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The Rebel is not state run media, the CBC is, apples and oranges. There is zero reason to prop up state run propaganda with taxpayer money, The Rebel is not propped up with taxpayer money, the CBC is, their bias is much more relevant as a result. Other countries having a government broadcaster is not a good reason for Canada to have one. State run propaganda is not something to be celebrated, it is something to be mocked and ridiculed. All the other government broadcasters are proof positive that you can't have one without extreme bias, not a single example of good journalism in the bunch.

Scheer has no balls, just kill the CBC altogether.

Yes, which is fine, but if you seek out your own kind, culture, language and values and are white, well, that's racist, you know.

I predict the US invades us by 2035. By that time, large areas of the Southwestern United States will become uninhabitable. Arizona, Nevada, and California will suffer greatly, and millions of people will be displaced. The displaced Americans will vote in a fascist regime, and since any kind of mass influx to other areas of the US would be troublesome, it will be easier to just invade Canada- a country along with Russia, may be the two sole beneficiaries of Global Warming. Our population will reach 60 million within 20 years. There will be a shift towards right wing politics. Canada will be powerless to stop any invasion. I also predict the Mexican Wall will be built, since large areas of Latin America will become uninhabitable, and there will be a push to the north. Unlike Canada, the USA has the ability to repel any mass influx of immigrants by force, so that will not be a problem for North America, but may involve genocide in Latin America, as too many people will be competing for not enough land. As for Europe? Climate Change will trigger millions to migrate to Western Europe, but by this time a country (perhaps several), will elect a Hitler-like character, and most likely eradicate said immigrants similar to what happened in the 40s. Climate change is real, and we have no idea how bad things are going to become in 15 years.

This would be a party with a tangible, measurable, simple platform. Persons would show up to vote for this. Cut taxes by half. No platitudes or vague promises. Unfortunately politicians, for the most part, want to take the easy road of appearing beneficial rather than making tangible improvements. In practice, money from taxes is allocated for projects that already exist and if a politician wants to fund their own project often the temptation to weasel in a new tax instead of risking the unpopular move of cutting a program is too great. It should be a normal process in government to rank the effectiveness of its programs and improve what's working while obsolescing what isn't; not some scary idea. Politicians could say things like: "We're subsidizing sustainable energy because this makes sense for the people and for our budget; we think you'll be pleased" "We're reforming educational institutions from being profit-seeking to giving our citizens the knowledge needed to improve our country and their lives instead of trying to squeeze outdated textbook ideas into modern life; we think you'll be pleased" "We're disconnecting from a debt-based money system that requires ever increasing sacrifices from future generations and will give you more freedom to decide what to do with your life; we think you'll be pleased" Oh how far is the ideal from our current government structure... Even assuming you earn little money: 15% federal income tax 15% provincial income tax 5% federal sales tax (they're double-dipping; you pay when money comes in and you pay when money goes out) 6-10% provincial sales tax (they're double-dipping; you pay when money comes in and you pay when money goes out) other taxes or fees (property taxes, etc.) You do not get to use AT LEAST half the money you work hard at a job you probably do not like. Your money is not your own. You may have noticed police speed traps around. This is what the money you're being taxed of is paying for: more surveillance and control; not better roads. In other words: you pay taxes to be harrased and potentially have to pay more for speeding tickets. You are paying for your entrapment. Trim the fat! Personally, I would like to turn things around before they get nasty.

Bullspit. Every race of human evolved during rapid upswings in climate. Almost every empire and civilization came into being during rapid upswings in climate. And during every single one of those events the average global temps were warmer than they are today. 1100 years ago the Greenland ice sheet did not exist other than some glaciers in the far north of the island. Now idiots are freaking out about the ice sheet receding. They freak out over sea ice extent. An extent that was first measured by satellite in 1979. 1979 saw an abormally high sea ice extent and that's the base line the alarmists are working from. And the alarmist stupidity doesn't help things. Had one idiot try to convince me that AGW is real because up until the 1960's Lake Ontario would completely freeze over. The problem with that claim (besides the obvious bullshit that it is) is that Lake Ontario has only frozen over completely four times since Europeans arrived here. Or how about Lenny DeCrapio freaking out over a chinook in Alberta and exclaiming he witnessed AGW first hand and "barely escaped with his life" or some such nonsense. The problem with climate science right now is that it has become heavily politicized. And when stuff like that gets politicized, it becomes harder to trust. Especially when the AGW mouthpieces refuse to walk their talk. An access to information request revealed that the Groper household spends around $300/MONTH on bottled water. Groper's family vacations have also created a larger carbon footprint than the average Canadian family does in a year. He's rented a total of 431 luxury SUV's during his annual trips to climate conferences. The only inconvenient truth about Al Gore's movie is after all his piffle about AGW and rising sea levels, he goes and buys a nice ocean front home in Santa Barbara. The political stance on AGW is loooooong on rhetoric and hyperbole and rather short on actual science.

