Juno News - MUST WATCH： Candice & Keean's special 'fireside chat'

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candice. Welcome. I'm your host for the broadcast today. And I'm very pleased to be joined

00:00:04.060 by my colleague and co-founder here at Juno News, Kian Bextie. Kian, how's it going?

00:00:09.560 Great. How have you been?

00:00:11.340 Busy. Yeah. So I know that a lot of people have been wondering like,

00:00:13.980 hey, what happened to the Candice Malcolm show? Where has Candice been? It's kind of a long story,

00:00:18.520 but I ended up going with my husband and with my family out to California because he took a new job

00:00:23.820 out there. And at first he was commuting back and forth and it was kind of killing him. And so I

00:00:27.940 said, you know what? He's getting settled in a new job and we're going to go and sort of be

00:00:32.560 supportive and go out there. So we spent some time out there. It was really interesting. It was great

00:00:36.600 to sort of be together as a family and support him, but I am now back home and at my studio and I'm

00:00:41.260 excited to get back going. And we decided to start off by doing this fireside chat to reconnect,

00:00:48.080 talk to the audience, answer some questions for you here, and we're going to go through

00:00:51.940 some of the news of the day. So looking forward to it. And how have you been, Kian? I know you've

00:00:56.880 been really busy. You just got back from a trip to Taiwan. I think you're doing some journalism out

00:01:00.840 there. Yeah, it has been a busy summer. And now as we go into fall, it's good timing for you to

00:01:06.860 to be back. I mean, Canada is on the edge of a potential election. Juno started just before the

00:01:14.120 last federal election. And we don't know if there actually will be one or not, but the way things are

00:01:19.260 going in Ottawa, it seems to be going about as smoothly as things were going for Justin Trudeau.

00:01:24.760 So there's plenty of news to cover. Juno has been on top of it every step of the way. And I'm so

00:01:31.680 happy to see that Juno has grown into becoming the largest independent news network in the country.

00:01:39.720 I don't know if last time we did a fireside chat, if we really had hit that mark, but now it's pretty

00:01:45.680 indisputable. The growth that we've had has been phenomenal. There's been a lot of camaraderie in

00:01:53.380 the in the alternative independent media space, which has been great. We have a lot of really

00:01:57.620 interesting plans coming up with our colleagues in Rebel News and Western Standard. But Juno News is

00:02:05.080 is different. And we're not we're not trying to give anyone a jump scare. We're trying to give people

00:02:10.180 the news that they need to hear so that when they go to JunoNews.com, they feel like they are up to

00:02:15.380 date on the day's news in the country to to genuinely replace the CDC, which is our 100% our

00:02:22.140 goal. Right. So I think we're on the right track. And I'm glad that you're you're back ready to to get

00:02:28.080 rolling in the fall, because it is a hypercritical time for this country. Well, that's exactly it.

00:02:33.520 Right. So I spent almost a decade writing an opinion column in the Toronto Sun. And one of my critiques,

00:02:38.660 even a newspaper like the Toronto Sun that is editorially more sane, more conservative, is that

00:02:44.400 you would sure you'd get to read Brian Lilly, you get to read Candace Malcolm, you'd read Anthony

00:02:47.920 Fury and all these other voices, voices of sanity. But then when you go through the news section,

00:02:53.560 you're still getting the same news as every other newspaper in the country. It all comes from the

00:02:57.240 Canadian press. It's all incredibly biased. I've got a few examples of just how biased the media is,

00:03:02.660 the news media is, right? Like you could sit there and say, oh, Juno News is biased because the

00:03:07.900 founders are both conservative. And it's like, yes, that's true. And we're totally open about that

00:03:12.420 fact. But we believe in the truth. Our North Star is the truth. And that is what we go after that

00:03:17.440 matters more than anything else. And so we will always be accurate. That comes first. That is our

00:03:22.340 promise to the viewer. That is our promise to our subscriber. And when you look at the news at the

00:03:26.960 quality of the reporting and the investigative news, and the journalism coming out of our team over at

00:03:32.440 True North and the reports that they put together that we publish at Juno News, I like I would I would

00:03:37.700 hold that above what I get from the legacy media, it is more accurate is more truthful, it is higher

00:03:43.100 quality. And I'm so proud of that. I don't know that we've announced exactly what what we've

00:03:48.340 accomplished Kian. But when you and I started this organization, when we launched it, which was last

00:03:52.820 February, but mid February, our goal was to reach 10,000 paid subscribers by the end of year one,

00:03:59.380 right. And we've already hit that goal. We've already hit that level. And we are now putting together our next

00:04:05.020 set of goals. And so it's incredible that we have this army, this, this many people who are here with

00:04:11.060 us. It's a great business plan. I'm really, really excited about the future. We're going to be

00:04:16.520 answering questions. We're going to be talking about the news on the show today. Let's just go

00:04:20.880 right into a question here. This is from Rose Little. Two questions for Kian and Candace's fireside

00:04:25.240 chat. Number one, I've been missing the show for the last month. We'll be getting Candace's show

00:04:28.900 regularly again soon. I hope you're doing well, Candace. Well, thank you. And if you needed some time away,

00:04:34.140 number two, what are your thoughts on if Carney will trigger a fall election and his budget will

00:04:39.140 trigger fall election? Why or why not? I do hope to be coming back with the Candace Malcolm show.

00:04:43.360 Obviously, my life is really busy with four little kids with a husband with a new job,

00:04:47.700 sort of commuting to California. The reason I didn't disclose that, by the way, prior is because

00:04:53.400 we were dealing with some security threats. I know, Kian, this is an issue that you face as well. It

00:04:58.080 happened right after the Charlie Kirk assassination. And what we were noticing is that we were getting

00:05:03.280 very specific threats against me and my family. And I'm not even kidding. Kian, every time I would

00:05:09.660 find one of these on Twitter, without fail, I would look at the person's profile, and they would have

00:05:14.280 their pronouns in their bio. It's like, there's just something there's some crazy correlation between

00:05:19.160 unhinged people making threats against conservatives online, and this weird gender fantasy or face. I

00:05:26.600 don't even know. So anyway, all that to say that we were kind of I was trying to lie low a little bit.

