Juno News - March 27, 2025


Juno News EXPOSES shocking allegations against Liberal Candidate Thomas Keeper


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23 minutes

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181.10793

Word Count

4,188

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260

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

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Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. We have a great show for you today.
00:00:09.220 I am very pleased to be joined by my co-founder here at Juno News, Kian Bextie. Kian is a fantastic
00:00:15.040 reporter and journalist, and he has done what he does best, which is expose the powerful and the
00:00:22.560 corrupt. And Kian has an incredible breaking news story that has just come out on Juno News,
00:00:27.800 exposing the Calgary Confederation candidate named Thomas Keeper. Really unbelievable and explosive
00:00:34.760 details in this story. So Kian, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for joining us.
00:00:39.480 Thanks for having me.
00:00:40.660 Okay, walk us through the story. Tell us what you reported.
00:00:43.920 Yeah, so for background on this, Calgary Confederation is a swing riding in Calgary. It's something,
00:00:50.480 it's a riding that the Liberals could conceivably win if polling stays consistent. Their candidate,
00:00:56.380 Thomas Keeper is running against the conservative Jeremy Nixon. It's neck and neck. We were sent a ton
00:01:04.220 of information about Thomas Keeper, which is, you know, we get information about politicians all the
00:01:09.640 time, but this was a lot that we got on Thomas Keeper, and it was consistent across all of my sources
00:01:16.320 that I spoke to. I spoke to eight people who know Thomas Keeper intimately. They were his friends,
00:01:23.480 some still are his friend, some just know him through business, and they came to me with shocking,
00:01:30.400 shocking allegations. And I'm going to read to you here from the story because I don't want to step
00:01:34.300 out of bounds. Brett Pierce, a management consultant in Calgary, met Thomas Keeper at several social
00:01:44.620 events. It was sort of through business, sort of through friends, and he recalls the real estate
00:01:50.620 agent talking casually about disregarding his wife's consent. This is something that multiple
00:01:56.800 sources told us about, that frequently he brags about having sex with his wife, whether she wants
00:02:03.740 it or not. The quote from Brett is, he was talking about how whenever he wants to have sex with his
00:02:12.180 wife, he just forces her to do so. Brett asked him, he said, is she okay with that? And he said,
00:02:20.460 I'm her husband, she has to be okay with it. That is one example of him treating women with,
00:02:27.800 allegedly, huge amounts of disrespect. And that's putting it lightly. One of our sources said to his
00:02:35.420 face, that that is effing rape, Thomas. Your wife says no, it is effing no, not you'll take it whether
00:02:42.920 you like it or not. Another fellow who did business with him, was not his friend, said, quote,
00:02:50.540 he's a psychopath. I'm not qualified to give mental health diagnoses, but this guy is a psychopath.
00:02:57.360 That was corroborated by pretty much everyone that we spoke to, saying that they got really weird
00:03:02.900 feelings whenever they talked to Thomas Keeper. And the way that he treated other people,
00:03:07.400 especially women around him, was shocking, to say the least.
00:03:11.760 That's so unbelievable, Kian. I can't believe those. I mean, I can't believe what I'm hearing
00:03:16.240 about the way that a man allegedly treated his own wife. So disturbing. Obviously, there's not been
00:03:24.160 charges laid against him. And that's only half of it. That is one example that we reported on.
00:03:30.640 There's several examples. Some we haven't reported on yet. We're waiting for Thomas to answer some
00:03:36.000 questions. And we're waiting to send these out as we get more information. I could give you another
00:03:42.420 example. Yeah, sure. Let's just explain to the viewer. So Thomas Keeper was a real estate agent
00:03:49.040 prior to entering politics. So he has a career in Calgary, a well-known person. He's very social,
00:03:55.500 has a wide circle of friends in Calgary as a realtor. So a fairly high-profile person,
00:04:01.200 someone who's known to a lot of people. And this is his first time jumping into politics. Is that
00:04:06.160 correct? Yeah. He's been involved with several progressive candidates in Calgary City Council,
00:04:13.240 from my understanding, namely Jean-Carlo Carras. Whether Carras knew these allegations about Keeper when
00:04:21.640 he was involved in his campaign. I don't know. I don't know the extent that he was involved there.
