Juno News - September 16, 2025Canada’s media SMEARS Charlie Kirk + Liberals BLOCK moment of silence
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Charlie Kirk was a voice of a generation, a conservative leader, the most influential, probably the most well-spoken, the kindest and most clear-minded person on the right in the public sphere was assassinated on a university campus.
Transcript
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Folks, we have a lot to get to today, and I'm going to be perfectly honest to you.
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The last few days have been incredibly difficult.
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Ever since Wednesday night, when we learned that Charlie Kirk was assassinated and murdered
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on a university campus while having a debate politely with his political opponents, it's
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It's been really, really emotional for many of us, and particularly watching the way
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that the legacy media have reacted to it, the way that many journalists, many mainstream
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voices here in Canada have reacted to it, has been absolutely sickening.
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First, I want to start with the latest on the news front, so you know where we are with the
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Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox and President Donald Trump have pointed to radical left
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ism as a potential factor in the killing of Charlie Kirk, an influential conservative.
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It's very clear to us and to this investigation that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated
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with leftist ideology, Cox said over the weekend.
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In comments to reporters on Monday, Trump discussed the federal government looking into a potential
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role that leftist groups played in the assassination, saying that the left has a lot of problems.
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Trump added that it appears Robinson was radicalized online.
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Something happened to him over a fairly short period of time.
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It looks like he was radicalized over the internet and radicalized on the left, Trump
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Robinson, who lived with his trans-identifying roommate, they were in a romantic relationship.
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The shooter was in a romantic relationship with his trans-identifying male roommate.
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And he discussed his dislike of Kirk with a family member at dinner before the assassination
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and mentioned that Kirk would be coming to Utah Valley University, according to authorities.
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Officials added that Robinson had become more political in recent years.
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In an online message account tied to Robinson, Robinson appeared to have confessed to assassinating
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The Washington Post reported on Monday, just hours before Robinson was arrested, the account
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linked to him posted an online message saying, hey guys, I have bad news for you.
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So we will continue to provide the latest updates and the latest news on this.
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But as of now, Charlie Kirk, the voice of a generation, a conservative leader, the most
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prominent, probably the most powerful, the most influential, the most well-spoken, the
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kindest, the most clear-minded person on the right in the public sphere was assassinated.
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He was on a profound journey to reach young people and to teach them about the foundations
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of our civilization, about faith, about family, about freedom, about how to live a fulfilled
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life and how to defend and revive a civilization.
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The assassin's bullet hit Charlie's neck and ended his life.
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But it also deliberately struck at the heart of our value structure, free and open debate.
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Western liberal democracies are built on our ability to discuss ideas, to debate ideas,
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Charlie went to those universities to try to win them back, to try to counter the ideological
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programming that happens on university campuses.
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You know, his videos are going viral all over the internet.
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He will be more impactful in death than he was in life because people are curious.
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They want to know what it was that he did, what he said.
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And when you go and you listen to the source and you see how he acted, the grace, the dignity,
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the way, the kindness that he used when he was speaking to people, even whom he disagreed
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It takes a lot of wisdom to be able to go and speak with people with whom you disagree
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And political dialogue is the foundation of our civilization.
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And that is why everybody should unite in mourning, in stopping and saying something evil
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We saw people gloating and laughing and saying that he deserved it and taking words out of context
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and saying that he was a fascist and that he called for violence and that he called for
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People are going and looking that up and I'm glad for that because people deserve to know
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And, you know, it's interesting because Charlie said the purpose of why he would go and have
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those discussions is because he was trying to humanize the other side, trying to allow
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Charlie was a conventional conservative, a Christian conservative.
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He holds the same beliefs that millions and millions of Americans and Canadians hold.
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Actually, the views that the vast majority of people in our civilization, in our history
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have held, the views of Canada's founders, the views of America's founders, those were
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He said the reason that he was there was because we have to be able to battle with words
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and ideas to avoid battling with violence, battling with swords and bullets.
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The left can't win arguments, Charlie would quit.
