Rebel News Podcast

EZRA LEVANT | Trudeau’s CBC state broadcaster does their best to smear Elon Musk

December 12th, 2023  |  53 mins 48 secs

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Tonight, Trudeau’s CBC state broadcaster does their best to smear Elon Musk.

A few months back, the CBC’s in-house ombudsman, who usually just whitewashes the state broadcaster’s ethical lapses, was so grossed out by one CBC story that he actually chided its author for smearing Trudeau’s enemies as conspiracy theorists. The reporter’s name is Jonathan Montpetit. They call him an “investigative journalist” but he’s really a mud-thrower, rehashing left-wing gossip about conservatives.

Montpetit doesn't actually investigate anyone or anything — certainly not speaking truth to power. He works for power, smearing power’s critics as kooky, goofy conspiracy theorists, and calls himself a journalist as he does it. Even CBC took a disliking to Montpetit’s article calling everyone he hates a “disinformationist."

Programmers at CBC assume a great responsibility when they choose to use terms such as “misinformation” and “disinformation” in their stories. When they do so, they had better be right, because if it turns out down the road that the information proved to be correct, they can do great damage to their reputation. Precision is key, and labels should be employed with great caution. Sometimes it would be safer to say that there is no evidence for something, rather than proclaiming it to be false.

It's a lesson Montpetit has yet to take to heart, as he was at it again, today, going after Trudeau’s latest enemy: Elon Musk and Twitter, now known as “x”. It was a boring, long, 2,000-word story, written to please Trudeau and his staff more than to get normal people to read it. But Ezra is ready to get his hands dirty, showing you the anatomy of a smear job.

GUEST: Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, speaks on his experience attending the United Nations Climate Summit, COP28.

EZRA LEVANT | Ezra Levant on the pro-freedom coverage of Rebel News

December 11th, 2023  |  38 mins 13 secs

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Tonight, Ezra interviews chief reporter Sheila Gunn Reid on Rebel's coverage since the first of big government's draconian COVID lockdowns.

EZRA LEVANT | Tom Flanagan on the false media narrative of 'unmarked graves'

December 8th, 2023  |  44 mins 47 secs

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Tonight, Ezra interviews Canadian academic and author Tom Flanagan on the false media narrative of 'unmarked graves' at a former Kamloops residential school.

Rebel Roundup | Hanukkah menorah lightings, Danielle Smith on emissions cap, 15 Minute City project

December 8th, 2023  |  1 hr 19 mins

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Today, we're looking at a pair of menorah lightings, one in Calgary, where Mayor Jyoti Gondek didn't attend, and one in Montreal, where Pierre Poilievre was given an award and delivered a speech.

Plus, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had some choice words for federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, who announced an emissions cap for the oil and gas sector yesterday.

And finally, another so-called conspiracy is coming to reality, as Edmonton's city council looks at a 15-Minute City concept designed for two million people.

EZRA LEVANT | Leftists despise humanity and consider their opponents to be 'invalid people'

December 7th, 2023  |  55 mins 26 secs

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Tonight, Ezra interviews American author Dr. James Lindsay on the wokeness epidemic that has festered in the west.

SHEILA GUNN REID | Climate scaremongers want new ways to punish us for being alive

December 6th, 2023  |  46 mins 28 secs

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Failure is not an option at the United Nations climate summit, as member states want to punish countries who disregard non-binding emission targets.

EZRA LEVANT | Steven Guilbeault pays his debts with just days to spare — using other people’s money!

December 6th, 2023  |  40 mins 45 secs

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Tonight, Ezra reflects on the recent saga involving former Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, which sheds light on the importance of platforms like X in shaping public opinion and holding politicians accountable.

Canada stands with Israel — not the cowardly Trudeau Liberals

December 5th, 2023  |  37 mins 17 secs

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Tonight, Ezra interviews Canadians from coast-to-coast-to-coast in support of justice for the victims of Hamas terror. Thousands marched in solidarity with Israel against Hamas on Parliament Hill.

EZRA LEVANT | Ezra Levant breaks down Rebel's Canadian pro-Israel coverage

December 4th, 2023  |  43 mins 19 secs

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Tonight, Ezra recaps the best of Rebel's Canadian pro-Israel coverage, including Rex Murphy's exhilarating speech from Parliament Hill today.

Ezra Levant breaks down exclusive interview with Geert Wilders

December 1st, 2023  |  56 mins 28 secs

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Ezra provides insight from his sit-down with Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands:

As you may know, I was in the Netherlands, a great European country with deep ties to Canada — we helped liberate them during the Second World War. They had a shockwave in their latest parliamentary election. The leader of the Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders, shocked the country and, I think, himself by coming in first by a country mile, and I was delighted to be the first non-Dutch journalist to talk to him about it.

He did allude in our conversation to the fact that Rebel News is independent citizen journalism, which he said is very important to contrarian, nonconformist parties like his. I showed you the whole interview last night and I hope you thought it was interesting. I knew I only had 15 minutes to talk to him because they jammed us in at the last minute between other appointments he had.

Sometimes in interviews, I provide a long thesis and I say to the interviewee, "What do you think?" But I didn't want to do that this time. I really wanted to get maximum talk time for him, and I wanted to cover certain issues, and not just go deep on some of them.

So what I thought I would do today is play questions and answers from our tight interview and then give you some thoughts afterwards.

GUEST: Sheila Gunn Reid joins to go through the history of NDP hiding scandals.