Rebel News Podcast - Unions, not COVID, children or parents are keeping the schools closed

00:00:00.000 hey folks we're all in this together right just will you hear what teachers union head honchos

00:00:22.200 have to say it's february the 5th 2021 i'm david menzies and this is the ezra lavent show

00:00:30.640 why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know

00:00:36.200 there's 8 500 customers here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i have to say to

00:00:41.840 the government but why i publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so

00:00:46.380 you know folks it's hard to imagine but in ontario unlike all the other provinces in our great

00:00:56.780 dominion the kids still aren't back in school i guess the educrats are really buying into that

00:01:04.860 lyric from pink floyd's the wall you know hey teacher leave them kids alone oh they're being

00:01:12.160 left alone all right and sometimes they're being left home alone it's that rascally wuhan virus you 0.99

00:01:19.180 see it's very very deadly especially if one is very young and very healthy well no that's not true of

00:01:28.520 course we now know from bitter experience that the precise opposite is true if you are elderly and or

00:01:36.920 sick and if you're living in a long-term care facility that is potentially very bad news on the

00:01:43.860 virus front which is sad even if one is very old or very sick their lives have meaning too of course

00:01:50.880 so maybe if we could reverse the time space continuum maybe what we should have done is focus our efforts

00:01:59.180 on long-term care facilities and halt international flights from virus hotspots as opposed to shutting

00:02:07.960 down the entire economy that's what taiwan did maybe we could have saved lives that way instead of

00:02:15.460 ruining lives the thing is children are practically invulnerable to the wuhan virus not that the fear

00:02:23.720 spreading mainstream media wants you to know that fact did you know that only two people in ontario

00:02:29.720 under 20 have died from contracting this bug and those persons sadly were suffering from other health

00:02:37.000 complications in percentage terms that's not even a rounding error when it comes to the overall death

00:02:43.680 toll and yet overnight summer camps for kids were canceled in ontario last year and in the here and now

00:02:51.500 schools have remained closed since the christmas time break many schools aren't scheduled to reopen

00:02:58.600 until february the 8th the schools in toronto york and peel shall remain closed for an additional eight

00:03:04.820 days until february the 16th for some inexplicable reason um why weren't all these schools opened like

00:03:12.340 about a month ago much like everywhere else surely during the downtime these schools have been scrubbed and

00:03:20.080 sanitized to such a degree that mr clean would blush with envy needless to say there's going to be

00:03:27.260 a lot of ground to make up in the weeks and months ahead so when ontario education minister steven lecce

00:03:34.440 recently said he's thinking of cancelling march break that seemed reasonable on two fronts for starters

00:03:43.420 the kids need a ton of catching up time i mean they really do you want them to get some semblance

00:03:50.600 of an education this year right you want little johnny and little janey to be able to spell cat

00:03:56.440 without having to spot them the c and the t right not that it really matters i guess nobody fails anymore

00:04:03.900 wouldn't want to hurt anyone's self-esteem after all secondly what with all the new travel restrictions

00:04:11.000 coming into place and the costs and hassles of quarantining really who the hell's going on

00:04:18.220 anywhere on march break next month well i mean who amongst all of us the great unwashed masses will

00:04:25.780 be traveling oh i'm sure the likes of sneaky rod phillips and members of clan tori will be jetting off to

00:04:32.620 their private little margaritavilles because you know the rules don't apply to them they're special

00:04:39.600 they're important you must know that by now eh folks but for the rest of us march break abroad

00:04:46.920 just doesn't seem to have a lot going for it this year in any event here's what lecce had to say

00:04:54.200 quote i'm going to follow the public health advice on this i've sought the opinion of the chief medical

00:05:01.040 officer of health and if he believes and the experts believe it is better to keep kids in school

00:05:07.280 learning then i will accept that advice at the end of the day folks should not be traveling during

00:05:14.200 march break anyway end quote now while i agree with minister lecce on this file there's one little red

00:05:21.880 flag here those medical experts that would be abbott and cassilla or i mean david williams and barbara

00:05:28.600 yaffe remember that little hot mic moment last december tell me if these medical experts fill

00:05:37.580 your sales with confidence i don't know why i bring all these papers i never look at them

00:05:44.160 oh you're giving numbers i do i go

00:05:46.700 i just say whatever they write down for me

00:05:52.300 yikes can you believe yaffee after this gaffee didn't just oh i don't know go away and hide

