Juno News - Keean Bexte joins Candice to discuss Ottawa’s investigation into Juno News’ reporting

In this episode of Defundjuno, I sit down with the founder of the largest independent news outlet in the country, Juno News, to talk about the ongoing government investigation of journalists. We talk about what the government is doing, why they are doing it, and how you can help.

00:00:00.000 I mean, this is totally unbelievable. And the fact that Mark Carney is presiding over this

00:00:04.900 government that is openly investigating journalists for the crime of reporting the news,

00:00:09.580 informing Canadians of the truth, and not receiving government subsidies, not being part

00:00:13.800 of the state-run media like the CBC, it is a scary situation, Kian. So what are the next steps? And

00:00:20.300 how can folks like listening, how can they help out? Yeah, well, so it's going to cost us tens

00:00:27.740 of thousands of dollars to litigate this and defend me personally. But as I said before,

00:00:32.560 this is not a fundraiser. I'm not trying to fundraise and profit off of this. I just want to

00:00:39.620 have these charges, have this investigation dropped. I don't want to go to jail. And I think

00:00:46.360 that the best way of doing that is by raising an army of people who are standing beside us,

00:00:52.420 telling the government that they will not stand for this, that you don't want to live in a country

00:00:56.620 where where our basic freedoms are steamrolled by the government and and people who are acting

00:01:06.740 in good faith to share the news during an election are are put in in jeopardy their lives are their

00:01:13.480 lives are put in jeopardy because of the job that they do we don't want to live in that country so

00:01:17.360 I want people to to read the story share the story write to their elected officials let them know

00:01:23.500 how outrageous this is. And, you know, they're coming after us because we are the largest

00:01:29.220 independent newsroom in the country. We don't sell out our news for some grant money that Mark

00:01:33.880 Carney is offering. You know, we just need we need people to join the fight with us and stand

00:01:41.100 beside us and let the government know that this is just deeply outrageous, morally wrong. And we're

00:01:46.740 not going to just let them get away with this. They can go to defendjuno.com to check out the

00:01:51.660 full story. And if they want to become a member to Juno News, which is the number one way to stand

00:01:56.860 beside us and help us actually fight this so that we can have the strength in numbers, that we can

00:02:02.280 push back and show to the government that no, we are an army of Canadians standing up saying no,

00:02:09.280 this is enough. We're not going to tolerate this. They can do that at defendjuno.com.

Juno News - September 03, 2025

Keean Bexte joins Candice to discuss Ottawa’s investigation into Juno News’ reporting

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