Juno News - Biggest HOAX of 2023

00:00:00.400 Does climate change really cause wildfires? Did Danielle Smith's office really try to meddle in 0.99

00:00:05.360 a criminal investigation in Alberta? Does anything the legacy we did tell you ever turn out to be

00:00:10.480 true? Well, it is Fake News Friday, and today we're going to announce the biggest fake news

00:00:14.400 hoaxes of 2023. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

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00:00:40.080 support our journalism, please consider hitting that donate button. Okay, so today on Fake News

00:00:45.360 Friday, we are going to announce the winners of our Fake News Friday 2023 awards for the biggest

00:00:51.040 fake news hoaxes of the year. And once again, I am joined by Trin Earth journalist and host of Ratioed

00:00:57.200 Harrison Faulkner. Hey, Harrison, thanks for joining us. Of course. Happy to do this, Candice. Okay,

00:01:02.560 so we have each chosen our top fake news story of the year. But before we get to that, we have a couple

00:01:08.000 of honorable mentions. So both of the stories that we're going to talk about first are about debunking

00:01:13.360 an earlier narrative. And so if I think of this decade so far, the 2020s, and I think of probably

00:01:19.840 the most damaging, the most egregious narratives that legacy media have been peddled. I think of

00:01:25.760 two right off the top. Number one, the unmarked grave story, the idea that Canada committed genocide

00:01:30.560 at the residential schools. And the second, I mean, there's so much to do with COVID. There are so many

00:01:35.200 fake news narratives to do with COVID. But when you finally saw a group of citizens stand up and fight

00:01:40.480 against the COVID totalitarianism, the legacy media smeared them as being far right, radical,

00:01:47.040 extremists, racists, and even Nazis. So of course, here at True North, we've known from day one that

00:01:52.320 both these narratives were wrong. But unfortunately, many Canadians, most Canadians probably believe them

00:01:57.360 to be true. Well, I think 2023 was another year of vindication, another year where we uncovered facts

00:02:03.440 to further discredit and destroy these two fake news narratives. So Harrison, why don't we start with you?

00:02:08.640 Why don't you start and tell us about how that narrative of the trucker convoy being a hate

00:02:14.080 group sort of really fell apart in 2023? Absolutely. Well, there was a major story

00:02:19.120 that broke a few months ago from a journalist whose name is Karima Saad. Now, she wrote a story

00:02:24.640 called Hategate, a big investigation into this organization, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,

00:02:30.800 a group that I know our audience knows very well, unfortunately, all too well.

00:02:35.120 You see, the reason for this is that the Anti-Hate Network has been pumping out fake news,

00:02:40.640 propaganda, targeting a group called Diagalon. Again, if you've been paying any attention to

00:02:45.280 news over the past few years, you've heard of this group Diagalon. Diagalon is essentially a fan club

00:02:51.360 for Canadian podcaster Jeremy McKenzie. But for whatever reason, the Anti-Hate Network has been

00:02:57.040 focusing in on this group, labeling them as a violent, dangerous, militant, even going so far as to

00:03:03.840 describe it as a neo-Nazi organization. Well, sure enough, Candace, during the Freedom Convoy,

00:03:09.920 the federal government were relying on Anti-Hate Network stories, which turned out to be fake,

00:03:16.400 by the way, which turned out to be single source, open sourced intelligence, describing this group

00:03:21.760 as a dangerous, violent extremist organization. Through access to information, Karima Saad was able 0.65

00:03:27.840 to uncover that during the Freedom Convoy, the day that the Emergencies Act was invoked,

00:03:34.800 officials inside of Justin Trudeau's office were scrambling to try and find any intelligence they

00:03:39.920 could get their hands on that would make the case that, in fact, there were violent, dangerous groups

00:03:46.160 inside Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy. Sure enough, they had nothing except for a bunch of legacy media

00:03:53.520 articles which sourced one source, a source from the Anti-Hate Network, describing this group as a

