Juno News - September 17, 2025
Candice Malcolm: The legacy media has blood on its hands
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Summary
Candace Malcolm, a journalist and mom of four, joins Mark and Jack to discuss the political assassination of conservative commentator Charley Kirk, and the media establishment's reaction to it. Mark calls out the Canadian media establishment for their silence on the murder of a young father and a voice of a generation, and calls for vengeance.
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we've got candace malcolm on the line candace is a journalist she founded juno news and true north
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media and uh well she's been posting she's been very busy online she's also a mom of four kids
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by the way candace welcome to the show great to be here mark thanks for having me just reading
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your post this morning it isn't just rachel gilmore and cult montreal it's the entire canadian media
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establishment they are bigots they hate christians they loathe conservatives i think this is probably
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the hardest hitting thing i've seen from you in the way of posts or you want to say they promote hate
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and lies about us they exist in the illiberal woke fringes of society where our words are violent
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and their violence is justified they ignore the cold-blooded assassin a fellow traveler fueled
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by their cultish ideology and focus on our grief calling peaceful vigils anger and celebrations of
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charlie's life and legacy vengeance the canadian media establishment is the most serious threat to
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our country and our future we cannot stop until every canadian knows this truth and sees the light
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you were responding to a ctv story with this headline right-wing anger surges as kirk's
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killing fuels calls for vengeance it's just to me it was almost laughable when i read that
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um maybe you could talk a little bit about what prompted you i mean obviously you have strong
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feelings around this candace so maybe you could talk about why you feel as strongly as you do
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well uh thanks for having me on to talk about this uh mark you know the the assassination the
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political assassination of charlie kirk uh was was a moment for us all to pause i mean we witnessed
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something really incredible right this is the first political assassination in some 40 years
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in america uh they killed the leader of a generation right charlie kirk was 31 years old
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and he spoke for millions and millions of americans and they killed him in cold blood right and while
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charlie was still struggling for life while he was still fighting for his life the cbc published an
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article of charlie kirk's most controversial takes right and so the implication of that is what
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that charlie deserved it right that charlie was right wing he was far right all of the things that
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the legacy media say about conservatives right that were fascists that were nazis that were racists
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uh they they went right into their schtick to somehow justify the cold-blooded murder of a
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young father and the voice of a generation so for many canadians many conservatives many christians
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we saw that as an eye-opening moment right it's like this is what they do they point to
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conservatives mainstream people with mainstream views charlie kirk was an open-minded fellow right he
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was strongly it held his convictions but he went and he debated with people and he sometimes changed
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his minds on things right he was open to debate that is the core function of a liberal democracy
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right the ability to have free speech and so when you have these media outlets that are doubling down
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on this schtick that they do that there's some there's somehow something wrong with being conservative
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with loving your country with loving god with wanting to get married and have children
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it's perverse and so i i had to call it out right it's not just it's not just rachel gilmore and cult
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montreal who caused a lot of attention last week with their despicable takes about charlie and his
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assassination and i was just pointing out that it's broader than that right it's also ctv and cbc and
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the golden mail and mainstream journalists like andrew coin and paul wells who are sitting there
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like somehow trying to take away from charlie's legacy somehow say that because he was conservative
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he deserved to be assassinated i think this is a big wake-up call for many of us um that we're not
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going to put up with it i personally mark i'm not going to put up with having the globe and mail
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call me far right for no reason right when you call me a fascist you put a target on my back just
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like they did for charlie they called him a fascist over and over and over again until some far-left
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lunatic finally listened and decided to shoot him and we can't put up with this anymore we have to
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call it out we have to push back at the woke media who insist on pushing this lie that there is
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something evil about conservatives yeah i mean they doubled down essentially after the shooting on the
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very things that may have prompted it was served as a pretext to the murderer to begin with the killer
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i mean uh to the very things that have been feeding into this bloodlust by radical leftists
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people who are obviously triggered to the point of resorting to extreme violence against people with
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whom they disagree you have the cbc have mainstream media in this country doubling down and saying well
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yeah this is what uh charlie kirk said and you know the extrapolation is he had it coming and so
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yeah good for you but i do have to ask you what does it mean not to take it anymore because this is
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also this also came out on jesse waters show and jack posobik and others other conservatives this is
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the mantra is we're you know we should have done something sooner which is what jesse waters said
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yesterday but now we're not taking it anymore could you put some flesh on the bones like what do you mean
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not take it anymore well i'm not going to sit here quietly and have ctv pretend that the biggest
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concern the biggest issue in the country is right-wing anger yes conservatives are angry we are rightfully
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angry because the left is resorting to political violence for years and years and years mainstream
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media voices woke people in the media right we we pretend that they're mainstream there's nothing
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mainstream about the media but they will sit here and they will lie about us and they will smear us
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and they will say that our views are violent right our words are violence and that somehow justifies
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violence against us so when i say we're not taking it anymore i'm not going to sit quietly i'm not going
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to just say you know what i'm not going to read the globe and mail so it doesn't matter what they say
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no i'm going to take it seriously when they when they call me far right when they call me a fascist when
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they try to link me to fascism which happens mark as you well know this happens to all conservatives right