00:05:32.480 I didn't want to disclose that I was in California. I'm not there anymore. I'm back. And yeah, I hope

00:05:37.620 to be coming back a little bit more regularly, obviously balancing that with my family as well.

00:05:41.960 So it won't be every day, but it will be some days. And if there is an election, I promise I will drop

00:05:47.120 everything else and I will come back and do The Daily Show. So what are your thoughts, Kian? Do you think

00:05:52.160 that the budget next week will trigger an election? Certainly. I have a few thoughts to answer that

00:05:56.740 question. We actually launched a survey this week to all of our readers at Juno News so that we could

00:06:03.660 get a sense of what they liked, what they didn't like, what they wanted more of. And by a landslide,

00:06:11.500 one of the most trusted thing that our viewers enjoyed, I got to get the wording right because it

00:06:20.000 was a very specific question. 60% of Juno readers watch Juno products daily. So they come time and

00:06:28.080 time again every day of the week to watch what's happening at Juno News. And of those people, they

00:06:32.820 trusted the Candace Malcolm show the most. The guests you had on, the angles you took, they trusted

00:06:39.160 that. So they value that extremely highly. And it's going to be important to have, I think, you and I

00:06:44.920 say, front and center when Mark Carney tries to table this budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa,

00:06:52.380 because what they do and how they get this across is going to be extremely meaningful to Canadians

00:06:58.640 on the right, in the center, and on the left. There's two things that I think can happen here.

00:07:04.380 The NDP either vote against the budget, which is in their interests and in the interests of their

00:07:10.840 supporters, to be clear, or they abstain from the budget and allow the Liberals to pass the budget

00:07:17.800 with a de facto majority. That would be a dereliction of their duty. It would be an abdication of the

00:07:26.440 power that was given to them by the seven constituencies in Canada that sent NDP voters.

00:07:31.640 And it would be just an extremely poor strategic error on their part. They are going to lose, sorry,

00:07:38.680 they are going to maintain those seven seats no matter what happens. The likelihood that they lose

00:07:45.320 power, lose caucus members in an election that happens now or down the road is like almost zero.

00:07:52.120 They can only go up. That's how bad the last election was. If they hold an election or if they

00:07:57.720 force an election, not only will they demonstrate that they're not in the pockets of the Liberal Party

00:08:02.760 anymore like they were when Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau were running the show,

00:08:06.360 they will show that they have some actual agency and value as a party. There's no better way that

00:08:11.960 they could, they could convince a voter that they giving them another vote is a more meaningful thing

00:08:18.520 to do when they can show, they can demonstrate that they collapse the government if the government

00:08:23.480 doesn't fall, you know, doesn't invest enough in Canada Post or union labor or whatever it is,

00:08:28.840 right? So I don't know if the CBC is going to cover that fairly. That and the many other things that

00:08:35.640 are going to be happening over the next few weeks, the budget comes out in November 4th.

00:08:39.480 So, you know, I think that I think that it's an exciting time, that's for sure.

00:08:45.000 Well, I'll just dovetail this with Gary B's question. He says mainstream media is trying to

00:08:49.240 make it look like neither side wants election. Obviously, we cannot afford the Liberals and the

00:08:52.920 many scandalous projects they have to build Canadians other tax dollars. Would we see a change in

00:08:58.280 government or would we just see a strengthened liberal commie government? And I think this is the

00:09:03.080 interesting thing, right? Like when it comes to election, it's always a risk. So even for those

00:09:07.160 seven NDP MPs, I mean, it comes down to them, right? We know the Conservatives are going to vote against

00:09:12.040 the bill. We presume that Elizabeth May will vote in favor of the budget. I don't think that the

00:09:17.720 bloc will come around unless the Liberals make huge concessions. I just don't think that they're

00:09:21.800 interested in doing that at this point. So it comes down to those seven NDP MPs. Look, being an MP is a

00:09:28.360 pretty cushy job, right? You get a lot of perks, you get a good salary, you get a stable pay, and you

00:09:34.280 have some notoriety, you have some prestige, right? And so for those seven NDP MPs, I just don't think

00:09:38.840 there's any incentive for them. It's a risk, they could lose the public could say, look, we just had

00:09:43.560 an election, it's been six months, let this government do its thing, don't trigger an election

00:09:47.640 here. And if the election is triggered, they could get punished, they could lose their seats. It all comes

00:09:52.280 down to the self interest of the individual actors, right? We like to think that there's some

00:09:57.480 grand like putting the country first here. No, it comes down to them and their paychecks and their

00:10:01.880 pensions. We've learned this from the NDP. This is what they care about. This is what they stand for.

00:10:05.240 They don't have a leader right now. They don't have any money in the bank. They're probably deeply in

00:10:08.600 debt. I just I don't see a world where there is an election. And I don't even really want to go to

00:10:14.120 the next step and speculate as to what would happen. Because I didn't think that the I didn't think

00:10:19.080 there was any chance that the Liberals would win the last election given what they did to the country

00:10:22.680 the last 10 years. So the fact that there was certain enough voters out there to give them a

00:10:27.880 second chance, a fourth chance, sorry, another chance. Yeah, never, never underestimate the

00:10:35.160 gullibility of the Canadian voting public, the small portion of the voters in cities like Montreal

00:10:41.720 and Toronto that are just willing to always forgive the Liberals and move on. Okay, Kian, I want to

00:10:47.240 talk about the latest with the Canada US trade talks. And the follow I know the audience has

00:10:51.880 been following this. I know that we've you know, we've had some great content here at Juno news on

00:10:56.200 this. But I'm dying to hear your perspective on it, Kian. So as you know, Trump has terminated trade

00:11:03.000 talks with Canada over Doug Ford's TV ads, Doug Ford, for some reason, nobody knows, he decided to pick a

00:11:10.120 fight with Trump, try to humiliate him during the World Series by playing this Reagan ad, talking about

00:11:16.040 how former US President Ronald Reagan didn't like tariffs, you know, this is kind of cherry picking

00:11:21.320 a clip from 40 years ago, we know it was a different time back then different president. But really,

00:11:26.440 the goal of this was just to purely humiliate Donald Trump, you know, when when when all the

00:11:32.680 eyes were watching the World Series and the Blue Jays there. And so you Trump did what he's going to do,

00:11:38.440 which is just okay, you know, you're trying to humiliate me. I'm not having any of it. We're done here.