00:06:02.980 forever i hear wireton willie is a very lonely groundhog these days but no this arrogant and

00:06:09.900 ignorant woman continues to suck at the taxpayer teat parroting the words from they whoever 1.00

00:06:16.780 they are yeah really i mean who is they will we ever find out who they are but while kids want to

00:06:28.400 go back to school and parents want their kids to go back to school and perhaps even most teachers

00:06:33.920 want to go back to school alas and alack lecce didn't count on what the various teachers unions

00:06:41.380 would have to say about going back to work you see the union head honchos are concerned about the

00:06:49.120 mental health of people going back to school no i'm not making this up folks yeah it's as though

00:06:56.760 there are no mental health issues whatsoever associated with people remaining cooped up in

00:07:03.200 their homes and segregated from their friends for months but check out this mind-bending state

00:07:11.360 statement from sam hammond the president of the elementary teachers federation of ontario quote

00:07:17.360 we are living in unprecedented times that continue to create high levels of stress fear and anxiety

00:07:25.340 for everyone we have heard repeatedly that students families and educators need a break right now end

00:07:34.300 quote what did he actually say that the various vested interests involved in the education biz

00:07:42.300 need a break right now a break from what a break from taking a break a break from having an extended

00:07:50.580 break holy hell this guy is nuts or lazy or supremely entitled or all of the above and hammerhead or i mean 0.90

00:08:00.920 sam hammond says the times we live in are creating high levels of stress fear and anxiety for everyone

00:08:10.520 um not for everyone me thanks surely not for sam hammond you know folks i googled sam's salary

00:08:20.920 in 2005 he was making just a tad over a hundred thousand dollars along with the gold-plated benefit plan

00:08:29.080 that comes with such a position mind you well today this fat cat is raking in close to two hundred

00:08:35.640 thousand dollars hey folks how many people do you know in your circle saw an almost 100 salary increase

00:08:44.920 in the space of 15 years and what the hell does sam hammond do exactly other than planning strike

00:08:53.560 actions for his members every few years because when you run a teachers union your slogan is the same

00:09:01.720 as that lyric from the 1976 andrea true connection song yeah that's right more more more more money more

00:09:12.920 benefits more time off because the world is not enough when it comes to teachers unions who look

00:09:20.040 upon the taxpayer trough as a bottomless pit of moolah for their members even when provinces are saddled

00:09:27.640 with record debts and deficits but that's how they rolled in club public sector union where the taxpayer

00:09:35.800 fueled gravy train continues to whip down the track like a formula one race car stuck in top gear not to

00:09:42.840 be outdone in poo-pooing the potential cancellation of march break is harvey bischoff president of the

00:09:50.200 ontario secondary school teachers federation here's what he had to say quote i truly believe he

00:09:58.440 minister lecce is just floating political trial balloons and he truly doesn't care about the medical

00:10:05.240 advice he gets the idea of reducing gatherings for example by cancelling march break flies in the face

00:10:12.760 of logic end quote what how exactly does lecce's comments fly in the face of logic well you see when

00:10:21.960 one drills down further it turns out there are some logistical reasons at play according to bischoff

00:10:30.280 hmm logistical issues eh what would that be i mean the definition of logistics is quote the management

00:10:38.600 of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption end quote so what the

00:10:45.560 hell is bischoff talking about here he's the head of a teachers union not the ceo of canadian pacific rail

00:10:53.880 well folks upon further drilling down it turns out that a cancelled march break isn't really a logistical

00:11:02.760 issue it's a contractual issue you see there are collective agreements in place that have a requirement

00:11:10.760 for the number of school days in a year according to bischoff so if march break is axed and there are no

00:11:18.040 days off offered in lieu of that cancelled march break well then that could lead to problems problems

00:11:28.440 now he's kind of talking like a mafioso i wonder if he's going to offer minister lecce a ride downtown

00:11:36.040 too you see here's the maddening thing maybe you run a retail business or a restaurant or a gym

00:11:45.000 unless you are amongst the chosen selected few such as walmart and costco you've been forced to adapt

00:11:53.000 and make changes so unlike the big box stores no customers are allowed into your boutique it's curbside

00:12:00.840 pickup only and to paraphrase the road dog if you all got a problem with that then premier doug ford