When someone says something offensive from the Left there's very little response other than mockery from the right. When someone from the Right offends the Left they pursue them on social media and mainstream media, drive them off, contact employers, try to get them fired, contact anyone associated with them, trying to get them shunned and removed from board, agencies and even groups they volunteer with. We saw it with those kids who did a native inspired dance before a hockey game and received furious death threats from leftists. We saw it with those kids in the US who dared to look at a native guy who walked into their midst pounding a drum. They too were threatened with death, their school threatened with bombing. Make the slightest comment that offends the Left and they want your life destroyed. There are so many examples of this behaviour from the Left. How often are Left of centre speakers inundated with threats and how often do Right wing groups try to block them from speaking vs Right wing speakers being shut down by the Left? It isn't even in the same postal code/zip code. The Left is extraordinarily intolerant of different views on ANY subject and becoming less tolerant by the month. And with the assistance of social media companies which admit their bias, is trying to bar all views but their own by redefining anything which contradicts them as 'hateful'. It is clear that the Left has little commitment to individual freedoms, and are assuming an almost religious mania for a substitute set of 'rights' which require trampling the traditional ones.

This thread is a good example of how people look at other groups vs. their own, I think.

OK, but that framework and contingency has existed for many decades, regardless of climate change. (Example: the U.S. Army was ready to roll from Fort Drum during the FLQ Crisis in 1970.) The U.S. military has also operated in disputed territorial waters with impunity. Operational plans were developed long ago and are tweaked based on geo-political circumstances and objectives. Canada, being a bordering nation and NATO/NORAD ally, already has voluntarily surrendered at some levels because of mutual benefits and integration of resources. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, Canada's DND followed the U.S. Pentagon to DEFCON 3 before PMO approval. Accordingly, I agree that the potential for an invasion of Canada by the United States exists for much older reasons than anything to do with climate change, including any risks and instability from within Canada itself (regionalism, separation, economic collapse, pandemic, etc.). Some have suggested that many Canadians wouldn't even notice the invasion, as so much American media and popular culture are already consumed in Canada by choice.

Trudeaus spend $300 a month on bottled water. Whoops. So much for Mr. Environment. https://www.therebel.media/justin-trudeau-single-use-plastic-ban-household-spends-300-dollars-monthly-bottled-water

Where are all the moderate men who should be denouncing the extremist man's?

The analogy of a market being a garden is a bad one. Firstly, why does the tending need to be done by the government, as opposed to individuals? If we go with this analogy, then the government needs to tend to everyone's garden in every house across the country! Sort of like how the Soviets created the mass famine of Holomodor. Secondly, government intervention isn't always justified for all markets. There needs to be an identified market failure, such as externalities, a public or common good, imperfect information, lack of competition, etc. Thirdly, having bad ideas compete with good ideas for the support of the "ignorant people" is far preferable than having a government decide which views it views as in need of weeding out and which views it as the preferable views that the "ignorant people" need to follow. Firstly, we don't have a proper market place of ideas, due to all the restrictions being imposed on it by various governments around the world. Secondly, the market place of ideas works far better and is far less dangerous, than any government controlled environment of speech, be it Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc.

1. This is the growth model. We only have to master collaboration with the people in service design and we will be unstoppable. 2. Duh. However some want a system where you give 'equal time' to bizarre racists and fringe dwellers with the following of 5% of the brain dead. That's not 'diversity' that coddling morons. The Yellow Vest losers feel they are entitled to wealth because of their heritage but that's not a meritocracy and it will bring us down.

Sometimes on the weekends, I turn on the CBC and CTV all news channels as I eat my breakfast. They can go through their entire 15 minute news segment without any Canadian news being featured, or perhaps there'll be one or two minutes of that devoted to Canadian news. The rest is cheaply purchased video and reporting from the US networks on US storms, US crime, US politics, etc. Why are we so heavily subsidizing this network to simply rebroadcast American news? In reality, what a conservative government ought to do is stop subsidizing them entirely, and put the CBC up for sale. It's a horribly inefficient organization which serves mainly as a job creation scheme for otherwise unemployable progressive activists.

I think that he did it to make Trump, Republicans and white people look bad in order to stoke racial division. He's a 'Murica-hatin' Dem toady from the word go.

Smollet didn't just hurt himself and ruin his own career. He hurt the whole movement. He is truly a goddam disgrace. I'd love to see an investigation into what happened to get his charges dropped, but I doubt that will ever come out.

If lying is a sin you know damned well that you'll be there.