Juno News - CBC is IMPLODING, wild accusations from former host + CTV has its ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ moment

00:00:00.000 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Folks, we have a great episode

00:00:07.020 for you today. A little later in the program, we will be joined by True North's Melanie Bennett.

00:00:11.160 She has an absolutely explosive story reporting out of Nova Scotia, where the progressive

00:00:16.560 conservative government is doing something totally unconscionable. And we will get into

00:00:21.340 the lower details of that. I want to talk a little bit about Mark Carney at the Calgary Stampede,

00:00:27.120 and Canadian Press CTV is having a little bit of a let's go Brandon moment, trying to cover up the

00:00:32.200 fact that this man is wildly disliked in Western Canada. But first, I want to talk about our friends

00:00:37.740 over at the CBC. Yes, the state broadcaster is imploding in real time. We have an unbelievable

00:00:44.680 story. Travis Danraj, who is a former host of the network, and he announced on social media that he

00:00:52.900 was leaving, not on his own terms, not because he wants to. So this is the letter that he posted

00:00:58.960 that was posted on his behalf on social media. He says, Dear colleagues, after more than 20 years

00:01:04.360 in Canadian television journalism, I have been forced to resign from CBC News. This was not a

00:01:09.520 voluntary decision. It comes after trying to navigate a workplace culture defined by retaliation,

00:01:14.480 exclusion, and psychological harm. A place we're asking hard questions about tokenism,

00:01:19.340 masquerading as diversity, problematic political coverage protocols, and the erosion of editorial

00:01:25.280 independence became a career-ending move. Wow, folks, you know, this is the kind of thing

00:01:31.320 that I would say about the CBC, that they push tokenism, masquerading as diversity, and that they

00:01:37.960 have some problems with their political coverage, that they openly hate conservatives, and they have

00:01:42.900 no tolerance for conservative ideas, conservative opinions, or conservative people, even mild-mannered

00:01:48.960 centrist, conservative politicians get put through the ringer when they go on the CBC. Well, now one

00:01:55.140 of their own is saying it. He's blowing the whistle, and I will continue to read from his letter. He

00:02:01.280 writes, I was once one of CBC's most visible journalists, a senior parliamentary reporter, co-host

00:02:07.040 of Marketplace, and most recently host of Candid Tonight, promoted as a symbol of progress until I began

00:02:13.680 questioning the gap between CBC's stated values and its internal reality. When I pushed for honest

00:02:19.600 conversations about systemic issues and editorial imbalance, I was shut out, sidelined, silenced, and

00:02:25.120 ultimately erased. Unbelievable, folks. Okay, continue reading. CBC calls itself the champion of inclusion

00:02:31.520 and public trust, but those ideals are too often deployed as branding tools, not lived principles, and

00:02:37.840 Canadians are noticing what's happening inside this institution is no longer just an internal problem,

00:02:43.920 it's a public one. I completely agree with every word about this. Look, the CBC pretends to be the

00:02:50.560 voice of Canada, but everybody knows that it's not, right? It is a voice of hard left ideologues.

00:02:55.840 They're pushing their values on the rest of Canadians, and Canadians are rejecting it. That's why their 0.60

00:03:00.160 viewership numbers are so bad. That is why nobody's tuning into them. Unfortunately, there is a small

00:03:05.280 percentage of Canadians that are sort of captured by this institution, and I think that is why something like

00:03:11.600 this, a story like this is incredibly damaging because, look, to people watching my podcast,

00:03:17.040 to me personally, I have no faith in the CBC. I've never really had faith in the organization because

00:03:22.320 it is so biased, but if you can't see that bias, if you watch the CBC and you take it as gospel,

00:03:28.000 and then you see, you know, one of your favorite hosts, Travis Danraj, saying this stuff out in the

00:03:33.520 open, sounding a lot like us at Juno News with our criticisms of the CBC, I think that would be an

00:03:39.440 eye-opening experience. So yes, forgive me for having a little bit of Schrodenfrode right now,

00:03:44.160 but the CBC is getting exactly what they deserve when you have people like this coming forward. And

00:03:49.040 we've had instances like this in the past. We've had, you know, Tara Henley famously resigned a few

