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Far-left journalist Duncan Kinney admitted he painted “Actual Nazi” on the bust, then wrote it up as if someone else had done it.

Duncan Kinney, executive director of Progress Alberta and editor of The Progress Report, has pleaded guilty to one count of mischief over the 2021 vandalism of a statue at a Ukrainian community centre in north Edmonton.

Kinney admitted he spray-painted the words “Actual Nazi” in red on a bronze bust of Roman Shukhevych outside the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, according to Edmonton Journal reporter Jonny Wakefield, who was in court. Kinney also admitted he then wrote an article about the vandalism and presented someone else as responsible, Wakefield reported.

That article ran on The Progress Report on August 10, 2021, the same day as the vandalism. It said the graffiti was the work of “an unknown person or persons.”

Edmonton Police Service’s hate crimes unit charged Kinney with mischief under $5,000 in October 2022. He pleaded not guilty and fought the charge for about four years.

At the time, Kinney was in a public dispute with Edmonton police, who revoked his media accreditation in March 2022. He wrote that police were trying to silence The Progress Report.

Shukhevych’s wartime record is disputed. He served as an officer in a Ukrainian battalion under German command and later commanded the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose forces massacred thousands of Jews and tens of thousands of Poles. B’nai Brith Canada and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center have called for the bust’s removal. The complex has said the war-crimes evidence against him was manufactured by the KGB.

None of that was before the court. The plea concerns who painted the statue, and who then reported the vandalism as news without saying so.

On the same night in 2021, a monument to the 14th Waffen SS Division at St. Michael’s Cemetery was also painted red.

The Progress Report has not issued a correction to the 2021 article.

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Cobourg votes before it knows as local police face forensic audit

Two million dollars over budget and a record 20.5% increase — that’s the 2026 state of the Cobourg Police Service under the noses of the two people who were supposed to be watching the books. Now, the same two people are asking Cobourg voters to promote them.

Advance polls are open in Ontario’s “Feel Good Town,” and Deputy Mayor Nicole Beatty is running for mayor while Councillor Adam Bureau is running for deputy mayor. They are also the only two elected representatives on the Cobourg Police Service Board — the same board that, on Thanksgiving Sunday, announced it had referred its own finances to Ontario’s Inspectorate of Policing, consulted the OPP and begun moving toward a forensic audit.

A forensic audit isn’t a routine review. It’s an investigation into potential fraud, misuse of funds or financial irregularities.

The $1.6-million increase was approved by Beatty and Bureau in October 2025. Council sent it back in November, but the board returned it unchanged.

According to the board’s own account, its finance committee had repeatedly requested financial reports from the previous senior administration, to no avail. So the board couldn’t get its own numbers, and still approved a 20.5% increase? Not once did it tell the public, and the mayor claims that wasn’t shared with the rest of council, either.

Chief Chris Leather, who started June 1, said that the review that uncovered “unexplained expenditures” dating back to 2023 began in July at his recommendation.

Beatty and Bureau were appointed to the board in December 2022. That’s three and a half years of oversight, and a review that only started once the old administration was gone and a new chief asked for one.

The public record is equally unflattering. On August 26, Mayor Lucas Cleveland moved for an independent line-by-line review of police spending, but there was no seconder and thus, no debate. Despite both board members being at the table, neither spoke up to say a review was already underway.

The board’s first public word came 14 days later, with no mention of the discrepancies, missing reports, the Inspectorate or the OPP. Council and the town treasurer learned of the referral on October 11 — two days before the mayor’s special meeting. That Tuesday meeting was supposed to be about the town’s financial health. Instead, it collapsed into personal attacks on the record, with the mayor and deputy mayor trading accusations.

CAO Tracey Vaughan told council she has been flagging financial concerns since early in her 2020 tenure, some in closed session, and that at least some recommendations “have not been implemented.”

The next day, Cleveland filed a complaint with the Ontario Ombudsman alleging serial meetings — councillors coordinating motions and amendments outside public session while excluding one member: him.

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Massive Explosion at Alberta Military Base Kills and Injures Troops, Hospitals Reportedly Full, ‘Significant Casualties,’ Defense Minister Says ‘Situation Active and Delicate’

An incident at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta on Saturday sparked a major fire that spread beyond the base in high winds, and Defense Minister David McGuinty confirmed fatalities and injuries among military personnel.

