jim sok

Guy with opinions

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

World cup fans in awe of Canada's decline 📉

The Rebel Roundtable discusses some World Cup fans' negative experience in Canada, and whether their criticisms of Toronto and Vancouver are accurate.

An influencer from Ecuador stood at Yonge and Dundas Square last week and gave Toronto zero stars. "This is downtown," he said. "This is the flagship of Toronto. And there's literally garbage, crackheads, crazy people, people talking to themselves."

The panel on Friday's Rebel Roundtable livestream said he wasn't wrong.

The panel discussion opened with a different clip, one featuring a tourist in Vancouver whose bags were stolen from a hotel lobby by two opportunistic drug users who then drained $600 from his bank account.

@DreaHumphrey, a B.C. resident, noted that Vancouver has 60% more property crime than Los Angeles. "It's an absolute embarrassment," she said, particularly given the hundreds of millions spent on hosting FIFA's World Cup.

Independent journalist @elie_mcn has been flying across the country since January documenting its decline, and detailed how between 2014 and 2024, Toronto saw a 160% increase in shootings, a 47% increase in homicides, a 53% increase in assaults, and an 86% increase in car thefts. Homelessness is up 110% in three years.

"Our country is in decline," he said. "It is in decline." He pointed to Japan — where strict criminal laws and functioning mental health institutions mean a Louis Vuitton store operates inside the main train station.

"Can you imagine a designer store at Union?" he said. "It would get robbed all the time."

Fellow independent journalist @NatashaMontreal, who reports from Montreal, said she visited Toronto last summer in tourist mode for the first time in years and was shocked.

"It is decrepit," she said. "The infrastructure is falling apart." She described being physically jostled at the aquarium and seeing a woman foraging through garbage at a suburban mall the night before the show.

"I don't think I need to look at people foraging in the garbage in a civilized society," she said. "I think having someone foraging through the garbage and accepting that — that is a lack of compassion."

@TheMenzoid recalled asking a security guard at Yonge and Dundas Square why the small fountains in the square were shut off at night. The answer: homeless were using them as bidets.

"When that is the status quo and authorities know about it and do nothing except shut off the water," he said, "we have a problem that's not being addressed." He noted Toronto once had the nickname Toronto the Good. "That ship has sailed," he said.

The panel also reacted to FIFA Vancouver's official World Cup tourism website, which includes a guide on how to consume illegal drugs — advising visitors to "start slow" and use "one substance at a time."

Drea called it "so embarrassing." Elie said FIFA should be telling visitors these drugs are illegal and carry criminal consequences, not publishing a how-to guide. "I guarantee you in Qatar they weren't telling people how to use drugs," he said.

"It is not normal that people from the third world say their third world countries feel safer than Canada," Elie said. "We cannot allow this to continue being normalized."

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

Just... Wow! Britain's done. Man who threw UK toddler into crocodile enclosure released on bail https://t.co/9HPAodyhRt

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

@MarkJCarney Why is it our cause Carney?
It's not my cause. I give no care for the klepto state of Ukraine.

[Accountable @Accountable2019]

Canadá: ministra propuso que rusos y bielorrusos no puedan participar en Olimpiadas.

Huyó cuando un periodista le preguntó si decía lo mismo tras la invasión de Irak o el bombardeo en Libia o Afganistán... O las 168 niñas asesinadas en Irán.

[Gabriel @GabeZZOZZ]

Save your pathetic morality lectures and guilt trips. This emotional manipulation doesn’t work anymore.

Ukrainians should be grateful that Russia is not fighting its wars the way the U.S. does.

Most frontline cities that Russia constantly bombs have been evacuated and turned into defensive fortresses by the Ukrainian army. As the Russians advanced, the pace of civilian evacuations increased. This can easily be proven with a simple Google search.

During the 2003 Shock and Awe bombing campaign on Baghdad, in which three countries took part (the U.S., UK, and Australia), the roughly 5 million Iraqi civilians had no time to evacuate before coalition forces launched over 1,500 munitions (bombs and missiles combined) in the first 24 hours.

During Russian mass bombing campaigns on Kiev and other cities, the average civilian death toll is usually between 1 and 20. Most of these deaths are due to Ukrainian air defense systems operating within cities over populated areas. This is a very small number compared to the hundreds of deaths per day recorded in Iraq during the U.S.-led coalition bombing campaigns.

[Trapper Caoimhín John O'Donnghaile @JohnMcEwen21]

@rupasubramanya Here's the fine print, so to speak....https://t.co/TY1QkLBXp1

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

Wow.

I was today years old when I learned from Marc that 32,000 of the “88,000 new jobs” were temporary census workers.

And a huge other chunk, were FIFA and seasonal employment.

What a joke.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Kevin̊ ⤵️🐰🕳 @k2pointO]

@CTVNews What about this “authority”?

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

@MarkJCarney What the hell does this word salad actually mean?

[Steven Eugene Kuhn @StevenEKuhn]

They armed NAZIS, killed ethnic Russians for 8 years, then told you the war started in 2022.

And you were supposed to believe them.

31 May 2026

https://t.co/LBaMivITJC

#ukraine #fraud #TAB #donbas @ShawnRyan762 @joerogan @patrickbetdavid

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

@APTNNews Unmarked? Or unverified.

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

@APTNNews Lair and con job. This is your legacy

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

@MarkJCarney Oh the horror!! If you catch them they might spend 24 hours in jail before they are let out. Such cruelty!

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

CBC, you should be ashamed.

While you endlessly lecture Canada about “truth and reconciliation” and residential school horrors, you conveniently forget your own history of promoting the very system you now condemn.

Mark Carney’s father, Robert J. Carney, was principal of the Joseph Burr Tyrrell Indian Day School in Fort Smith, NWT. In a 1965 CBC Radio interview, he defended residential schools and described some Indigenous children as “culturally retarded.”

Old CBC clips and propaganda that once pushed the narrative? Buried or memory-holed.

The speaker found this on Reddit and it hit hard: “I don’t think my grandparents actually knew what was really going on in those schools.”

CBC painted the trucker convoy as terrorists… yet stays silent when it’s their own legacy and the sitting Prime Minister’s family tied to the very history they weaponize.

This is why trust in CBC is in the toilet.

CBC owes Canadians real accountability — not selective outrage and taxpayer-funded spin.

Digging for more? Drop a 🔥 if you’re done being lied to. Share this.

#CBCPropaganda #MarkCarney #ResidentialSchools #CDNPoli #TruthAndReconciliation

[Tara Armstrong @TaraArmstrongBC]

This Kelowna man who owns a tattoo shop is finished with pretending like open drug use is normal. So am I. It’s time to take our cities back.

[Dallas Brodie @Dallas_Brodie]

Bill 20, the K'omoks Treaty Act, is a scam against British Columbian taxpayers. Tens of millions of dollars given yearly to a band of only 340 people.

I broke the absurd numbers down in the Legislature when no other MLA would.

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

@APTNNews Such a lack of critical thinking, such lies, can only come from a gov't sponsored organization.
Such a disgrace you are aptn.

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

@APTNNews Showing the world how out of touch you are.

[jim sok @jimsoklar]

@MarkJCarney Why is thier fight our fight?
Why is NATO expansion something you desire even if it brings us closer to war?