00:11:43.880 And he obviously has the upper hand. There's obviously another interesting level here,

00:11:48.600 which was whether or not Mark Carney knew about the ad. So I'm going to play this clip here. This

00:11:54.760 is President Trump speaking to reporters on Air Force One, saying that the Canadian officials

00:12:00.920 apologize for the Reagan ad, but that he still will not be meeting with Mark Carney for a long time.

00:12:06.600 Let's play that clip as much as I love Canada itself and the people of Canada. They've just

00:12:12.040 had a lot of bad representatives. They did a fake ad yesterday. They were caught. The Ronald Reagan

00:12:17.560 Foundation was the one that caught him and they've apologized. And they said, we're going to take the

00:12:22.520 ad down. Well, they did it, but they did it very late. They let it play for another two nights.

00:12:27.400 And now they took that ad down. Prime Minister knew what the ad was before.

00:12:31.160 Will you see him in APEC? Do you want to meet with him?

00:12:34.440 I don't want to meet with him. No, I'm not going to be meeting with him for a while. No,

00:12:37.720 I'm very happy with the deal we have right now with Canada.

00:12:41.000 So that was Monday. On Tuesday, we had Ontario Premier Doug Ford appearing on CNN with Jake

00:12:46.120 Tabber bragging about how great the ad was, how it was super effective, how Trump liked it at first,

00:12:51.080 and then he only didn't like it after apparently someone told him not to like him. Let's play that

00:12:54.440 clip. I've never said anything personal about President Trump in our ad. It was very ironic

00:13:01.080 that President Trump saw it and he said, yeah, that was a good ad. If I was Canada, I'd run the

00:13:05.720 same ad. And then all of a sudden he wakes up in the morning, someone whispers something in his ear,

00:13:11.240 and now he's not happy. But it was an ad to inform the people in the US and mission accomplished.

00:13:21.240 Okay, so Doug Ford thinks it's his job to educate the American population on tariffs,

00:13:26.760 right? Like maybe this would be an ad that would be effective during the election. But then of

00:13:30.040 course, it's kind of election interference. If you have a foreign country trying to run ads,

00:13:34.440 trying to explain to Americans that tariffs are bad. Well, you know, again, the Reagan ad came from

00:13:38.840 a different time before China came into the World Trade Organization and flooded the entire free trade

00:13:44.920 system and tilted the scale and cheated and did all these nefarious things. The Americans are

00:13:49.080 finally saying enough is enough. We're not going to go along with that anymore. But somehow, again,

00:13:53.560 Ford trying to be morally superior to the Americans. I'm going to get your comment on it. I just want to

00:13:58.840 play one more clip here. This is from Wednesday. Doug Ford telling reporters adds another kind of juicy

00:14:03.640 layer into it, Kian, that Mark Carney was in the room when Ronald Reagan ad was being reviewed,

00:14:11.080 that he didn't stop it. He knew about it all along. Let's play that clip.

00:14:13.960 Back to the Reagan ad. How do you know the Prime Minister and his Chief of Staff saw this particular ad

00:14:21.640 before you moved ahead with airing it? I was with them.

00:14:26.040 Did they express concern when you were with them?

00:14:28.280 I'm not going to talk about our private conversation at all.

00:14:32.280 I told them that we're running it. I'm going to cut it off on Monday. And that's it.

00:14:37.880 I think it was the right thing to do. It started a conversation like I've never seen before.

00:14:46.200 It was the right thing to do. It started a conversation like I've never seen before.

00:14:50.200 It's like you got kicked out of the trade deals because of this ad. There was nothing good about

00:14:55.000 it. There was no reason to do it. There was nothing. Everything was going well.

00:14:58.920 You know, Carney was out there basically trying to befriend Trump doing what pretty much he has to

00:15:04.360 do, which is say, you know, flatter him and say, well, we'll do what we can. We'll work together with

00:15:08.680 you. And then out of nowhere, Bull of the China Shop, Doug Ford decides to run this ad, pick a huge

00:15:14.440 fight for absolutely no reason. And now he's saying it was the right thing to do. What do you think, Kian?

00:15:19.720 Doug Ford can never take responsibility for his mistakes. And this is a perfect example of that.

00:15:24.360 But this is also Mark Carney's issue. The fact that he's befriended Doug Ford, he's in the room

00:15:31.400 using Doug Ford as like part of the negotiating team. Why isn't Daniel Smith in that room? I got to

00:15:36.440 wonder. And I got to wonder if Daniel Smith is in that room, if maybe she would have advised the

00:15:40.440 federal government and the Ontario government that provoking Donald Trump is not a good idea.

00:15:46.200 When billions of dollars are on the line, when entire industries are on the line, you do not need to

00:15:51.480 provoke the guy. You should be his friend. You should work with him. You should coordinate on

00:15:57.240 things that you align with. And you should not try, especially when he instructs you to stop playing

00:16:03.800 an ad that is relatively meaningless. It is a meaningless ad that accomplished nothing.

00:16:12.040 When he says stop and you say, you're right, this, wow, we just woke up the bear. We poked it too hard.

00:16:17.640 You don't say, oh, well, we're going to let it play for the World Series and then we'll cut it off.

