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G M's avatar

Agree with Rebel News or not, they have a right to be heard, uncensored.

Free speech is a pillar of our democracy.

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Objective Stomach's avatar

Democracy, you mean mob rule by majority over minority?

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Objective Stomach's avatar

The unmarked and unsubstantiated graves story is being used just the same as the slave and oppressive white man narrative in the US. Its pressed upon a population to instill guilt and a sense of self sacrifice to an group of people. The slaves and natives narrative are one in the same: hate yourself for what was done and give up everything and anything for ever as restitution.

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Max Williams's avatar

Mainstream politicians and legacy media have dug themselves into a deep hole and are now unable to see a way to climb out. So they just continue to double and triple down hoping the issue will eventually just go away. Thanks so much to Rebel media for ensuring it doesn't.

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DRMB's avatar

Thanks for posting your thoughts.

I personally find Canadian legacy media ‘Pathetic Propaganda Pap’ (PPP) - repetitive, insidious and boringly predictable.

Predictable in the sense that they are telling us what and how to think, what is real, and that we are the problem if we don’t agree with their word sleight-of-hand.

I can go and read the same material on the WEF website.

I look elsewhere for different perspectives, info and facts (what legacy calls mis- and dis- information) that reflect reality as I experience and see it - not as legacy says it is - and tells me that I have a problem because I think differently than what they tell me to think.

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Brian Giesbrecht's avatar

Canada is a strange country, and becoming stranger by the day. We criticize the “news” from government paid “journalists” in dictatorships and believe independent sources specifically because they are not paid by the government. The exact opposite applies in Canada. Most Canadians tend to trust CBC and government subsidized newspapers while distrusting independent media that receive no money from the government. Odd?

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Robert's avatar

The CBC is unapologetic about its bias. Some months ago I watched Mr. Hanomansing interview Judy Raybould (sp ?) about the unmarked graves issue. They both knew they were promoting old lies that folks like Nina Green had exposed over a year ago. But that didn't matter to either of them.

I contacted CBC about it and of course was ignored. I used to support our mainstream media because I felt it was needed to keep every corner of the country informed. I now opt for limited information over intentionally wrong information.

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Jan's avatar

I’ve also complained to CBC with no effect. We stopped watching/listening to them six years ago.

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Jim McMurtry's avatar

James Pew: "Does Collins, along with the majority of left wing types, honestly think the media landscape in Canada would be better served it no right wing voices were heard? As a right wing polemic (who has no problem maintaining fact-based objectivity), I would not want to silence left wing voices."

This is an essential educational point. To understand a matter, one must look at it from many sides. Mainstream media think their side alone suffices. It might in some cases if it weren't steeped in ignorance, as when Barton says there were missing children dug up.

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Robin Collins's avatar

@Jim McM, I answered here James Pew’s query about whether I think “right wing” media should gain a foothold. Of course, we need to read and hear all sides. But is that effort at inquiry what Rebel News is known for, or actually doing? Or are they just polemicists for a partisan cause, like the people they criticize. (Their guy Menzies is known for placing himself in front of people he interviews and then whining about —threatening to sue —being assaulted afterwards. That’s not journalism.) RN is also a conspiracy-laden kind of outfit. If you keep that up, eventually everyone will be against you! But they did have some good stuff on the residential schools. Too bad they have this other clown-like element. They seem to have a victim mentality also, which is … ironic. Why would James here think I would want to de-platform right wing media? I wasn’t arguing they should be banned (while they respect the rules); I only argue they are (more often than not) junk journalism of the right, a kind of lowest brow tabloid.

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Grube's avatar

The problem with the unmarked graves story is getting the confirmed correct information out to other media outlets. It does little good to simply be an echo chamber amongst other right wing outlets. I am a centrist guy but I immediately knew the charges in Kamloops were wrong by a very large margin and as we know now — confirmed wrong there and a few other locations, thus causing native leaders to halt discussions on the whole topic. They are smart in doing so as the truth stopped its journey and the nation accepts (mostly) that Cdns were a bad bunch including all of our leaders — somewhere between 1867 and 1967.

