Juno News - More TRANS violence + meet Canada’s new top trade negotiator

00:00:00.000 hi i'm candace malcolm and this is the candace malcolm show news update today is tuesday february

00:00:08.020 17th 2026 and here are your top stories of the day so what i can say right now that we have

00:00:13.840 identified the person assessed by a birth name the birth name was robert dorgan we have also learned

00:00:21.820 that the person does go by the name of roberta also uses the last name of esposito just a week

00:00:27.240 after the tumbler ridge shooting another trans identifying male shooter opened fire on innocent

00:00:34.880 civilians this time at a hockey arena in rhode island anytime someone shares something that has

00:00:40.520 my full legal name on it in reference to the criminal matter that i am a part of they're breaking the law

00:00:47.680 and you're also putting my kids in danger like more danger than i already have in alberta a

00:00:57.060 trans identifying male who pleaded guilty to stabbing his seven-year-old son and eight-year-old

00:01:02.180 daughter was released on bail and continues to post on social media from his creepy van

00:01:09.360 now let's go over to the emergency act the decision maker in the emergency act is not cesis there's

00:01:16.160 nothing in section 16 which says the governor and council who is the decision maker who's being

00:01:22.060 asked to make the decision has to ask cesis if it's okay a trudeau era bureaucrat who urged justin

00:01:29.680 trudeau to invoke the emergencies act which was found unconstitutional has been appointed as canada's

00:01:36.400 lead negotiator to the united states

00:01:38.480 and finally a video showing just how unbearable it has become to live in toronto and ride the ttc is going by

00:01:59.560 or you're going to want to see this video all right folks let's get right into the news so just a week

00:02:04.220 after the horrific mass shooting up in tumblr ridge where a shooter took the lives of at least eight

00:02:10.960 innocent people mostly children another story has come up that is eerily eerily similar a 56 year old

00:02:18.880 trans identifying man in the united states in the state of rhode island has killed his wife and daughter

00:02:24.740 and critically wounded three others at a high school hockey game in rhode island before taking his own

00:02:31.340 life this is what the terrifying scene looked like as you can see people running for their lives

00:02:37.200 you can see skaters hockey skaters fleeing for their lives while the trans identifying man

00:02:43.760 shoots up the arena tries to shoot up the arena you can hear the shots echoing in the arena this is just so disturbing

00:02:50.500 okay so police confirmed that the shooter was identified as a trans identifying male robert

00:03:05.920 dorgan but that he identified as a woman as roberto esposito and on monday this is what they had to say

00:03:13.740 so what i can say right now that we have identified the person assessed by a birth name the birth name

00:03:27.420 was robert dorgan we have also learned that the person does go by the name of roberto also uses the

00:03:34.980 last name of esposito so robin dorgan killed his wife at the arena while his daughter died in hospital

00:03:40.300 he reportedly shot two other children and a family friend who is now in critical condition in the

00:03:45.280 hospital before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life this is just so sick and

00:03:49.240 unbelievable please say a prayer for these families and these people it's just so so disturbing the

00:03:54.660 shooter's daughter ran into reporter's arms while leaving the police station in tears stating that her 0.85

00:04:00.500 father shot her family and had a history of mental health issues here's what that looked like

00:04:05.960 the shooter had an extensive internet footprint some posts show that he was engaging online defending this

00:04:30.020 trans ideology and showing that he was violent this is what he had to say to christian actor 0.87

00:04:34.660 kevin sorbo in a post online he wrote quote keep bashing us but do not wonder why we go berserk

00:04:41.520 unquote local reporting stated that around 2020 his wife at the time filed for divorce initially writing

00:04:49.040 that his gender reassignment surgery and narsic personality disorder traits were the reason for filing

00:04:57.140 divorce unbelievable that our society does this and goes along with this absolute insanity um the wife 0.68

00:05:03.280 eventually crossed those words out stating that the divorce was due to irreconcilable differences

00:05:08.200 which have caused the immediate breakdown of the marriage just absolutely so sad and despicable the

00:05:13.660 divorce was finalized in june 2021 according to reports what a sick world we live in okay coming up

00:05:20.320 folks mark carney has appointed a bureaucrat who urged the liberal government to enact the emergencies

00:05:25.380 act as despite being told by cesus that the peaceful protest did not amount to a national security

00:05:30.380 threat and this person is now going to be the lead negotiator for canada to the united states plus we'll

00:05:35.680 show you a bio or video that makes shirana look like a third world country but first another trans 0.78

00:05:41.020 identifying male who allegedly attempted to kill his own family in alberta was granted bail and is now

00:05:47.840 traveling around in this creepy van which he has written every child matters written across the side

00:05:53.940 and making deranged social media posts okay so the man who goes by the name alice atwood pleaded guilty

00:06:01.440 to stabbing his eight-year-old daughter and severing her esophagus oh my goodness and stabbing his seven-year-old