00:16:23.240 Like what a, what a dumb decision to, to, to recognize the, the threat that you just put the

00:16:30.920 nation in and then just say, uh, we probably like, it was probably because they wanted,

00:16:35.880 there was some probably thing in the ad contract that said they had to run it for a certain amount

00:16:39.720 of time, or they wanted to get their money's worth. I don't, I don't know what the final decision was

00:16:43.640 on it to keep it running for two more days, but it was, we were not going to lose our, our, um,

00:16:51.880 access to the negotiating table because the ad ran, we lost access to the negotiating table because

00:16:57.880 they kept it playing after they were told to take it down. They agreed to take it down and then they

00:17:03.240 left it playing. Doug Ford is trying to out Trump, Trump, and that will never work. Uh, people

00:17:10.600 don't, uh, they don't take him seriously. And Donald Trump has a bigger stick. Uh, that's,

00:17:17.160 that's the end, uh, that's the end of it. And that seems to be the memo that like every

00:17:21.720 other country around the world has gotten. It's like, look at what the Trudeau administration

00:17:25.240 did the first time around in 2016 to 2020, when at every opportunity they would, they, you know,

00:17:31.160 they would mock and humiliate president Trump. You had, uh, you finance minister and foreign affairs

00:17:36.760 minister Chrystia Freeland going out there, speaking at an anti-Trump, uh, conference,

00:17:42.040 you know, calling him an authoritarian and all this stuff, like constantly going out of their way

00:17:46.520 to humiliate him and look at what Trump did back, right? He, he doesn't want to do that again. He's

00:17:50.920 not going to tolerate that. And you see countries around the world, whether they agree with Trump

00:17:54.440 or disagree, that's not, that's not a matter of play here, right? We're dealing with a negotiator

00:17:59.000 who says, I'm sick of being taken advantage of, and I'm going to make a better deal. I'm going to get a

00:18:03.160 better deal for Americans across the board, across the world. And countries are falling in line and

00:18:07.800 saying, okay, well, we just want to be able to have access to the American market. We just want to be

00:18:11.560 able to go business as usual. So we will do what Trump is asking us to do. And it's like Canada, you

00:18:17.240 know, I think that Mark Carney did get that memo and has fallen in line with that. You know, what put

00:18:23.800 aside, whether you think that that is good or bad for Canada or the world, uh, it's, it's sort of like,

00:18:28.360 this is the world that we live in and we have to be realists here. And then it seems to me again,

00:18:32.840 for no reason, uh, Doug Ford is just, I don't know. I, I, I can't even pretend to understand

00:18:38.360 his motivation other than he's just humiliation and an embarrassment for all of Canada. Uh, kind

00:18:44.760 of tied to this is the world series, which is happening right now. It's going to happen tonight

00:18:49.560 in Toronto. They're going back for game six. And I want to pick at something that I know really,

00:18:55.000 uh, really upsets you Kian, which is that this weird thing where we now change the national anthem

00:19:01.000 at any opportunity for any reason, uh, whatsoever. So we'll start with, uh, game three in Los Angeles,

00:19:07.000 you had JP Sachs change the lyrics of Oh Canada. He changed it from our home and native land to our

00:19:14.120 home on native land. Let's play that clip. So he's not the first one to do this. Other singers have

00:19:30.840 done it. And I guess it's just a dig at like the very legitimacy of Canada as a country. That's like,

00:19:34.920 it was not really your country. It's your home. I've stolen it from the natives. Okay. Uh, next we had

00:19:39.720 Canadian American singer, Rufus Wainwright changing the lyrics of Oh Canada. Once again,

00:19:44.040 this is game five in Los Angeles. Um, instead of singing that only us command, uh, sorry,

00:19:49.880 instead of singing in all of us command, um, he's saying that only us command, I guess this is trying

00:19:54.600 again to say that the Americans don't command us. So this is like an anti Trump, uh, dig here in our

00:20:00.440 national anthem, let's play that clip. So what do you think of using the national anthem to make

00:20:29.400 political statements and to score political points scan? I'm going to say something that

00:20:35.160 will have the RCMP at my door. If I, if I speak honestly about that, it's, it's extremely frustrating

00:20:40.760 to see, um, a bunch of points. We need to get people that can actually sing the national anthem.

00:20:46.600 Like I could sing it better than that. JP Sachs butchered it, not just the words, but actually the

00:20:52.040 notes of the song, the second guy, I don't know his name. I don't even, I didn't know who JP

00:20:58.120 Sachs was before this either. Maybe I'm just completely out of touch. What is he Canadian

00:21:01.560 or is he an American? He's a Toronto based singer. Oh, okay. Uh, he's not a good one. Uh, like the,

00:21:08.760 these guys are so bad and, uh, trying to use the anthem, this symbol that Canadian soldiers

00:21:16.360 fought and died under in, you know, half dozen, dozen wars. Now it's pathetic. It's a disgrace.

00:21:23.160 It should be illegal. And I think it's now from now on, it's either the French version

00:21:27.560 or the instrumental version until we can sort out our stuff because this is just too much.

00:21:33.320 And so to say our home on native land, while people's homes are being, uh, are the private

00:21:39.000 property in Richmond is being threatened at in a way that hasn't happened in this country yet at all.

00:21:47.720 Uh, in a way that echoes the past of, uh, communist Europe and communist countries around the world

00:21:56.440 and China and elsewhere. I don't think people need to read their history before they start in both,

00:22:03.640 both domestic Canadian history and international history before they start acting, uh, like they

00:22:09.560 should be the ones writing national anthems because they mean something. They are deeply powerful songs

00:22:14.840 that, uh, United nation and you using it as this like soap box to score woke brownie points is

00:22:25.000 pissing me off and it's pissing the country off. Well, it was the end of the, um, the, the Canadian

00:22:30.520 tenors, right? The Canadian tenors did this once I think during black lives matter and it literally just

00:22:34.840 ended their careers because it was just seen as so appalling that they would do that. And I think we

00:22:39.480 should bring that back. I think that if you change the national anthem, you, you should get canceled.