00:04:00.640 dangerous, violent, militant organization. It's absurd that the legacy media would rely on the Anti-Hate

00:04:07.200 Network, but it's even worse, Candace, that the federal government relied on those legacy media reports

00:04:12.640 to justify the single worst attack on our freedoms ever since, well, Pierre Trudeau invoked the War

00:04:19.280 Measures Act. This is where we're at right now. We're at where an obviously biased partisan group

00:04:25.680 that targets conservatives, that uses open source intelligence, ends up being the source that the

00:04:31.040 government relies on to invoke the Emergencies Act. And the legacy media was there all along the way,

00:04:37.200 holding the government's hand so that they could use these fake stories to justify this egregious

00:04:43.440 decision. Unbelievable. It is one of those major fake news stories I hope we never forget.

00:04:48.240 What a clown show. I mean, it just shows you how amateur and pathetic these people are. It's like, 1.00

00:04:54.240 you know, this liberal funded group. Let's not forget that the Anti-Hate Network is funded in part,

00:04:58.960 large part, by the Trudeau government. Trudeau government's funding this organization,

00:05:03.600 giving stuff to the media, giving it back to the government. It's all just, you know, insular.

00:05:07.920 And of course, it's all disgustingly exaggerated. And I think Canadians also learned this year,

00:05:13.280 Harrison, that the Anti-Hate Network is a total fraud because its founder, Bernie Farber,

00:05:18.000 let the cat out of the bag during the Israel, you know, the pro-Hamas rallies that we're seeing

00:05:23.200 all over Canada. It's like, hey, how come the Anti-Hate Network is not commenting on any of

00:05:26.400 his hate towards Jews? And then in response on X, he just writes, oh, well, I wish we could,

00:05:32.400 but we only have a mandate to cover right-wing groups. It's like, what? Since when? No one in

00:05:36.640 the media ever said that. The media constantly cover this group, constantly source this group

00:05:41.760 for their news stories. And never once did we ever hear, not on their website, not in the federal

00:05:45.920 funding for this group. Does it ever say that they're only supposed to look at one side and

00:05:49.040 only supposed to look at conservatives? So from my perspective, the entire organization

00:05:53.360 is completely discredit. Any media outlet that have quoted them is completely discredit. And

00:05:57.440 the fact that the government was relying on that on top of it. I mean, what an absolute farce and

00:06:02.320 a joke, Harrison. Yeah, no, and it gets even worse, Candace. So this access to information,

00:06:08.560 these access to information documents that the journalists who wrote this piece,

00:06:12.080 were able to get their hands on show that the actual intelligence to justify labeling this group

00:06:18.320 diagonal on as some sort of violent fascist neo-Nazi organization was never there. In fact,

00:06:24.880 the, the internal communications show that not only did this diagonal group, not even technically

00:06:29.760 meet the definition of a group, but there was nothing that they had to, to make the case that these

00:06:35.440 were actually dangerous people, but that of course didn't benefit the government. That wasn't,

00:06:39.360 that wasn't what the government was looking for. They had to get anything they could. So they ended

00:06:43.280 up relying on fake news published by the legacy media to do this. It, it is astonishing that that

00:06:49.760 is how, that is what happened just last year. It's important not to forget. This is not some far away

00:06:55.600 story. This was what happened last year. The federal, the federal government and the legacy media teamed up

00:07:01.520 to push a narrative that was not true from the beginning. It's unbelievable. Right. Well, yeah,

00:07:07.040 2022 is the year of the trucker convoy and 2023 is a year that we learned that everything that

00:07:11.280 the Trudeau government said was completely untrue. I mean, dialogue, like it's, it's a joke. It's an

00:07:16.960 online joke. It's not a real thing. And the fact that they pretend that it is and treat it seriously,

00:07:20.720 it's just so pathetic. Okay. I want to move on to the next one, which is we learned more about 0.99

00:07:25.600 the unmarked grave story. I mean, this, this, this has been a incredibly devastating narrative for

00:07:31.280 Canadians. I mean, so many Canadians now believe just the absolute worst about our country. So I think it's

00:07:35.040 important to go through and remind Canadians that so much of the story has never been verified and

00:07:40.240 the things, so many of the claims just turned out to be completely false. So I'll just quickly

00:07:45.600 mention the CBC story that came out in January, trying to again, demonize the Catholic church,

00:07:49.920 make them look terrible. There's this headline that came out, said the Catholic church backed out

00:07:53.120 of a $30 million fundraiser for residential school survivors. So you think, wow, add insult to injury.