00:03:54.400 years ago from the CBC, making very similar allegations. We know all of this stuff is going on,

00:04:00.240 and so Travis resigned. He posted this letter to his colleagues. He also had another letter

00:04:05.680 that he sent to CBC management. Brian Lilly over in the Toronto Sun had access to that letter,

00:04:11.200 and I'm going to read a little bit of this one. So he says, you know, he's writing to the CBC

00:04:16.640 management. He says, Dear CBC leadership, this is an involuntary resignation. Later in the letter,

00:04:22.880 he says, I was repeatedly denied access to key newsmakers. Internal booking and editorial protocols

00:04:29.120 were weaponized to create structural barriers for some while empowering others, particularly a small

00:04:35.040 circle of senior Ottawa-based journalists. I wonder who he could be referring to. He says,

00:04:40.160 When I questioned these imbalances, I was met with silence, resistance, and eventually retaliation.

00:04:45.520 I was fighting for balance and accused of being on a crusade. Now, listen, folks,

00:04:51.680 Travis is not some fire-breathing right-winger, right? He's not a hardcore conservative. He is a

00:04:58.880 probably a moderate centrist, small-l liberal, but even to someone like that, who's reasonable and

00:05:04.720 just wants to be able to have free conversation and free debate. If you don't fall into this narrow

00:05:11.120 ideological worldview, and it sounds like a little bit of like clicky, mean girl behavior, as well as 0.96

00:05:16.480 some toxic femininity in there. If you don't conform to that, the way that they treat you, it seems,

00:05:23.120 is just absolutely reprehensible. They will bully you. They will push you out. The things he talks about,

00:05:28.000 silence, resistance, eventually retaliation. I mean, it sounds pretty miserable. It sounds a

00:05:33.520 pretty miserable experience to work at the CBC. You know, another example popped to mind, Jesse

00:05:40.080 Brown. He used to work at the CBC and he, when he resigned, maybe this was maybe 10 years ago,

00:05:44.880 and he launched Canada Land. He mentioned similar kinds of things. So we've had many people come out

00:05:50.960 and say, this is the problem, right? The problem with CBC isn't just that they're propagandists for the

00:05:55.280 Liberal Party. It isn't just that they are completely captured by left wing, hard left ideologues that

00:06:02.880 work there, but they're actually kind of nasty people too. They're bullies. They're mean. And they 0.99

00:06:08.000 bully people who don't conform. This is not okay. Like, even if you're not a right winger, even if

00:06:14.640 you're okay with the CBC promoting a left wing Canadian view, and you're okay with that, you can't be okay with

00:06:21.280 this kind of behavior, this kind of bullying. And so I'm happy to hear that Travis has retained

00:06:26.880 a lawyer, Catherine Marshall. She's actually a friend of mine, and he has retained her because

00:06:30.800 he's weighing his legal options. And they're considering a complaint to the Canadian Human

00:06:35.840 Rights Commission about the way he was treated. Allegations would include discrimination, reprisal,

00:06:41.120 and harassment, she says. So really not a good day for the CBC, not a good look for the organization.

00:06:49.360 It is imploding. And it is so hard to justify at this point why they would deserve more of your

00:06:54.720 money, why they would deserve more than the $1.4 billion that they're getting. And yet,

00:06:59.760 because we just had an election, and every time there's an election in Canada, the CBC gets more

00:07:04.720 money, the bidding goes up, the Liberals offer them more and more money, more payment for complete

00:07:10.880 submission to their worldview, to the coverage. And I think Canadians have had enough. We're starting to

00:07:16.560 see through it. Heck, that's why Juno News is doing so well, folks. That's why we're really

00:07:20.960 catching on. We're growing faster than we could have imagined. I don't know if you saw this story,

00:07:24.880 but over the weekend, my co-founder and colleague here at Juno News, Kian Bexy,

00:07:29.520 hosted a Calgary Stampede reception. He hosted a party on behalf of Juno News. He's based in Calgary.

00:07:36.320 Calgary Stampede is a great event. It used to be my favorite one to go to. I didn't make it out this

00:07:40.960 year, but I used to love going every year. It kind of has that spirit, that Canadian spirit of the

00:07:46.560 frontier and independence and Mavericks. And so there we had Kian Bexy hosting this great event.