Global News reports “at least seven people are dead and dozens more left injured.”

The report added:

A live-fire training exercise hit a gas line or gas well on the base causing an explosion around 4 p.m. MT, multiple Canadian Armed Forces sources told Global News.

A fire then broke out and spread, fuelled by wind gusts of up to 100 km/h that prompted much of Alberta to be under wind warnings on Saturday.

Officials were tight-lipped about details, but McGuinty said he was “saddened to share that there have been both fatalities and injuries as a result of an incident on the base.”

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Feds spent $4.8 million on unused Microsoft licences, with more costs undisclosed

Federal departments purchased more than 53,000 Microsoft licences and subscriptions that went unused, costing taxpayers at least $4.8 million, according to government records reviewed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

The actual bill remains unclear because departments did not disclose costs for nearly 20,000 of those unused subscriptions.

The findings come from a government response to an order paper question submitted by MP Adam Chambers, who requested details about Microsoft licences purchased over the previous year and how many remained unused.

“I understand forgetting about a few trial subscriptions, but how do these bureaucrats forget about 50,000 subscriptions?” said CTF federal director Franco Terrazzano.

Departments reported spending $4.8 million on 33,213 unused licences and subscriptions. Another 19,860 went unused without their costs being disclosed, according to the CTF.

Statistics Canada reported the largest disclosed spending total: nearly $1.2 million for 2,608 unused subscriptions.

That included $1,746 for 25 Teams Phone Standard subscriptions purchased for a pilot project. None were used. Asked why, an agency spokesperson told the CTF: “Technical challenges were encountered.”

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada reported the highest number of unused licences, with 7,443 costing taxpayers $138,500.

Employment and Social Development Canada spent $68,940 on 150 Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro subscriptions without using any. The department did not respond to the CTF’s request for an explanation.

The Canada Revenue Agency reported 4,588 unused subscriptions but withheld their cost. It also did not respond to the federation’s questions.

Other disclosures left significant gaps. National Defence did not identify the subscription types it purchased, while Transport Canada did not disclose how many licences were unused.

Shared Services Canada reported spending approximately $27 million on Microsoft subscriptions without disclosing how many it purchased or used. That spending was not identified as entirely unused.

“Taxpayers are paying for all these subscriptions so departments need to be fully transparent and show taxpayers the bill,” Terrazzano said.

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Tracey Wilson: Liberal ‘fear porn’ about a U.S. invasion is a fantasy while Ottawa disarms its own gun owners

On Tuesday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Tracey Wilson of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR) joined Ezra via Zoom to react to a Globe and Mail opinion piece urging Canadians to “think about nonviolent resistance” in the event of a hypothetical American invasion.

Ezra said the piece, written by Richard Sandbrook, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Toronto and vice president of Science for Peace, treats an invasion as a real possibility. He called it “fantasy on top of fantasy on top of fantasy.” He also pointed out that Prime Minister Mark Carney was the one who started talking about the Canadian Armed Forces making plans for such an eventuality, and that Carney told the New York Times before he told Canadians.

Tracey did not mince words. “It’s pure liberal boomer fear porn. That’s what it is. And it’s actually embarrassing,” she said.

Tracey pointed to a National Post piece in which retired Vice Admiral Mark Norman said the Canadian Armed Forces have basically been left to rot. “And he’s not overstating that,” she said, adding that suggesting Canada could defend itself against an American invasion “is ridiculous. Thankfully, that is not going to happen.”

She said Carney began his campaign with “a lot of fear porn about the Americans and an invasion,” encouraging Canadians to hate their neighbours to the south despite a long friendship and partnership. “It’s unhelpful. It’s unhealthy. Trump won’t be there forever,” she said. “And at some point, he’s going to have to stand on his own two legs and tell us why he’s created this kind of division in this country.”

Ezra also read the Globe and Mail’s own description of nonviolent defence as “a strategy of deterrence and resistance in which unarmed civilians play a major role, either alone or in coordination with the armed forces.” He noted that the article never actually explains what that would look like in practice.

