Juno News - March 06, 2026


Don Cherry VINDICATED + CBC is in BIG trouble + Khalistani critic MURDERED in Ontario


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Next week, we will see a former CBC host testifying in front of a parliamentary committee in Ottawa at a hearing about the state-run broadcaster's practices and practices behind closed doors. And a canadian activist speaks out against extremism.

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00:00:00.000 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is the Candace Malcolm Show news update. Today is Friday,
00:00:05.880 March 6, 2026, and here are the top stories of the day.
00:00:09.300 Let them judge for themselves and decide what they believe.
00:00:13.440 Well, if CBC won't do that, well, then independent media do your thing.
00:00:18.840 You're an icon to millions of Ontarians but Canadians as well.
00:00:23.520 No one's more deserving in this country than you.
00:00:25.920 so this man all family doing illegal activities in canada i know the loss of white canadian people
00:00:32.980 they don't know what mean by the khalistan really truly unbelievable that last one that we're going 0.82
00:00:38.120 to cover at the end of the show a canadian activist speaking out against extremism i would
00:00:43.020 consider this person an independent reporter an independent journalist because that's what she
00:00:46.740 was doing she was commenting and exposing extremism in our community killed murdered
00:00:51.780 in her home in Canada. This is a huge problem, huge problem. It should be the top story in the 1.00
00:00:57.100 country, but of course it is not. We're going to get to that later. And this episode is brought
00:01:01.260 to us by Juno News. More on them a little bit later. All right, folks, let's jump right into
00:01:05.200 it. It's Fake News Friday here on the Candace Malcolm Show. We're going to lead with Fake
00:01:07.740 News Friday today. And this is the story that I am here for. I cannot wait. Next week, we're going
00:01:12.420 to see a former CBC host testifying in front of a parliamentary committee. He will be there in
00:01:18.080 Ottawa at a committee hearing talking about the state media. And this is going to happen on March
00:01:23.740 10th. So Travis Danra, you probably remember his story. I interviewed his lawyer over the summer
00:01:28.580 about his explosive claims that he has. He left the CBC and has a whole bunch of accusations about
00:01:35.380 them and what happened in his time there. And we're going to be hearing more of those details.
00:01:39.000 So he released a video on his own YouTube channel called Can't Be Censored. And he posted across
00:01:44.340 social media. And he basically says that he's going to be naming names and he challenges the
00:01:50.700 CBC to stream his appearance, right? We're going to be able to watch it. It's going to be streamed
00:01:55.540 through the House of Commons Heritage Committee. We'll be bringing it to you. But he's saying,
00:01:59.860 hey, CBC, put it on your own channel. Don't cut it. Don't edit it. Don't just pick and choose what
00:02:04.060 you're going to show to your audience. Show the whole thing, which they should, right? They're
00:02:08.560 public broadcaster the state broadcaster funded by our taxes they should be open to the same scrutiny
00:02:15.520 as every other government organization instead they pretend to hold politicians scrutiny they
00:02:20.320 don't really unless you're conservative but they never hold themselves to that standard so good for
00:02:25.200 travis danraj for doing this and for trying to have some accountability with the state broadcaster
00:02:31.040 so here is what this clip looked like but my mission has never been to destroy the cbc
00:02:36.080 It's about whether a $1.5 billion public broadcaster plays by the rules it lectures everyone else about.
00:02:45.080 So let me speak right now directly to my old boss, to Brody Fenland, the editor-in-chief of CBC News.
00:02:52.440 Brody, hey there. It's been a while.
00:02:55.260 If CBC believes in transparency, then prove it.
00:02:58.860 On March 10th, carry the hearing live.
00:03:01.040 No edits, no summaries, no carefully curated clips.
00:03:06.080 There is a lot of news going on right now, I understand that, but CBC does have a website, they have, from what I understand, a YouTube channel, so stream it there if you have to.
00:03:16.140 Let Canadians hear the names, let them hear about the documents, the practices, the way things run behind the scenes when the cameras are off.
00:03:25.080 Let them judge for themselves and decide what they believe.
00:03:30.200 Well, if CBC won't do that, well then, independent media, do your thing.
00:03:34.420 And again, he will be testifying in front of a parliamentary heritage committee next Tuesday, which is studying fairness in the media.
00:03:43.620 I'm actually pleased that I'm going to be appearing in front of this committee later in the spring.