00:12:08.440 has two words for you and one of those words is imprisonment just ask claudia rocca of claudia's 1.00

00:12:18.120 closet or derek noble of noble toys these bolton shopkeepers have been threatened by the attorney

00:12:25.080 general with jail time should they open up their doors again to shoppers hey you think the ag is bluffing

00:12:33.400 here we all know what happened to adam skelly of adamson barbecue in november right

00:12:48.120 but meanwhile in unionized rainbow spirit unicorn teacherland

00:13:00.840 the union kingpins are essentially warning the government that they are entitled to their

00:13:21.400 entitlements the wuhan virus be damned and if you upset the apple cart they'll likely go on strike

00:13:30.680 they do that so well folks because they've had so much practice at it but me thinks it will be a

00:13:37.480 zoom or a skype strike this year should it materialize uh safety first everyone and hey it gets really

00:13:45.720 chilly in february doesn't it and so it is that even during a global pandemic when it comes to the

00:13:53.000 teachers unions it's still business as usual no there shall be no adapting for them you see well

00:14:00.840 that's not entirely true if we're talking about the unions adapting so that their members get endless

00:14:06.760 extra weeks of time off oh they're fine with that oh but losing out on march break are you kidding me

00:14:14.040 i mean come on folks hammond and bischoff have already stocked up on the tanning butter i mean

00:14:20.280 the dominican republic has downright perfect weather in march surely you don't expect these vip educrats to

00:14:27.880 shiver in ontario like the rest of us ham and eggers once again when the elites talk about making

00:14:35.720 sacrifices that doesn't apply to them okay the biggest fallacy of this pandemic

00:14:43.320 is the ludicrous phrase we are all in this together the biggest truism to come out of this pandemic

00:14:51.160 is actually one law for thee and one law for me and the likes of hammond and bischoff have proof just

00:15:00.200 check out the fine print in those contractual agreements read them and weep you sucker taxpayers 0.68

00:15:07.400 and so it is that the poobahs lording over the teachers unions continue to make the case 0.93

00:15:12.840 for their members to enjoy breaks because they already have a pent-up need for a break

00:15:20.360 from all the breaking that they are currently doing it's maddening isn't it speaking of maddening

00:15:28.680 i think my favorite half minute rant of 2021 thus far comes courtesy of brandon michon of virginia

00:15:38.680 he's a father of two children aged eight and five and last week he launched a verbal torpedo for the ages

00:15:46.120 not at entitled teachers union bosses but rather at cowardly school board trustees employed at the

00:15:54.200 ludon county school board those tall forehead types also don't like the idea of kids going back to school

00:16:02.200 even though kids have been off for months now in any event michon's rant is a thing of beauty and

00:16:09.000 i really think he speaks for most parents check out this excerpt the garbage workers who pick up my

00:16:16.760 freaking trash risk their lives every day more than anyone in this school system figure it out or get

00:16:27.400 off the podium because you know what there are people like me and a line of other people out there

00:16:33.800 who will gladly take your seat and figure it out you know that should be a slogan on a t-shirt eh

00:16:40.920 figure it out leading up to that verbal poleaxing michon also had this to say quote

00:16:47.320 you're a bunch of cowards hiding behind our children as an excuse to keep our schools closed figure it out

00:16:55.000 or get off the podium you should all be fired from your day jobs because if your employers knew

00:17:01.960 you were more inefficient than the dmv you would be replaced in a heartbeat end quote

00:17:10.440 and that's the thing isn't it folks when it comes to the publicly funded education system

00:17:16.360 everyone who is a part of this racket claims their sole motivation is well it's about the kids

00:17:24.760 say teachers why are you out on strike again it's for the kids say teachers why are you asking for

00:17:32.360 more moolah when you're already being paid so handsomely it's for the kids say teachers why do you

00:17:39.000 need more benefits and sick days when so many people in the private sector you know the people that pay

00:17:45.240 your salaries don't get such benefits themselves it's for the kids rinse and repeat well guess what

00:17:54.280 teach kids are social animals they crave and need interaction with their peers when union bosses and

00:18:02.600 school board trustees kowtow to the invisible boogeyman that is the wu hound virus this is not

00:18:09.640 in the kids best interest it's in their best interest these entitled fat cats have been on cruise control

00:18:17.480 for months and as they and and right now they want to continue floating down that lazy river they have