00:22:44.040 That's it. I, I'm, you know, I'm not for cancel culture, but I think that when you, when you, it,

00:22:49.080 it to me, it's like the height of arrogance and narcissism. It's like, I'm going to put my own

00:22:52.360 political self ahead of unity and these national symbols. Like we don't have that many uniting national

00:22:57.320 symbols in Canada. And when you take the few that we have and you try to change them to fit today's

00:23:03.240 politics is gross. Uh, but I will just say that this is all downstream from Justin Trudeau and

00:23:08.440 the whole post national state. Like I have a hard time really, honestly, if I'm honest with myself,

00:23:13.000 getting upset about Rufus Wainwright changing the national anthem from in all of us command to that

00:23:17.720 only us command, because neither of them are the national anthem. Neither of them are the correct

00:23:21.480 lyrics. You'll recall that about 10 years ago, Justin Trudeau changed the national anthem from the

00:23:26.520 lyric that we have been singing as a country, as Canadians, far before it was even the official

00:23:30.440 national anthem. Canadians have been singing the song for over a hundred years and it was in all

00:23:34.520 thy sons command, the sons of the country. And they changed it to all of us command because it has to be

00:23:40.600 gender neutral, even though the song was specifically talking about the male soldiers that defended

00:23:45.080 Canadians. And back in those days saying all thy sons command would have included all children and

00:23:49.720 Canadian women would have known that they were included in that as well. It is absurd that Trudeau did

00:23:54.600 that in the first place. And this is all just an inevitable out crying of it. It's like, you know what,

00:23:58.520 you change the national anthem. It doesn't mean anything anymore. So more people are going to

00:24:01.240 change it. They're going to take out reference to God. They're going to say you stole the country.

00:24:05.160 Eventually, yeah, it should just be instrumental because enough of it, enough of it. And I want to

00:24:10.120 tie this into what happened on October 7th, the anniversary of the horrific terrorist attack in

00:24:15.160 Israel. The pogrom, 1200 civilians were murdered in their homes and at a music festival. And remind

00:24:22.520 the audience that the Toronto school decided to play O Canada in Arabic on that day. For some reason,

00:24:29.480 the anniversary of the worst despicable pogrom against Jews in the Second World War, we decided

00:24:36.520 to play the anthem of the people who perpetrated the massacre. Again, for no reason, I think this

00:24:42.520 should be illegal. Canada's national anthem needs to be in the official languages of our country, English

00:24:48.360 and French if you're in Quebec or New Brunswick, but it should be in English. And you shouldn't have

00:24:52.280 the right to change it and put it in other languages. I get that you're trying to I don't know

00:24:56.360 what like make foreigners happy and make newcomers happy that they get a stake in our in our in our

00:25:02.120 national symbols. But that's not how it works. You can't have a country unless you have united

00:25:06.840 uniting symbols. Language is one of those national anthem is the other. So I think that this

00:25:12.120 senior national anthem in Arabic any day, any day because it's Canada. But also on this day,

00:25:19.240 for those Jewish students who's in a Jewish area, apparently, just totally unacceptable, equally as

00:25:26.360 bad as changing the national anthem. What do you think? To go back to the second version of that

00:25:33.960 national anthem of the Jays game, I was reading, was it maybe it was Dr. Brody that was saying this,

00:25:38.760 that he didn't even say it in the right way. It wasn't grammatically correct to say that only us

00:25:46.600 command, it would be that only we command. Like these guys are not they're not even sick. They're

00:25:51.560 not even singing words that make sense. And this this singing in Arabic as well. I mean, it's just

00:25:58.040 an absolute affront to the history of this country and the people that that made that that built this

00:26:05.400 country. I think this country is slowly dying and anything that we can do to slow that death

00:26:11.400 is valuable and good and righteous. I mean, look at what I mean, well, let's let's talk about the

00:26:16.840 other thing we wanted to talk about today, the Gazan refugee in Montreal who shared a video ranting

00:26:21.800 against Halloween decorations. I mean, Halloween, Halloween decorations are a few steps below the like,

00:26:29.720 the the importance of like a national symbol, like a national anthem. But it's just another punch in

00:26:37.560 the nose to Canadians who open their doors and their hearts to these guys to help them out. And like,

00:26:44.840 wait, wait, I'll just I'll just interrupt you. Let's just in case the audience doesn't know what

00:26:48.200 they're what kids talking about here. I'll play the clip. This is Samar Alcador, a Gazan refugee in

00:26:53.560 Montreal, sharing a video. So apparently, she just doesn't like the Halloween costumes. Fine,

00:26:58.280 whatever. Free country, you can criticize Halloween costume. But then she goes on a deranged rant,

00:27:04.360 cursing white people and Westerners and saying that we're that we're that there's something morally

00:27:08.840 wrong in our country. It's like, hello, you are engaging in war on your side of the world. And

00:27:14.920 you're engaging in tribal killings. And we're gracious enough to let you into our country. And what

00:27:19.000 do you do? You don't like someone's Halloween costumes, you go on a deranged genocidal rant against

00:27:22.680 white people like these people are nuts. They shouldn't be in our country. They should get out.

00:27:26.040 Okay, let's, let's play the clip. This sort of going viral last week on October 22. But here is

00:27:31.480 the clip. I just want to ask, is this okay? Is is this like how holidays look like? This is like just

00:27:39.480 across the street from my sisters. Like, is this okay? What's the fun about it? Like, what is the fun

00:27:50.200 about it? What is civilized about it? What is holiday about it? You all feel like white people,

00:27:59.000 you wet like Westerners and West. Like, I don't know what to say like, everyone.

00:28:05.400 Okay, so she doesn't like some Halloween costumes. Fair enough. You know, I don't,

00:28:10.920 I don't really like gory stuff. I'm not really one for that. But actually makes me want to defend

00:28:14.680 something like that. Because Halloween is like an all Canadian holiday, right? It's like,

00:28:17.800 doesn't actually matter what your background is, or, you know, sure. Originally, it was a Christian

00:28:23.160 holiday. It was the day before All Saints Day. And so it was all Hallows Eve, it is a Christian tradition.