00:04:25.860 I've just seen pictures of them together at campaign events. But this is his first real personal foray
00:04:32.580 into politics himself. He's not, this is not the first time he's been in the news though, mind you.
00:04:38.120 The first story we published was a republication of a story that was published in the United Kingdom
00:04:42.140 about Thomas Keeper breaking his legs so that he could grow four inches, so that he would be more
00:04:48.220 appealing to women. He said that, well, he didn't say this, but his wife said this, that people at his
00:04:55.420 original height, she just wasn't attracted to. After we've learned all that we have learned about
00:05:01.260 Thomas Keeper, I'm starting to understand that maybe it's not his height that was the problem.
00:05:06.480 And maybe he was dealing with some other issues. I think that he has some mental health problems,
00:05:10.960 honestly, if I could be honest and just... Well, there's a lot, there's a lot of, like you said,
00:05:16.420 you spoke to a lot of sources, a lot of corroborating evidence to point to these allegations
00:05:21.340 being true. Why don't you walk us through a couple more allegations that you've been able
00:05:27.460 to uncover here, Kian? The most egregious event, well, perhaps not the most egregious, but the one
00:05:33.100 that we have the most evidence for that is shocking, that backs up everything else that we reported on,
00:05:38.100 was an event in Calgary called Top 40 Under 40. Thomas Keeper was in attendance there with his wife.
00:05:44.820 It is the most public incident of abuse that we've reported on, corroborated by Brett Pierce
00:05:52.380 and other witnesses who were at this event. And just to stop you right there, Kian, can you tell
00:05:57.760 us who Brett Pierce is? This is one of the sources that you spoke to that was willing to give his name,
00:06:01.920 go on the record because he was so concerned about Thomas Keeper. So who is he? Tell us who Brett Pierce is.
00:06:07.420 Thomas Keeper is a respected management consultant in Calgary. He was involved in the sort of rich
00:06:16.380 socialite community a little bit, and that's where he met Thomas Keeper. These communities, you know,
00:06:23.720 it starts at the polo club and it goes to these, you know, hobnobby events, the Top 40 Under 40. They all
00:06:31.340 like to go there, dress up, hang out, gossip. And here we are now with his corroborated story of
00:06:40.140 him accusing Thomas Keeper of a story that he heard that Thomas Keeper had sexually groped a young man in
00:06:47.720 his twenties at one of these, um, at one of these events. And, um, he accused him to his face in
00:06:55.420 public at this Top 40 Under 40 event. Um, Keeper got agitated. They got in a screaming match. Uh, and
00:07:03.980 then allegedly Keeper said to the individual who he assaulted previously, allegedly, um, that you're
00:07:11.580 going to pay for this. And he started threatening him. Um, the, the 20 year old, the, the, the man in
00:07:17.560 his twenties, um, this drew the attention of Keeper's wife. All of this was alleged again, not proven in
00:07:23.060 court, but this is corroborated by people who are pretty respected in the community, um, and don't
00:07:28.440 really have a reason to be lying about this. Um, saying that his wife approached the commotion,
00:07:33.720 uh, and when she did, Keeper grabbed her by the scruff of the neck, uh, and yanked her super hard to the
00:07:42.000 point that she fell off of her shoes, lost her shoes, and he took her out of the event.