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And so they resort to attacks and the attack on Charlie Kirk was not just an attack on
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It was an attack on all of us, on decency, on democracy and our ability to coexist.
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It was a Charlie Hebdo moment and level of attack on freedom of speech.
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And everyone should be able to acknowledge that.
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They took out a generation's leader, the voice, the conservative voice of an entire generation.
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And let's be clear, folks, this happened because of years and years and years of conditioning
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by the mainstream media, by mainstream voices who call conservatives vile, vicious names.
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They call us fascists, Nazis, far right, radicals, racists, extremists, domestic terrorists, and
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Every single conservative in the public square in the United States, and especially here in
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Canada, have been hit with these inflammatory, hateful, and untrue smears.
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They say these things about us over and over again.
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I get called the same things that Charlie Kirk gets called.
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The legacy media in the United States, and especially in Canada, they do the following
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They accuse conservatives of spreading hate, which is an accusation specifically designed
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They say we're spreading hate, they say that we're hateful, and the purpose of saying that
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They accuse us of violence against trans people, against gay people, against indigenous people,
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They say that our criticisms of public policy are kin to violence.
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And it turns out that when you say that, it enables actual violence against us, actual violence
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And then they play these six-degree games of separation where they try to link conservatives
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to violent extremism on the political right, which, let me remind you, is a very minuscule
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But they pretend that it's the biggest problem, and they go out of their way to try to say,
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oh, Pierre Polyev shook the hand of this guy who said this online, who believes this, who's
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friends with that guy, so Pierre Polyev must be a fascist extremism.
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They play these games, these sleight-of-hand games of six degrees of separation to make us
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And meanwhile, at the exact same time, they will shamelessly promote real violence and
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real violent extremism on the political left, folks.
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I, when I first came on the scene, I had a hard time kind of taking him seriously because
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And for me, as a Canadian, I thought, you know, let's leave religion out of politics.
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But over the last few years, and in listening to Charlie, I think Charlie was right.
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And I think that the answers have to come from a revival.
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And so we all need, we need a little bit more God in our lives and in our civilization.
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One of the things I personally did over the weekend was I took my family to church.
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It's really hard to load up four kids and get them out the door on a Sunday morning,
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get them to sit still for a two-hour service, even though some of them go to Sunday school.
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It's still hard, and it's easier just not to do it.
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And let me just tell you, it was a wonderful experience.
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Yes, it was a little hard getting the kids, getting everything organized.
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But once we were there, what do you see when you go to church?
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Young families, happy people, hopeful people, messages of community and togetherness and hope
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Okay, I want to get into a little bit of the reaction to Charlie Cook.
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Look, this is my first show since Charlie was assassinated.
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And I want to go through the reaction from the media just to show you how totally insane
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So here we'll start Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday evening, before Charlie was even dead.
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The first thing that they did was they put out an article, some of Charlie Kirk's most
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Charlie Kirk, who died after being shot during an appearance at Utah Valley University.
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He was murdered in cold blood by someone with your leftist ideology, CBC.
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He died, maybe he got hit by a car or there was some kind of accident.
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Okay, Charlie Kirk, who died after being shot during an appearance at Utah Valley University
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Wednesday, had a long history of contentious views and often corded controversy with statements
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that seemed designed to provoke those who disagreed with him, right?
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They're sort of conditioning you to say, well, he was killed, but he had controversial views
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And here are some examples of the absolute worst things that he said, right?
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And the CBC were already justifying his murder and saying, well, he was controversial.
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Of course, there were also the sort of bottom-dwelling hard leftists.
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And I'm going to try to demonstrate that there's actually not much of a difference between the
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A lot of people rushed out to show how they get taxpayer subsidies and taxpayer dollars.
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No surprise, every media outlet in Canada does.
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Not Juno News, not Turn North, not The Rebel, but everyone on the political left and political
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center, all the mainstream legacy media, all get your taxpayer dollars.
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Well, this is just one example from an organization called Cult Montreal, to hell with Charlie Kirk.
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Again, this is published on Thursday, September 11th, the day after Charlie was murdered.
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Charlie Kirk died as he lived, promoting hateful myths about marginalized groups in society.
