Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： HNIC's ratings plummet after firing Don Cherry

00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is spotted in Costa Rica and he is not looking his best.

00:00:04.920 Hockey Night in Canada ratings plummet after Don Cherry gets fired.

00:00:08.640 The Liberals work to rework the parents' and grandparents' reunification program.

00:00:13.800 And more Albertans now want to leave Canada than Quebecers.

00:00:18.060 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:25.580 Hi everyone, welcome to the show.

00:00:27.840 Happy New Year. I hope you had a wonderful celebration and that you've had a great and relaxing week or so since Christmas.

00:00:36.100 Enjoying time with your family. Wishing you nothing but prosperity and happiness in the new year and for the new decade ahead.

00:00:44.260 It's an exciting time for us at True North. We have a lot of new programs in the works.

00:00:48.300 We had a huge fundraising month in December.

00:00:51.100 So thank you so much to everyone who chipped in a few dollars.

00:00:54.260 It really, really helps us. We're launching new podcasts in this January.

00:01:00.080 We are hiring new investigative journalists.

00:01:02.340 We're getting a producer.

00:01:03.680 We've got a bunch of exciting new things that we will be rolling out.

00:01:06.720 So thank you to everyone who chipped in on that.

00:01:10.040 I am recording this podcast myself from an airport.

00:01:13.300 So if you hear any announcements in the background, apologies.

00:01:16.240 But that's the way it goes. My family and I are just heading back to Toronto after a relaxing holiday down in California.

00:01:23.760 So I am not the only one that's on vacation.

00:01:26.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it appears, was spotted at what looks like a grocery store picking up a bunch of, well, we don't really know.

00:01:33.740 He's carrying a brown paper bag with presumably some bottles in it.

00:01:37.720 And let me just say, he doesn't look very good.

00:01:40.100 He doesn't look very healthy. He doesn't look very well rested.

00:01:42.680 He looks a little annoyed or, I don't know, angry, depressed, something like that.

00:01:48.380 But this picture was snapped and shared on social media and appears to be the Prime Minister in Costa Rica.

00:01:54.080 You can't confirm it 100%, but it looks a lot like Justin Trudeau.

00:01:57.880 And he's not looking his best.

00:02:00.240 A lot of Canadians are kind of confused as to why the Prime Minister of Canada is taking a two-week trip to Costa Rica after being re-elected.

00:02:09.480 You know, he can't, apparently he can't go on vacation in Canada.

00:02:13.780 He wants to get far away from the media spotlight.

00:02:16.720 But, you know, in the age of social media, you really can't escape it.

00:02:19.520 It's everywhere. So there he was.

00:02:21.020 That's what he's looking like when he is not leading the Canadian government and leading the country.

00:02:27.400 So our very disheveled-looking Prime Minister, I guess he can't go back to the Aga Khan's private island anymore.

00:02:32.400 So Costa Rica it is, and Trudeau is not looking his best.

00:02:36.080 Hopefully he gets some rest before he comes back and tries to lead the Canadian government

00:02:42.040 in what hasn't really been a very good economic time for Canada.

00:02:45.960 You know, we're watching down in the U.S. where they've had sort of record growth and stock markets doing well,

00:02:50.880 jobs are doing well in Canada, the economy shed 70,000 jobs in November, GDP declined.

00:02:57.880 So it's not looking good, especially when you consider that the Justin Trudeau government

00:03:01.720 is just, you know, spending left, right and centre.

00:03:04.660 They increased the deficit size to over $26 billion.

00:03:08.180 And, you know, this is supposed to be in good times.

00:03:09.880 This is a time where the economy is doing pretty good.

00:03:12.220 You should be putting money aside to pay off the debt,

00:03:14.560 to pull down the deficit and get yourself in a stable financial situation should a recession come,

00:03:20.160 should a recession hit.

00:03:21.200 Trudeau is taking the exact opposite approach, leveraging Canada left, right and centre.