00:07:46.440 Uh, she here is a victim, allegedly of Thomas Keeper, one of apparently many, uh, most of them
00:07:55.400 are women. One of them, apparently, uh, uh, if, if this allegation that Brett made, uh, at this event
00:08:02.600 is true, one of them is a man as well. It's, it's just really shocking behavior for someone who wants
00:08:09.380 to be, uh, a member of parliament working in Ottawa as, you know, one of Mark Carney's team. Um, this is
00:08:18.180 part and parcel for people you'd expect to be working for Justin Trudeau. In fact, this is how Justin
00:08:22.900 Trudeau behaved his whole life, treating women just like how Thomas Keeper alleged is alleged to have
00:08:29.140 been treating these women and that one man. Um, Mark Carney, though, you'd think would draw the line
00:08:36.740 and say that this, just even these allegations, they need to be hashed out off campus. Uh, you can't
00:08:44.580 be bringing that to Ottawa, uh, sort that out before you try to run for politics, because this is really
00:08:50.340 unbecoming of all everyone that he is associated with everyone, uh, in the liberal party that is
00:08:57.060 condoning this tacitly just by these allegations being out there. Um, but from so many people now,
00:09:04.020 like we said, we haven't yet, uh, published anything about any criminal charges or criminal reports about
00:09:11.940 him. Um, we, we might have more to come later. I don't want to spoil that yet. And I want to wait
00:09:17.860 until our research is done. But just, just from this story, you know, the people that we've spoken
00:09:24.500 to, the sources, the eight sources that we spoke to, most of them said in one way or another, that
00:09:29.540 this should be disqualifying for public office. And the fact that the liberals are not even looking
00:09:34.820 into this, we reached out to the liberal party so that they would comment on these allegations of
00:09:39.860 sexual and physical abuse. And they've said nothing. Wow. And tell us about the candidate vetting
00:09:47.780 process because typically when a campaign is selecting candidates in the various writings,
00:09:53.780 they have to go through some kind of a screening process where they have to, you know, show,
00:09:58.660 do they have a criminal background? Do they have any incriminating things? Do they said anything
00:10:02.260 publicly that might preclude them from being elected? And usually a lot of this stuff does come out
00:10:07.380 in that process. Do we know anything about the, what the liberals have done and if they're,
00:10:11.380 if they know about these allegations? Well, Mark Carney says that the famed liberal green light
00:10:17.140 committee, um, which is the green light to say, yeah, you can be a candidate, uh, is rigorous,
00:10:22.980 thorough and respected. He said this when he was talking about, uh, the original candidate for Ottawa
00:10:29.220 Nepean, Chandra Aria, who is disqualified, did not get the green light to run and be a candidate.
00:10:35.140 Apparently they did investigations into his background, into his finance, all this stuff said,
00:10:40.180 no, you can't do it. Um, and they've done that for many candidates across the country.
00:10:45.140 So we can only assume that their vetting of Thomas was thorough and they knew about this
00:10:52.500 and they decided to do nothing. That is all we can assume since they will not respond comment and
00:10:59.860 they have not fired him as a candidate. Wow. Okay. Well tell us about the process because,
00:11:05.060 you know, as a journalist, one of the things that we do is we give the person who's the subject of a
00:11:09.780 story, the opportunity to give their own comment, to tell their own side of the story, perhaps to
00:11:14.420 add some context to these conversations to maybe say, look, the source you're talking to, this is
00:11:18.900 why you shouldn't trust them or whatever. We give them an opportunity as journalists to be fair.
00:11:23.060 Uh, what, what, what happened when you tried to contact Thomas Keeper to get his side of the story?
00:11:28.260 Yeah, it's called responsible communication and it's a really important aspect of journalism to make
00:11:33.540 sure that you have a story that is fair and has all sides of the story. Uh, so that you're not going
00:11:39.540 on some witch hunt against someone, uh, just, just to publish some salacious news. Um, it's important
00:11:47.140 that we gave Thomas the opportunity to say, no, no, he's insane. She's insane. He's lying. This fact
00:11:54.820 is wrong or whatever. He, he, you know, he could say, yeah, this is all true. This is how I behave.
