The Rupa Subramanya Show

As the culture war continues to heat up in Canada with the London Public Library cancelling a talk on free speech, what does the future look like as woke ideology continues to invade every aspect of public life? Joanna Williams, author of “How Woke Won,” which examines how woke ideology has taken over politics and academia, was barred from speaking at London Public Library due to concerns raised b...

High school activist Josh Alexander joins The Rupa Subramanya Show this week to discuss his ongoing fight against woke school boards in Canada pushing radical gender ideology. Several months ago, Josh was expelled and eventually arrested and escorted out of his Catholic high school for proclaiming that there are only two genders and for standing up for his female classmates who didn’t feel safe wi...

Chanel Pfahl is a former teacher who was cancelled for objecting to woke ideology replacing basic education curriculum in her school. Today, Chanel is an outspoken critic of critical race theory and gender ideology in classrooms and uses her voice as an activist to try and encourage more teachers to speak up. Chanel joins The Rupa Subramanya Show to share her story. In this conversation, Rupa and...

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), which represents roughly 155,000 federal workers, have gone on strike. As a result, Canadians are subject to a number of disruptions, including processing income taxes at the Canada Revenue Agency, passport services such as renewals and deliveries, and delays when applying for licenses, certificates and registrations. The PSAC has a number of demands,...

After Elon Musk rightfully labeled the CBC as “Government-funded media” on Twitter, questions surrounding the editorial independence of the CBC have arisen. It’s no secret that the state broadcaster receives $1.2 billion annually from the Trudeau government — can a media outlet be fair and neutral when they’re beneficiaries of government handouts? Is the CBC beholden to the government? Award-winni...

In recent years, a staggering amount of youth have decided that they are transgender and with the support of medical professionals, have undergone gender reassignment surgery with no regard for their health or consideration of the long-term implications. While radical trans activists and some in the legacy media cheer on this behaviour, the dangerous reality of transitioning has been ignored. On t...

What is a woman? A few years ago, most people could answer that question with ease. But due to the aggressive push of trans gender ideology by politicians, celebrities and the media, it’s no longer clear what defines a woman. As a result, the existence of women – people with two X chromosomes – is at risk. On this episode of The Rupa Subramanya Show, Rupa is joined by well-known gender critical ac...

2+2 = White Supremacy? Gender is a social construct? What is happening in Canada’s schools? It seems like every week, school boards are caught pushing radical and woke ideas on innocent students. Joining the show today is Ari Blaff, a news writer for the National Review and his writing has appeared in a number of publications, including Quillette and Newsweek. He has sounded the alarm on the woke...

Two Chinese language media outlets in Canada, Ming Pao and Sing Tao Daily, are not only sympathetic to the regime in China, but also received emergency bailout funds during the pandemic. To discuss the extent of China’s influence in Canada, journalist Jonathan Manthorpe joins Rupa on the show today. Author of “Claws of the Panda,” Manthorpe explains China’s pernicious strategies to direct leadersh...

On the latest episode of the Rupa Subramanya Show, Rupa talks with a man who is determined to end his life through medical assistance in dying (MAID) but has been stopped from doing so by his mother and family. Kiano Vafaien suffers from type 1 diabetes, and has resulted in conditions that have made his life incredibly difficult. Kiano was going to proceed with assisted suicide and was very close...

Today on The Rupa Subramanya Show, Rupa is joined by the Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the MacDonald Laurier Institute Aaron Wudrick to talk about the latest on Roxham Road, the Trudeau government’s refusal to fix the illegal border crossing and how the current crisis affects Canada’s relationship with the United States. Also, as the Canadian healthcare system continues to decline, Aa...

After the Public Order Emergency Commission released the report justifying the use of the Emergencies Act to quash the Freedom Convoy protests in 2022, organizer, Tamara Lich joins Rupa on the show to discuss what’s next for her. On the show, Tamara reflects on the rise of the Freedom Convoy and how it became Canada’s largest movement. Tamara tells us about her experience during the inquiry and th...