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But Charlie Kirk is absolutely responsible for making political violence more likely in America.
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This is the mainstream view on the political left.
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And again, I'll show you how the political left and the mainstream establishment center in Canada are the exact same thing.
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Rachel Gilmour writes that this is what she writes shortly after Charlie's death.
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I actually don't even think he had died at this point when she wrote this tweet on Wednesday afternoon.
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She instantly, instantly hearing that someone had been assassinated for political speech in the United States of America.
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She writes, terrified to think of how far-right fans of Kirk, aching for more violence, could very well turn this into an even more radicalizing moment.
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Well, they now believe their fears have been proven right and feel they have the right to retaliate, regardless of who is actually behind the initial shooting.
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She doesn't take even a moment, even a second, to observe the fact that someone on the right was murdered, right?
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That there was political violence aimed towards a conservative.
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She's terrified to think of how Kirk's fans could turn this into a radicalizing moment.
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Nothing to fear that someone would go and speak to students on campus and they would get shot in the neck for it.
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What she fears is that people who like Kirk could get angry about this and that their fears could be proven right, that they had the right to retaliate.
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So she's worried about right-wing violence, right?
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She's watching left-wing violence pour out in front of her.
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She immediately thinks of right-wing violence, which is a figment of her imagination.
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Well, Rachel got a little bit of what was coming to her because some sleuths on the internet decided to take note of all the people who were celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
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I believe the list has some 60,000 people on it.
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Many of them saying far, far worse things than what Rachel did.
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Celebrating, cheering, laughing, mocking, doing all kinds of absolutely despicable, anti-social, anti-civilization reactions on social media.
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Some conservatives decided to create a database to try to shine light on the fact that there are horrible human beings in our society that live amongst us who would cheer on political violence.
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Well, the entire media establishment rally around Rachel because Rachel's the true victim in all this.
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Rachel's the true person that we should feel sympathy for.
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Not Charlie Kirk, not his wife, and two very, very young children.
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I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old just like Charlie does, and I can't imagine what his wife is going through.
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But no, the media establishment rally around Rachel Gilmore because poor, poor Rachel Gilmore is getting some pushback for her completely insensitive tweets.
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So the amount of sympathy, I feel, for Rachel Gilmore is next to none.
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People are more worried about a left-wing journalist out there basically doing her shtick where she's trying to get notoriety and fame over pointing at mainstream people and calling them radical.
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She points to people like me, people like my husband, all of us here at Juno News, Kian Bexty.
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She points to us and tries to make you hate us, try to make you think there's something wrong with us and say that we are extreme and we are dangerous.
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And then when our followers say, what are you talking about?
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She plays a victim, crouches over and starts crying and talking about how she's scared.
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She did the same thing with Charlie Kirk, except for it's not just our audience of, you know, Canadian conservatives saying, you know, shut up, Rachel.
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Well, it's the entire American mainstream saying, don't do this.
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Let's actually focus on the real issue at hand, which is that the left murdered somebody.
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And, of course, the legacy media are rallying around her.
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You've probably never heard of it, but it's a left-wing reg.
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But there isn't really a difference between the hard left and the media establishment.
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I mean, you could say that the CBC is the media establishment.
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It is the biggest recipient of taxpayer dollars, even though I think Canadians mostly realize that they exist on the fringe.
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Well, this is something else that the CBC did the day after Charlie Kirk was murdered and assassinated.
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They had a hate expert on, a woman named Barbara Perry, who came on and lied about Charlie and basically said, took his words out of context, said that he called for gay people to be executed, which is the most absurd thing ever.
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The language even that Charlie Kirk uses, vilifying particular groups, talking about the Democrats, for example, as, and I quote, standing for everything that God hates, claiming that queer people are defective and dangerous and should be executed.
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I mean, that's sort of polarizing language that contributes to this environment.
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Charlie Kirk never said that gay people were defective and need to be executed.
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So where did they get this idea that Charlie Kirk said that gay people need to be executed?
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He was quoting Leviticus because a YouTuber who has a show dedicated to reading to little kids and teaching little kids or audiences, two and three year olds.