00:18:26.040 not lost a single nickel in pay they have not lost a single benefit none of them has experienced a single

00:18:35.800 layoff and yet you walk down main street canada and what do you see papered over businesses shops

00:18:43.320 that had been around for decades now placed into bankruptcy not by the wuhan virus but by government

00:18:50.280 edict yeah that's the real virus here big government meanwhile look at those people in say trucking or

00:18:57.960 those who are running mom pa convenience stores they're putting in brutal hours to make a living and to

00:19:04.600 serve the public the best they can you think they're going on march break this year mr hammond and mr bischoff

00:19:11.400 no because that's life in the real world not in the fantasy land of a public sector union environment

00:19:20.040 but enough is enough after a year of dealing with all this crap that china inflicted upon the world 1.00

00:19:28.840 and all this crap that our own governments have inflicted upon their own citizens the one thing we

00:19:38.280 know is who's truly at risk and who's not at risk and the kids going by the only wuhan virus metric that

00:19:46.840 counts i.e the death toll they are the least likely to succumb to this virus so enough with this bloody

00:19:55.240 entitlement already enough with this fear factor the likes of hammond and bischoff and the rest of

00:20:03.160 these ricotta cheese candy ass jerks are supposedly educators so in the already immortal words of mr michon

00:20:13.480 figure it out even if figuring it out means perish the thought working through march break in the great

00:20:23.000 white north as opposed to working on your suntan in the balmy caribbean stay with us for more

00:20:42.920 you know folks they say sunlight is the best disinfectant but apparently that's not true in

00:20:49.000 every case and what i'm speaking of here is a few days ago you probably tuned in and saw ezreal events

00:20:55.080 incredible scoop about mayor john torrey's north palm beach florida mansion actually being used perhaps

00:21:04.920 by members of the john torrey family or extended family people that have gone down from canada to

00:21:11.560 florida you know the kind of behavior we're not supposed to be doing well you would think after being

00:21:18.200 shamed in such a fashion we saw the luxury cars we saw the bicycle we saw that the house was being

00:21:24.280 used that they would avoid using it but no these people are so arrogant they're still using it and

00:21:32.040 our drone caught a man on a bicycle and his initial reaction was to take a picture of the drone i don't

00:21:40.040 know why and then entomb his face in a towel so he couldn't be identified

00:21:45.320 my oh my it reminds me of my favorite yiddish word chutzpah sheer unmitigated gull and ezra i mean

00:21:55.640 to me this is astonishing i mean it's not really surprising we know from the likes of uh sneaky rod

00:22:01.800 phillips he buggered off the saint bart's and then had these uh pretend videos he was doing fireside chats

00:22:09.400 in uh ajax but the fact that we caught members presumably members of john torrey's extended family

00:22:18.040 at the florida mansion and then instead of going into hiding like wired and willie the next day

00:22:24.920 um they went back for more frolicking in the floridian sun what do you make of this yeah well

00:22:30.520 i just want to start off by saying i have no problem with people being rich with having 10 million

00:22:35.960 dollar waterfront homes and you didn't do why i have no problem with people wanting to get away

00:22:40.360 from the dreary canadian winters especially in toronto uh where it just feels gray and and miserable

00:22:47.400 um all i'm saying is if you are the mayor who has the strictest lockdowns anywhere in english canada

00:22:53.800 it's worse in quebec but the worst mayor in english canada is john torrey he has become an obsessive

00:23:00.920 scold don't leave your house don't go out don't don't don't and anyone tries to do anything against

00:23:07.400 his lockdown he'll send as you know what he did to adam skelly a hundred horse 100 cops 50 cop cars

00:23:13.560 six ride horses so that's how he is when dealing with his political enemies but he's part of the

00:23:20.360 ruling class and apparently he doesn't think the rules apply to him and so we have tracked parties

00:23:28.360 gatherings get togethers at his palm beach home now he denies it's him now i haven't spoken to him

00:23:34.360 personally his staff denies him now maybe they're lying but let's take them at their word i mean

00:23:40.280 politicians lie and john torrey has a track record of hiding overseas travel for example right at the

00:23:46.120 beginning of the pandemic he secretly flew to london england didn't tell anyone it was found out by the

00:23:51.400 toronto sun so we know he lies we know he tries to have a bit of a public track and then he sort of

