Juno News - January 09, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： The mainstream media swoons over Trudeau's beard

Topics
NDP at Soleimani rally mainstream media wildfires arson
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Qasem Soleimani Milo Yiannopoulos Andrea Horvath Donald Trump Brian Lilly McMillan
Canadian city wants federal funding to combat “rumours” about immigrants The UN thinks pipelines are racist…somehow

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The United Nation says it s racist to support the energy industry in Canada, the Ontario NDP celebrate a terrorist, 63 Canadians are killed in a plane crash in Iran, and the media swoon over Justin Trudeau s beard because I guess there s nothing else happening in the world. Plus, it s Thursday, so we ll do fake news of the week and a little pick me up story because we really need one right now.

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00:00:00.000 The United Nations says it's racist to support the energy industry in Canada.
00:00:03.960 The Ontario NDP celebrate a terrorist.
00:00:07.120 63 Canadians are killed in a plane crash in Iran.
00:00:10.400 And the media swoon over Justin Trudeau's beard,
00:00:13.840 because I guess there's nothing else happening in the world.
00:00:16.160 Plus, it's Thursday, so we'll do fake news of the week
00:00:18.640 and a little pick-me-up story, because we really need one right now.
00:00:21.520 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:24.240 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:31.120 We have a lot to get to today, so let's get right to it.
00:00:34.400 The United Nations put out a committee panel,
00:00:37.840 saying basically that Canada shouldn't be developing its own natural resources
00:00:41.840 and shouldn't be building pipelines because, get this, it is racist.
00:00:46.000 So this is over at tnc.news.
00:00:48.320 The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
00:00:52.880 directed Canada to stop constructing three energy resource projects,
00:00:57.280 including the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline.
00:01:00.080 18 members of the committee claimed that Canada did not get the proper consent
00:01:04.320 from Indigenous groups to construct the pipeline,
00:01:06.880 as well as the Site C dam and the Coastal Gas Link Pipeline.
00:01:11.360 This is all because they say that First Nation groups in Canada were not properly consulted.
00:01:16.560 Well, that couldn't be further from the truth.
00:01:18.240 Over 100 First Nation groups were involved with talks with the federal government
00:01:22.560 to secure the ownership of the TMX pipeline.
00:01:26.240 And let's just be frank, the natural resource industry in Canada is the largest employer
00:01:32.000 of Aboriginal and First Nations youth.
00:01:34.640 In so many of the small towns in northern parts of the country,
00:01:38.640 individuals wouldn't even have the prospect of a job if it wasn't for the natural resources.
00:01:43.360 So the fact that the United Nations is butting its head into Canada,
00:01:46.720 saying that it's supposedly racist, I guess they fixed all the other problems in the world.
00:01:51.120 All the other issues, all the other problems in the entire world must have been fixed.
00:01:55.280 Racism must not exist anymore if the United Nations is now focusing its attention on stopping pipelines
00:02:02.000 because of supposed racism.
00:02:03.280 I guess there's no more racism in the world.
00:02:06.320 The United Nations is just wasting everyone's time and money with these kind of declarations.
00:02:11.840 All right, let's move on.
00:02:12.800 This is from Brian Lilly over at the Toronto Sun.
00:02:16.160 So as I've talked about on this show, as we've been reporting, there was a vigil held
00:02:20.960 for the killed Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani in Toronto over the weekend outside the US consulate.
00:02:27.600 There were a lot of sort of regime loyalists who happened to be in Canada,
00:02:32.240 basically fighting in support of the regime.
00:02:34.400 There were also a lot of other just general anti-American groups,
00:02:38.160 other groups that don't want America to be involved in the Middle East.
00:02:42.320 And then, you know, there was a typical kind of anti-war protesters and gatherers.
00:02:47.440 It's one thing to be opposed to war and it's one thing to be anti-war,
00:02:51.600 which a lot of people on the left like the NDP are.
00:02:54.240 This is different.
00:02:54.960 Brian Lilly reports.
00:02:56.560 He says that two NDP MPPs in Ontario were at this rally showing solidarity for a terrorist
00:03:04.640 and that he was being mourned and honored.
00:03:06.880 So these NDP officials, elected officials were at this rally where people were holding
00:03:12.240 up placards, holding up posters, celebrating terrorism and terrorist groups in the Middle
00:03:17.360 East and in Iran.
00:03:18.640 Shame on them.
00:03:19.280 The NDP has absolutely no sense.
00:03:21.520 You know, they're anti-war now that the Americans have gotten involved.
00:03:24.720 But where were they?
00:03:25.920 Where were they just a month ago when the Iranian regime was cracking down
00:03:30.160 and they murdered more than 1500 young Iranians who were protesting in the streets,
00:03:34.480 peacefully protesting?
