I've got out of the studio, but it brings up a greater issue of like,

00:31:08.020 what the heck happened to comic books and the entire comic industry, comic movies. It's so

00:31:14.700 relentlessly woke. You know, is it just the nerds involved? I don't understand. These aren't my

00:31:21.500 people, but they're yours. Well, you know what? I, it's very hard to find reading material in a genre

00:31:30.200 that is not woke. It used to be all about, sorry to interrupt you, like masculine men

00:31:36.640 saving the damsel in distress. This is like a story of time immemorial. Yeah. Wrapped in like a cool

00:31:45.360 package. It's not like that at all. And I don't even know what, understand why people read it.

00:31:49.480 No, I don't either. And, um, the thing is, you know, I, I go back and see to me in, in terms of

00:31:56.780 film, right. Cause the, you know, the ultimate irony, I think of comic books these days, Sheila,

00:32:01.080 is that all the ancillary spinoffs, the mega million movies, right. The video games, the

00:32:09.420 merchandise, uh, it all dwarfs on a revenue basis. The original medium, you know, the print comic

00:32:15.900 book, right. And in fact, I think you see more of an adult population reading comic books than you

00:32:21.220 do of children today. And you know, it's kind of read, they don't read anymore. It's a physical,

00:32:27.500 you know, and, and, and it's a shame, but I can tell you, you know, I look back what I consider to

00:32:33.840 be the gold standard of the superhero movies. And that would be the Christopher Nolan dark night

00:32:39.560 trilogy. Okay. And, uh, you know, I urge your viewers if they haven't seen it, the third movie,

00:32:44.760 well, they're all good, uh, especially the second and third one, the dark night and the dark night

00:32:48.780 rises, but the dark night rises is probably the most right of center superhero movie, uh, you could

00:32:57.560 ever see today. And in fact, to such an extent, Sheila, I don't know if that could be made today in

00:33:05.280 Hollywood. And not only goes back, I'm thinking 11 years, I think it came out in 2012. So, uh,

00:33:12.440 and now these were hugely successful movies. So there is a pent up appetite out there for that.

00:33:19.640 I think Top Gun is an example of this. Oh, the, the sequel, the, the success of the sequel to Top Gun,

00:33:26.200 it was just straight masculine, not nothing woke. And it was a box office smash. Yeah. And you know,

00:33:32.800 and that's the way it should be, uh, Top Gun, you're talking about fighter jet pilots. Yeah. Now

00:33:38.220 the left automatically, you know, the likes of blackface, oh, that's a lot of toxic masculinity. 0.99

00:33:42.440 But as I've said to you before, thank God during, you know, the, um, the Korean conflict, 1.00

00:33:49.540 World War I, World War II, thank God we had toxic masculinity because that's what wins wars for you. 1.00

00:33:57.020 Right. Right. You know, not, not some kind of transgender agenda, um, where goodness knows what 1.00

00:34:04.360 it is about. And maybe that's one of the big reasons right now, Sheila and the Canadian Armed

00:34:08.640 Forces are having a hell of a time recruiting because basically, uh, they're saying, oh, you're

00:34:13.640 a man's man. Yeah. We used to like you. Now we'd prefer if you get in touch with your, uh, feminine 0.97

00:34:19.160 alter ego. Yeah. Uh, it's, uh, toxic masculinity wins wars and sets people free. Sorry. It's the

00:34:27.860 way it is. You know, it's so funny how we've come from like raising the flag at Iwo Jima to like

00:34:32.240 raising the pride flag and pulling down the Canadian flag on Canadian military. Or modifying the Canadian

00:34:38.840 flag like Chubb Fire and Security did to make it a multicolored monstrosity, which is, and by the way,

00:34:44.700 that's another funny thing, isn't it, Sheila? We did a story on that and that's completely verboten

00:34:50.100 to flag etiquette. Yeah. You cannot modify. And when they say modify, they're even talking about

00:34:55.820 the length of the two red bars, the size of the maple leaf can't monkey around with any of it.