00:03:25.660 You know, we've got federal debt, but not just that.

00:03:27.580 All the provinces, provincial debt is also very large, very leveraged as a country,

00:03:33.480 not very well managed, especially considering the future generations of Canadians 0.97

00:03:37.180 are going to be stuck with the bill.

00:03:40.120 I want to talk quickly about something that the Liberals are doing that's actually kind of good.

00:03:44.560 They are reworking Canada's parent and grandparent immigration program, 0.86

00:03:48.880 family reunification programs.

00:03:50.760 This is always sort of a thorn in the side of governments

00:03:53.700 just because so many people from around the world want to sponsor

00:03:56.740 their elderly parents and grandparents to come to Canada

00:03:59.340 to get the sort of gold-plated government welfare, health care,

00:04:03.360 all that kind of stuff that Canadians pay into their whole lives.

00:04:06.740 It's always been beyond me.

00:04:08.360 I don't understand why Canada has a program where we accept immigrants who are elderly, 1.00

00:04:12.800 who are already retired to come in as citizens.

00:04:15.680 You know, those people can come to Canada.

00:04:17.480 They can join their families, help with child care and all that kind of stuff.

00:04:21.320 But why they become full-pledged citizens, you know,

00:04:24.860 capable of collecting all the same benefits as people who have worked

00:04:28.720 and paid taxes their entire life doesn't make any sense.

00:04:31.940 So it's kind of a good news story that the Liberals are postponing this program.

00:04:35.860 They issued a statement saying to ensure the Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Canada

00:04:40.420 has sufficient time to complete the development of a new intake process

00:04:44.420 for the 2020 Parents and Grandparents program.

00:04:47.400 The reopening of this program will be postponed until instructions are released.

00:04:52.020 So they're reworking it.

00:04:53.560 20,000 people a year get brought in through this program.

00:04:57.280 And again, Canada has something called the Super Visa.

00:04:59.820 So if you want to have your parents and grandparents come and visit you,

00:05:02.900 they can come for up to 10 years, two years at a time.

00:05:05.700 The visas last 10 years.

00:05:07.160 And the biggest stipulation is that you have to have private insurance.

00:05:09.900 So basically you have to pay for your own health care should you need it.

00:05:13.600 And, you know, that's pretty much in line with every other Western liberal democracy.

00:05:18.300 Canada's on its own in saying that, you know,

00:05:20.540 elderly people can actually come as immigrants and get full citizen

00:05:24.940 after living most of their, you know, life and adult life in another country.

00:05:29.020 So good news that they're reworking this.

00:05:31.300 We're not exactly sure what the new rework program is going to look like,

00:05:35.560 but we're going to keep an eye on that for you.

00:05:38.540 So keep tuned in to TNC.news for that as soon as information is released.

00:05:44.440 I wanted to also note that Hockey Night in Canada ratings are down

00:05:47.500 after Don Terry left the program.

00:05:49.520 We've been reporting on this.

00:05:51.500 You know, we showed a clip of Ron McLean,

00:05:54.960 who's taken over as sort of the main host of the show,

00:05:57.080 just going full on social justice warrior complaining about supposed structural racism

00:06:03.220 in his own show, talking about his own white privilege,

00:06:06.740 just all the most cringeworthy buzzwords of the far left

00:06:09.600 has now been infused in every aspect of our lives and our society.

00:06:13.340 Again, the last thing you want to hear when you're trying to relax

00:06:16.900 and watch a hockey game is some uptight leftist lecturing you

00:06:21.560 about how supposedly racist your entire country is.

00:06:24.300 It's total nonsense. Social justice nonsense has nothing,

00:06:28.360 no place in hockey.

00:06:29.920 Nobody wants to listen to woke, politically correct dogma

00:06:35.280 and doctrines when you're trying to relax and watch hockey.

00:06:38.460 So Hockey Night in Canada has consistently been a top 30 program.

00:06:42.340 But after Sports Night fired Don Cherry, the numbers dropped.