For Tracey, the contradiction is the point. “This is the same government that is spending billions of your tax dollars confiscating legally acquired firearms from licensed, vetted, RCMP-tested and trained gun owners and not investing that money in our military,” she said. “You can’t disarm your population. And at the same time, you use fear porn about an American invasion that is literally a fantasy in the minds of the liberal talking heads in Ottawa.”

Ezra and Tracey also discussed the state of the military. Ezra said Canada’s forces are underfunded, under-equipped, demoralized and underpaid, and that the aging CF-18s would be like “a Datsun driving alongside a Ferrari” next to an F-35. He said Canada’s participation in the Maple Flag exercise in northern Alberta has been cancelled.

The conversation then turned to the attempted attack on a synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, on Yom Kippur. Ezra said the gunman, Sean Ward, turned out to be a Canadian military veteran who arrived with enough guns and ammunition to kill everyone inside, and that a police officer outside was wounded in a shootout but stopped what could have been a massacre. Ezra cited a Globe and Mail headline reporting that the shooter did not have a gun licence.

Tracey said that detail proves the Liberal approach is aimed at the wrong people. “He completely evaded any detection because he just simply didn’t go get a firearms license. He acquired his guns illegally, like many other madmen in our country,” she said. She added that none of the measures brought in since 2015 would have stopped that crime, and gave credit to law enforcement for saving lives that day. “It just goes to show we are 100% focusing on the wrong people.”

She said the Liberals’ 11-year record on public safety has been “a tragic and bloody failure,” and that it will continue until Carney changes course. She also tied the issue to the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, which she said was the catalyst for the Trudeau-era gun bans even though the killer worked completely outside the licensing system.

Ezra brought up U.S. scholar Dr. John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, who argues from a purely pragmatic standpoint that mass shooters are generally only stopped when someone with a firearm arrives. Ezra said that is why he sees an argument for private firearms ownership, noting that in Israel and the United States armed bystanders have stopped attackers before police arrived.

Tracey agreed, pointing to chat records that came out last week involving the Tumbler Ridge shooter. She said the killer indicated that the only things he worried might stop him were law enforcement or someone else with a firearm. “You can live in a unicorn and rainbow world where you say, no guns, never,” she said. “You can’t put that genie back in the bottle.”

“It’s my opinion that the best thing we can do is give people the means, the opportunity and the training to protect themselves and those that they care about,” Tracey concluded.

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Christian concert cancelled due to 100 signatures in a city of 100,000

Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to God. So Ezra Levant marked the holiday by taking part in one of his favourite pastimes, reading a court document. This time, it was the City of Moncton’s statement of defence, filed Sept. 22, explaining why it cancelled a Christian worship concert in a public park.

American worship leader Sean Feucht was booked for a free Canadian tour called Let Us Worship. Moncton approved Feucht’s event at Riverfront Park on April 30 and spent three months working out details. The application described “a free, public, live Christian music event” bringing churches together “to pray for the city and the region,” with baptisms.

Two days before the show, a feminist group, a Pride group and others published an open letter with about 100 signatures. The next day, the city cancelled, citing its code of conduct and “evolving safety and security considerations.”

Ezra noted the three-page code says nothing about events, permits or protests, but does ban discrimination based on religion. The concert moved to a camp more than two hours away. Of 1,000 expected, 200 made it. Organizers sued for $50,000 in Charter damages.

The city’s defence says its safety concerns “arose from the potential interaction between attendees and individuals opposed to the event.” The danger, by the city’s own account, was the protesters, so its solution was to cancel the Christians. The filing also says the cancellation was meant “to prevent anticipated hate speech.”

“Nobody had said anything. Nobody was charged with anything,” Ezra said. “That is like a pre-crime arrest for a hymn.” The city even admits it limited freedom of expression, then argues the Christians should pay its legal bills. “That’s a heckler’s veto,” Ezra said.

But the cancellation of Feucht’s events wasn’t limited to just one city — Halifax, Charlottetown, Quebec City, Gatineau and Vaughan all blocked Feucht’s events. Only Alberta let the show go ahead in public.

In Montreal, a church that opened its doors to him was fined $2,500, and someone threw smoke bombs during the service while Rebel News’ Alexa Lavoie was there. A suspect was charged with mischief only after more than a year of her reporting. Rebel News and The Democracy Fund are now funding the church’s court fight.