00:03:48.240 Looking forward to that as well.
00:03:50.220 But here is Travis Danrush again saying he's going to name names.
00:03:53.520 He's going to paint a bigger picture of the toxic environment inside the CBC and inside their newsrooms.
00:04:01.120 Let's play that clip.
00:04:01.620 Now, I've told part of that story here, but because of ongoing legal proceedings,
00:04:06.880 I couldn't name names, I couldn't connect the dots, I couldn't lay out who made which decisions
00:04:12.260 and how they were justified behind closed doors.
00:04:15.780 And for months, that silence has worked in the CBC's favour.
00:04:20.260 They have denied everything up until this point.
00:04:23.060 They've tried to control internal and external messaging about the situation and about me.
00:04:28.480 They've tried to discredit me.
00:04:30.260 They've tried to let the story fade, hoping to run down the clock,
00:04:34.040 hoping the professional consequences would break me.
00:04:37.900 Now, I'm battered and I'm bruised, much more than most will ever know,
00:04:42.340 but I am not broken, and I am not shutting up, because this story matters.
00:04:47.400 Next Tuesday, I will testify before a parliamentary committee studying fairness in media.
00:04:52.880 Now, I won't be able to say everything because my ongoing human rights case is before the commission,
00:04:58.860 But I will be able to name names, describe decisions, and paint a better picture about what happened inside the CBC.
00:05:06.940 So good for Travis Danraj. The CBC deserves every minute of this.
00:05:11.080 I hope they get humiliated. I hope they get exposed. 0.99
00:05:13.360 We know they will. We know what it's like over there.
00:05:15.660 We know that they have literal crying rooms for their employees because it's such a toxic environment
00:05:21.020 that they have to have a place where employees can go to cry from the way that they are treated.
00:05:26.100 We know that they treated Travis Danraj as like a token brown person, that they didn't
00:05:30.320 actually care about his unique views.
00:05:32.020 They just wanted him to repeat the left-wing talking points, and he didn't want to do that.
00:05:36.400 And that is why he got pushed out.
00:05:38.040 There's really a pattern of this.
00:05:39.480 Remember, our friend Jamil Javani was working at Bell, and he said the same thing, that
00:05:42.980 he was treated as a token black guy, and they wanted him to just repeat the Black Lives 0.68
00:05:46.920 Matter talking points.
00:05:47.860 And he wouldn't.
00:05:48.620 He refused to because he thought they were not true and not accurate and not fair, especially
00:05:52.120 in Canada.
00:05:53.040 And so he got pushed out as well.
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00:07:15.740 Okay, our friend over in the House of Commons, I'm talking about Andrew Lawton, Member of Parliament, has nominated Canadian patriot Don Cherry for the Order of Canada.
00:07:26.480 Andrew Lawton was a journalist for True North, the predecessor to Juneau News.
00:07:30.280 He worked with, I worked with him for a little over five years.
00:07:33.000 He's incredible.
00:07:33.700 It's so great to see him move on to becoming a Member of Parliament and able to do this kind of thing and really just, you know, tell the other side of the story, right?
00:07:42.260 Do you remember Don Cherry?
00:07:43.020 He got fired in disgrace from Hockey Night in Canada for the crime of saying something pretty
00:07:47.660 mundane, but they spun it into this huge scandal. And poor Don Cherry, who is a Canadian patriot,
00:07:53.300 who embodies Canada for so many of us. I grew up kind of hating Don Cherry, right? Because I was a
00:07:58.300 Vancouver Canuck fan and he was always holding water for the Toronto Maple Leafs. But nonetheless,
00:08:03.220 Don Cherry is an icon. He is a Canadian hero. He didn't deserve the treatment that he had
00:08:07.840 from Hockey Night in Canada when they threw him under the bus. And so it's good to see him and
00:08:12.140 his legacy, you know, getting revitalized and refreshed. So here is Andrew Lawton on social
00:08:18.180 media. He wrote, for decades, Don Cherry has celebrated hockey, honored veterans, and said
00:08:22.540 what millions think. Without apology, I am nominating Don Cherry for the Order of Canada.
00:08:27.100 I want to show the Governor General how many Canadians support grapes. Sign it if you do.