00:23:58.840 sneaks away so let's take it in that context but let's say for the sake of argument that it's not he

00:24:04.760 himself who's been partying in his florida home okay so who is it if is it some friend in florida who's

00:24:13.480 sort of house sitting okay that's a good answer but i have now asked the premier staff five times

00:24:21.400 who is it why are you covering up for them if it's just like it's not a maintenance person these

00:24:27.000 are luxury vehicles um they're there coming and going it's it's it's clearly not a maintenance person

00:24:32.440 it's not a housekeeper uh the whole compound is under high security so it's on a security staff

00:24:37.960 we saw someone riding a bike and then hide their face when they saw the drone that's a sign of shame

00:24:44.040 or secrecy yeah well why would you be ashamed of being in a beautiful community riding a bike

00:24:49.160 unless you were maybe hiding your identity so the fact that he says to torontonians you can't open

00:24:55.560 your business you can't meet with friends you can't go to a funeral or wedding you can't go to a gym

00:24:59.800 you can't go to school but me and my elite friends can jet set down from toronto where to florida

00:25:07.320 which is the most one of the most open states schools are open restaurants are open gyms and

00:25:12.920 hair salons are open it's pretty much normal life down there i have to wonder is it the mayor's wife

00:25:19.960 is it the mayor's kids and remember his son is a pilot they fly private is he going down is his family

00:25:27.240 sneaking down from this dreary toronto winter made drearier by tory's own lockdown and are they partying

00:25:34.760 and the fact that he won't say who it is and the fact that when we spot a guy he hides his face yeah

00:25:42.040 tells me that the answer is not an acceptable answer you know um i think that speaks volumes and

00:25:47.960 as well let's check off all the boxes as you just said it's certainly not a cleaning lady driving a 1.00

00:25:53.720 six-figure luxury car it's not trades people um let's say it's not john torrey's relatives the only

00:26:01.480 other thing i can think of do you think john torrey could be renting out his mansion on airbnb

00:26:08.040 i don't think people that have that kind of real estate do that kind of thing no and by the way i

00:26:13.000 did check there are no airbnb rentals in this compound and i would have to think that it wouldn't even

00:26:19.240 be allowed this is a high security compound there are approximately 1 000 residents of this compound

00:26:27.240 most of whom are not there at any given time it's uh these are the fortune 500 ceos jack welsh

00:26:35.480 has a place there wow john torrey's home which is probably about 10 million us is one of the cheapest

00:26:41.000 homes there um it is so exclusive it is highly armed uh there's one gate in and out it's completely

00:26:49.720 self-contained uh they have their own golf course they have their own clubhouse and restaurant

00:26:54.840 once you're in there you never have to leave you can have a wonderful day uh start off in your house

00:27:00.840 bike around play around a golf have lunch at the club um he's got his own little dock there so this

00:27:08.120 is not a normal people and again i'm not saying my problem is that he's a wealthy oligarch i'm not

00:27:14.600 saying my problem and by the way his family has other it's not just him he and his family have several

00:27:20.200 houses in this company he probably has 50 million dollars worth of real estate there wow you know

00:27:25.240 it's interesting what you said earlier on ezra that it's highly armed because i i think john torrey

00:27:31.240 is on the bandwagon about banning all guns and all ammunition in toronto but uh we won't go there

00:27:37.880 here's the thing that bothers me as a journalist this was a legitimate scoop this was fantastic footage

00:27:43.560 from our man in florida with the drone where oh where is the media snowball i mean you would think

00:27:50.200 this is front page at least of all the local toronto dailies unless you saw it on rebel you didn't see

00:27:55.720 the story right and part of me feels that's unjust it part of me feels like the media party as i call it

00:28:03.160 is letting down their viewers part of me thinks that it shows how biased and controlled the media are

00:28:11.560 that's all true but another part of me says well that's why we're in business because our viewers

00:28:19.160 value what we do and i i should tell you that on occasion i've had some scoops that i think are of

00:28:26.280 such public importance that i have tried to in a certain way share them with mainstream journalists

00:28:31.640 i don't want to get into examples because i typically do it very privately because i believe that the story

00:28:36.920 is it's great for the rebel to have scoops yeah but sometimes stories need to be seen by

00:28:41.320 people beyond our our circles and i should tell you that i offered footage without credit without

00:28:49.640 our watermark to other media institutions in this city and they declined it i also know that at least