00:06:46.520 So the most recent numbers reported found that Hockey Night in Canada

00:06:49.720 only garnered 810,000 views on December 14th,

00:06:52.720 which was a decline by nearly 18% from the same week in 2018.

00:06:58.400 So 20% drop after Cherry is gone.

00:07:02.320 And, you know, that's just what's going to happen

00:07:05.780 when you get rid of someone who's kind of interesting

00:07:07.960 and colorful and making comments.

00:07:10.160 Canadians tune in to watch Don Cherry.

00:07:12.060 They don't necessarily tune in for the hockey.

00:07:15.920 They like to sit around and watch Don Cherry.

00:07:18.780 They like to sit and listen to what he has to say.

00:07:20.900 And the fact that he's not on the show anymore,

00:07:22.640 you know, people are going to choose to do something else with their time

00:07:25.900 and not as many Canadians are watching hockey.

00:07:28.400 So, you know, for all the talk of the left to claim that,

00:07:31.460 you know, Don Cherry wasn't inclusive enough.

00:07:34.080 Well, you know, Canadians are united around the fact that they like to watch hockey.

00:07:37.460 And thanks to the left and their political correctness,

00:07:40.200 less Canadians are united in watching hockey together.

00:07:43.200 A final story I want to talk about is this new study

00:07:46.400 that showed that 31% of Albertans

00:07:49.400 believe their province would be better off independent.

00:07:51.980 Compare that to just 26% of people in Quebec.

00:07:55.560 So the separatist movement is now bigger in Western Canada

00:07:58.880 and takes up a bigger portion of society.

00:08:01.580 You know, for all the years of complaints that we've heard from Quebec 0.99

00:08:05.080 about how they're a distinct society,

00:08:06.660 about how they're different from Canada,

00:08:08.500 how they're their own nation.

00:08:09.960 You know, you'd really think that the separatist movement

00:08:12.480 is part of the identity of Quebecers.

00:08:15.020 But, you know, when you have a prime minister like Justin Trudeau,

00:08:17.900 when you have policies like the liberal policies

00:08:19.800 that are really just tearing the country apart,

00:08:21.580 they're designed to punish and put back working people in Alberta

00:08:26.000 based on ideology, based on unproven theoretical problems

00:08:31.780 that they have.

00:08:32.900 Really, they believe that they can change the globe's temperature

00:08:35.560 by putting people out of work in Alberta.

00:08:38.840 It's total nonsense.

00:08:40.260 And that's the way that the government is led.

00:08:43.300 It's driven by ideology that they want to punish people

00:08:47.680 in Western Canada.

00:08:48.520 Well, I guess it's no surprise then.

00:08:50.340 30%, almost one in three Albertans,

00:08:52.800 believe their province would be better off independent.

00:08:56.040 That is huge.

00:08:57.440 That's frustration.

00:08:58.760 That's this sort of extreme disillusionment

00:09:01.720 that people in Western Canada are feeling.

00:09:04.880 My colleague and I, we were out in Calgary in early December

00:09:08.520 filming for a documentary that's still in the works.

00:09:11.360 We're just in post-production right now,

00:09:13.220 and that's going to be released sometime soon in the coming weeks.

00:09:16.180 So keep an eye out for that.

00:09:17.740 You can find it at tnc.news.

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00:09:22.540 that we have going on.

00:09:23.540 We've got a lot of exciting things on the go.

00:09:27.040 All right, it's Thursday.

00:09:27.800 Let's do a quick This Week in Fake News.

00:09:30.540 All right, this one comes courtesy of the Post Millennial,

00:09:33.640 our friends over at the Post Millennial,

00:09:35.240 and Graham Gordon, who's an investigative reporter over there,

00:09:38.240 used to do some investigative reporting for us at tnc.news,

00:09:41.420 and now he's over with the Post Millennial.

00:09:43.840 So he reports on a story that the CBC did

00:09:47.820 on the homeless crisis in Toronto.