00:07:58.400 First, you know, the Catholic church is involved in killing all these kids and now they won't even 0.99

00:08:02.080 participate in a fundraiser. Oh, of course it's not true. None of it's true. And the CBC didn't even

00:08:06.720 bother to, you know, do the right thing and issue attraction. They just did like a stealth edit and

00:08:11.280 they changed the story because it wasn't true at all. The Catholic church didn't back out of a $30

00:08:15.520 million fundraiser. They were actually, had already started the fundraiser and the fundraiser

00:08:19.280 continues. So it was just completely untrue. And then to hit the further, you know, the further

00:08:26.640 damaging part of the narrative, this idea that all these children were murdered at residential schools.

00:08:31.920 Of course, the reality is that there's never been any proof. There's never been any evidence

00:08:36.480 that this happened. It was all based on ground penetrating radar reports from pretty amateur

00:08:41.680 professors. And it's all speculation. When it comes to actually finding human remains and excavations,

00:08:49.360 nothing has ever turned out to actually verify the stories and to show the truth. So one of those

00:08:54.880 stories came out, there have been several teams of excavators and researchers that have tried to

00:08:59.840 discover human remains. And at this point, they haven't. So earlier this year, we learned of an

00:09:04.720 excavation at a church in Pine Creek, Manitoba. This was one of the ones that was really drummed up and

00:09:09.520 the media were really hoping that they were going to find some evidence here. Well, there was a residential 0.97

00:09:14.080 school that operated from 1890 to 1969. But when the report came out, no human remains were found. And of

00:09:20.960 course, this isn't the only residential school that had been excavated. There were several others in

00:09:24.720 2021 that were done. Look, I'm sure at some point, if they continue to do excavations, they will

00:09:29.200 eventually find human remains inside on the grounds of a school or a church, just simply because these

00:09:34.720 schools operated for 150 years, including during huge global plagues like the Black Plague, where people

00:09:41.520 did die. But the main story that somehow there were nuns and priests and teachers participating in mass

00:09:51.760 slaughter, mass murder, systematic murder, and then burying these kids under the schools,

00:09:56.240 there's just absolutely no evidence that that happened. And I think 2023 was a year where we

00:10:01.920 learned more about just how untrue that was. I'm so grateful that Tom Flanagan, Dr. Tom Flanagan,

00:10:06.960 a retired professor over at the University of Calgary, put out a book this year called Grave

00:10:11.360 Error, going through the actual history of the residential schools and talking about the media

00:10:16.240 narrative and how damaging it was. So I'm pleased that True North had a hand in publishing that.

00:10:20.560 I encourage everyone to give that book a read. And if you have read it, review it on Amazon,

00:10:26.000 because it's just so important that we bust this myth and that we tell the truth to Canadians.

00:10:32.400 Where do you even begin with this story, Candace? It's actually really sad to see what's been going on

00:10:38.640 here. The fact that all the evidence that we have points to the opposite of what we're being told by

00:10:45.040 the legacy media, every time that a first nation actually goes on a dig, goes to excavate what

00:10:51.280 they claim to be the remains of children, they end up finding nothing. And it just reinforces this

00:10:57.760 idea that this country is evil, that this country is illegitimate, that it's built on genocide.