00:28:57.960 two other journalists wanted to ask questions of the mayor but were not permitted to do so by their

00:29:04.440 managers and wow that is an active suppression of a genuine story in the public interest i want to let

00:29:11.480 you know that i generally do not believe that a politician's family or their private homes are

00:29:17.800 relevant i think it is interesting and perhaps relevant that john tory is a centi millionaire who

00:29:24.440 lives uh like seriously a rock star lifestyle in terms of his fortune that's that's of it's worth

00:29:31.400 knowing that but i don't think i would drone someone's house just for the sake of it the reason

00:29:36.280 we're focused on the house and the family is because john tory has taken upon it himself to be focused on

00:29:43.480 your house and your family he'll tell you how many people you can have in your house how many family

00:29:48.280 members can meet he'll talk about your personal life your business your funeral your wedding and i think

00:29:54.040 that those are all inappropriate policy choices but he's the mayor and and the emergency laws are in effect

00:30:01.960 but this shows he doesn't mean it this shows that it's not actually an emergency if it's fine

00:30:08.200 for his people to travel it's not actually an emergency if he's fine with households mixing

00:30:14.440 and we already saw when his friend rod phillips was caught yeah that john tory said well

00:30:20.040 um i'll forgive a friend well hang on that's not the rule of law that's not how it works

00:30:27.080 everyone's a friend of someone yeah so you're throwing the adam skelly has friends but i guess

00:30:32.040 he doesn't have friends in high places i think i really do think when i look at that and let me

00:30:36.760 just throw that for a second take a look at this clip just so people can remember what i'm talking

00:30:40.200 about here's john tory excusing rod phillips because they're friends take a look uh minister phillips

00:30:46.840 made a mistake a serious mistake he's been chastised by the premier for that he has admitted

00:30:52.440 his own deep regret at making that mistake i have acknowledged that it was a mistake it's a very

00:30:57.320 regrettable uh series of events but i think people who know me also know that uh you know i especially

00:31:03.480 stand by my friends uh when they make mistakes and when they're in trouble uh because i just think that

00:31:08.680 you have to do that it's it's it's it's it's not about the actions it's about the person he's a human

00:31:13.720 being and he made a mistake and he'll pay a price for that so when i look at that clip

00:31:19.320 now that i know that john tory has been hosting parties whether or not he personally was there

00:31:25.720 at his florida mansion i think did he give that answer about rod phillips knowing in the back of

00:31:31.560 his mind that he was letting friends and family visit his uh waterfront mansion in north palm beach

00:31:39.080 and that he thought well i'd better go easy on rod phillips so that if i'm ever revealed people won't

00:31:45.160 say that well why were you tough on rod phillips when you were doing yourself but that's not good

00:31:49.800 enough because he is tough on the little people this reminds me of leona helmsley that's a hotel matron 1.00

00:31:58.680 in new york taxes are for the little people you know and john tory who's an oligarch yeah really yeah

00:32:07.640 and he has a jet set lifestyle and he sneaks away and i think that it is of great public interest and

00:32:18.840 importance that the lockdown mayor is cheating it would be like in the era of prohibition

00:32:25.720 if the mayor who was shutting down every bar was found to have a speakeasy in his own house it's

00:32:33.000 and it's not just that he's a hypocrite it's how can he enforce the law against anyone else 0.73

00:32:37.960 when he himself is exempt from it and not only that ezra again what i find fascinating maybe we

00:32:42.760 have to wrap it here is the fact that he somehow got some pool some power for the managers the editors

00:32:49.960 of these journalists that want to write this story yeah and it gets quashed and it reminds me of last

00:32:55.240 month as you know we thought we had a hell of a scoop it was about john tory's wife barbara

00:33:00.920 going to a hair salon we know the date we know the amount she paid for the cut allegedly four hundred 0.99

00:33:07.960 dollars there is a photo in existence we offered five hundred dollars for the photo our go between

00:33:14.520 offered the photographer an additional five hundred dollars so a thousand dollars for this young lady 1.00

00:33:19.800 to give us that photo because without that photo we have nothing it remains in allegation territory

00:33:25.240 and supposedly she's being intimidated i don't know by whom not to surrender that photo even for one

00:33:33.000 thousand dollars so again um it fascinates me what kind of pull this man has behind the scenes yeah and