00:09:50.640 So two weeks ago, the CBC's national aired a report

00:09:53.000 on the homeless crisis in Toronto,

00:09:54.900 where the shelter system is currently overwhelmed

00:09:56.900 with people needing a place to stay

00:09:58.680 during the harsh winter nights,

00:10:00.000 with many being turned away due to lack of beds

00:10:02.280 at many locations.

00:10:03.380 But the CBC story failed to include any mention

00:10:06.320 of the thousands of asylum seekers

00:10:08.580 who have illegally entered Canada from the U.S.

00:10:11.360 and sought shelter in Toronto over the past few years,

00:10:14.540 which is a major factor in the system being overloaded.

00:10:18.520 And Graham Gordon would know that

00:10:19.720 because when he was doing investigative reporting

00:10:21.680 for us at TNC, one of the things that he was doing

00:10:24.380 was going around to the different hotels

00:10:27.200 that the city of Toronto have basically commandeered

00:10:30.000 and turned over to be refugee housing

00:10:33.220 or asylum seeker housing for potential refugees.

00:10:35.800 So people are staying in these hotels,

00:10:38.480 and most of them are people who are trying to be refugees,

00:10:42.360 people who are asylum seekers.

00:10:44.000 They've totally overwhelmed the shelter system in Toronto,

00:10:46.740 and Graham Gordon reported that for us at True North.

00:10:48.860 But when the CBC repackaged this story

00:10:51.240 and published it on Boxing Day,

00:10:53.040 there was a major omission in this story.

00:10:54.940 It was one of the most popular stories on the CBC website,

00:10:57.520 and yet it didn't include anything about asylum seekers.

00:11:02.000 So why wouldn't the CBC just state the obvious?

00:11:05.480 You know, the fact that there's thousands of people

00:11:07.480 who have crossed the border.

00:11:08.980 They used to go to Montreal.

00:11:10.420 Montreal was so overwhelmed,

00:11:11.980 they created a deal that said, you know,

00:11:13.620 if people are English-speaking,

00:11:15.020 we'll send them to Toronto.

00:11:16.080 If they're French-speaking, 0.99

00:11:16.640 they can stay in Montreal,

00:11:18.060 but Toronto really started picking up the slack,

00:11:20.620 and it's been an ongoing issue in the city.

00:11:22.400 Anyone who's been following it,

00:11:23.800 it's been ongoing for over a year.

00:11:25.700 At first, they put them into dorm rooms.

00:11:27.820 This is two summers ago now,

00:11:29.240 but then when school started again in September,

00:11:31.260 they needed those dorm rooms,

00:11:32.500 so they cleared the people out

00:11:33.500 and started putting them into the homeless shelters.

00:11:37.300 And so you really have to ask yourself and wonder,

00:11:40.060 how is it that the CBC can just omit

00:11:42.560 a major portion of the story

00:11:44.260 and try to tell the story of homelessness in Toronto

00:11:46.720 without addressing the elephant in the room?

00:11:49.060 Well, that's the problem.

00:11:50.120 That's what's going on with the Trudeau government

00:11:52.500 and his media bailout,

00:11:54.100 with Trudeau government and the CBC.

00:11:56.560 Journalists have their hands in the government pot,

00:11:58.400 and therefore they have to toe the government line.

00:12:00.540 It would look bad on the Trudeau government

00:12:02.520 to address the fact that there is

00:12:03.740 an illegal immigration crisis in the country,

00:12:06.420 and that is manifesting itself

00:12:08.400 in the day-to-day lives of people who work,

00:12:10.380 you know, the frontline workers,

00:12:11.460 who work to help the neediest people in the city

00:12:14.720 and in the country,

00:12:15.880 such as at homeless shelters.