00:11:59.380 We don't know what he was going to say, but we had to give him the opportunity, uh, to refute,
00:12:04.980 to agree with, or even tweak some of the information that we had. Maybe he could provide us with
00:12:10.260 documentation showing that these people were all serial harassers of him. We just don't know,
00:12:14.580 right? So we provided all of the allegations that we had of him. And we sent him, uh, that by email,
00:12:21.460 we texted him, we tried to call him. And eventually I showed up to his campaign office at 709 Edmonton
00:12:28.660 trail, right on the front road of a very main street in Calgary. And I waited in my car for Thomas to show
00:12:36.180 up while he was campaigning. And lo and behold, he did, uh, middle of the day. And I had an envelope
00:12:42.820 of questions to ask him. I approached him and I said, Hey, Thomas, we have some questions to ask
00:12:47.700 you. Um, and he ran away. He fled the scene. He went and hid. And in fact, he hid behind his wife
00:12:54.660 and he hid behind liberal party staffers who shielded his wife. When I also tried to ask his wife questions,
00:13:00.660 um, because as a victim and as a pretty vocal, like center point of the story, she also has a right
00:13:06.260 to respond to these allegations. Um, we, we have, we have, uh, footage of that cause you were wise
00:13:10.820 enough to take the interaction. And so let's, uh, play this as a footage of Kim Bexy trying to get
00:13:16.180 comment from the liberal candidate, Thomas keeper. Mr. Keeper, Thomas. Hi, Thomas. I just have some
00:13:22.980 questions to ask you. We just, we just have some questions to ask you. Hi, Mr. Keeper. Okay, great.
00:13:29.860 Thank you. We just have some questions to ask you. So pretty clear. You, you didn't even come
00:13:39.780 within a couple of feet of him. Like as soon as he saw you coming, he bolted in the door
00:13:44.100 and closed it before you could even get physically near him, which is an interesting and important
00:13:49.300 point because of what happened next. So why don't you walk us through what happened next?
00:13:52.980 Yeah, this was a little shocking. Uh, I try not, you know, in a story like this, it's really important
00:13:58.660 that we get the facts straight. It's important that we speak to all the subjects of the story.
00:14:03.060 And what happened sort of confirmed my suspicion that this guy is a pathological liar. Um, the
00:14:12.020 police were called. I've had that happen to me before it, it happens. People don't want to answer
00:14:16.420 questions from journalists. I understand he called the police and the police spoke to me and they arrived.
00:14:21.540 I mean, you might want, I think we have video of this too, but I'll describe it. They asked me right off
00:14:26.500 the bat. Was there any violence involved? Did you get physical with him implying that? And I thought,
00:14:31.620 well, is this just standard for any police on the scene to ask sounded like maybe? Yeah. But then
00:14:37.300 what happened after that was they went inside, they spoke to Thomas, they came out. I had left the
00:14:42.500 immediate vicinity. I waited across the street just so that he wouldn't feel super threatened.
00:14:46.820 And the police came across the street after talking with him for about 10 minutes.
00:14:50.580 And they said that Thomas told them that I got physical with him, that I ran up to him,
00:14:56.740 went inside, came in hot and got physical, which is obviously untrue. Uh, and the fact that he would
00:15:03.700 tell, uh, officers of the law something about a journalist like that, that is just untrue. I mean,
00:15:09.140 I think that he didn't realize that we had cameras. Um, they were hidden cameras. So he probably thought
00:15:14.100 he could get away with a lie, which horrifies me about, you know, if he was a politician,
00:15:20.020 I guess he would fit in in Ottawa, but the, just the casualness of this lie, supposed lie.