00:03:35.680 Why weren't they anti-terrorism and anti-war then?
00:03:38.240 They're only anti-war when the Americans are involved.
00:03:40.480 Frankly, it's because they're anti-American.
00:03:42.720 But this is so problematic that their worldview has placed them where they're actually in alignment
00:03:48.400 and in an agreement with terrorist forces.
00:03:51.440 This is repulsive and they should be kicked out of the NDP caucus as far as I'm concerned.
00:03:56.400 They have a lot to explain to their constituents why they were at a rally supporting a terrorist,
00:04:01.920 supporting a person who has waged war across the Middle East.
00:04:05.280 Like I said on the last show, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.
00:04:09.600 He was one of the primary drivers of the war in Syria, the civil war in Syria,
00:04:13.680 the ongoing civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, not to mention militias
00:04:18.560 and terrorist groups destabilizing Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, you name it.
00:04:24.640 Soleimani had his dirty fingerprints all over terrorism throughout the region. 0.99
00:04:28.720 And again, just shame on the NDP. 0.94
00:04:30.960 Andrew Horvath, NDP leader in Ontario, should kick these members out of her caucus
00:04:35.600 and take a stand against terrorism in Canada.
00:04:39.600 And another sad news, sad news coming out of Iran.
00:04:43.520 A commercial airplane had crashed.
00:04:46.080 The plane was going from Tehran to Ukraine.
00:04:49.920 Many of the passengers on board were en route to Canada.
00:04:52.960 So 63 Canadian citizens were on board and they were killed.
00:04:57.360 You just never want to see news like this.
00:04:58.960 It's just awful.
00:05:00.240 So this is what we know so far about the crash of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752.
00:05:06.960 All 176 people on board the flight are dead, including 63 Canadians.
00:05:11.680 And Iran being Iran, they're refusing to hand over the black box from the recovered wreckage 0.98
00:05:16.560 to help try to understand what had gone on.
00:05:19.200 So it was a Boeing 737-800, which is part of the same aircraft family as the 737 MAX plane
00:05:26.000 that has been grounded worldwide since March after two other plane crashes.
00:05:30.000 And Canadian officials have issued their condolences and messages of support.
00:05:35.040 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted the following.
00:05:37.360 Heartbreaking news from Tehran this morning.
00:05:39.840 176 people, including 63 Canadians, have lost their lives in a tragic plane crash.
00:05:44.880 My thoughts are with those who are mourning the loss of family members, friends and loved ones.
00:05:48.960 So just really, really sad news.
00:05:50.960 My heart goes out to the families of those who were involved in the crash,
00:05:55.440 those who lost their lives and anyone affected by this.
00:05:57.840 You just really hate to see this kind of stuff.
00:06:00.080 There's so much bad news happening in the world right now.
00:06:02.880 But don't worry, almost in unison, the Canadian media, the mainstream media,
00:06:07.120 they all put out news stories about, you guessed it, Justin Trudeau's facial hair, his beard.
00:06:12.880 It became a trending item on social media, on Twitter.
00:06:16.240 And it's really remarkable.
00:06:17.360 It was like one story after another, after another of the mainstream media
00:06:21.440 writing serious news stories about the Prime Minister's beard.
00:06:25.680 The CBC has an article.
00:06:27.760 Hair apparent.
00:06:28.800 How Justin Trudeau's beard makes him look more like a dad.
00:06:32.560 Okay.
00:06:33.360 Huffington Post.
00:06:34.320 Justin Trudeau's beard is here and we need to talk about it.
00:06:37.760 Vice.
00:06:38.640 Justin Trudeau has a beard now.
00:06:40.240 What does it mean?
00:06:41.600 This is the worst one.
00:06:43.040 Statesman daddy or dad, Justin Trudeau's new beard ignites social media.
00:06:48.400 Okay.
00:06:48.800 Just a pro tip to all the fellow journalists and reporters out there.
00:06:52.240 Just because someone on social media calls Justin Trudeau daddy doesn't mean that you
00:06:57.040 have to actually report on it and you don't have to include it in the headline.
00:07:00.480 This is just so disturbing.
00:07:01.920 So creepy.
00:07:02.560 You know, I've said this on Twitter, but I'll say it again.
00:07:04.480 When Milo Yiannopoulos started calling Donald Trump daddy, it was creepy.
00:07:08.800 It was weird and it was creepy.
00:07:10.720 And so the mainstream media shouldn't follow Milo down that creepy path by starting to call
00:07:15.600 Justin Trudeau daddy.
00:07:16.560 Just stop.
00:07:17.440 Just stop.
00:07:18.080 It is creepy and nobody wants to hear it.
00:07:21.200 Okay.
00:07:21.600 It's Thursday.
00:07:22.400 So I'm going to do fake news of the week.