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No, I don't let my children watch that kind of thing, but many, many parents do.
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And so this left-wing YouTuber came out and said that conservatives should accept gay marriage because the Bible says, love thy neighbor like themselves.
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Charlie Kirk hit back saying, are you sure you want to quote Leviticus?
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Maybe you should read the entire book before you quote it out of context because it said a lot of other things, including a line saying that a man shall not lie with another man or he shall be stoned,
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which is why they say that Charlie Kirk calls for the execution of gay people is so despicable, how they take him out of context.
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They lie about conservatives to make you hate them.
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And then people, crazy people like the assassin in this story who is dating a trans man, a trans person, take those words literally and believe that they have the right to do what they did.
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So more from the CBC, it's not just their guests, it's not just their panelists who are totally lying about Charlie Kirk and being extreme.
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It's actually their anchors and their journalists and their hosts as well.
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So here is CBC anchor Andrew Nickel, and he called Charlie Kirk hateful.
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Again, just hours after Charlie was murdered, the CBC is saying, well, he kind of deserved it, didn't he?
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Charlie Kirk did not encourage violence against groups of people.
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He wanted people to see what conservatives view.
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And so saying that he had hateful things and that he called for violence against people is just not true.
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This is how they covered the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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They wanted to point out that he was highly contentious and highly controversial.
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Charlie Kirk had founded Turning Point USA back in 2012 and had turned it into a major political force, raising a lot of money.
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He would typically go to campuses, universities and colleges and say, prove me wrong.
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They would have debates about a whole bunch of different topics.
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Charlie Kirk was considered to be a masterful debater.
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But also, as I mentioned, highly controversial with views on race and on women and on the gay community that were highly, highly contentious.
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Let me tell you, folks, Charlie Kirk's views on race, women and the gay community are from the Bible.
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His views are the same views that are held by Christians, by Catholics, by anybody who believes the Bible, by Jews.
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And so to say that they were highly, highly contentious is naive to the basic principles of our society and the culture and where we are as a culture and as a society.
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Yes, most people in Canada don't want to talk about religion.
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But the reality is that our society and our civilization are based on Christian values, Christian principles, and they're based on biblical values.
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The Globe and Mail continues to smear against Charlie Kirk.
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Charlie Kirk's videos thrived on controversy as he used the manosphere playbook to reshape politics, says the headline in the Globe and Mail.
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They can't even get their phrases correct, right?
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He promoted the idea of marriage and children and building a legacy.
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And they just kind of group him together with the manosphere because what?
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This was the story, though, that really, really upset me.
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Right-wing anger surges as Kirk's killing fuels calls for vengeance.
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Right-wing anger surges as Kirk's killing fuels calls for vengeance.
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And the story, it's not even worth reading the way that they phrase this, right?
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So the story here isn't that the political left is violent and murdered our spokesperson and murdered our leader.
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The story is that right-wingers are angry and that we're calling for vengeance.
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This is the reality of this clip is going viral on TikTok and social media of the difference between what right-wing grief looks like versus what left-wing grief looks like.
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So what do conservatives do when they kill our leader?
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What does the left do when someone dies, wasn't even a leader?
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That is the difference between the left and the right.
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It isn't a battle of left and right anymore, folks.
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I said it isn't just Rachel Gilmore and cult Montreal.
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They exist in the illiberal woke fringes of society where our words are violent and their
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They ignore the cold blood and assassid, a fellow traveler fueled by their cultish ideology,
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and they focus on our grief, calling our vigils anger and celebrations of Charlie's
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The Canadian media establishment is the most serious threat to our country and our future.
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We cannot stop until every Canadian knows this truth and sees this light.
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You know, I started my career doing something very similar to what Charlie Kirk did.
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I worked for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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I traveled across the country and spoke to college students, universities all over the country.
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I spent months traveling the country, going from school to school, speaking to students
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I didn't have huge crowds of people, but I went and did it nonetheless.