00:11:02.640 You can't just say that about a country with zero evidence to back it up. The worst part about this,

00:11:08.240 of course, is that at the same time, and I don't know if this is, I don't know if this is a coincidence,

00:11:13.680 at the same time that First Nations began to try to excavate what they claimed were the remains of

00:11:20.480 children and found nothing, the federal government released a report in which their appointee recommends

00:11:27.920 to make denying residential schools, denying what happened at residential schools a crime, to make the

00:11:35.280 denial of the genocide at residential schools a crime. It's absurd that we're now having the truth

00:11:43.040 come up, which is the opposite of what we're being told, but yet we're also now contemplating making it

00:11:47.920 a criminal offense to deny what are obviously lies. It's absurd, Candace. It's just unbelievable. This

00:11:55.760 has clearly got to be one of the biggest fake news stories ever, probably the largest hoax in Canadian

00:12:02.400 history. I mean, it's got to be up there. Yeah. And it's scary. You're right. It's not just absurd and

00:12:07.440 silly. It's actually terrifying when you think of the fact that these people actually want to wield power 0.72

00:12:11.440 and make it a crime to have the conversation that we're having. I just want to add one note that I

00:12:15.440 found really amusing because the main story that hit this all off was that there's 215 graves found

00:12:21.120 in Kamloops. And Dr. Flanagan, when I interviewed him about his book, he told me that the likely cause

00:12:26.880 of those ground disturbances, so the reason that they got that number 215 was because of ground

00:12:31.280 penetrating radar and because of ground disturbances. Well, Dr. Flanagan told me in his research, he learned that

00:12:36.960 they had actually created a septic system. So a septic pool had been dug and that that was likely

00:12:43.040 the cause of those ground disturbances. So I thought that was a great metaphor for the entire story,

00:12:47.360 that it was all just a septic system. Okay, Harrison, let's move on to our top,

00:12:52.160 the winners or the losers. I don't know whichever way you look at it, but why don't you tell us about

00:12:57.120 what your top fake news story of 2023 was? So the story that I've come to decide as the top

00:13:03.680 fake news story of the year is the climate hysteria over the wildfires that we saw over

00:13:10.160 this summer. If you recall, take yourself back a few months back into really June, we had a series

00:13:16.560 of wildfires, devastating wildfires really in Alberta and Quebec and Ontario. And there were a lot,

00:13:23.120 there was a lot of bad smoke in Ottawa and in Toronto, you could see it, which was, which was quite

00:13:28.080 abnormal. But of course, Candace, everybody jumped to climate change. It was instantly blamed as being

00:13:34.720 the result of climate change, of course, because nothing else could possibly be to blame for these

00:13:40.240 wildfires. Now, the problem was, despite this, there were routine articles that would come out

00:13:47.120 from whether they were in Nova Scotia to Quebec to Alberta. Well, people were being investigated for

00:13:53.200 arson. The police in Quebec, for example, said that they were investigating arson as the main cause

00:13:58.720 for the wildfires. There was no discussion from the Liberal government that this could possibly be

00:14:03.840 the result of humans, not just arson, but human behavior, lighting matches in the forest,

00:14:11.520 dropping cigarette butts in the forest. No discussion about that, because it doesn't really fit with

00:14:16.160 their narrative, does it? They need to push the fear of climate change onto Canadians in order to justify

00:14:22.240 their carbon taxes in order to justify all of their emissions reduction schemes. And so they

00:14:29.440 ratcheted up the fear, Candace, to 10. They went from zero to 10 with this fear. Look at this montage

00:14:37.200 that I was able to put together of politicians, cabinet ministers, all, of course, blaming climate change.

00:14:44.640 Year after year, with climate change, we're seeing more and more intense wildfires.

00:14:50.080 And with the accelerating impact of climate change, we very much will continue to do so moving forward.

00:14:56.640 Part of this is because of climate change, and that we collectively, certainly in Canada and around

00:15:03.840 the world, need to do more and accelerate the fight against climate change.

00:15:07.280 It's clear that the government has not taken the climate crisis seriously. Their actions show that very

00:15:12.720 clearly. Our country is literally on fire, and this Liberal government thinks that business as usual is fine.