00:07:24.000 I mean, all those headlines I just read could have easily been the fake news story of the
00:07:28.160 week for all the things that are happening in the world.
00:07:30.320 You know, we're on the brink of war.
00:07:32.400 Canadian troops may be being put in harm's way.
00:07:34.880 The country is still divided.
00:07:36.160 The economy is not doing very well.
00:07:38.000 There are so many things that media could talk about.
00:07:40.480 There's a conservative leadership race in the mix.
00:07:43.040 Instead of reporting on all those things, they report on Justin Trudeau's beard because 1.00
00:07:46.240 they're all stupid. 1.00
00:07:47.600 But I've got another fake news story of the week this week. 1.00
00:07:50.640 This one comes to us courtesy of CTV News.
00:07:54.000 So the headline says, experts say that climate change is driving up the risk of wildfires
00:08:00.160 in Canada.
00:08:01.200 It's a Canadian press story.
00:08:03.200 And of course, they find experts to tell them exactly what they already believe, which is
00:08:08.240 that global warming is this huge threat to our way of life and that we just have to have more
00:08:13.840 big government and more taxes and more regulations to kill our economy, to kill our industry, to raise 0.79
00:08:20.560 more revenues for government because somehow that will absolve us all from the changing climate
00:08:25.360 and we'll be able to turn down the dial or something like that.
00:08:28.480 The media like to find environmental experts to tell us all about how climate change is destroying
00:08:33.920 everything.
00:08:34.640 But when it comes to the wildfires, both the ones in Alberta that were devastating last year
00:08:39.200 and the current ones in Australia, they basically glaze over the fact that in both of these cases,
00:08:44.560 there are arsonists that are actively being charged, actively being looked at,
00:08:49.280 because they're the ones that are actually the cause of these wildfires.
00:08:52.640 So I don't really understand how you can write an entire news article blaming forest
00:08:57.280 fires on climate change and just omit the fact that, for instance, in Australia, 24 people have
00:09:02.560 been charged with arson in relation to these ongoing forest fires.
00:09:07.120 And they say that, sure, that the catastrophe of these wildfires are also contributed
00:09:12.240 by drought, extreme heat, but also individuals.
00:09:16.160 So police have charged at least 24 people for intentionally starting the bushfires in the
00:09:19.840 state of the New South Wales.
00:09:21.360 According to a statement by New South Wales police released on Monday, NSW police have taken legal
00:09:26.720 action against 183 people, 40 of whom are juveniles for fire related offenses since November 8th.
00:09:34.000 The statement said the legal action ranges from cautions to criminal charges.
00:09:39.280 So it's arson. These fires are being caused by arson.
00:09:42.640 Again, this is very similar to the large wildfires that happened in Alberta.
00:09:47.120 The RCMP determined that it was arson that caused those as well.
00:09:51.680 This is from a Canadian press news story in October 2019.
00:09:55.600 A wildfire that threatened remote communities in north central Alberta and torched 27,000 square
00:10:01.840 kilometers of forest was deliberately said.
00:10:04.800 RCMP and Alberta government investigators have determined that the McMillan forest fire
00:10:09.680 was started as a result of arson.
00:10:11.760 The wildfire began near the community of Wabaska on May 18th and grew to the point where it forced
00:10:16.800 the evacuation of Wabaska and Peerless Trout First Nation.
00:10:20.720 Again, you would think that all of this would be relevant in a story about
00:10:24.160 what causes the forest fires, but no.
00:10:27.200 But no, the mainstream media instead just say that it is climate change.
00:10:30.800 Okay, maybe that's why nobody trusts mainstream media anymore.
00:10:34.080 All right, it's that kind of day and I feel like we should end the podcast on a positive note.
00:10:37.680 We need some kind of a pick me up here.
00:10:39.280 So I found this video circulating on Twitter and I just absolutely love it.
00:10:42.560 I have to share it in the middle of winter on a cold, cold January day.
00:10:46.240 This might be the pick me up that you need.
00:10:48.720 So this was posted.
00:10:49.840 It says this 14 month old was helping his dad shovel in Newfoundland
00:10:54.560 after yesterday's 15 inches of snowfall when he glitched.
00:10:58.720 So here he is, the little guy helping his dad shovel the driveway, shovel the snow,
00:11:03.520 and that's when he just goes teetering over and dad just nonchalantly picks him right back up.
00:11:08.960 I absolutely love this.
00:11:10.000 I have a little boy that's about four months younger than this guy and I can't wait for him to
00:11:15.280 start shoveling the driveway and start helping out around the house like this.
00:11:18.640 This is adorable and just love it.
00:11:21.520 Just love Canadians in the winter coming together, getting through the winter.
00:11:25.360 All right.
00:11:25.760 I'm going to leave it at that.
00:11:26.800 Thank you so much for tuning in and we will be back again next week.