Juno News - July 23, 2025


Is Mark Carney MORE WOKE than Justin Trudeau？ Amy Hamm argues Canada is worse than ever


Episode Stats

Length

21 minutes

Words per Minute

183.03717

Word Count

3,945

Sentence Count

209

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. We have a great episode for you
00:00:06.880 today, folks. I just want to tell you, though, I'm pretty optimistic about the future. I think
00:00:11.220 you kind of have to be, right? I have four kids. In order to have four kids, you have to believe
00:00:14.600 that there is a future for the country. And in order to start a business, I recently launched
00:00:19.020 Juno News with my co-founder and friend, Kian Bextie. And I think in order to do those kind
00:00:23.140 of things, you have to generally be optimistic for the country, for the future, Canada's future.
00:00:27.800 I'm not one of those people who thinks that the country is finished and that there won't
00:00:31.220 be a Canada in a few years or a few decades. However, I think that that optimism is sometimes
00:00:38.000 challenged by the political orthodoxy in Canada, right? When you go out there and you talk to
00:00:43.060 your friends, your family, everyday people, you realize that the pendulum has swung away
00:00:47.760 from the worst excesses of the woke ideology. It was like it kind of peaked in 2022, maybe
00:00:53.060 23, and then it started to swing back. Actually, it started to swing back right around the time
00:00:56.860 of the trucker convoys, a little hat tip to those brave people who challenged the Trudeau
00:01:02.300 government and helped bring them down. But that common sense, that swinging of the pendulum
00:01:07.620 back to common sense, it doesn't seem like it has reached the tops of our institutions,
00:01:12.460 the sort of elite opinion makers and leaders of various institutions. They still seem to be
00:01:17.800 very captured by the woke ideology and the insanity of it. So sometimes when you're scrolling
00:01:22.960 social media, when you're reading through Juno news, you just have to stop and shake your head
00:01:27.900 at how totally deranged some of the news stories out there are. I'll start with Melanie Bennett from
00:01:33.640 True North had an unbelievable exclusive report this week, we're going to talk about it more in depth
00:01:37.900 a little later on. But just the overview, exclusive, new ethics code tells nurses to denounce
00:01:44.460 white European medicine. Yes, Canadian nurses have to denounce white European medicine as somehow being
00:01:52.760 racist or somehow being wrong. Regulated Canadian nurses are required to align their conduct with a
00:01:58.580 detailed set of political values among them social justice, gender ideology, indigenous ways of knowing
00:02:03.600 and climate activism. The exact topics that I'm saying that the pendulum has swung back towards common
00:02:09.400 sense back towards being normal on. And yet nurses in this country are being made to sworn allegiance
00:02:15.540 to the most insane woke ideas. And it's not just that story. I think a big driver of this folks
00:02:20.900 is the state broadcaster and the CBC. They seem to be just digging in their heels and doubling down
00:02:27.120 on the woke insanity. Here's another story we're going to talk about. CBC pushes for boys in girls sports.
00:02:33.920 The headline there says girls softball was an inclusive sport in Alberta for this teen.
00:02:39.040 A new law could end that. And so somehow that mean premier Danielle Smith, how dare she
00:02:46.060 stop this boy, this biological boy from being able to play competitive sports against girls, right?
00:02:53.080 It's completely backwards. It's completely upside down. And even when you read that story,
00:02:57.540 it's like so confusing. It's written in such a weird language that just makes you not really even
00:03:03.240 understand the facts of the story. But it's written in the woke ideological language that doesn't really
00:03:10.020 make a lot of sense. Next story I want to talk about is going to be Parks Canada, which has revoked
00:03:15.540 the permit for a Christian musician's concert. Permit revoked for a MAGA musician's concert at Parks Canada.
00:03:24.340 What makes him MAGA again? Oh, he's a Christian from the United States and therefore he must have MAGA views
00:03:30.420 and we have to be scared of him. And you can't even play a song and play a concert in Canada unless you
00:03:35.180 have the approved views, apparently, of the woke leftist elites. It is so unbelievable. Final one here.
00:03:41.820 This is just so ridiculous. It's like groupthink run amok. A man was removed from a WestJet flight
00:03:48.620 for wearing a Trudeau blackface shirt. So that's an exclusive from us at the Juno News. A man was
00:03:56.060 wearing a blackface shirt, making fun of our idiot former prime minister. And apparently that's what,
00:04:01.280 like hate speech? You're not allowed to have freedom of expression in Canada. I don't think