00:35:01.180 And then out of wokeism, this fire and security company in Mississauga, Chubb decides, oh, well,

00:35:07.520 we're going to paint it seven colors. No, you cannot do it. Why do you think you're doing something good

00:35:13.660 when your goodness is a violation of flag etiquette to begin with?

00:35:18.940 Yeah. It just reminds me of the pot leaf flags, like, you know. Oh, sure. The green ones. You know,

00:35:24.540 and someone gets one of those made or buys one. Sure. And you're, you know, it's for your room or

00:35:30.840 you're marching down Yonge Street. I guess. But when it's the flag on your corporate headquarters. Yeah.

00:35:36.440 Right. That's a different kettle of fish. Yeah. Well, David, I could talk to you all day.

00:35:42.740 Oh, I would like that. But we have a movie premiere to get to.

00:35:45.900 That's right. We do. I almost forgot. How could I?

00:35:49.000 Yeah. We're in Toronto right now. Our tickets are, I think we had two left earlier today for

00:35:53.840 Church Under Fire, Canada's War on Christianity, but we still have showings all across the country.

00:35:58.460 You can go to savethechristians.com and find a city near you and buy your tickets. And I say it every

00:36:05.440 time, don't wait to buy those tickets because they will sell out. And then you'll be emailing me saying,

00:36:10.640 Sheila, help me get tickets. And I can't change the fire code on these buildings. I would love as

00:36:15.560 many people as possible to see our documentary. That's why I'm encouraging you to buy your tickets

00:36:20.120 right now. So it's Church Under Fire, Canada's War on Christianity, savethechristians.com for

00:36:25.100 tickets and showtime. David.

00:36:26.580 Sheila, next time you drop by to Hogtown, like you said, if you can talk to me all day, I would love

00:36:31.880 that. And one of the main reasons I'd love that is it's not going to cost me $4.99 a minute.

00:36:38.580 Anyway.

00:36:39.420 Did anybody actually pay for that stuff? Because that sort of stuff is free at your school library

00:36:46.340 now.

00:36:46.920 That's right. Those 1-900 services have been outsourced.

00:36:51.340 You don't need to do that. Just go to the school library and check out some weird books.

00:36:54.200 Oh, what a world. You know what? The Wicked Witch of the West was so prescient, you know,

00:37:02.260 when Dorothy throws the bucket of water on her and she starts melting, because that's

00:37:06.320 what I'm saying every day. What a world. What a world.

00:37:10.360 It's true. David, thanks so much for coming on the show and taking the time. You're a fan

00:37:15.960 favorite on my show. I always get lots of mail when you're on.

00:37:18.260 Oh, that's fantastic. Thank you so much, Sheila.

00:37:20.460 Thanks, David.

00:37:20.700 Stay with me. Up next, I'm reading your emails to me.

00:37:32.820 We've come to the portion of the show where we invite your viewer feedback. Unlike the

00:37:36.340 mainstream media, I actually care about what you think about the work that we're doing

00:37:39.940 here at Rebel News. It's why I give out my email address right now. It's Sheila at RebelNews.com.

00:37:44.780 Just put gun show letters in the subject line so that I know that that's what the email is

00:37:49.380 about and who knows, your email just might end up on air. Or you could leave a comment

00:37:56.220 on one of the platforms wherein you may be watching us on the censorship platform of YouTube

00:38:01.400 if you're still over there or over on the free speech platform of Rumble. Sometimes I

00:38:05.480 go looking for comments and story ideas over there as well. And we want to hear what you

00:38:11.260 think.

00:38:11.500 So I've got a couple of letters today on the show from last week. I've got one from Erin

00:38:17.900 Burton, who writes to me on my interview with Gabrielle Bauer, who is an author with the

00:38:25.900 Brownstone Institute. And we did sort of a long form sit down interview on her new book,

00:38:31.420 wherein she talks to the people that the mainstream media told you not to talk to.