00:07:52.400 And much to my pleasure, we had Daniel Smith, Premier of Alberta, was there,

00:07:57.120 leader of the opposition party. Pierre Polyev was there, leader of the Conservatives.

00:08:01.520 And I'm going to play a clip here, is Pierre Polyev pointing out that the CBC is failing to deliver on

00:08:08.640 their mandate. They are absolutely atrociously wasting taxpayer dollars. And here we have

00:08:14.160 Juno News, a small upstart, growing faster than the CBC and doing it all without taking a penny

00:08:19.600 from the taxpayers. Let's play that clip. It was a real conflict because, of course,

00:08:24.480 CBC is having their party right now. My invitation was lost in the mail. So I ended up here at Juno News,

00:08:32.320 which is much faster growing than CBC and does it without any tax dollars. And I want to congratulate

00:08:41.840 the entire team. Is Candace here as well? Candace here? She's not. My congratulations to Juno. I know this,

00:08:48.160 it's an incredible enterprise to go out there and create a news outlet and try to reach eyeballs and

00:08:54.640 earlobes without any backing. It's a big risk. And it's so far a risk that's paying off because frankly,

00:09:01.520 people want to have an independent voice. They want to know what's actually going on,

00:09:05.840 not what the government wants them to think. Absolutely. Thank you for those kind words to

00:09:10.720 Pierre Polyev. Next, we have Danielle Smith saying that she no longer trusts the legacy media. She

00:09:15.200 makes an interesting point here. But here she's saying that she used to read reports from the

00:09:20.160 independent media and then she'd just want to verify that they were true. So she'd go check the legacy

00:09:23.840 media. And now that's reversed. And I think that's exactly true. Let's play that clip.

00:09:27.680 I always used to say, well, I'm reading something interesting in independent media,

00:09:34.560 but until I see it in these august publications, until I see it in the mainstream media,

00:09:40.800 I can't trust it's true. Now it's the reverse. Now it's when I see something in mainstream media,

00:09:45.920 I don't trust it's true. It's true until I read it in independent media like Juno News. And I think that

00:09:50.880 that shows how much independent media is responding to the needs of the public, how much is serving a

00:09:57.680 public interest, how much it's giving a voice to those of us in the conservative movement who

00:10:02.080 continue to find ourselves showed a doubt by the mainstream media. And that's why I'm delighted to

00:10:06.720 be here this evening, delighted to see the work that Juno's doing and looking forward to seeing more of it.

00:10:12.160 Well, appreciate that, Premier Smith, those kind words as well. But it's true, right? Like,

00:10:16.560 maybe five, 10 years ago, the stories in the independent media that we were covering

00:10:20.880 were things that the legacy media would never touch, right? And sometimes the story would be

00:10:25.440 so explosive that you'd have to kind of verify, is that actually true? Because it just seems so

00:10:29.600 outrageous. Whereas now it's like the legacy media, they just lie through their teeth, they misrepresent

00:10:34.960 the situation intentionally. And what we've tried to do at Juno News and what I did at True North before

00:10:40.000 that is say, hey, we don't just need to cover the niche stories that the legacy media responds,

00:10:45.040 we're going to cover everything, we're going to cover the entire spectrum of news, you can go to

00:10:49.680 Juno News and be fully informed on what is going on in the country, you can know, you can feel like

00:10:55.520 you're not missing anything, right? You're getting the full coverage, the stories of the legacy media

00:10:59.360 covers, but with a different angle and without all the propaganda, and then also the stories that they

00:11:04.720 refuse to. And so, again, we're just absolutely delighted by the growth that we are experiencing.

