THE FRIDAY WRAP: Venezuelan Refugees vs Woke White Liberals. Plus…
York University's Censorship Controversy and Mark Carney's Push For A Majority.
Welcome to the first-ever edition of The Friday Wrap, a new weekly newsletter I am launching as part of Phase 2 of my independent media venture, EMCN Media (which saw 1200% growth in Phase 1!).
Every Friday, I will bring you my takes on stories from the week, important stories that are often overlooked by legacy media. And hopefully, we can have a bit of fun along the way, because not everything in the news should be relentlessly negative.
This week: Venezuelan refugees get lectured by white, latte-sipping trans activists about why the authoritarian tyranny that forced them to flee their country is actually great. Did York University censor a Conservative MP? And Mark Carney continues to seek an illegitimate majority government, to which I say: proceed with caution.
Venezuelan Refugees vs Woke White Liberals
We are almost at the one-week mark since President Trump’s spectacular military operation in Venezuela, in which he captured socialist tyrant Nicolás Maduro to bring him to justice for his narco-terrorism.
Since then, we have seen two very different groups in the streets.
The first are Venezuelan refugees. There are roughly eight million of them around the world who fled the horrific socialist tyranny imposed by Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. They are overwhelmingly grateful to President Trump for finally bringing that nightmare to an end. For example, some of my Venezuelan friends celebrated with 8 a.m. champagne after waking up to the news.
The second group is predominantly white, left-wing activists. These are the people marching in the streets, angry, protesting Trump’s actions, and calling for the freeing of Maduro so he can return to oppressing Venezuelans.
Pro-Maduro protests were seen in Montreal, Ottawa, as well as New York City and Seattle. You know, all the liberal hellholes. The Montreal protest was organized by Celeste Trianon, a local trans activist who seems to always be out protesting the “current thing.” Meanwhile, at a protest in Seattle, a trans activist screamed “Free President Maduro” and claimed that Maduro is a feminist who uplifted women. Ask María Corina Machado, who had to flee Venezuela fearing political persecution, what she thinks of that. I think she would call bullshit.
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In Ottawa, a spectacular exchange was caught between my Venezuelan friend and conservative activist Ana Rizo, who fled Venezuela for Canada, and notorious perennial Ottawa protester Deana Sherif. Rizo tore into Sherif, who had the audacity to claim that the rigged Venezuelan election was “one of the most transparent elections.”
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At this point, I think our friend Deana has counter-protested nearly every possible cause, and I say this as someone who covers protests in Ottawa.
I saw her counter-protesting the Freedom Convoy. Then I saw her at the Million March for Children, protesting parents who opposed gender ideology. Then I saw her counter-protesting a pro-Israel march. I once saw her counter-protesting Trudeau protesters by screaming, “I love you Justin Trudeau,” as Trudeau exited his office. I have seen her at anti-carbon-tax protests protesting in favour of the tax. And it goes on and on…
Here is an interesting thing about the pro-Maduro Western left.
In the past, the far left supported people who opposed everything it claimed to stand for, such as Palestinians, for example. The justification was always that they were “oppressed,” and that the left stood with them. That argument had some merit. There have indeed been many Palestinians and Muslims marching in the streets for Palestine for more than two years.
But Venezuela is different. There are no Venezuelans protesting Trump. Venezuela has been liberated. Venezuelans are celebrating in the streets. Yet these woke activists have put on their white-saviourism and demand that the communist dictator who oppressed Venezuelans be allowed to return and continue oppressing them.
Why?
Because it is not actually about the people and always about communist revolution.
The reason the far-left supports Palestine is that they see it as a revolutionary project. Do not take my word for it. Take theirs. Activists have repeatedly said that the Palestinian cause is an anti-capitalist and anti-Western cause. That is why they support it, and that is why they support Maduro. Maduro stands against capitalism, so they back him.
The far-left does not stand for anything. They simply stand against the West and capitalism. They oppose the greatest society on the planet, and the greatest economic system ever invented, and they will back the world’s worst evils, from radical Islamists to communist tyrants and everything in between.
And if you think it is bad now, just wait. Just wait until something happens in Iran. They will come out to support the Islamofascist Iranian regime. Mark my words.
Did York University Censor a Conservative MP?
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis (who, full disclosure, I worked for on the Hill back when I was in high school) accused York University’s student union on Thursday morning of blocking his campus visit for ideological reasons. This triggered a rapid political backlash, with calls for the university to be defunded and sued.
The York Federation of Students has since claimed that it had no knowledge of the event. Genuis clarified that the decision came from the York University Student Centre, a separate student group. The student centre confirmed that it did not approve the booking but denied any political motivation, saying the request failed to meet standard booking requirements due to insufficient detail and could be resubmitted.
York University itself said it was unaware of the event before the controversy and emphasized that its free speech policy protects diverse viewpoints, while noting that student centres have their own procedures.
I just hope that this so-called “student centre” is telling the truth here and isn’t bullshitting us. Because nobody, and I mean nobody, at York University, whether the administration, the student groups, or the student union, has any moral authority to deny conservatives access to campus.
Let’s not forget that after October 7, the York University student union praised the attack that saw 1,200 Jews killed and many taken hostage as “a reminder that resistance against colonial violence is justified and necessary.” The now York University student president has also praised Hamas. There are professors there who have taken part in the targeting of Jewish businesses. And more…
The administration has tried to distance itself from some of the radicalism. But its hands are not clean either. Like other universities, it has gone all-in on DEI, allowed anti-white discrimination, and also claimed in an official DEI document that Christianity fuels colonialism. As a Christian, I find that to be a hateful statement that makes me feel unsafe (see what I did there).
If I were Genuis, I would take the school at its word that there is supposedly no issue with the event and just show up anyway. Who’s going to stop you? The university & student groups that just told the entire country they are not censoring you?
Be careful what you wish for, Carney
New year. Same old Mark Carney.
Carney is not content with just the two sellout floor-crossers Chris D’Entremont and Michael Ma. He is now looking for even more disloyal Conservative and NDP MPs to join his caucus so he can cobble together a majority government that Canadians clearly rejected in the last election.
Scott Anderson, the Conservative MP for Vernon–Lake Country–Monashee, said in a social media post that the Liberals are “pulling out all the stops” to lure Conservatives. He went on to say that he is rejecting any floor-crossing offers: “It’ll be a cold day in Hell before I even consider betraying my constituents, and you should probably stop asking, because I will certainly advertise it every time you try.”
Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout also said she was approached about joining the Liberals and also said no.
Earlier, in an interview with The Globe and Mail, Pierre Poilievre said that a majority government achieved through floor-crossing under Carney would be not legitimate. That comment sparked controversy among Liberals. But Poilievre is right. It would be illegitimate. While such government would function and would be legally recognized, it would be morally illegitimate.
Canadians do not want a Liberal majority. In the 2025 election, only 44% of Canadians voted for Mark Carney’s Liberals, meaning 56 percent did not. There is no mandate for an unchecked majority.
But Carney, being who he is, seems to think he can simply override the will of the people.
To that, I say: be careful what you wish for, Mr. Carney.
I have a feeling, and when I have this feeling, I am usually right, that a lot of Canadians are really not in the mood for this and that if he succeeds in engineering this majority, there is a real chance we could see mass protests in the streets. They would be peaceful, but loud, and they could resemble the Freedom Convoy, albeit without the trucks.
Don’t believe me? Just look at the considerably large protests outside of Michael Ma’s office since his floor crossing.
And ultimately, I believe this would hurt Carney politically. Just like the Freedom Convoy hurt Trudeau politically.
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