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We have to go and we have to continue to push our message of faith and freedom and family
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I want to share this post from Elon Musk because this is exactly what the media do,
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So Elon shows a post of a university teacher saying they're all Nazis, a TV with a host
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saying they're all Nazis, a rock star on stage saying they're all Nazis.
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And then a man with a rifle saying they're all Nazis.
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And it turns out that the Liberals blocked a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk in Parliament's.
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Liberals reportedly shut down a Conservative push for a unanimous resolution condemning political
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For a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk in the House of Commons Monday, according to a confidential
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source, this is Juno News reporting, the source said Conservative MPs attempted to gain agreement
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with Liberal colleagues for a formal moment of silence and statement ahead of the return
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But the Liberals refused to cooperate, as anyone surprised.
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The Conservative tried to get an agreement before today's session and were told it wouldn't
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The confidential source added, well, Conservative MP Rachel Thomas did deliver a beautiful,
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heartfelt tribute to Charlie Kirk in the House, promoting a standing ovation.
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Charlie Kirk was an outspoken advocate for faith, family and freedom.
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Tragically, on September 10th, he was assassinated in an attempt to silence his voice.
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As we grapple with our personal response to this, may we honour, be honourable in our actions.
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May we fiercely defend the right of our opponents to speak freely.
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And may we join our hearts with Charlie's family, his wife Erica and his two young children.
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Well, good for the Liberals to give a standing ovation, but I don't understand why they couldn't
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Well, Albertans showed up in droves to pay their respects to Charlie Kirk and for a tribute
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So a Calgary vigil draws thousands according to the Western Standard.
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Thousands of people gathered outside City Hall in Calgary on Sunday for a candlelit vigil
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The event drew a large crowd of supporters, families, community members who came together
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to reflect, listen, speeches and share a moment of silence.
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And on top of that, we had a concert in Edmonton.
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So country singer Morgan Wallen, alongside tens of thousands of fans in liberal Edmonton,
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also paid their tributes to Charlie Kirk, sent prayers to his wife Erica and their two small
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It's been hitting me harder in the last couple of days, and I just wanted to let Erica Kirk
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know that me and my family are singing prayers our way.
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People out there see that a mainstream conservative voice, someone who has the same views as just
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about every Christian out there, was assassinated, and that many on the left celebrated that,
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and that many on the left and many in the mainstream and the mainstream media continue
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People see that, and they're looking around, and they're saying something is wrong here.
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Something is wrong that the left is not showing the type of grace and response as they should.
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I think it's turning many, many people against those institutions and putting them, letting
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Charlie win, letting people see what Charlie had to say, and that this is a moment of change.
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Okay, I want to take a minute to talk about something a little personal.
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This is related to everything I've been talking about on the show.
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But Wednesday was a particularly hard day for all of us, but for me, it was a day of mixed
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emotions because on Wednesday, shortly before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, it was announced
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actually that my husband had resigned from his job at Shopify.
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So those of you who know, I've talked about it a little bit on the show, but my husband
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was the chief operating officer for Shopify, which is Canada's most exciting company.
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They enable entrepreneurs to put their business online, give them tools to succeed.
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I was very proud of my husband's work with that company.
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Well, on Wednesday, he announced that he was leaving Shopify and that he was moving to a
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Opendoor is on a mission to try to get as many people to be able to buy homes as possible.
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They're creating new financial tools, using AI to make it easier and more affordable for
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And this is how the Globe and Mail, Canada's reputable publication, publication of record,
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the Globe and Mail, this is how they covered the news that my husband was moving.
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Jobs says, Shopify chief operating officer is leaving the company.
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Let me just read a little bit from this Globe and Mail article.
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Shopify chief operating officer is leaving the company.
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Chief operating officer and vice president of product.
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Kaz Najatin is leaving the company to become a chief executive officer of San Francisco-based
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real estate company, Opendoor Technologies, Inc.
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So you would assume that the Globe and Mail in a business report, right?
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This is a business report written by business reporter, Irene Gallia.
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What does she focus on in the story about my husband, Kaz?
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Does she talk about his career, his accomplishments, maybe a little bit about Opendoor and what they
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Maybe a bit about his accomplishments at Shopify.