00:08:33.280 100%. I have signed it. I encourage everybody in the audience to sign it and show Don Cherry
00:08:38.800 that we support him, that when he got fired from Hockey Night in Canada seven years ago,
00:08:43.860 that was wrong. That was the management over there reacting to cancel culture, reacting to
00:08:48.760 the online mob, which is actually quite small, right? At the same time, at the time, we did a
00:08:53.040 petition at True North. We got like, I think we got over 100,000 signatures on this thing of
00:08:57.660 Canadians who supported Don Cherry and didn't care about this made up scandal. And yet, you know,
00:09:01.960 a handful of voices online were amplified. And they basically pretended that all Canadians
00:09:06.360 hated Don Cherry and thought he was a racist or something. Here is Pierre Polyev, opposition
00:09:11.600 leader, giving his support to Andrew Lawton. He posted this on X. Don Cherry embodies what it
00:09:16.940 means to be a proud Canadian. Great work getting this going. Andrew Lawton, count me in. And so
00:09:22.700 here is the conservative petition. Here's what that looks like. And this comes a week, a few
00:09:27.120 weeks after Ontario appointed Don Cherry to the Order of Ontario. So amazing accomplishment. Good
00:09:34.100 for mr cherry for that and then earlier this week on wednesday morning ontario premiere
00:09:39.540 doug ford released this great video honoring don cherry congratulating him on getting the order of
00:09:45.780 ontario i don't i don't uh compliment doug ford very often but this was awesome way to go doug
00:09:51.460 ford on this one a great video very heartwarming let's play a little clip from that you just stay
00:09:56.900 you there, Don. How's my champion? Good to see you, my friend. I'm so proud you're getting the
00:10:03.620 Order of Ontario. You're an icon to millions of Ontarians, but Canadians as well. No one's more
00:10:09.900 deserving in this country than you. The most patriotic person I've ever met. Thank you, my
00:10:16.060 friend. And just to refresh your memory, folks, this is what the original clip looked like. You
00:10:23.160 You know, looking back, it was seven years ago or six and a half years ago, and it just seems like
00:10:27.560 such an overreaction, right? Don Cherry is out there supporting veterans, supporting the people
00:10:33.540 who fought and died for our country, for our freedoms, the sacred bond that we have with the
00:10:39.640 people who came before us. And all we have to do is wear a little poppy for a few weeks in early
00:10:44.260 November to show our gratitude to the people who died for our country and for our freedom. Don Cherry
00:10:49.380 was out there doing his best to articulate it, right? Don Cherry has never been known as like
00:10:53.780 a perfectly astute, someone who articulates things perfectly, right? That's not what he does. He goes
00:10:58.780 on, he's passionate, he rants, and that's his shtick, right? And so this is what he does. He
00:11:04.100 says, you people aren't wearing the poppy, you know, you got to put out a few dollars to buy a
00:11:08.380 poppy to support the legions, right? Everything he says is 100% accurate. There's nothing wrong
00:11:13.640 with it at the time. It was just a huge overreaction. And looking back, there's even less
00:11:17.160 wrong with it now i think we should all we all canada collectively owes mr cherry an apology
00:11:22.360 and we should do that by giving him the order of canada so let's go back and watch this clip
00:11:26.840 from november 2019 you know i was talking to a veteran i said i'm not going to run the poppy
00:11:32.560 thing anymore because what's the sense i live in mississauga nobody wears uh very few people wear
00:11:37.900 a poppy downtown toronto forget it downtown toronto nobody wears a poppy and i'm not going
00:11:43.680 he says wait a minute how about running it for the people that buy them now you go to the small
00:11:48.880 cities and you know you you know those the rows on rows you people love you they come here whatever
00:11:55.360 it is you love our way of life you love our milk and honey at least you can pay a couple of bucks
00:12:01.120 for poppies or something like that these guys pay for your way of life that you enjoy in canada
00:12:07.200 these guys paid the biggest price anyhow i'm going to run it again for you great people
00:12:12.560 and good canadians that bought a poppy i'm still going to run it anyhow lovely for it don cherry
00:12:19.680 is a patriot and he deserves so much better so again i encourage everyone to go and sign that
00:12:24.400 petition okay final story of the day this one is actually really hard for me to cover because it's
00:12:28.560 just it's just so shocking and unbelievable an anti-calistani punjabi woman who's a canadian
00:12:34.160 citizen was stabbed to death so this is how she was being described a punjabi social media influencer
00:12:40.320 and YouTuber. I call her an independent journalist because that's what she was doing. She was
00:12:43.600 commentating. She was exposing. She was a critic of extremism and terrorism in our country.