“Once the government accepts it, the hecklers learn. Every time they threaten, they win,” Ezra said. “Sing if you like. Just not in a park in Moncton. They might cancel you.”

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Former Conservative MP breaks silence on her own vaccine injury: ‘It’s just so cruel’

It has been five years since Canadians were told to trust the experts and that the science was settled. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, still live with the aftermath of that sloganeering — including a former Member of Parliament who is now using what’s left of her platform to say the quiet part out loud.

Former Conservative MP Nelly Shin represented Port Moody–Coquitlam in British Columbia through the peak of the pandemic. She took the shots so she could keep showing up for her constituents in Ottawa, then later stepped away from public life because of debilitating symptoms she describes as long COVID.

Shin attended the Allison Inquiry hearings on Parliament Hill from September 8–11, where Canadians reporting vaccine-related injuries testified about lost careers, crushed finances and doctors who would not put the words “vaccine injury” in a chart.

After listening, she went home and wrote a Substack piece titled A Call for Canada to Support the Vaccine Injured and Move Together Toward Closure from a Pandemic We All Want to Forget. In it, she argues the same government that enforced lockdowns and mandates “in the name of saving lives” has turned a blind eye to the people still suffering as a result of their unprecedented measures.

“No injury, no sickness or illness is a controversial issue, but circumstances right now have made it a controversial issue and people don’t want to touch it,” Shin told me. “What we’re dealing with is people who are sick, who need treatment, but there’s so little out there that the government and the health officials in Canada are willing to discuss.”

Shin was candid about her own case — four trips to the ER after a severe bout of pneumonia, breathing problems, brain fog and exhaustion triggered by any level of exertion. “Nothing shows up [on the labs],” she said. “So that’s the frustrating part.”

She was an MP when the shots rolled out under emergency authorization, and she had doubts about taking the novel injection. “I wasn’t sure how much time and robust research had gone in in terms of the after effects, the long-term effects,” she said. Her decision came in what she calls a “panic of survival,” with death counts broadcast daily which kept the public fearful and submissive. “To keep saying that this is a perfect, infallible vaccine and keep promoting it to the degree that the government did, I think it was a huge risk.”

That risk is one Ottawa still refuses to revisit. The federal Vaccine Injury Support Program — now rebranded — has become a case study in lost files, high rejection rates and administrative costs that dwarf the help actually delivered. Shin doesn’t see a one-off glitch, but a pattern: “There’s just a lack of will or interest. Nobody wants to talk about COVID now.”

Her first demand is simple acknowledgement, so the professional chill on doctors can lift and physicians can openly discuss treatments — including the alternative protocols that get mocked. “You can’t just tell someone to go to the corner and figure it out on their own and just wilt,” she said. “What are they left with? It’s just so cruel.”

Asked what single commitment she’d put to sitting MPs and Health Canada, Shin didn’t hesitate: “Be careful not to over control or over manage a situation… You can’t so confidently, with such grandiosity, force people to take something that hasn’t been properly tested.”

Canadians who are still sick don’t need another communications exercise. They need the chill lifted, the files found, and doctors free to treat the patient in front of them instead of protecting the narrative.

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Justice Canada funds $222,058 training for sexual-orientation court reports

The Department of Justice has signed a $222,058 contribution agreement with Black LGBTQ Justice Canada Inc. of Toronto to train and certify authors of “Black LGBTQ Justice Affirming Assessment Reports,” a new kind of court report that brings a defendant’s sexual orientation and gender identity into their dealings with the criminal justice system, according to the federal grants disclosure database. 

The agreement runs from July 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027 under the department’s Legal Aid program.

The record describes the reports as “Similar to Impact of Race Culture Assessments” and says they “incorporate sexual orientation, gender identity, and other intersectional considerations into reports that supports Black LGBTQ individuals’ interactions with the criminal justice system”. The project will “offer training and certification” in the reports, “accredited through the Law Society of Ontario”, through a four-module curriculum delivered in three sessions in Vancouver, Halifax and Montreal.

Impact of Race and Culture Assessments, known as IRCAs, are pre-sentencing reports that Justice Canada says “help sentencing judges to better understand the effect of poverty,” marginalization and racism, and that “have been used primarily for Black offenders, both adults and youth, at the sentencing stage.” 