00:04:05.000 that these are mainstream values. I think that these are extreme, insane, deranged values that
00:04:10.220 just happen to be held by a handful of people who have too much power and too much control
00:04:15.140 in our country. And that's why part of what we do is exposing these people and showing everybody
00:04:20.820 else just how totally insane they are, hopefully to pressure them to stop being so totally insane.
00:04:26.600 And I'm excited to have a new guest, which I've never had her on before, but she's one of the
00:04:31.020 culture warriors that is helping in our movement to push back against these woke excesses. I'm talking
00:04:36.680 about Amy Eileen Han. She's a registered nurse, a freelance writer and activist, and she has an
00:04:42.160 interesting story of her own cancellation. So Amy, welcome to the podcast. Great to have you join our
00:04:47.660 show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Well, okay, so I'm reading your bio and
00:04:53.160 I have this story from the JCCF in front of me, nurse files complaint against the Vancouver Coastal
00:04:58.120 Health, BC colleges of nurses and midwives for political discrimination. So Amy, for folks who might
00:05:05.080 not be up to speed and aware of your background, your work, why don't you tell us your story and how you
00:05:10.400 ended up here? Sure. I've been engaged in lawfare now for almost five years related to my advocacy
00:05:17.720 for women's sex-based rights and for free speech. So this is something that I was writing about and
00:05:23.520 talking about outside of work for my day job as a registered nurse. Gender activists were very angry
00:05:31.620 with what I was doing. They started complaining to my regulator and to my employer. This was back in
00:05:38.020 2020 when I, it started after I was involved in putting up an iHeart JK Rowling billboard in
00:05:44.100 Vancouver. That's when the complaint started. It never stopped. And I was put under investigation.
00:05:49.740 I ended up going through a 22-day disciplinary hearing. I was found guilty of unprofessional
00:05:56.960 conduct, basically for saying that males can't become females and that trans women are biological males.
00:06:03.820 After I was found guilty, I was fired from my job of 13 years with Vancouver Coastal Health,
00:06:10.460 also over my political views that were only expressed outside of work. And so like you mentioned,
00:06:17.180 the JCCF article, the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms has been representing
00:06:21.740 me this whole time. And so we have an appeal of my guilty verdict with the BC College of Nurses.
00:06:28.220 And we've also launched two human rights tribunal complaints, one against Vancouver Coastal Health
00:06:34.060 and one against the College of Nurses on the basis of discrimination for political belief.
00:06:39.420 It's one of those funny things that if you're on the political left, you can be as political as you
00:06:44.540 want and you can wear crazy buttons and you can put up signs at work. And I've seen them at health care
00:06:48.620 facilities in Canada, openly very politicized slogans from the left. But if you have mild,
00:06:56.460 not even like right political opinions, but just non-woke, like you could even be on the political
00:07:01.980 left, but you're just not fully on board with all of their orthodoxy, you get reprimanded. And it
00:07:07.100 always reminds me like, you know, the liberals in the left, they love to say diversity is our strength
00:07:11.100 and like they love to like tout diversity. But when it comes to like any form of intellectual
00:07:15.980 diversity, they just absolutely hate it. Or even heck, like what's the problem with having a
00:07:20.140 Christian rock singer go play at a park in Nova Scotia? If people like his music, they want to
00:07:24.060 pay for him. Great. Like we are a free society. And yet, because of like some innocuous social media
00:07:29.340 posts that he put that showed some support towards President Trump, he's not allowed in Canada. Like
00:07:34.620 how is Canada even a free country at this point?
00:07:37.980 It's very concerning the utter lack of respect that Canadians seem to have for our charter of rights and
00:07:44.380 freedoms. They don't seem to understand that if you don't constantly remain vigilant and fight for
00:07:50.140 our rights, including our right to free expression, that these, you know, our society can very quickly
00:07:55.180 turn on a dark path. And it's worrying that that is where Canada is going. And this cancelled concert,
00:08:03.980 well, it was cancelled at a Parks Canada site, and apparently it's rebooked in rural Nova Scotia at
00:08:08.540 another site. But it's, it's very bizarre, you know, nobody was forcing anybody, any Nova Scotian to
00:08:16.300 attend this concert with a Christian rock musician. And yet the level of hysteria that people showed
00:08:23.900 just for the fact that he was going to show up and sing some songs was just off, off the charts.