00:15:18.400 Now here's the problem, Candace. The data never backed up their theory. Not once. The National Wildfire

00:15:25.040 Database showed that actually wildfires have been decreasing since 1995. Strange how climate change can

00:15:33.440 be the cause of such a decrease in wildfires. Also, take another look at this National Wildfires

00:15:40.640 Database. Notice that there was a steep decrease in wildfires in 2020. It falls off the graph, basically.

00:15:49.040 There were basically no wildfires compared to other years in 2020. What happened in 2020, Candace? Nobody

00:15:54.960 left their house. We were in lockdown. Strange how that works. Climate change must have just paused for 2020.

00:16:00.400 And furthermore, the Alberta Wildfire Database says that more than half of the wildfires this year

00:16:08.160 were the cause of humans. It's just ridiculous that they tried to ratchet up the fear this way. But again,

00:16:14.640 the legacy media didn't do any journalism. They described it in reporters like myself, who called

00:16:19.360 into question the possibility that this was arson. And they just kept going on and on about how, of course,

00:16:24.720 it has to be climate change. Well, Harrison, I want to commend you for your reporting on this topic,

00:16:29.840 because basically, you know, you put out these great reports, just pointing out the truth,

00:16:34.400 putting out the facts. And all of a sudden, the legacy media started attacking you, which you always

00:16:39.520 know you've done something right. But they were really bothered by the fact that you were pointing

00:16:42.400 this out. And they were trying to debunk you. But then it turned out that they were wrong. And,

00:16:46.960 you know, as soon as because you're out there telling the truth, and you've got a big audience,

00:16:51.280 and people are watching. And it's like, you're threatening the monopoly that legacy media have

00:16:56.560 to just spread lies to fit their propaganda, because they support liberals, liberals support

00:17:01.440 carbon taxes, carbon taxes are justified over this complete fear mongering and, you know,

00:17:07.200 almost conspiracies about climate change. We talked about conspiracy theories in the last show on Fake

00:17:11.680 News Friday. This is kind of like a left wing conspiracy, isn't it? And you had the temerity to

00:17:17.600 point it out. And so they came after you, which was pretty amusing.

00:17:21.280 Yeah, it was astonishing. I remember doing the research for that show and realizing,

00:17:26.080 like, I was sort of half interested in it. And, and I thought maybe there's something here. And I just

00:17:30.160 kept looking at the data from the federal government, from the provincial government,

00:17:33.760 seeing these stories of the police investigating arson. And I thought, this is ridiculous here. So, 0.73

00:17:39.840 so the police are looking into arson. In Alberta, they were looking into arson. They even charged people

00:17:46.400 for starting off these wildfires. And yet we have people like Elizabeth May in the House of Commons 1.00

00:17:52.320 saying her eyes were burning in the House of Commons. Therefore, clearly we must stop oil and gas

00:18:00.000 production, right? She goes on this rant about how her eyes are burning. We must stop the pipelines

00:18:06.160 because of the wildfires. It's, it's ridiculous. It's absurd. This is an example, like you said, 0.89

00:18:11.040 Candace, of the left fully embracing conspiracy theories. And we never get to have that conversation.

00:18:17.280 It's time that we call out the left for their conspiracy theories, because this is, this is crazy.

00:18:22.960 It really was. It really was. And it was an excuse for the, you know, the, the nanny state to come 0.98

00:18:27.600 back out and tell us all to wear our masks again and, you know, wag the finger, try to bring that thing

00:18:33.680 back. Well, that wasn't going to happen. All right, Harrison, I want to announce what I thought was the

00:18:37.840 top fake news story that we are the winner. It came courtesy of our friends over at the CBC. So

00:18:43.040 let me walk you through this story. The, in the middle of the 2023 Alberta election campaign,

00:18:48.240 in the middle of the campaign, the CBC drops a bombshell of a news story with an incredible