00:28:29.160 But it has been brought in so much that anyone could enjoy it, anyone could participate in it in

00:28:32.840 whatever way you want. You know, for me, you know, when you're a kid, Halloween's best,

00:28:36.920 and then you get older, and you kind of don't have any use for it, you don't celebrate it,

00:28:40.920 then you have kids, and it becomes amazing all over again, so much fun decorating the costumes,

00:28:45.560 the kids, I have to just interject here, because my, I took my kids to a community Halloween party

00:28:51.480 last Sunday, and my son won most creative Halloween costume. And it was like my proudest moment of my

00:28:57.000 life. Like I was like, you know, as a mom, you know, when your son, we put a lot of effort into it,

00:29:01.960 we went out and picked out all the pieces, we worked on it together. And for him to win,

00:29:05.720 it was like, that's the best, right? It really just is best. And again, it's something that brings you

00:29:10.760 together in your community, regardless of your background, your faith. So the fact that she comes

00:29:14.840 in, she doesn't like the decorations, whatever. But then she turns it into the anti white derangement,

00:29:21.160 it just totally, you know, get get out, okay, you can leave, you don't like us here, get get out of my

00:29:25.480 country, please. Trick or treating is like this, like, community building exercise in trust. It's

00:29:33.000 like the highest trust thing a country, a community can do is send your child door to door to meet

00:29:40.840 strangers and take food from them. It's like, it's, it's thinking a little bit deeply about what

00:29:47.240 Halloween is beyond, you know, the All Saints Day and Hallows Eve. That's what it is, it's sending your,

00:29:52.760 it's trusting your community enough to feed your child. And if this woman went door knocking in

00:29:58.920 Gaza, she'd get her head blown off, whether she was asking for food or not, let alone her kid doing

00:30:05.400 that, where all sorts of terrible things would happen to them in Gaza. We've built this country

00:30:11.960 through, you know, the last decades that I've been alive, almost three now, and through the century

00:30:20.120 and a half that our ancestors have been building this country, tilling the soil and building

00:30:27.000 communities. And to see these newcomers, to use the globalist term that has replaced the term migrant,

00:30:36.600 because that's been turned into a sour word in people's mouths lately, to see these newcomers come

00:30:44.120 and spit on everything that we've built, is going to backfire on them in a way that they have not

00:30:51.400 expected. You can look at what Donald Trump has said recently, he's putting a cap on refugees,

00:30:57.880 not immigrants, not economic migrants, or family reunification migrants, or whatever the chic terms

00:31:06.840 are lately. These are refugees, people that by definition, there's like international obligations

00:31:13.240 to and are the most deserved, are the most deserving people to come and take refuge in your country.

00:31:19.560 There's like a certain amount of compassion every Canadian should have for refugees, we were known for

00:31:24.200 taking refugees in the past. And now Canadians are looking at all of these refugees, immigrants,

00:31:30.040 whatever it is, student visa holders, as the same type of person, and they're not, they shouldn't be.

00:31:35.640 But the fact that this Gazan refugee came in and start starts acting like a bull in the China shop,

00:31:41.640 like you mentioned, Doug Ford was, but with our culture, instead, it like I said, it is going to

00:31:46.920 backfire in ways that they never expected, as the white population becomes just like, and not just white,

00:31:55.000 but you know, old stock Canadians, I should say, become a smaller and smaller segment of the population,

00:32:02.120 the majority of the population soon going to be foreign born with few ties to this country at all.

00:32:08.360 The population that sees everything falling apart is going to react very poorly.

00:32:12.760 Well, it's a it's a radical experiment that we've we've indulged in under successive liberal and

00:32:17.560 conservative governments, but it got much, much worse under Justin Trudeau, which is just

00:32:21.560 how many people from the third world can we flood our country in? And will it still be Canada? Like,

00:32:26.040 okay, what if we bring in 2 million immigrants here? Is it still Canada? Okay, let's try 4 million a

00:32:30.600 year? Is it still Canada? Like, eventually, it just won't be Canada anymore when you hit a pivotal

00:32:35.240 point. And I will just go back and say, Look, yes, you have freedom of speech in Canada, you can

00:32:40.360 criticize someone's Halloween costume. But I you know, interesting point is that if you are a foreigner,

00:32:45.880 and you're not a Canadian, should you really have access to the full leverage of freedom of speech? I mean,

00:32:50.360 this is what happened in the US is he said, Look, all of these students that are here on visas

00:32:55.320 are supposed to be on their best behavior. And no, they don't get full access to the Bill of Rights

00:32:59.960 and the Constitution, because they're here as visitors, they should be held to a higher standard,

00:33:04.280 they shouldn't have all the rights protections of Americans, they should be held to a higher

00:33:07.800 standard. And if you're coming here to organize communist rallies to organize, you know, intimidating

00:33:14.600 pro terrorist rallies that that, you know, hold up our streets, hold up our traffic, dominate the

00:33:21.000 streets, like intimidating people in Jewish areas and whatnot. Like, no, you shouldn't be allowed to

00:33:25.400 be in the country, you should have your visa stripped. And I don't know if this individual is

00:33:28.680 a Canadian citizen, or not. But I think that there's some there's there's some good logic there.

00:33:33.720 And I think that Canadians are going to have to take off a pretty hard line against these people

00:33:38.840 that come to our country and objectively hate us. Okay, I can I do want to move on. Let's ask,

00:33:42.760 let's move to a viewer question here. This comes from Wendy Bowden. And this is a topic that I want

00:33:48.760 to talk to you about anyway, out in Alberta. But Wendy asks, What do you think what's happening in

00:33:53.400 Alberta with the ATA, the Alberta Teachers Association, NDP and Gil McGowan, McGowan trying

00:33:59.400 to topple the UCP and destroy Danielle Smith? I don't recognize my country anymore. So just a quick

00:34:05.720 update on what is happening out in Alberta, the teachers went on strike, 90% of them voted against a new

00:34:12.360 proposed salary bump that would give them a 12% raise in their pay. They said no to that. What

00:34:18.280 they really wanted was to lock in smaller class sizes. I'm kind of sympathetic to that. But the

00:34:23.240 way that they wanted it was was was pretty difficult. And so Premier Smith finally decided

00:34:28.280 to use a notwithstanding clause to force the teachers to get back to work, which caused everybody

00:34:33.560 to basically light their hair on fire. Like it's a huge offense. I mean, hello, the notwithstanding

00:34:37.400 clause is part of our Constitution. It's supposed to be used for these circumstances. And so anyway,

00:34:42.440 Kian, I'm wondering what you make of the whole situation out there.