00:08:28.940 It's frankly embarrassing to be Canadian when you see things like this happening regularly.
00:08:33.820 Well, it's totally right. It's totally in contradiction to our charter and to the values
00:08:38.380 that they proclaim they believe. So CBC's reporting permit revoked for MAGA musicians,
00:08:43.500 Concert Parks Canada sites, Park Canada says a US singer and rising star in the MAGA movement will
00:08:48.140 not perform at a national historic site near Halifax. After the federal agency revoked the
00:08:54.620 organizers permit, Christian rocker Sean Feucht was scheduled to play a concert on Wednesday night at the
00:09:00.460 York Redoubt National Historic Site, a fortification constructed in 1793. Feucht, who unsuccessfully ran
00:09:07.580 for the US Congress as a Republican 2020, is also a missionary, an author who has spoken out against the
00:09:13.020 2SLGBTQ plus community, abortion rights and critical race theory on his website. So you cannot have the wrong
00:09:21.420 views. And if you do, you cannot play Christian music. Well, Feucht was defiant and he put out a video
00:09:27.100 saying, you know what, we're still going to play. We're, we're rising up and we're going to rise
00:09:30.940 above this. And there he is. I won't play it because it's got some loud music in the background.
00:09:36.060 But he's saying, you know, he's got a happy optimistic message and saying, you know, they're
00:09:39.740 trying to stop us. They don't want Christians. They don't like our values. But that's the opportunity for
00:09:44.860 us to, you know, show up even louder and prouder and continue. So I, I salute his spirit. And I think
00:09:50.860 that it's great that he's going to continue to push off. But I completely echo your sentiment that it's
00:09:55.500 embarrassing for Canada. And I saw that you had a piece about this in the national post,
00:10:00.780 no MAGA beliefs allowed at parks, Canada historic site. Could you just imagine if they were
00:10:06.060 politicizing this the other way around? Like if Pierre Polyev was prime minister and he said,
00:10:10.460 oh, sorry, you can't have like an LGBT band play. Like, I mean, it would be outrageous and I would
00:10:15.180 oppose that. But of course people on the left just don't seem to care that they're actually like,
00:10:20.060 like nodding along saying like, yeah, good. We shouldn't have any mega singers allowed in Canada.
00:10:25.740 It's wild. And even the, um, the liberal member of parliament for Nova Scotia, I'm drawing a blank
00:10:32.460 on her name, but she, uh, was emailing constituents who were complaining about this concert and an email
00:10:39.260 that was shown to the CBC where she was saying, you know, oh, I do, I stand up for free speech, but you
00:10:47.340 know, there's diversity, equity, inclusion, and this needs to be upheld at Parks Canada sites. So I don't
00:10:53.980 think this woman understands what she's saying when she uses the words free speech, because you know,
00:10:59.740 that, that includes that you need to be listening to people, even if you don't like what they're going
00:11:04.780 to say, or if you think you're not going to like what they're going to say, that's a very basic
00:11:08.380 principle of free speech is that you might be offended. And that's kind of the point.
00:11:13.180 Right. And also just the idea of diversity. Like if you want true diversity, you have to have people
00:11:18.860 that you don't necessarily like or agree with. Like, you know, you said that his music is not
00:11:23.260 necessarily your cup of tea. I'm not personally into Christian rock, but I think it's great that
00:11:27.740 he goes out there and does that and inspires people. And I don't understand why that is upsetting to
00:11:32.620 anyone else. I do want to get your take on Melanie Bennett's exclusive over at True North this week
00:11:37.900 about how Europeans are now forced to denounce white European medicine, which is the height of irony
00:11:44.300 here. It's like, hello, Canada practices, Western medicine, Western medicine is based in large part
00:11:50.860 on white European history and the history of medicine on the West. Right. And so this idea that
00:11:56.700 we are kind of going back on that making nurses swear allegiance to woke ideology. And I mean, I can
00:12:03.500 read from it. It's just as outrageous as you would imagine. Nurses are now required to acknowledge the
00:12:08.380 historical and continuous impact that white European centric models of nursing and health have had
00:12:14.620 on the perpetuation of anti-indigenous racism, anti-black racism, and other types of racism under
00:12:20.860 the code. Nurses must reflect on their professional power and privilege and to structure their practice
00:12:27.180 around anti-racism, allyship and culturally safe care. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm just so sick of this stuff.