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google pier polio and the word fascism and see how many references to fascism come up in articles
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written about pier polio that is reckless it is irresponsible and it needs to stop and so you know
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how can we stop it well we can replace our institutions we can build better media companies
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than they can we can fight back against the indoctrination that's happening university campuses
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that is exactly what charlie is doing i believe is the legacy will eclipse anything he did in his lifetime
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i think that more young people will find charlie kirk they'll see his videos they'll seek out the
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truth right because the cbc again moments after he was killed they were out there saying that he called
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for execution against gays which is absolute utter nonsense completely taking out of context ridiculous
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smears against him right so we can't sit quietly and allow them to continue to push this libelous
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nonsense we have to fight back i will personally be doing that by doubling down my efforts to build
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the biggest media company in the country to replace the cbc by offering common sense perspective
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to people who are sick and tired of it and by pointing out again it's not just like the woke left
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like a few fringe reporters people like rachel gilmore who you pretend to be the victim and make the story
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about themselves while pushing a very very illiberal far left woke worldview and then you know she's not out
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on the fringe actually she holds the same views as most if not many of the reporters in the country
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even people who are not a pain journalist who are just writing the news it's always infused with the
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woke ideology so we're going to build something bigger we're going to build something better i believe
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that charlie's legacy will live on and will continue to grow will continue to impact people around the
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world i don't know if you saw mark but there was a vigil in calgary yesterday and it was absolutely
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huge right there was a concert a country music concert out in edmonton edmonton's a pretty liberal
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city um and yet they held a moment of silence for charlie kirk and when the country singer uh invoked
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uh praying for the kirk family the entire audience pulled out their phones it was a beautiful moment
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of coming together over charlie kirk's memory and legacy so i think there is a bit of a turning point
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happening where you realize that charlie kirk was a mainstream thinker right his views and his beliefs
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were based yes he's a religious man they're based on the bible but you know this is what charlie would
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say our whole civilization is based on the bible all the laws all the rules all the morals and values
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come from the bible um so it's worth realizing you know where they came from and i think that there
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will be a revival it's already happening um you know people are more interested in him in death than
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they were in life and this movement will continue to grow i think we are reaching a turning point
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where we just don't want to have left infused politics being shoved down our coast all the time
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people are realizing how sick it is that people on the left are congratulating and cheering on the
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political assassination of someone just because they didn't agree with some of his positions i mean
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that again that's that's an attack on the very heart of our civilization our civilization is basically
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the idea that we can have free and open discourse when you kill someone you shoot them in the
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neck um it's very symbolic taking away their voice um that is an act of war against our civilization
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everyone should condemn that and you can't find the will to condemn them there's something wrong with
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you and again i think this is just exposing how really radical not just the left is but how much
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it's crept into the mainstream and we see that in the way that ctv cbc and the global mail have been
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reporting on this yeah i couldn't agree more and it's really evidenced by that headline that i read
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earlier that's absolute madness and um yeah i mean people are going to have to look at look at
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themselves and and ask very seriously whether or not the political extremists are on the left i mean
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it's so often the case where they accuse others of being extremists when in fact what we're seeing is
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extremism dangerous extremism on on the left we're seeing it evidence now and then they come out now
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some of the people on the left are saying well you know let's let's bring down the temperature
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you know let's let's cool things down you know everybody's to blame you know it's both it's both
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sides here you know they both need to tamp and tamp things down i'm going it's not both sides you know
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it's your side that's why we are where we are and so the idea that they can now take the high road
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i'm not buying it last word to you candace well i i mean i hate to do this but i'm going to anyway
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imagine for a second that one of my listeners or one of your listeners assassinated the most powerful
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political figure on the left right imagine if they killed somebody like aoc or somebody like
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justin trudeau and imagine if my immediate reaction was oh um i i can't i can't i can't i'm worried
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about the reaction of the left right or here are some justin trudeau's most controversial takes right
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that would be outrageous right it would be wrong and i would never do that right but that is what
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they did they killed our most powerful most effective leader and before he had even been
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pronounced dead the left were already promoting and saying look at his controversial takes and saying
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you know um aren't you worried about right-wing anger and right-wing violence now it's like no we
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have to stop for a moment and recognize what happened a right-wing leader was murdered by a
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left-wing radical and part of the reason was because the media spent a decade or more calling him a fascist
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and not so he needs to stop and i appreciate having me on the show um obviously we should all condemn all
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violence and we should recognize that the the the political violence in this country and in north
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america is primarily happening on the left side it's not happening on the right side regardless of the
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lies that the legacy media is pushing how do people support and consume the media that you uh the produce
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how do people access it was just juno news juno news.com uh we're on yeah we're on youtube just
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just check it out juno news we're subscriber supported so uh we don't take any money from
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the government we all of our all of our income just comes from people subscribing and supporting
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what we do so check us out at juno news.com candace malcolm thank you so much for coming on the show
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i hope you come back we'd love to have you all right thanks so much mark have a good one bye-bye