00:12:49.600 And she got killed. She got murdered in Ontario, in La Salle, which is just outside of Windsor.
00:12:55.680 Nancy Gruel, age 45, was stabbed to death on Tuesday night in what the police are calling
00:13:00.560 a targeted killing. So as you know, the calisthenic movement is a separatist group out of India. They
00:13:05.760 They want to carve out their own state from Punjab to create an independent Sikh ethnostate in the 0.63
00:13:12.020 middle of India. Their movement is much stronger in Canada than it is in India. I think a lot of
00:13:17.460 people in India have moved on. And yet the people who came to Canada at that time in the 80s and
00:13:21.660 90s became much more active. And I've covered this as well, this movement. There's a handful
00:13:27.240 of journalists who are out there trying to expose it because Jagmeet Singh, the former leader of the
00:13:30.760 NDP was adjacent to it and at times supportive of it. And yet it never really got the public
00:13:37.080 attention that it deserved. So the movement is deemed a terrorist threat in India. Many of these
00:13:42.260 people are designated terrorists from Punjab, and they use that to apply for refugee status in
00:13:48.100 Canada. So we get a lot of the worst people from this region who leave because they say that they're
00:13:52.940 being targeted by the Indian government. The Indian government just considers them terrorists.
00:13:55.880 And so it's becoming more of Canada's problem than it is India's problem. 0.89
00:14:00.440 The police in the area have said that they are confident that this attack against Nancy Gruel, age 45, was not a random act of violence.
00:14:08.020 And so she has been targeted before.
00:14:10.160 She posted a video on her own social media back in November talking about how they tried to set her house on fire and that she has been, she has reported to police home invasion attempts and arson attempts.
00:14:22.360 And the police just, you know, couldn't figure out who was doing it because of a lack of evidence.
00:14:27.560 So here is a clip of her.
00:14:28.980 This is chilling.
00:14:29.760 Just a few months ago, November 2025, talking about the threats that she was receiving.
00:14:34.040 I believe the God.
00:14:35.180 God saved me.
00:14:36.300 God saved my life.
00:14:37.700 Nothing happened to me.
00:14:38.820 Nothing happened to my house.
00:14:40.600 So everything is going good.
00:14:41.780 And I just called the cops.
00:14:44.640 And I know who is this person.
00:14:46.140 This person is a belong to Khalistan.
00:14:48.380 And he always sit in the Conti Road 42, Gurdwara.
00:14:51.520 He always doing this kind of illegal activities.
00:15:21.520 Windsor, Ontario as a victim of the stabbing. She died March 3rd in the area of Todd Lane on social
00:15:27.320 media. An account says in Punjabi language that Nancy Gruel of Windsor was killed over her
00:15:32.820 criticism of the Kalistani movement. This is a quote from the account. The woman was saying bad
00:15:39.000 things about religion and Kalistan, a caption over the picture it states, and she got that result of
00:15:45.440 it. We don't have anything against any community or religion. And if anyone says anything against
00:15:50.300 our community and Calistan like this, they will meet the same fate. So this is a threat. This is 1.00
00:15:54.860 saying, hey, we killed her and anyone else that they're thinking about criticizing Calistan or 0.99
00:15:59.200 criticizing us, you will meet the same fate. This is unbelievable. This is unbelievable that this is 0.99
00:16:04.140 happening in our country. Then CBC goes on to say the Calistani movement seeks to establish a
00:16:08.880 homeland for Sikhs in India. Not all who support the Sikh separatist movement could condone violence,
00:16:13.880 but Calistani extremists have been linked to violent incidents over the years, including the
00:16:18.700 air India bombing. In a statement, LaSalle police say the investigators are considering all
00:16:24.180 information but cannot further comment to protect the investigation. However, police say they
00:16:28.260 believe the stabbing targeted Gruul and this was not random. Born in India, Gruul had a prominent
00:16:33.600 social media presence in the local and international Pujabi communities. She often posts on social
00:16:38.060 media platforms with her thoughts on South Asian news and politics. She was known particularly
00:16:42.380 for her anti-Kalistani views. And then it just goes on to say, LaSalle police say the investigation
00:16:48.360 continues and have not yet announced any charges or suspects. Here's why this is a big deal. Did
00:16:53.800 you know that the only Canadian in history, the only Canadian journalist to ever have been