Ottawa committed $6.64 million over five years to IRCAs, followed by $1.6 million a year.

Rebel News has covered IRCAs in our Justice Watch series, including a Nova Scotia case in which a judge cut a sex offender’s sentence after a race and culture assessment.

Black LGBTQ Justice Canada says its mission “charts the course for justice-impacted Black LGBTQ individuals through holistic, affirming support.” Its website lists Dr. Wesley Crichlow as founder and a board co-chaired by Emma Joseph and Tandy Clarke, and already advertises a “BLGBTQJAA Certification” with pages for Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and British Columbia. 

The record does not say whether the new reports are meant for sentencing, bail or elsewhere, or whether any court has yet accepted one.

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Reconciliation propaganda in high school exposed by BC teen

A 16-year-old B.C. high school student says he is being denied the opportunity to return to class unless he removes his YouTube video called “Lies and Reconciliation,” which exposed some of the propaganda that was pushed on students during his school’s Truth and Reconciliation Day programming.

Isaac Simpson, a Grade 11 student enrolled in a Lower Mainland school’s film and television program, decided to put his filmmaking skills to use after growing frustrated with what he was being taught about Canada’s history, often unbeknownst to parents.

From a masked Black Lives Matter advocate telling students about truth, to another virtual speaker telling the youth to embrace discussions of “land back,” to a disturbing exaggerated illustration depicting Catholic nuns and an RCMP officer forcibly tearing Indigenous children from their mothers, Simpson’s video gives parents a rare look inside the classroom.

“I got really sick of all the indoctrination being pushed down students’ throats,” Simpson told me. “They were just telling you what to think, not how to think.”

But his decision to expose the material came at a cost.

After initially being suspended for what the school described as a period of “pause and reflection,” Simpson and his parents attended a meeting with school officials that the teen likened to an interrogation.

Simpson documented that experience in a second video posted to his YouTube channel, Isaac Simpson’s Flying Circus. Both videos have since been gaining attention online.

Now, Simpson says he has been told he cannot return to school unless the videos come down. He refuses to comply.

“I’m not taking it down because, you know, I stand by what I said,” Simpson explained.

I caught up with the young filmmaker to find out why it was important for him to expose what’s happening in his public school despite the risk.

For Simpson, the issue is bigger than his suspension. Currently, “parents have no way of figuring out what is being taught in schools,” he said.

I also spoke with his mother, former Global News director and current B.C. political commentator Anita Krishna, about the school’s response and what comes next.

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NET Zero, AI and Technocracy: What Happens to Freedom in a Surveillance Society?

Agent Zero: zero limit, zero manners, zero conscience, zero morals, zero values except for treachery, treason and money, like the rogue government double agents involved in racketeering, breaches of trust and other things that only happen in other countries and fictional planets, never in Canada, right?

Why Does the Prime Minister Like NET Zero?

Why does the prime minister like NET Zero? That is why: zero evidence of evidence in zeros, lots and lots of zeros, billions and trillions….

Oh yes, of course there are 1 and 0, ones and zeros, yeah. Computer on, off, yes, now, if, then, in or out. Got it….

Paradise for algorithm codes and AI candy, lots of ones and zeros. It does not get any better, faster or easier than that….

However, you will notice there are no robots playing blackjack or rolling dice. That is the realm of psychic and telekinesis, mind over matter, a non-starter for robots and open season for the avatars of cards and dice, and many, contrary to popular belief, do not count cards; they simply know….

And no contest for everyone else.

NET Zero, AI and Technocracy

Now, with the global warming climate change hoax of the century and related war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as the magnitude of financial and government fraud, racketeering, breach of trust and related Criminal Code violations, we have even more rampant, diabolical technocratic surveillance and potential for spying and crime, and more arbitrary decrees from hell itself.

Maybe not Dante’s Inferno, nevertheless an infernal machine that represents the capacity for havoc and hell, destruction and ruin of life, freedom, sovereignty, prosperity and fundamental rights to privacy, speech, opinion, conscience, association, religion and so on….

This raises the broader issue of NET Zero and individual freedom and where one ends when the other is imposed through increasingly sophisticated technology.

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