00:33:42.280 i'm a little bit scared about it for this reason um when you and our cameraman and our team go out onto

00:33:50.280 the streets yeah and cover lockdown protests in the city and the toronto police service takes a violent

00:33:57.720 approach yes to our journalists i know that on paper the toronto police service is independent

00:34:04.120 but i also know that when john torrey said get adam skelly they got adam skelly i'm talking about

00:34:10.280 adamson's barbecue and so the fact that you are doing such excellent reportage on the lockdown

00:34:15.880 protests and i had my little story about his north palm beach mansion i'm nervous because if john

00:34:22.680 torrey can pull the strings to get major newspapers in this town to bury the embarrassing story for him

00:34:30.680 and if we see what he did to adamson's barbecue is he the reason why toronto police assaulted three of

00:34:37.400 our reporters two weekends ago i don't know and i'll likely never know but i don't believe you can

00:34:43.640 trust john torrey and i think that he operates at a level of wealth and power that ordinary people do

00:34:51.880 not and cannot understand and we i believe in many ways are a voice for the people yeah we're not

00:34:58.360 supported by elites we're not owned by a major corporation he used to be the boss of rogers

00:35:02.200 yeah um we're not in that world he can't control us he can't call up our editors yeah to kill a story

00:35:08.040 he can't pull in a favor it's just us so will he do terrible things to us god forbid through the

00:35:14.680 police and this may sound like paranoia but we saw what he did adam skelly and we saw police assaulting

00:35:21.960 mocha efron and lincoln of our team and we know that john torrey cannot be trusted he's sneaked away

00:35:28.520 before these are dangerous days and one other thing you may have forgotten uh ezra i think our

00:35:33.800 best and most important video of last year was us going down to reclaim nathan phillips square

00:35:39.080 from a bunch of thugs called afro-indigenous rising who were camped out there for three weeks

00:35:43.880 breaking 11 sections of the trespass act but we were the bad guys for practicing journalism and then

00:35:49.160 in the aftermath we found out john torrey's minions were spying on us including the senior

00:35:55.560 communications guy bruce hawkins uh he slash him he wants to make sure you know your agenda i think

00:36:02.920 there's some ambiguity there with the name bruce but and it was all about how can we ban the media

00:36:09.160 from the square how can if we can't ban them can we limit them maybe one cameraman one reporter so

00:36:15.000 there was this i guess what i'm getting at there seems to be this mean streak to john torrey passes

00:36:20.760 himself off as a nice guy and every man when he's on radio with his media friends but beneath that

00:36:26.920 facade not so much yeah it's a great point literally today we received an access to information document

00:36:32.600 back on that file i'll share with you you haven't seen it yet um showing how many staff at city hall

00:36:38.760 accessed that secret database that he was collecting on us does i don't know if you saw that yet we just

00:36:44.040 arrived no have not dozens of they have collected closed circuit tv footage of you and me and of our

00:36:50.440 staff put it in a city database and dozens of times it has been accessed our private data collect he has set

00:36:59.960 up his own municipal spy system wow with closed circuit tvs with private security john torrey has likely illegal

00:37:11.400 civil civic i'm not going to call it a spy agency because they're too stupid to be actual spies these

00:37:18.760 are like the but but they do have it that connects their closed circuit tv their human intelligence their

00:37:26.600 security to a searchable database photos of me in it photos of you in it accessed dozens of times

00:37:33.480 so i suppose in a way john torrey is running his own little mini stupid cia wow well you you likened

00:37:39.560 them to roman emperor caligula that appointed his horse to the senate we know uh john torrey likes

00:37:45.320 horses when it comes to restaurants and you know there you have it folks uh i hate to be repetitive

00:37:51.880 but i think the biggest fallacy that's come out of this pandemic is the phrase we're all in this together

00:37:58.520 and the biggest truism is one one law for you for thee and one law for me and that is again evident

00:38:07.160 with somebody in clan tory uh jetting off to the sunny skies of florida well you and i and the rest of

00:38:14.680 the great unwashed masses we better stay at home or else despicable keep it here more of there's a 1.00

00:38:21.240 a real event show to come right after this

00:38:34.680 hey folks thanks for tuning in have an awesome weekend ezra is back on monday good night

00:38:51.240 we're here we're here

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Rebel News Podcast - February 06, 2021

Unions, not COVID, children or parents are keeping the schools closed

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