00:16:58.720 assassinated in the history of our country was an individual named Tara Singh Heyer who was
00:17:04.820 assassinated in 1998? And who was he? Well, he was a journalist in Vancouver who was critical
00:17:11.780 of the Calistani movement as well. He was the editor and publisher of the Indo-Canadian Times,
00:17:19.280 which was a Punjabi language weekly newspaper. He was the editor, he was a reporter,
00:17:23.660 and he was an outspoken critic. Actually, he had been targeted for an assassination in 1988. He
00:17:28.820 survived. And then in 1998, they went back and they finished the job. Here is the Vancouver Sun
00:17:34.940 reporting just a few years ago. Journalist Tara Singh-Hayers assassination still unsolved 20 years
00:17:40.540 after fatal shooting. He was already paralyzed from a 1988 assassination attempt. He was
00:17:45.920 transferring himself from his car into his wheelchair when he was killed, and he didn't
00:17:50.800 stand a chance. Unbelievable stuff here. And I will just say, I don't want to make this about
00:17:55.500 myself at all because my thoughts and prayers are with Nancy Gruel and her family, but I had a taste
00:18:01.900 of what this was like as well because back in 2018, writing for the Toronto Sun, I started
00:18:07.600 reporting on some of the Kalisani extremists and their connections to NDP leader Jagmeet Singh at
00:18:12.560 the time. And in response, I started getting my own threats. I started getting my own death threats
00:18:18.000 first online. And then actually someone showed up at my house. It was quite a terrifying ordeal. I
00:18:23.180 won't get into the details, but I had to relocate and stay at a friend's house for a while. My
00:18:28.020 husband was traveling and it was scary. Okay. And actually to the point where I stopped covering
00:18:33.320 this stuff because it just wasn't worth my own personal safety. At the time, it was covered not
00:18:38.240 by the Canadian media, of course, but by the Indian media. So here is what that news report
00:18:43.380 looked like. Meet Candice Malcolm, a columnist for the Toronto Sun. She'd first exposed how
00:18:49.460 murder convict and former Sikh terrorist Jaspal Atwal got invited to the official dinner reception
00:18:54.840 of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his recent India visit. That dinner invitation
00:19:00.580 was cancelled after Malcolm revealed pictures of the murder convict with Trudeau and his wife.
00:19:07.280 The journalist followed up that story with another expose of how Canada's New Democratic Party
00:19:12.940 leader Jagmeet Singh has personal links with extremist Sikh rapper Chani Nat. The Canadian
00:19:19.740 rapper backs the Khalistan movement and has scores of followers. Candice Malcolm shared a video of
00:19:26.060 Nat on Twitter. Here is Nat with his crew of gun-wielding thugs waving a Khalistani 1.00
00:19:34.000 independence flag. The Vancouver Canucks jersey is a nice touch, reminds us this is happening in 0.71
00:19:39.200 our own backyard, unquote. That's what the post said. Now, the journalist is facing live threats.
00:19:47.020 She tweeted a picture of a tweet which threatened her along with another one from the Twitter
00:19:54.100 support team saying they could not do much about that offensive tweet. Candace Malcolm says she
00:20:00.620 had approached that before she filed the story but got no response. And now she's being targeted
00:20:06.800 for asking questions. And even at the time, former immigration minister Chris Alexander
00:20:12.420 put out a tweet defending me saying attacks on Candace Malcolm are outrageous. Disagree if you
00:20:16.660 must, but intimidation and threats against journalists are unacceptable. And so the fact
00:20:20.760 these people are out there threatening anyone who covers them anyone who talks about them anyone who
00:20:24.840 disagrees with them and you know we're not just talking about idle threats online we're talking
00:20:29.560 about actual violent people here we have a sure three decades apart but a journalist killed in
00:20:35.560 the 90s in vancouver and an independent commentator and you could interpret what she did as journalism
00:20:41.720 in 2026 murdered in ontario this is not good folks this is not a sign of a healthy country
00:20:47.640 and a healthy democracy in canada you should be able to criticize whomever you want and you should
00:20:52.200 be able to expose really really bad people which is what nancy cruel was doing we should rest in 0.93
00:20:57.080 peace uh our thoughts and prayers are with her okay folks that's all the time we have for today
00:21:00.760 thank you so much for tuning in i'm canada's welcome this is kenny's malcolm show thank you
00:21:04.040 and God bless.