That overarching acceptance is incorrect by a very long mile but is now resting in place as something holy, not to be challenged. What must be challenged is those leaders (native or govt or media) that accept the accusations without confirming them. It is ultimately wrong to do so and will do far more damage to the indigenous than anything else. Eventually. Meantime, we play games and perform dances around the truth. Trying not to hurt feelings or lose one’s income.

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Jan's avatar

Terry Glavin wrote this in 2022 much to the consternation of the mainstream media. There were no bodies.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-the-worlds-media-got-it-wrong-on-residential-school-graves

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Grube's avatar

Yea I read that back then. He was one of the few doing so. The chiefs in those reserves may think they have a winner in this “project” but there is a strong possibility the whole thing will backfire.

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Jan's avatar
Apr 20Edited

A 2017 Maclean’s article predicting the end of the Rebel. They’ve always wanted them gone.

https://macleans.ca/news/canada/the-rebels-steady-spiral-downwards/

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Robin Collins's avatar

The problem with Terry’s original claims was that he entirely blamed media outlets and not the Kamloops band and leaders for the false information. He has mostly corrected that I think.

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Robin Collins's avatar

Well said. We need to reach a few key journalists and convince them. Rebel News is not the ones to do it.

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ScottMcFly's avatar

Another excellent essay James, laying out the facts clearly re Rebel News, its reporters and other independent journalists. I have been a big fan of Rebel News for about 5 years now. I noticed today James, myself and others tried to post this essay on Facebook, only for it to be immediately deleted and labelled "spam". Is that a FB algorithm mistake or is there something more sinister afoot?

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Joan's avatar

In your subtitle and once in the body of the article, correct Humphries to Humphrey.

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Woke Watch Canada's avatar

Thank you Joan.

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Rick Danz's avatar

The left wants free speech as much as the right. As long as they get to determine what speech you're free to speak.

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peter john wraight's avatar

We have followed the news avidly for months, watching all news in Canada, including the CBC, which we have been avoiding for years now due to the false narrative on genocide. That discourse between Ezra, Rebel News, and that other berserk idiot from the CBC was without doubt the most disgusting event we have ever seen on television.

Canadians have been denied the right to hear questions raised by journalists because of disgraceful conduct on the part of the CBC, which is a travesty considering we were at a very crucial moment in our election.

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Bill Wynn's avatar

Great read James. You’ve identified the major media problem Canada has. No mainstream national right wing TV news channel like Fox in the US to provide counter point coverage to the left wing establishment fake narratives that have brainwashed most of my boomer generation. God help Canada come out from under this corruption of the truth.

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Jim McMurtry's avatar

Robin, Rebel News is bringing stories to the fore that mainstream, leftist, woke media ignore, like mine. It broke my story. It addresses the indoctrination in schools. It features obscure cases of abuse. It has over a million subscribers for a reason.

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Robin Collins's avatar

I agree with some of this but I want to make something very clear. I am most certainly NOT opposed to conservative news sources gaining a foothold. We need all flavours. My objection is with groups like Rebel News because it is gotcha journalism of a right wing style displacing good journalism, and displacing truths with conspiracies and extreme polemics. I will even concede that Rebel News has done some good journalism on the residential schools file (yes, I have watched some of their newscasts). But RN is not objective. And their bad offerings undermine their useful reporting. Critics of the CBC (for being biased “left”) surely must know that RN is no better, and generally much worse on this front, but biased (overall) on the right.

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Sober Christian Gentleman's avatar

Collectivism is a cult.

Left is collectivist and they do not want you to see them clearly, so they can manipulate you and your ignorance.

The real political spectrum is this:

Left is total government control;

right is no government control.

The spectrum is degrees between those two points.

The communists have distorted the language to indicate a narrow band of possible reality, the left is a communist government and the right is a fascist government ( both are big government control of the individual). By using this scale, you always pre-posed their government's bureaucratic control. University has become a communist indoctrination mill, churning out leftist cult members who go into government, banking and media et al.. The communists themselves called this the long march through the institutions. They claim Nazis were on the right, but they were socialists, which is next to communism in the actual spectrum.

See the trick.

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