00:34:45.640 Kian R. Yeah, so much to talk about on this. I'll work my way backwards. Nenshi

00:34:49.960 said that he's going to ban the use of the notwithstanding clause. For people that don't

00:34:54.920 know the history of the notwithstanding clause, it was like one of the things that was a requirement

00:34:59.320 for Western provinces to join Confederation, which I mean, it's just typical Nenshi, like

00:35:06.120 aligning ideologically with the East. You know, there's lots of great people in the East, but when

00:35:12.440 it comes to their government and their decisions on constitutional affairs, I don't trust them.

00:35:17.560 And Nenshi saying that he's going to outlaw the use of the notwithstanding clause,

00:35:21.080 I don't I don't even think that that's legal. Like it might that might be illegal. It's unconstitutional

00:35:26.520 to talk about teachers, the 90% that voted to go on strike. I think that the amount of teachers

00:35:33.000 that wanted to continue to strike as it went on waned a little bit. And the people that voted,

00:35:38.920 no, I mean, I know some of them. I have teachers in my family, one of my good friends, his mother,

00:35:44.120 a wonderful woman out in rural Alberta, she teaches how to write kids. And, you know, she's just,

00:35:52.120 she's like a she's a Christian woman. And she voted against the strike because she knew that

00:35:59.880 she was no matter what raise they got and the rate if they got the raise that they were asking,

00:36:04.840 the money she would have lost from the strike would have been more than she would have ever made.

00:36:09.720 It was a political strike at the root of it. It was a strike. The ATA is a political organization

00:36:15.560 that needs to be broken up. By the way, there's tons of structural issues with the ATA that make it

00:36:20.840 different than the average labor union. They control punishment of teachers. They have a budget

00:36:28.120 that they routinely abuse for political purposes. They they're not paying the teachers while they're

00:36:33.880 on strike. Normally, you know, Canada Post workers will go on strike. They'll get paid while they're on

00:36:37.240 strike. Other labor unions, they'll get paid while they go on strike so that they can continue to

00:36:41.480 afford groceries and don't need to be on the Canadian equivalent of food stamps. But the ATA blew all

00:36:47.960 their money advertising against Daniel Smith and the Alberta UCP government. This whole rally was

00:36:56.280 created and conceived to attack Daniel Smith. So, you know, I think that the general support of the

00:37:04.120 strike waned over time. I think that what they were asking for, I mean, we sent our reporter out to

00:37:11.320 these protests in Edmonton, Alexa Posa, to ask some of these people some questions. I mean, one of them,

00:37:16.440 the interview with the demon went mega viral. Let's play that because this is just so symbolic

00:37:22.280 of our times. So, Juno News' Alexa Posa spoke to a self-identified demon at the Alberta teachers

00:37:29.800 protest in Edmonton. Here's what that looked like. Want to like hold up your sign and explain what it

00:37:34.280 means? Yeah, sure. So, I grew up in the church. I'm no longer within the church. And I found out that

00:37:40.360 Smith is still in the church. So, I contacted my scary little friend and he said that he was willing

00:37:46.200 to give her my seat instead. So, hopefully she'll accept that and then she can go where she belongs.

00:37:52.680 What? Okay. So, they're outright saying, they're saying the quiet part out loud. You know, the left

00:37:57.880 is demonic and the demons are opposed to Daniel Smith. Godspeed, Premier Smith. Seriously, may God

00:38:05.720 be with you. And like what kind of world are we living in where, you know, if you and I talk about

00:38:12.760 how there are demonic forces on the left and that we are engaged in some kind of a spiritual war, I

00:38:18.120 truly believe that after the death of Charlie Kirk and prior to that. But they're out there,

00:38:23.640 the left is out there, you know, saying it as well, that they are, they are demonic. They are

00:38:27.720 motivated by the devil. And that is why they're doing what they do. What do you, what do you think,

00:38:32.120 Ian? I agree with what you said. I am so grateful that we had Alexa to be at that rally because the

00:38:39.400 CBC would have saw that and they would not have pointed the camera in that direction. And what I've

00:38:46.680 learned in doing this job for the last seven years now is that the most important thing we can decide

00:38:56.360 to do is where we point the camera. Because the viewer at home who works all day long and goes home

00:39:03.560 to watch the news at night, what's on Juneau news, what's on the CBC, what's on wherever they get their

00:39:07.640 news, they're completely at the behest of the person who pointed the camera and asked the questions of the

00:39:14.120 person in front of it. And, uh, Alexa saw that she saw how outrageous it would be. And she knew that no

00:39:21.880 other platform, especially not the mainstream media would, would show their viewers what was behind this

00:39:28.520 teacher's strike and the D demonic forces behind it that are motivating it that are influencing, uh,

00:39:36.440 Alberta's children. Uh, yeah. I mean, what, how can you possibly think that that is a good, uh, look for

00:39:43.880 your cause. You're trying to convince teach. You're trying to convince Albertans that you deserve more

00:39:49.080 money so that you can further influence their kids. No, no, no. I'm, uh, I, my, my class size of 45 or,

00:39:56.360 you know, at 45, there's no class size of 45. My class size of 40 is too high. I need more one-on-one

00:40:02.600 time with kids so I can convince them how great Satan is. That's what they're saying. Uh, it's, it's wrong.

00:40:10.760 It's evil. And I'm, I'm, I'm again, grateful that we have a, uh, a transnational team of, uh, across the

00:40:19.000 country team of reporters that are able to show up at rallies like this and, and tell the, tell the stories

00:40:24.680 that the mainstream media is brushing under the rug. Well, it's so true, right? We all remember how the

00:40:29.000 trucker convoy was entirely peaceful. They were, you know, law-abiding, good-hearted Canadians who just

00:40:35.640 were sick of the mandates. We all were. They spoke for all of us, uh, when they went out there,

00:40:40.120 uh, one knucklehead shows up with a Nazi flag, obviously an aggravator probably paid for by the,

00:40:45.480 I mean, we, we, we never, we never confirmed this, but probably paid for by somebody to just show up.