00:15:24.900 I suppose we didn't, we didn't hear him say this to the police, but the police told me that
00:15:28.260 he did say that. And it would be the basis for a restraining order against me, which again,
00:15:34.660 a politician getting a restraining order against a journalist because they have a story that is
00:15:39.220 huge breaking and really damaging to his reputation. Um, uh, you know, that's, that's pretty crazy to
00:15:47.620 do in a free country, um, to abuse the, the, the system, uh, the, the court of law and, and the
00:15:53.780 justice system to your own benefit as a politician, as a liberal politician. It's, it's crazy. I think
00:15:58.980 we should play the clip though, because it sounds wild. Sorry, sorry to interrupt you. We do have the
00:16:03.860 clip of Kim Bexty interacting with the police in Calgary. Let's show that clip.
00:16:08.020 At any time, was there any physical contact or anything with that? No. Any threats? No, not to me.
00:16:14.340 No. Okay. Or to him, obviously. Yeah, just the, uh, nature of the interaction is just you asking him
00:16:19.860 some questions. Yeah. They may seem to a restraining order. If a restraining order gets granted,
00:16:25.220 it may be a cause of no communication. Just be careful. Okay. You get served a copy of it before it is.
00:16:31.780 Okay. So I heard your side of the story. I heard a side of the story, I guess. He's claiming you went in and
00:16:36.340 came in kind of hot and made physical contact with him. What?
00:16:41.940 So, I mean, this does show his character that he was willing to say that you made physical contact
00:16:48.020 and that that was the basis for a restraining order. So almost accusing you maybe of assault,
00:16:53.540 where we could see very clearly from that first video, Kian, that you did not touch him. You did not
00:16:58.660 get anywhere near touching him. He was able to close the door in your face before you were able to
00:17:03.620 get there. So really unbelievable that you caught him in that lie. And I think that doesn't bode well
00:17:08.820 for his character, given these other really, really shocking and disturbing allegations
00:17:15.220 that have come out in your report. Yeah. I mean, our readers can go check out the story. There's
00:17:20.900 other things that we haven't spoken about, about him verbally harassing women for being, you know,
00:17:28.180 I don't want to put words in his mouth because I wasn't there, but this woman left a party in tears
00:17:33.220 because apparently he was, um, he was, you know, saying very rude things about her, her visual,
00:17:39.300 visual appearance. Um, just, this is like a constant pattern pattern of him treating everyone around him
00:17:48.100 terribly in one way or another, whether it is alleged sexual abuse, whether it's alleged physical
00:17:54.020 abuse, uh, verbal abuse. And in this case, um, taking advantage of the legal system and the justice
00:18:02.340 system in the country to shut down a journalist as one of his first acts as a politician, it's
00:18:08.260 embarrassing for him and the liberal party. Well, and so just tell me since the story has,
00:18:14.020 we broke the story. What was it last night, uh, yesterday evening or yesterday afternoon in
00:18:17.780 Alberta, what has been the reaction? Have you heard from the liberal party? I would have assumed Kian
00:18:22.260 that they would have fired him as a candidate after reading this groundbreaking report. I mean,
00:18:26.900 these allegations are horrific, uh, unspeakable things that he does, apparently brags about doing
00:18:32.340 to his friends and to acquaintances and people who aren't his friends, um, about his wife, like really,
00:18:37.620 really despicable things. Uh, how could a person like this still be up for public office in Canada?
00:18:42.820 That's a great point. And I can't underscore enough that this is only half the story. Um,
00:18:49.860 we have only published right now, half of what I've been told about him. And to answer your question,
00:18:56.500 after we've published a story, even more has come out, um, of people giving us advice,
00:19:04.180 telling us where to look for documents. Uh, and that's what I'm spending my day on today is digging
00:19:09.940 deeper into this story to make sure that we do not leave any stone unturned. And it's not just
00:19:15.300 Thomas keeper. I mean, we're doing this for every politician, whether they're conservative or liberal.