The appointment of Amira Elghawaby as Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia stirred up controversy for a number of reasons. One of the biggest questions Canadians had was – why was this position needed in the first place? Is there really a crisis of Islamophobia in Canada? On Part 2 of Rupa’s interview with the President of the Council of Muslims Facing Tomorrow Raheel R...

Since the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamaphobia kicked up a storm in the media circle, the question remains whether the position is actually necessary. Is there really a crisis of Islamophobia in Canada? Joining Rupa on the show today is the President of Council of Muslims Facing Tomorrow Raheel Raza and freelance columnist Rahim Mohamed...

In the second part of Rupa’s interview with the former medical health officer for Haldimand-Norfolk, Dr. Matt Strauss tells us more about how his story was skewed by the Toronto Star. Dr. Strauss also sheds light on the fact that Canada’s healthcare system was already on thin ice before the first waves of Covid arrived and how the pandemic stretched healthcare to its very limits. Rupa and Dr. Stra...

As the medical officer for Haldimand-Norfolk, Dr. Matt Strauss took a rational approach to Covid. He spoke out about the effectiveness of masks, opposed lockdowns and questioned the need to vaccinate kids. In the region that he oversaw, the mortality for Covid was 30% lower than the provincial average. However, that didn’t stop legacy media outlets like the Toronto Star from attempting to cancel D...

As the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting wraps up, the question still remains – what interest do hundreds of business executives and world leaders have in meeting every year in Davos? Author of “The Covid Consensus,” Thomas Fazi joins The Rupa Subramanya Show to talk about the group of technocrats who are planning to influence global policies affecting climate, digital ID and vaccination. In t...

The world’s elites are heading to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting – including Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and International Trade Minister Mary Ng. On this episode of The Rupa Subramanya Show, Rupa discusses how the WEF promotes leftist policies and influences world governments – including Canada. In addition, Rupa explains how Freeland was once t...

As the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy approaches, where does the country stand? Joining Rupa on the show today is the second part of her interview with Freedom Convoy organizer Benjamin Dichter, where he gives us the inside story of the protests and how hard they tried reaching out to government officials but to no avail. Rupa and Benjamin also reflect on last year’s Public Order Inqui...

The Freedom Convoy was the biggest story of 2022 – the historic protest influenced the end of Covid mandates and lockdowns, exposed the bias of the legacy media and concluded with never-before-used war measures by the Trudeau government. Joining The Rupa Subramanya Show today is one of the lead organizers of the Freedom Convoy Benjamin Dichter. Rupa and Benjamin discuss the origins of the Convoy,...

Internal documents from Twitter released by Elon Musk and shared by journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss reveal how Twitter deliberately moderated content, shadow banned users, and filtered visibility on certain posts. Who was affected by Twitter’s moderation and which stories were hidden from plain site? What exactly was revealed in the Twitter Files? Joining Rupa on the show today is Katherine...

Tara Henley quit the CBC after almost a decade at the state-broadcaster working as a journalist and a radio producer. As she explained in her Substack post back in January, “to work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity.” Following in the recent path of many journalists, Henley abandoned the legacy media to work independently usi...

Chinese citizens have risen up in protest against Xi Jinping's zero covid policies and authoritarian lockdown measures. As the rest of the world moves further away from covid, China's tightening of restrictions has pushed many citizens over the edge. Footage from the streets of China has been breaking through the firewall and flooding social media platforms, giving the West an unprecedented view o...

Stanford health professor and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been a vocal critic of lockdown policies, prolonged mandates and heavy-handed public health restrictions. The Great Barrington Declaration set out to show the world that a significant number of medical doctors and scientists did not approve of lockdowns and other heavy handed restrictions. Dr. Bhat...

Countless witnesses have appeared before the Public Order Emergency Commission and have shed doubt on the Trudeau government’s justification to invoke the Emergencies Act to quash the Freedom Convoy. Claims such as the Convoy posing a “national security threat” and “law enforcement requested the Act” have been debunked. It’s not looking good for the government – but what happens from here? On this...