00:12:36.060 And it reads like satire to me. It's so silly and ridiculous. And yet here it is, right? It's like,
00:12:41.820 this is somehow so mainstream in some Canadian circles that they feel comfortable imposing it
00:12:49.020 on all nurses. I'm wondering if I get your thoughts on this. And also as someone who has been a nurse,
00:12:54.060 practicing nurse for over a decade, like, are these views commonly held by like the kind of rank and file
00:12:59.900 nurses across the country? Or is this something that's like very concentrated amongst like an elite
00:13:04.700 few? Yeah, well, I would start by saying I'm proud to say that in 13 years of nursing up until I was
00:13:12.620 fired this March by Vancouver Coastal Health, I have never seen a colleague racist towards a patient or
00:13:20.780 another staff member. I've never seen racism in our healthcare system. So it's wild to hear this
00:13:26.860 constant rhetoric from the Canadian Nurses Association or the College of Nurses or even employers that are
00:13:32.780 calling themselves systemically racist. Because I don't see it. And I also just wonder if someone
00:13:39.340 actually believes that they are working in a systemically racist system, that they are part of
00:13:44.620 that system, then maybe you should leave the system because just endlessly talking about it and making a
00:13:51.820 new ethics code without actually offering any solutions or pointing out concrete examples of racism
00:13:57.660 is not doing anything to solve the problem that you're claiming exists. It's very similar to a land
00:14:03.580 acknowledgement where you say that you're on stolen land, but you make no effort to give anything back
00:14:10.620 to the people that you allegedly stole from. In terms of how many people believe in this stuff on the
00:14:19.020 front lines, most people don't. It's a minority. I would, you know, it's probably the same as you'd see in
00:14:26.860 in the regular Canadian population where 80% or more of people think that it's ridiculous, but there's a
00:14:33.660 huge culture of fear in speaking out within the health authorities because people see what happens
00:14:41.020 to someone like me who does speak out and who even while they're not at work, even someone who speaks
00:14:47.020 out in their own time in their private life and says, you know, I disagree with gender ideology or I
00:14:52.380 disagree with progressive politics because of this or that, you will be targeted with a smear campaign.
00:14:59.180 You can be subject to investigations. You can be fired. So I know that most nurses don't believe
00:15:07.660 in this stuff, but nobody is going to be speaking out while we are still in this sort of cancel culture
00:15:19.900 arena that you described where, you know, at large Canada seems to have changed and we're moving on
00:15:24.700 from this, but in our institutions, it's alive and well. It's interesting how they're kind of the last
00:15:30.540 ones clinging to power and I will blame the CBC for a lot of that, but you had an interesting piece
00:15:34.940 in the national post last weekend where you said that Trudeau may be gone, but the gender craziness
00:15:40.620 continues. And you know that unlike his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Mark Carney isn't
00:15:45.580 known for making flamboyant declarations of allyship. But don't be deceived. Our national field T2
00:15:51.260 gender ideology continues the same as it was during the Trudeau years. Canada is no less woke under
00:15:58.460 Kearney. That's such an interesting observation because it kind of felt like, again, like it feels
00:16:04.460 like we've moved on from that moment and that the pendulum has swung and that you could tell during
00:16:08.700 the election campaign, Mark Carney was really trying to tone down a lot of the woke stuff. And even his
00:16:13.100 answer to Juno News' question about how many genders are our right, like he said too, which I didn't
00:16:19.100 expect that, but I applaud him for at least acknowledging reality. And yet, you know, nothing has changed
00:16:25.340 behind the scenes. And when June came around, it was still Pride season and we still got the same
00:16:29.740 stuff shoved down our throats. And you had a couple of crazy examples that you talked about.
00:16:36.300 Jonathan Yaniv, who I guess is now being known as Jessica Simpson, who, you know, became infamous
00:16:44.300 for what was he suing aestheticians for not waxing his male genitalia, he ended up losing those ones.
00:16:49.740 Well, he's back now. He wants to participate in beauty pageants for little girls. And then you had
00:16:55.500 a couple of other examples. So why don't you walk us through your thoughts? Sure.
00:17:10.700 Well, it's funny, actually, I'm just thinking like, oh, we might have to bleep part of this out for
00:17:14.380 YouTube because they'll probably demonetize us if we're talking about it. I totally forgot that we
00:17:17.820 usually put this behind a paywall. But like, it's true, like this idea that you're assigned