00:12:17.100 And because of it,

00:12:17.900 Canadian people who are homeless,

00:12:20.040 many of them are veterans,

00:12:22.020 many of them are just sort of stumbled upon hard luck,

00:12:24.960 they are being displaced

00:12:26.300 because of the influx of newcomers

00:12:29.060 from around the world

00:12:30.100 who have come to Canada,

00:12:31.200 not necessarily to pull themselves up,

00:12:33.480 to work hard and to have a good life,

00:12:35.320 but to sort of free ride,

00:12:37.180 to benefit from the things

00:12:40.260 that the Canadian government gives away

00:12:42.960 that people in other places of the world

00:12:45.140 could only dream about.

00:12:46.200 So the idea that you can go and live

00:12:48.220 in a hotel or a motel,

00:12:50.960 you know, sure, it's not super fancy,

00:12:53.120 it's not the Ritz,

00:12:54.520 but we've done our own reporting at TNC.news,

00:12:57.860 the individuals who are staying in hotels

00:13:00.720 get maid service, 1.00

00:13:02.480 they get cable TV and internet,

00:13:03.940 many of these places have swimming pools.

00:13:06.360 Some of them even have room service

00:13:07.900 and many of them have free,

00:13:09.660 unlimited buffets of food, all you can eat.

00:13:11.940 So it's basically like an all-inclusive resort,

00:13:15.420 hotel in the city of Toronto

00:13:17.260 for people from the developing world.

00:13:19.300 They probably, you know,

00:13:20.340 can't believe their luck

00:13:21.300 that they've landed in Canada

00:13:22.620 and get this sort of royal treatment.

00:13:26.100 But don't trust the CBC,

00:13:27.720 you're never going to get

00:13:28.360 this kind of information on the CBC.

00:13:31.100 You'll definitely want to check out

00:13:32.200 those reports that we have done

00:13:33.460 over at TNC.news

00:13:35.700 because they really do show

00:13:36.960 what it's like

00:13:38.140 and what kind of benefits you get

00:13:40.440 if you are an asylum seeker

00:13:41.940 living in Canada's largest city,

00:13:44.120 just how nice it is for you there.

00:13:46.380 And Graham Gordon closes his piece

00:13:48.120 with a rather apt observation.

00:13:50.240 He says,

00:13:50.640 it's a sad day for journalism

00:13:51.960 when the top comments

00:13:53.260 in the comments section

00:13:54.660 explain the situation

00:13:56.440 far better than reporters.

00:13:58.740 Well, that is true.

00:14:00.120 You can't really trust the CBC.

00:14:02.280 But, you know,

00:14:03.000 it's kind of funny

00:14:03.680 because when you read

00:14:04.360 the comments section

00:14:05.080 on the CBC reports,

00:14:06.480 it's not really

00:14:07.460 the left-wing viewership

00:14:08.720 that you would imagine

00:14:09.400 the CBC has.

00:14:10.220 It's mostly just

00:14:10.860 common sense people

00:14:12.080 pointing out the many errors

00:14:13.400 and the many biases

00:14:14.640 in the CBC,

00:14:16.180 which is becoming

00:14:16.940 basically

00:14:17.800 a national pastime

00:14:19.640 in Canada.

00:14:20.460 I think that's one

00:14:21.140 one other thing

00:14:22.080 that unites us

00:14:22.740 is that we

00:14:23.360 growingly

00:14:24.280 distrust the media

00:14:25.460 and know that the CBC

00:14:26.740 is incredibly biased.

00:14:28.680 Okay, I am going

00:14:29.540 to leave it at that.

00:14:30.340 Thank you so much

00:14:30.940 for tuning in.

00:14:31.520 We'll be back

00:14:32.000 in our studio

00:14:32.860 with regular

00:14:33.640 video podcasts

00:14:34.960 next week.

00:14:36.240 Thank you so much

00:14:36.960 for tuning in

00:14:37.620 and again,

00:14:38.340 have a very,

00:14:39.140 very happy new year.

Juno News - January 03, 2020

The Candice Malcolm Show： HNIC's ratings plummet after firing Don Cherry

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