00:06:08.780 son in february of last year and he was granted bail just two days later his daughter's injuries were so bad

00:06:15.380 that she required emergency surgery and thankfully both children survived the attack but why on earth is this

00:06:21.820 man out on the loose the stabber continues to make posts on social media laughing and stating the fact

00:06:27.340 he's on social media is an opportunity for canadians look at this chilling clip chilling until i actually

00:06:34.420 go for my sentencing and um yeah i did kind of realize that we do have a highly unique opportunity

00:06:43.480 here whereas i'm someone who did something heinous and i'm on social media whereas a lot pretty much

00:06:52.400 all the other people who do something heinous get locked in a box and blocked out from society and

00:06:58.980 they don't get to talk to them so like

00:07:01.120 does it put me at risk i'm already at risk

00:07:08.560 reporters stated that the man giving tarot card readings to young girls in a park was out on bail

00:07:16.880 for a year just days before his sentencing was delayed he made a post saying that trans kids need

00:07:22.220 to be protected so they don't end up like him the only thing i really have to say is that we need

00:07:30.000 to protect trans youth so that they don't end up like me so that they have a better shot and what the

00:07:43.260 government here in alberta is choosing to do to them now is going to make it worse

00:07:48.560 that much i know unless we change it community groups have warned the police to avoid this creepy van

00:07:58.760 and to avoid this trans identifying man stay away from this guy he is an absolute creep 0.85

00:08:05.240 judging by his online footprint and they've stated that the rcmp is aware of the stabber and his

00:08:12.140 location all right folks prime minister mark carney has appointed former liberal privy council clerk

00:08:18.740 janice charrette to help canada renegotiate the canada u.s mexico trade deal which is set to be

00:08:25.660 negotiated this year on july 1st charrette penned a letter once advising former prime minister justin

00:08:31.180 trudeau to enact the emergency act which was used on peaceful freedom convoy protesters and enable the

00:08:38.300 liberal government to completely breach our constitution and do unfathomable things to

00:08:43.640 peaceful protesters including freezing bank accounts here is her testimony at the public

00:08:49.300 emergency commission in november 2022 on the use of the emergencies act reinterpreting the

00:08:55.120 requirements set out in the act that had once only been used for severe national security risk right

00:09:00.840 this is martial law they declared martial law on the people of canada for the crime of peacefully

00:09:04.880 protesting and this is what she had to say about it we have evidence saying that mr vigno and

00:09:10.680 on behalf of cesus assesses that the protests do not constitute a threat to the security of canada

00:09:17.960 under section 2 of the cesus act so how do you come to the conclusion then that the statutory parameter

00:09:24.380 is met so i'm going to give you the layman's interpretation absolutely and my colleague may

00:09:30.920 have things to add um being more skilled in the dark arts of the law um section 2 of the cesus act

00:09:40.700 is about cesus being able to exercise its authorities to launch intelligence gathering activities against

00:09:52.000 a person or group because they represent a threat to the security of canada the decision maker there

00:09:58.200 is cesus they judge the nature of the threat and they recommend the activity be taken

00:10:04.440 now let's go over to the emergency act the decision maker in the emergency act is not cesus

00:10:11.460 there's nothing in section 16 which says the governor and council who is the decision maker

00:10:17.340 who's being asked to make the decision has to ask cesus if it's okay the governor and council

00:10:24.080 is asked to assess whether on reasonable grounds there is a um i want to get make sure i've got my my

00:10:36.380 words right here that there are reasonable grounds to think that there is an urgent critical

00:10:43.680 national situation where the health safety of canadians their lives their livelihoods the national

00:10:52.500 security of the country is at threat of serious violence that goes back to the cesus definition

00:10:58.260 and the threat the security of canada look under i think it is this is dangerous but to see of the

00:11:05.940 cesus act that we rely on it is either serious violence or the threat of serious violence and so

00:11:14.420 the governor and council is asked to see if they have reasonable grounds to believe that there is

00:11:18.660 all of the other criteria urgent critical national beyond the scope of an individual province or

00:11:25.060 territory to deal with that is of a nature that would be a threat to national security which is

00:11:32.180 the threat or existence of serious violence as we've reported in the past a second court the federal

00:11:38.580 appeals court found in january of this year 2026 that trudeau's use of the act was unconstitutional

00:11:44.180 and unreasonable and that it violated the charter rights of canadians let's not forget that president

00:11:50.340 donald trump himself called out the trudeau government and the use of the emergencies act

00:11:56.180 which was enacted to have a violent removal of peaceful protesters here is what trump had to say

00:12:02.500 back just in 2022 when this was all happening the tyranny we have witnessed in canada in recent weeks

00:12:09.380 should shock and dismay people all over the world in an advanced western democracy the peaceful movement

00:12:16.180 of patriotic truckers workers and families protesting for their most basic rights and liberties has been