00:17:22.140 male at birth, like who uses those terms? Like, the only time they ever use this for like a very
00:17:26.940 small, silver people who are deluded and thinking that they're part of the other sex. And otherwise,
00:17:31.420 it's like, no, you're, you're born one sex or the other. And that's how it's been for all of
00:17:37.260 history. And like, everyone, it's, it's, it's, it's just, you're right, they purposefully try to
00:17:43.740 confuse people to like shame them out of like holding the views that everyone held in all of
00:17:50.380 society up until like five minutes ago. I want to talk about the final story here with you, Amy,
00:17:55.100 which is that it's Air Canada. I apologize to our friends who were at WestJet. WestJet wouldn't do
00:17:59.420 this, but Air Canada did. Air Canada removes passenger for wearing an anti-Trudeau shirt.
00:18:04.060 It's an exclusive from Juneau News. So a Nova Scotia man was removed from Air Canada flight for wearing
00:18:10.060 a t-shirt that featured an image of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in blackface,
00:18:13.900 which the cabin crew found to be offensive. So Daniel Greaves, 62, was sitting in a seat on a
00:18:18.780 plane bound from Edmonton to Vancouver on July 8th, waiting for the aircraft to leave. When he was first
00:18:23.500 notified of the problem regarding his clothing, the flight attendant told him that his t-shirt was not
00:18:28.540 up to the airline's dress code. I'm sorry, has anyone flown recently? Like, since when do airlines have
00:18:34.940 dress codes? Like people are wearing their pajamas, people are wearing short shorts on the
00:18:39.740 airplane. I sat next to a woman that I swear was just wearing a sports bra. Like there's no dress
00:18:44.620 code on airplanes anymore, right? And so this idea that you can't wear a shirt making fun of our
00:18:51.740 foolish former Prime Minister, it goes with the theme of the show, Amy, which is that we don't really have
00:18:58.460 free speech or free expression in Canada. What do you think? No, that is wild. And it's true. Like
00:19:04.860 decades ago, we used to, when we went on airplanes, we had to put on our dress shoes
00:19:09.740 and a blazer and some dress pants. And you're right, now people wear yoga attire, Lululemons,
00:19:15.420 pajamas. So it's pretty funny that if they're selectively applying the dress code suddenly for
00:19:22.460 this one t-shirt that happens to have Justin Trudeau wearing blackface. And it kind of just makes me
00:19:27.260 wonder what would they actually do? Let's say Justin Trudeau showed up for a flight in blackface.
00:19:31.980 Would they allow him on the flight? Who knows?
00:19:35.100 Well, it did seem like he had, there was a different standard for Justin Trudeau than there
00:19:40.380 was for like the whole rest of society, because Megyn Kelly got canceled from her show on NBC
00:19:45.100 for just saying that she didn't find blackface particularly offensive. She got fired for that.
00:19:49.980 And then like a few weeks later, Justin Trudeau was wearing it and no punishment for him. But that's,
00:19:55.500 it's funny how these standards are not applied evenly. And if you are conservative in any way,
00:20:00.620 shape or form, you'll bear a greater brunt of this. But it, it's one of those things that,
00:20:07.340 again, like just when you think that we have gotten away from the crazy craziness of these speech codes
00:20:15.100 and these, you know, strict rules, like, you know, people, people used to get kicked off flights for
00:20:19.820 refusing to wear a mask. Right. And it's like, what now what you get kicked off the fight for wearing a
00:20:24.860 shirt that makes fun of a liberal, like you're not allowed to do that anymore. It's, it's disappointing.
00:20:28.860 It is disappointing. And I laugh because it is that's, you know, it's kind of a funny story. But
00:20:34.700 ultimately, it's not funny, like any of these stories. It's, it's deeply disturbing. I think that
00:20:40.620 Canadians need to really think long and hard about, about what, what direction our country is headed in,
00:20:47.580 if more of us don't start taking our rights and freedom seriously, and don't start standing up when
00:20:53.820 we see these sorts of injustices, um, playing out every day. Um, it is, it's easy to joke about it,
00:21:00.540 but it's, um, it really isn't a laughing matter when we consider what Canada might become if we don't
00:21:07.420 stop this. 100%. Well, that is Amy Eileen Han. You can find her in the National Post, among other
00:21:12.860 places. Amy, thank you so much for your time today and keep up the great work. Thank you so much for
00:21:17.260 having me. All right, folks. That's all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:21:20.780 We'll be back again tomorrow. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is Candace Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.