00:11:11.040 And we are here to replace the CBC, the CBC has to go, the CBC is proving once and again,

00:11:16.560 that it's past its best before date, it is time to move on. And Canadians need news that they can

00:11:21.120 trust. And that is what we're trying to build, right? We're not trying to build a small niche,

00:11:24.560 independent media company, we are trying to build the biggest media company in Canada. So I encourage

00:11:28.880 you to head on over to Juno News, support us on our mission, and become a premium subscriber. Now,

00:11:34.080 to me, Mark Carney at the Calgary Stampede is just an absolute embarrassment. Okay,

00:11:39.520 he is cosplaying. He is not beloved in Calgary. He is not, I won't say he's not welcome,

00:11:44.720 because obviously, a Canadian Prime Minister is welcome throughout the country. But it must be a

00:11:49.040 little bit of a shock to him to see how the people respond to him, right? When he's in Ontario,

00:11:54.080 when he's in Quebec, he's getting showered with love. When he goes to legacy media, he's getting

00:11:58.480 showered with praise. And that's what he's used to. That's his entire career is, you know,

00:12:02.800 he's the master, he's the central banker, he's part of WAF, you know, roll out the red carpet

00:12:08.640 for Mr. Carney. That's not the way he's getting treated in Calgary. A little bit amusing when he

00:12:15.280 went to the chuck wagon races on Sunday, and he was given a warm Calgary welcome. Let's play that clip.

00:12:22.720 Please welcome the Right Honourable, Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada.

00:12:27.760 Oh my God, everyone's booing.

00:12:38.080 Not exactly the kind of warm welcome he was expecting. I want to zoom in a little bit on

00:12:43.200 the way that the Canadian press and CTV covered this. So I'm going to read from the CPP. So it was

00:12:49.360 posted on CTV. They write this later as he walked on stage before the truck wagon races at GMC stadium,

00:12:57.440 Carney was met with a mix of boos and applause from the crowd of approximately 17,000 people.

00:13:03.520 They're saying woo. I heard woo said the announcer, right? So they're gaslighting you folks. They're

00:13:09.280 gaslighting you. They're trying to make you think, oh, it was just a mix. You know, there was a handful

00:13:12.800 of hooligans that were booing. Most people were applauding. Even the announcer clarified and said

00:13:18.400 that they're, they're saying woo. They're not saying boo. So you can kind of hear the announcer

00:13:23.920 say that. I think he's saying it tongue in cheek. I think he's trying to just smooth the air, make

00:13:27.760 Mr. Carney feel a little bit more welcome, but they weren't saying woo folks. They were booing. Here,

00:13:33.280 I'm going to play the clip of the announcer just ever so slightly. You can hear him saying,

00:13:36.960 they're saying woo. I heard woo. So you can barely hear, but the announcer said it,

00:13:50.400 they're saying woo. They're saying woo. You know what? You know what? This,

00:13:53.440 this reminds me of something else I've seen. What does this remind me of?

00:13:56.880 Boo! See this? Are they booing me? No, they're saying boo-erns. Boo-erns. Are you saying boo or

00:14:07.280 boo-erns? Boo! I was saying boo-erns. So you have one guy that was saying boo-erns. The whole rest of

00:14:16.240 the crowd was saying boo. I mean, the idea that that was a mix of boos and balls. I heard overwhelming 0.93

00:14:20.720 boo and then like three or four people politely clapping. That is the reception that Mr. Carney got.

00:14:26.560 You know, this reminds me folks of the infamous let's go Brandon moment when Americans were not 0.96

00:14:33.600 happy with Joe Biden. They did not like president Joe Biden. They didn't like his economy. They didn't

00:14:37.600 like his inflation and they were letting him know what they thought. And of course, just the

00:14:43.120 propagandistic influence instincts of a reporter is to say, no, they're not saying F Joe Biden.

00:14:49.920 They're saying let's go Brandon. The name of the racer here. Let's, let's play that clip.

00:14:54.640 As you can hear the chants from the crowd. Let's go Brandon. Brandon, you told me you were going to

00:15:02.960 kind of hang back those first two stages and just watch and learn. They were definitely not saying

00:15:09.040 let's go Brandon, but that was just the kind of day that Mark Carney was having out in Calgary. Next,

00:15:15.120 Mark Carney tried his luck. He tried to go to the pancake breakfast. He didn't want to make the same mistake

00:15:21.120 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made, which was just showing how he just completely unable to flip

00:15:27.040 a pancake. Well, unfortunately for Prime Minister Mark Carney, he made the same mistake. So here he is

00:15:32.560 Saturday morning at the pancake breakfast hosted by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. And yes,

00:15:38.240 Mark Carney failed multiple times to flip a pancake.

00:15:43.200 Oh, there you go.