00:18:53.040 accusation against the sitting Premier Danielle Smith. So the CBC, citing anonymous sources,

00:18:58.640 of course, claimed that Danielle Smith and her office were personally trying to meddle and interfere 0.94

00:19:05.520 in a police investigation. The accusation was that some members of the Premier staff

00:19:10.800 had sent emails directly to the Crown prosecutors, ordering them to let up on COVID rule breakers,

00:19:17.280 specifically the investigation into the, the border blockade during the trucker convoy in Coutts,

00:19:24.320 Alberta. So, so huge, huge accusation, almost reminiscent, Harrison, of what Justin Trudeau did

00:19:30.400 to his Attorney General trying to pressure, pressure his Attorney General at the time to drop charges

00:19:36.880 against SNC-Lavillon, which happened to be a big liberal donor. So they were kind of taking this

00:19:41.360 story of what Trudeau had done a couple years ago, and accusing Danielle Smith of doing the same thing.

00:19:47.440 Well, this reading from the National Post here, they say, this accusation, the story, it created a nasty

00:19:52.960 suspicion that the Premier's office was interfering directly in individual criminal prosecutions,

00:19:58.000 and it rightly led to an investigation by the province's ethics commissioner. In the meantime,

00:20:03.040 the CBC stood stubbornly by its story. So Danielle Smith, to her credit right off the bat, said, no,

00:20:07.760 this didn't happen. She ordered that her, that the bureaucracy have a full review of all the emails 0.99

00:20:12.960 that were sent between her office and the Crown prosecutor. She took it seriously, but she said that

00:20:19.120 she, you know, she didn't have any recollection. The government did that. They did this review,

00:20:22.880 and they found nothing, right? And so it went to this independent investigator. So it escalated,

00:20:27.360 just because of the CBC report, again, not really quoting anyone. And meanwhile, you know,

00:20:31.520 the CBC is adamantly saying, this is true. No, we're standing by our story. We stand by our story.

00:20:35.440 They went, it went to investigation. And then eventually the investigation came back,

00:20:40.320 once again, with no evidence, no evidence of alleged emails being sent, no evidence of Danielle

00:20:45.520 Smith or anyone from her office doing what the CBC alleged to do. Well, it didn't matter,

00:20:50.800 despite their best efforts. Danielle Smith still won the election. So CBC tried to smear her,

00:20:55.360 tried to tell Albertans this person can't be trusted because she's, you know, whatever,

00:20:59.680 a threat to democracy or interfering or whatever. Well, of course, Danielle Smith was vindicated.

00:21:04.800 Danielle Smith was right. Finally, after months and months, the CBC were insisting her story was

00:21:11.440 true and refusing to retract it. Finally, almost six months later in July, so they waited for the

00:21:17.120 middle of the summer. And finally, the CBC retracted their story. So here it is here,

00:21:24.000 CBC's retracting report alleging someone in Premier Smith's office emailed Crown prosecutors to question

00:21:29.120 and challenging the handle of cases involving COVID-19. CBC made an announcement Wednesday

00:21:34.000 in an unsigned editor's note atop an amended online version of the January 19th story. They said,

00:21:41.440 our sources have insisted that Crown prosecutors felt political pressure regarding the Coutts,

00:21:46.000 Alberta cases, but they are not able to confirm that the emails they originally described were sent

00:21:51.840 directly from the Premier's office to the Crown. So, I mean, Harrison, this is just so ridiculous. 0.86

00:21:57.440 The CBC didn't even see the emails, right? They put out this bombshell in the middle of election. 0.76

00:22:02.160 Like what kind of, what kind of controls do they have over at the CBC that they would put out this story

00:22:06.960 without even seeing it? They were just relying on someone else who was telling them that these emails

00:22:11.680 existed. But you would think like, like, you know, I've been in this business for a while. You've, you've,

00:22:16.160 you've went to journalism school, you've interviewed a lot of people. If you're going to put out a

00:22:19.440 bombshell, if you're going to put out a story with unnamed sources, you better have at least seen,

00:22:24.400 personally seen those emails. One of your reporters should have seen those emails to verify that they

00:22:28.800 are true instead of taking someone's word for it. Someone with a vendetta, obviously, I mean,

00:22:33.200 the CBC just lost. This is seriously one of the worst examples of a news organization losing

00:22:38.720 credibility. They, they really risked their credibility with going after the Premier

00:22:42.960 during an election. And they were wrong. They were wrong. The story was not true. It was false.