00:40:50.360 He was there for all of 30 seconds. Someone snapped a photo of him. And all of a sudden,

00:40:54.440 all of the truckers were Nazis, right? One person shows up at the rally. No way was even proven that he

00:40:59.640 was affiliated with them. No one interviewed him. No one talked to him. No one knew why he had that Nazi

00:41:03.400 flag or who he was or where he came from, but it was enough that that was enough evidence for legacy

00:41:07.800 media to brush the entire, to paint the entire, uh, crowd with one, with one brush. And they said,

00:41:12.760 look, we've proven it there. There you have it. Uh, w w one of the things I just, you know, this is a

00:41:17.160 little off topic and it's not what Juno news is doing, but the, um, no Kings rallies that happened

00:41:21.640 all over the United States. Um, I, I recommend the audience go and watch Megyn Kelly show the day after

00:41:27.560 the, you know, Kings rally, all that she did, she spent the entire show just playing clips of people at

00:41:32.680 those rallies and the insanely demonic things that they were saying, the satanic things that they

00:41:37.000 were saying, the cruel, evil things that they were saying about Charlie Kirk. And these were,

00:41:40.520 this wasn't just like, you know, cherry pick here and there. It was, it was happening all over the

00:41:44.680 country. It was happening. Elderly people, young people, students, retirees. There was a lot of it.

00:41:50.040 It was really gross, right? And yet the media won't show you that side of the Kings rally. They'll just

00:41:54.120 say, Oh, look at these patriotic Americans standing up against Trump. Right? So, so, so the story that

00:41:58.680 you see is entirely determined by the media. There's a couple more questions. We're not going

00:42:02.680 to get to, um, that are to this light. I want to show one story to the audience, a Canadian example

00:42:07.800 of CTV and how they lie to you and how they openly lie to you. So this is the same story about Premier

00:42:12.360 Smith using the notwithstanding clause, which is part of our constitution. And so CTV originally had

00:42:17.880 this story, experts call Alberta's use of the notwithstanding clause, a threat to democracy.

00:42:22.440 To your point can, I mean, this was literally part of the deal, uh, that, that we would join

00:42:28.760 the country. Uh, but, but experts, right. And this is something that I pointed out to the audience,

00:42:33.000 probably for a decade now that this is a trick that journalists will use. They will say, they

00:42:36.920 will take an opinion, what should be an opinion piece. Right. And they'll say, my opinion is that

00:42:40.920 this is wrong, but because they're a journalist, we're not supposed to do that. So they find an expert

00:42:44.600 that has their same opinion. And then they, and then they quote that expert and they interview that

00:42:49.320 expert who says exactly what they always do. They were an opinion columnist. And so it's an opinion

00:42:53.400 piece, but it's dressed up as a news story. Well, thankfully, you know, there was a lot of people

00:42:58.120 online, um, calling us out, including Ellie Canton, who's a former true north reporter,

00:43:02.520 and he's doing some freelance stuff with us at Juneau now. And he just pointed out that the four

00:43:06.280 experts that they choose were all left-wing activists. They were all left-wingers. Right.

00:43:09.960 And so after some pushback from other people, including former premier Jason Keddie,

00:43:13.800 CTV changed the headline to critics call Alberta's use of the notwithstanding clause,

00:43:17.480 authority, democracy. Right. That's totally different. Right. When, when you say that an

00:43:21.720 expert says something, it gives us authority, right? It's a, it's a, it's a moral hazard,

00:43:25.640 but it says, you know, the people who are your intellectual betters believe that this is bad.

00:43:30.600 And that communicates one message. It's totally different than just saying critics don't like

00:43:34.920 it. Well, of course, critics don't like it. They're on the other side. They're going to be critical

00:43:38.280 of it. And so I'm, I'm glad, I guess, let's see if we change the headline, but it just shows you

00:43:42.360 how brutally dishonest legacy media is and how much you need judo news. I'm just, I'm honestly so happy

00:43:48.520 that we have created this organization that the audience likes it. You guys support us that we've

00:43:53.000 hit our goals that we're continuing to grow because Canada just needs new media. We just,

00:43:57.960 we need a new government. Yes. But we also need a changing of the guard. We just need all of these

00:44:02.120 legacy media to be called out, exposed for how corrupt and dishonest they are so that we can move on

00:44:08.120 and have a better future. A hundred percent. I want to build our relationship with our audience

00:44:12.920 because the only people that I care about making sure are happy are them, uh, not our advertisers, uh,

00:44:22.600 not our, uh, you know, not, not the class is it's the people that watch our content that have supported

00:44:32.520 me and you for a long, long time. They come first and making sure that, uh, we reflect their interests,

00:44:40.840 uh, which are, which is the interest of being informed of what's going on in a fair and reasonable

00:44:45.720 way. I don't, you know, I don't hide my biases. I'm a right wing individual, but our audience knows

00:44:51.800 that we talked about this earlier. Uh, the CBC tries to lie and say that they're neutral. The CTV tries

00:44:58.360 to lie and say that they're neutral, but with headlines like that, it's indisputable that they

00:45:02.760 are not. So I'm glad that we're doing things like this, this fireside chat. I think we should do more.

00:45:07.320 I think that there's, we, with the survey that we got back, there's a ton of really useful information

00:45:12.520 that we've received that we're going to use to build Juno news into something even better. I mean,

00:45:18.040 soon we're going to be launching a story. You'll be able to get a mug just like this, uh, and a bunch of

00:45:22.040 other stuff, sweaters, sweaters, and a bunch of, uh, different types of merch, um, so that we can continue to

00:45:27.960 build this brand and our relationship with our audience, because that's, that's what comes first.

00:45:32.680 A hundred percent. All right. I think we should wrap it up here. Everybody. Thank you so much

00:45:35.720 for tuning in. It's great to be back. Uh, Kian always enjoy the conversations. I agree. We should

00:45:39.320 do these things more often folks. Happy Halloween. Have a good one, uh, tonight, and we will be back

00:45:44.120 again next week. Thank you so much and God bless. I'm Kenneth Malcolm. It's Kian Bexby. Have a good one.

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