00:15:44.480 That's not it. That's not, that's not, I was better in, better in Ottawa.

00:15:55.600 You're worse than Justin.

00:15:58.400 I don't know if he was worse than Justin. I would say equally as bad as us, but that's not it, right?

00:16:02.640 So Mark Carney admitted during the campaign that he doesn't buy groceries. He doesn't shop for himself.

00:16:07.840 He doesn't cook for himself. He's above all that. That's for the little people. And yet when he has 1.00

00:16:12.320 to go, you know, it takes a few tries. I'll admit it's not, it's not the easiest thing to flip a

00:16:17.120 pancake. Um, for me, mother of four, I'm making pancakes for my kids a couple of times a week.

00:16:21.600 I've got it in the bag. I can do it with a baby on my hip. I can do it, uh, with a toddler on my back.

00:16:25.680 But for someone like Mr. Carney, you know, just practice a few times before the cameras start rolling,

00:16:30.080 do it at home, do it a few times. You got to wait for the pancake batter to cook fully before

00:16:34.320 you flip it over. And he, he just, he didn't have the patience and yes, he got humiliated,

00:16:39.760 but you know, I, I can't do justice, um, to just, you know, how embarrassing that was for Mr. Carney.

00:16:46.080 So let's go to Pierre Polyev who really properly roasted the prime minister for his abysmal, uh,

00:16:53.120 pancake flipping. Let's play that clip. 1.00

00:16:54.800 Of course, to do the customary thing and flip some pancakes. Now he's thought

00:16:59.680 he would be great at it because in his trade talks with Trump, he's had so much experience flip-flopping,

00:17:06.160 but, but, but still it didn't go as planned. One of the pancakes got broken in a half and the other

00:17:16.320 one splattered everywhere. And he, he owned up to it, but a careful review of a slow, slow motion replay

00:17:24.400 demonstrated exactly what the problem was. He couldn't figure out whether to put his elbows

00:17:30.640 up or down. There's some good lines in there. Yes. He's got a lot of experience flip-flopping

00:17:37.920 and it looks like he had his elbows down in that clip. I want to play another clip of Pierre Polyev

00:17:43.520 giving what I thought was a really optimistic forward-looking speech. I think Pierre Polyev is

00:17:48.240 really finding his stride. Look, it was tough to lose an election, tough to lose his own seat. Of course,

00:17:52.560 he's running in a by-election in Alberta, so he will be an Alberta MP if all things go to plan. But

00:17:58.880 here he is giving his sort of optimistic view for Canada and also just letting Ottawa know that the

00:18:05.200 era of telling Alberta to pay up and shut up is over. Let's play that clip. Let me tell you, we are

00:18:10.880 going to fight for our province again. We will fight for oil and gas, for farmers, for low taxes,

00:18:16.000 for decentralization, a stronger military and a smaller federal government so that we can have

00:18:21.360 a bigger Alberta. And if elected in Battle River Crowfoot, I'll use the platform of Leader of the

00:18:30.240 Opposition to amplify the legitimate demands of Western Canada to end the unfair treatment.

00:18:36.560 The era of Ottawa telling Alberta to pay up and shut up must end once and for all.

00:18:42.720 All right, folks, moving on, I'm going to welcome Melanie Bennett, who's an investigative journalist

00:18:50.000 with True North. She's host of Disrupted, which is aired right here on Juno News on Thursdays.

00:18:55.440 And she has an absolutely explosive piece out yesterday. So Melanie, welcome to the podcast.

00:19:00.880 Melanie Bennett Hi, thank you for having me.

00:19:02.640 Okay, so this is explosive. We're going to cut this off from the YouTube because I don't think

00:19:08.400 that YouTube will let us talk in detail. I'll read the headline, exclusive Nova Scotia confirms that it

00:19:13.600 funds and performs surgeries for teens. So exclusive documents reveal that doctors in Nova Scotia greenlit

00:19:20.160 five surgeries to create artificial parts for patients listed under 19 years old. Folks,

00:19:25.760 we're going to cut this off and go over to junonews.com, become a premium subscriber,

00:19:30.160 and you can catch the rest of this conversation there.

Juno News - July 08, 2025

CBC is IMPLODING, wild accusations from former host + CTV has its ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ moment

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