00:22:49.520 Danielle Smith was vindicated. I don't know how anyone can ever trust the CBC. This story alone is

00:22:55.200 a reason why the CBC should be defunded. No one in Alberta, no one in the Alberta government should ever

00:23:00.400 do an interview with this outlet again, because it is just completely burnt any shred of credibility

00:23:05.360 that they ever had in Alberta. Absolutely. And the reality is, Candace, the CBC would never write

00:23:11.280 that story about Rachel Notley. They would never write that story without their sources being absolutely

00:23:16.880 perfect against Justin Trudeau, for example. But let's be honest, even if they did have the sources,

00:23:21.600 they wouldn't run the story. They'd give it to somebody else because they're not in the business of

00:23:25.200 holding left-wing politicians to account. They're clearly in the business of trying to dunk on

00:23:31.120 conservatives and Danielle Smith in the middle of an election. The CBC gets a lot of things wrong.

00:23:35.920 They publish a lot of fake stories. They rarely have to issue a full retraction. And to do it in the

00:23:41.120 middle of an election, obviously, and we also talked about this too, to do it in the middle of

00:23:45.600 the election without having the sources spot on is clearly interfering, in my opinion, in the election.

00:23:51.520 In my opinion, Candace, this is clear election interference. If you're going to publish a story

00:23:56.080 like that in the middle of an election and not have it absolutely on the money,

00:24:00.080 that is interfering in the election. Furthermore, once a story is published,

00:24:04.800 it is accepted by the public. Even if you retract it months later, which they obviously did,

00:24:09.760 it doesn't have any impact because the news cycle is gone. So the CBC knows what they're doing.

00:24:14.560 Publishing it in the first place was clearly wrong. And the reality is they would never do it if it was

00:24:19.040 Rachel Notley. They would never do that if it was Justin Trudeau. They do it because it's a

00:24:22.560 conservative politician. They are clearly against conservative politicians. It's obvious.

00:24:27.520 And it doesn't matter once they retract it. They know that the story was out there.

00:24:31.280 The story did its damage. And thank God that the election went the way it did, because if it had

00:24:35.600 gone the other way, this story could have seriously impacted the election result, which would have been

00:24:40.560 a disaster. You're right. No, it is election interference, clearly. And it's from the top levels.

00:24:45.840 It's a government-funded election interference. I mean, it's so bad. Honestly, Harrison, you're

00:24:50.560 completely right that this wouldn't happen against a left-wing politician. But the CBC just doesn't

00:24:57.440 have any credibility. I don't understand how anyone can take them seriously after this entire back and

00:25:02.960 forth. They clearly have a political axe to grind against Daniel Smith because she's an independent

00:25:07.760 thinker, because she's not going to be controlled by the forces that the CBC is behind. And so they try to

00:25:14.320 smear her. And they failed. They dug their heels in only to be proven wrong. I hope whenever Pierre

00:25:24.320 Polyev gets elected and defunds this despicable organization, no one will miss it. It is because

00:25:29.040 of stories like this and actions like this that they deserve to lose every cent of government funding

00:25:34.800 that they have. We should leave it at that, Harrison. So those are our top fake news stories of 2023.

00:25:39.920 Thank you so much to the audience for tuning in with us and following along for all these

00:25:44.800 shenanigans that happen in the Canadian media. Happy New Year. Happy 2024. And we'll be back

00:25:49.680 next year with more. This is Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

Juno News - December 29, 2023

Biggest HOAX of 2023

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