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After all, since Kaz was promoted to COO, I think the company has tripled in size and
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Let me read a little bit more from this Globe and Mail article.
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Aside from his work at Shopify, Mr. Najatian has frequently gained attention for his association
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with True North, a right-wing Canadian media website.
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In 2017, he and his wife, former Toronto Sun columnist Candace Malcolm, relaunched True
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North, which had been established in 1994 as a charity to welcome British immigrants.
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In 2024, True North published and subsequently removed an interview with the founder of Proud
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Boys, which Public Safety Canada describes as a neo-fascist terrorist organization associated
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After reporting by news organization Press Progress, True North continues to operate as
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a charity in 2023, registering $2.3 million in revenue and $2.2 million in expenses, of
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which 90% were used for charitable programs, according to the Canadian Revenue Agency's
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In early 2025, Shopify shut down teams aimed at supporting Black, Indigenous, and female entrepreneurs.
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These teams have reported to Mr. Najatian since 2024.
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Okay, so it's a 15-paragraph story about Kaz and his career change, and they dedicate a
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full five paragraphs to smearing him and linking him to fascism, terrorism, and white supremacy.
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A businessman, someone who is a leader in tech.
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This should be an incredible Canadian success story.
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He fled fascism and war and oppression in Iran and moved to Canada, where he found a
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And he rose from living in a small, slummy apartment in North York.
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He started a company, an Ottawa-based, a Waterloo-based tech company.
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He rose to become the COO of Shopify, and he's now the CEO of a publicly traded fintech company.
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They spend five paragraphs trying to plant the idea in the mind of the reader that he
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is somehow an evil, dangerous conservative, that he's a fascist, that he's somehow connected
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to white supremacy and neo-Nazis and terrorism.
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They put together, they weave together these half-truths, they pick, they lift stories
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They lie about conservatives for the sole goal of making people hate conservatives.
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But the Globe and Mail gives some credibility by copying their reporting and not even verifying.
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I can go through this report about CAS and the Globe and Mail line by line and point
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It's not true that my husband was a co-founder of True North.
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You can go and see interviews that I did about True North back in 2016 announcing it,
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This whole nonsense about how we relaunched a charity to take over from 1994.
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This idea that somehow the thing that everyone should know about True North is that we had
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an interview with the founder of the Proud Boys, which public safety describes as neo-fascist,
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But again, the purpose is they want to plant this idea in your head that the right are dangerous,
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that anyone who is tangentially related, connected to conservatism, deserves loathe,
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We can't allow them to sit here and smear us because, like I said off the top, they point
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to us, they call us fascists, and some people take them seriously.
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I'm going to read one more tweet to end off the show here.
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Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a radical leftist ideologue.
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He murdered Charlie because he believed that Charlie was a fascist.
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He believed Charlie was a fascist because mainstream voices in politics, media, and the culture
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called Charlie a fascist over and over and over.
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Not just a handful of woke journalists, but the entire media establishment.
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For a decade now, they push this idea that our words are violence and their violence is justified.
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The media smears the entire right with these absurd labels.
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Fascist, Nazi, far-right, radical, racist, extremist, domestic terrorist, and so on.
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Every single conservative in the public square in both the United States and especially here
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in Canada has been hit with these inflammatory, hateful, and untrue smears.
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We are living in a time of political violence, and the media is to blame.
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And that is why I will double, I will triple my efforts to do everything in my power to destroy
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They are a threat to our country and to our future, and they have to be stopped.
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They shouldn't get away with the kinds of smears that they put towards good people like Charlie Kirk.
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Good people, like my husband, who did nothing wrong other than be married to me.
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And he's out there building a company and working on tech and business, and he has nothing to
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do with politics, and yet they try to pull him in, try to smear him, try to discredit me.
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All right, folks, say a prayer for Charlie Kirk, his beautiful family, his beautiful wife
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And again, I hope that this movement just continues to grow, that more and more young
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people get exposed to Charlie Kirk's amazing videos, and that he continues to change hearts
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All right, folks, that's all the time we have for today.