00:19:20.180 If this many people come forward with claims of abuse, it needs to be investigated. And the fact
00:19:27.140 that the liberal, maybe the liberal party is doing it behind closed doors right now. Maybe they're taking,
00:19:31.940 I mean, this took me weeks to put together. So maybe the liberal party is realizing right now that
00:19:37.700 they're underwater and they need to start swimming, uh, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
00:19:42.580 I'm not one to usually do that with the liberal party, but in this case, the claims are so, so
00:19:48.260 disturbing. And frankly, it sounds crazy that a politician who has a past like this allegedly would
00:19:56.420 ever think that they could run for public office. That it wouldn't catch up on them. I mean, that kind
00:20:00.980 of shows that maybe, maybe the arrogance, uh, that someone like this doesn't think they could get
00:20:05.620 caught. Um, to, to me, it's, it's very concerning that the liberal party, you know, the party that if
00:20:10.420 we believe the polls are set to win the next election set to form government, uh, you know,
00:20:15.300 our prime minister will remain a liberal for a fourth term. And this is the kind of people that he
00:20:20.580 chooses to, that Mark Carney chooses to have on his team to associate with, to have in caucus. I mean,
00:20:26.340 this, this shows a lot of red flags, uh, to Canadians about who, who exactly we're dealing
00:20:31.780 with, uh, the kind of people that we're dealing with. Um, really tremendous reporting, um, Kian.
00:20:36.820 So we encourage everyone to head on over to JunoNews.com where you can read the story. Please
00:20:40.900 subscribe to JunoNews and help support independent journalists like Kian, like myself. You know, this
00:20:47.060 is the kind of reporting that the legacy media won't do, right? The Globe and Mail is focused on fake
00:20:51.540 news stories like a CSIS agent speaking out of turn, pretending that somehow Indian interference,
00:20:57.380 uh, helped Pierre Polyev get elected as conservative leader back in 2022, a complete ridiculous story,
00:21:02.580 right? Um, meanwhile, independent journalists like Kian are doing the real work, uh, doing the digging
00:21:07.620 and trying to expose the truth about this liberal party. Um, Kian, any, any final thoughts on the story?
00:21:13.060 Yeah. I'll just say, you know, I, I offered publicly to the mainstream media and all other media
00:21:18.580 organizations. I'll connect you with my sources. I'll show my work. Uh, if you want to cover the
00:21:24.020 story as well from a different angle, even from the same angle so that this is seen far and wide,
00:21:28.900 I'm happy to help facilitate that. So far, no response. You know, we published it yesterday
00:21:34.100 afternoon and it's tomorrow morning now. So we'll see what happens, but, uh, I'm less interested in
00:21:40.100 what the CBC thinks of this. And I'm more interested in what Mark Carney thinks about this. Mark Carney
00:21:45.540 needs to personally answer for this candidate that he has agreed to join his ticket. Uh, and you know,
00:21:53.940 when, when there's so many allegations of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and verbal abuse, all from,
00:22:00.500 you know, from many different people, over half a dozen eyewitness sources, um, Mark Carney needs to
00:22:06.980 answer for that. And, uh, you know, I get Thomas keeper. He's going to run, he's going to hide. Mark Carney
00:22:13.700 does not have that luxury. He needs to be held to account. Uh, and we're, we're going to try,
00:22:19.060 you know, we're going to try to ask Mark about Thomas keeper. And we hope that frankly, the,
00:22:24.100 the, the rest of the national media does the same. Well, it, it, it adds to a long list of questions
00:22:29.780 that we have for Mr. Carney. Let's put it that way. He has not yet answered so many of the questions
00:22:34.420 that Canadians demand to know. And I guess we'll just have to add Thomas keeper's name to the list of
00:22:39.460 questions that hopefully we'll get to ask him on this election campaign. Well, Key and Bexy,
00:22:43.380 thank you so much for all your hard work, all your journalism, uh, keep digging. We'll look forward
00:22:47.060 to, uh, what you find next. Thank you so much. Thanks, Candace. All right, folks. Thanks so much
00:22:52.340 for joining us. It's all the time we have for today. We'll be back again tomorrow with all the
00:22:55.620 news from Candace Malcolm. This is the Candace Malcolm show. Thank you. And God bless.