00:12:24.820 violently put down

00:12:26.100 their assets and life savings have been frozen they have been slandered as nazis racists and terrorists

00:12:42.820 these are the names they've been called they've been arrested and charged with phony crimes they've

00:12:50.740 been falsely accused of loyalty to foreign powers i watched them i saw those maple leafs all over

00:12:57.060 the flags and the love for their country plenty of americans were there too and they love our country

00:13:03.700 they're being hunted down like enemies of their own government and treated worse than drug dealers

00:13:09.540 and murderers or rapists a line has been crossed you're either with the peaceful truckers

00:13:16.500 or you are with the left-wing fascists and that's what's been happening and it's been a strong line

00:13:23.220 we stand with the truckers and we stand with the canadian people in their noble class

00:13:29.140 to reclaim their freedom and so to add on top of this we had conservative mp jameel giovanni reacting

00:13:36.020 to the news is what he had to say on x quote prime minister carney named a new chief trade negotiator

00:13:41.700 to the united states alongside a new ambassador i hope they both hit the ground running and can work our

00:13:46.020 way towards a deal with the urgency the canadian workers and businesses deserve now on saturday

00:13:51.460 jameel giovanni told breitbart news which is a u.s outlet the canadian officials are hammering the

00:13:56.500 country with what he called an anti-american hissy fit over trade defending his recent meetings with

00:14:03.220 senior u.s officials here's what that sounded like what we're trying to put across here is you know

00:14:08.580 there's a pathway forward and america and canada need each other we share the largest border in the world

00:14:14.820 we we have to work together but for canada in particular three quarters of our exports go

00:14:20.820 through the united states we are shooting ourselves in the foot if we continue this anti-america you

00:14:27.060 know uh hissy fit and this is the the kind of reason i'm trying to talk into our government and

00:14:32.820 some of the liberals who have just gone way off the reservation on this and it didn't take long for

00:14:38.020 the outrage to begin oh my goodness jameel giovanni uh called it an anti-american hissy fit how dare he

00:14:44.820 so globe and mail writer robin urback reacted on x quoting jameel giovanni's statement but putting a 0.90

00:14:50.660 bunch of clown emojis at the bottom um i guess she thinks that jameel giovanni is a clown she writes

00:14:56.740 conservative mp jameel giovanni talking to breitbart about canada's trade deal with china he says i think the 0.71

00:15:01.860 only reason why this is even possible is because so much anti-american resentment has been ginned up

00:15:08.020 among liberals in canada so it made china look better i don't know that seems pretty accurate

00:15:13.220 to me but robin urback i guess is saying that that is a clown reaction and rupa subramana had this to

00:15:18.900 say on x she wrote at this point you have to wonder if giovanni is carny's guy in the cpc or maybe just

00:15:24.580 some kind of 40 chess in which alienating the broader public including possibly your own constituents

00:15:29.940 is supposed to translate into electoral success next we have spencer fernando writing a piece on

00:15:36.500 giovanni's comments the title is jamil giovanni sides with the trump administration over canada

00:15:42.260 blames canadian pm calls righteous anger towards us an anti-american hissy fit i don't know that's uh

00:15:50.500 one way of putting it i think that's probably taking things way out of context i don't know i think

00:15:55.540 that the fact that there continues to be like weekly sometimes daily deranged reaction to

00:16:01.460 everything jamil giovanni says or does means that he's probably doing something right he's probably

00:16:05.940 right over the target all right folks i want to show this viral video that is circulating online

00:16:10.980 reigniting concerns over just the unbelievable crowding and overpopulation that's happened in

00:16:16.500 toronto i couldn't believe when i saw this video i actually didn't believe it was toronto at first

00:16:20.980 because it just seemed so shocking it looked like a third world country didn't look like toronto but

00:16:25.060 you can see that the ttc label logo on the subway is right there this video showing commuters just

00:16:33.220 struggling to get on board a train really just unbelievable uh scenes out of toronto okay folks

00:16:41.540 i want to quickly end the show today by talking about today it's tuesday it's shrove tuesday in the

00:16:47.460 christian calendar tomorrow will be ash wednesday and the beginning of lent and my family and i have a

00:16:53.620 tradition where we make pancakes in the morning and so we had a wonderful time this morning me and my

00:16:58.260 children making these pancakes turning them into awesome cool pancake shapes and getting ready uh for

00:17:04.740 lent but we will all give up something important to us in the uh lead up to holy week and easter so uh

00:17:11.860 wishing everybody a wonderful week a wonderful shrove tuesday go have some pancakes and uh have a bit of

00:17:17.220 a feast uh to prepare for ash wednesday tomorrow all right folks this is all the time we have for

00:17:21.540 today thank you so much for tuning in i'm kandace balcom this is kandace balcom show news update

00:17:25.540 thank you and god bless

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Juno News - February 17, 2026

More TRANS violence + meet Canada’s new top trade negotiator

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