00:38:39.560 And Erin writes, sorry, had a busy long weekend. I had a busy long weekend, too. So I won't hold

00:38:46.320 it against you. And he says, I'm behind my Rebel News Plus features. But I just watched your

00:38:51.880 interview with Gabrielle Bauer and wanted to say that it was amazing. Thank you for all your hard

00:38:55.900 work. As always, it is much appreciated. You know, that full interview, if you're not a subscriber

00:39:00.320 to Rebel News Plus, and you're watching this currently on YouTube, you can just go back and

00:39:05.460 find that interview and watch it for yourself. I thought it was great. I thought she was great.

00:39:09.680 She is a former, well, I believe she actually still is a medical journalist. So she knew from

00:39:17.080 the very beginning that something was kind of weird about all of this. And she sat down and talked

00:39:22.420 to just thinkers and, and the people that the medical establishment and the politicians didn't

00:39:29.920 want you to hear the opinions of about the pandemic. I thought it was great. We've got

00:39:35.200 also another letter from Bruce Atchison. He is a regular viewer of the show. He does not miss

00:39:44.060 an episode of The Gun Show. And I really appreciate Bruce for that. He lives, if I recall correctly,

00:39:49.060 in Radway, where they have a really excellent military surplus store. I'm not sponsored by them. But

00:39:56.240 if you're looking for some military surplus, it's a great store there. But you have to rummage around

00:40:01.420 a little bit. Let's keep going. Bruce says, Hi, Sheila, what an absolutely epic show you did

00:40:06.900 tonight, July 5. So that is last week's show with my friend Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science.

00:40:13.940 I love Michelle Sterling. Yeah, me too. And her idea of climate of hope. Michelle's got a new substack.

00:40:20.280 It's called climate of hope, where she sort of inspires you to not be afraid of the doom and

00:40:27.160 gloom scenarios being preached to you by the climate cultists on the other side. It's anxiety

00:40:33.240 inducing for our young people. And I think it's deeply damaging to them to have guilt for just

00:40:38.280 existing. It's way too easy to become depressed about all the advances the enemies of our freedom

00:40:43.600 are making. We need hope. And that's what Michelle provides us. She also has a really fun 0.96

00:40:48.540 YouTube series where she sort of speaks directly to kids about using kid language and kid friendly

00:40:57.340 stories. I even think she wrote a children's book or two, just telling little kids to just chill out

00:41:02.540 and nature happens. I must remember all Michelle said about residential schools. That's another pet 1.00

00:41:08.000 project of Michelle's. She talks about residential schools and the truth about residential schools.

00:41:13.020 I went to one for deaf and blind students. Wow. I know the loneliness and hopelessness children felt

00:41:21.280 in such situations. And we did have some nasty supervisors who needed supervising themselves. 1.00

00:41:26.820 But I did survive that though. I still get bad dreams about the place. Well, that's terrible.

00:41:32.380 All that is to say that white liberals with their savior complex ought to butt out and mind their own 0.95

00:41:37.740 business. They also must stop egging on the indigenous industrial complex to wring more and 0.99

00:41:43.240 more money out of the rest of the country. Yours in Radway. Bruce with one picky

00:41:47.460 putty named Delta. Bruce always signs off with a message to me from his cat. You know,

00:41:55.020 I don't think there's any, uh, any use in blaming the children and people of today for the sins and

00:42:04.400 crimes of the people who came before them. I just don't believe in collective guilt,

00:42:08.800 especially for things that we didn't do. And that actually we're actively trying to undo.

00:42:13.820 Um, but also I, I believe that our history is best told accurately. We shouldn't sugarcoat it,

00:42:22.960 but we also shouldn't erase it either. And we have to understand that the people who came before us

00:42:27.520 were products of the time in which they lived and we cannot judge them by the woke standards of today.

00:42:33.380 And above all else, I hope for our indigenous communities, economic prosperity and success

00:42:40.940 and opportunity, the same as everybody else, the same as every other Canadian.

00:42:45.240 Well, friends, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in from the studio in Toronto.

00:42:50.220 It looks great. I'll see everybody not back here next week, but probably at home or I might even be

00:42:56.460 traveling next week, still showing the documentary. You'll have a show though. Um, and as always,

00:43:01.680 remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:43:31.680 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - July 12, 2023

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Toronto has a new mayor and the rest of the country should care even if you never plan to go anywhere near the big smoke

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