Juno News - August 08, 2026


The legacy media's unfair ATTACKS against Pierre Poilievre

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00:00:00.000 I know conservatives will never get a fair shake from the legacy media, especially when it comes
00:00:12.200 to coverage regarding the United States. But is it just me or is the coverage getting more
00:00:17.360 outrageous by the day? The legacy media, of course, we know that they try to hold the opposition to
00:00:23.600 account more than they try to hold the government to account. But now it appears as though the
00:00:29.120 legacy media who apparently have nothing to actually criticize the government over nothing
00:00:35.760 to report on the government over are now operating as if pierre poliev and the conservatives are
00:00:43.200 actually the ones in charge and making deals with the united states last week andrew coin publishes
00:00:50.640 an op-ed in canada's paper of record the globe and mail arguing that conservatives they have a
00:00:56.880 patriotism problem apparently. But the Toronto Star in-house comic, the comic creator Theo
00:01:03.840 Moudakis, now I know it sounds petty and small, but it's not really because the Toronto Star is
00:01:10.500 the largest newspaper in Canada. It has more circulation than the globe. The Toronto Star
00:01:16.500 comic creator is creating these comics in which Pierre Polyev is the one making deals with the
00:01:23.860 United States. It couldn't be more blatant. It couldn't be more obvious. Mark Carney is failing
00:01:30.920 so badly at negotiating with the United States. He's doing such a terrible job at standing up
00:01:37.820 for Canada, at being Captain Canada, that the legacy media have decided the only way to actually
00:01:46.080 help the Prime Minister now is to continue to report unfavorably against the opposition leader.
00:01:51.840 i hate to be hyperbolic and i hate to give in to some of the most insane and loony takes from the
00:01:59.760 right sometimes but when they say that the way the mainstream media is operating feels more like out
00:02:07.280 of the soviet union when you're holding the opposition to account and you're protecting the
00:02:12.680 government protecting the ones in power protecting the ones that write your paychecks i have to agree
00:02:18.620 with them on this instance. It's just insane. I'm going to get into the column. I'm going to show
00:02:24.240 you these cartoons. I'm going to show you some social media reaction later on to illustrate to
00:02:30.400 you just how insane this is. We have a prime minister cutting deals with China, continuing to
00:02:36.800 cave, continuing to fold whenever he comes face to face with Donald Trump. Whenever there is an
00:02:43.460 opportunity to stand up for Canadians. The Prime Minister is unable to rise to the occasion.
00:02:50.740 We have that going on. Meanwhile, the mainstream media is ratcheting up the attacks on Pierre
00:02:55.680 Polyev. It makes no sense. The Canadian government and big tech find new ways every day to shut down
00:03:01.800 and silence conservative voices online. There's no longer this big moment when you get cancelled.
00:03:06.240 It's done so quietly, behind your back, by tweaking algorithms. The only way we can make
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00:03:27.880 News subscription. As always, before you get into it, be sure to like this video, subscribe to the
00:03:32.000 Juno News YouTube channel, and the common question for the episode is this. Do you read the mainstream
00:03:39.040 media in Canada anymore? Do you pay for the mainstream media in Canada? Let me know your
00:03:45.340 answer in the comments below. Let's get into it. So this was the first news item that really teed
00:03:50.900 off a conversation on social media and pretty much convinced me that there's no hope left for
00:03:57.600 the mainstream media in Canada. It was Andrew Coyne's column in the Globe and Mail, the paper
00:04:01.940 of record, arguing that Canadian conservatives have a patriotism problem. Now his argument
00:04:07.300 is that because there are social media influencers that support the conservative party that are
00:04:14.100 maybe loosely involved with the conservative party that do in fact to be fair and honest
00:04:20.900 some of these influencers they do in fact support the united states they do in fact
00:04:26.180 cheer and celebrate u.s tariffs on canada which makes zero sense by the way they should be called
00:04:32.560 out for it. But his argument is that because there are these social media influencers who
00:04:38.900 seem to support the United States and cheer whenever tariffs are placed against Canadian
00:04:43.740 workers, and also there's the Alberta separatist movement rising and the Alberta referendum
00:04:50.280 coming up that is obviously driven by frustrated Alberta conservatives, that means that
00:04:59.140 conservatives across Canada and the Conservative Party, they are unpatriotic. They have a patriotism
00:05:04.280 problem. So the Globe and Mail, knowingly by the way, are publishing a column in which they're
00:05:11.120 taking the radical fringe of the conservative movement, whether it's in Alberta or it's online
00:05:18.540 with social media influencers, and saying that it's the conservatives, not the liberals, that
00:05:23.520 have a patriotism problem. Isn't that strange? The government in charge of the country for the
00:05:29.500 last 10 years will be in charge for 15 years. That government, that party, responsible for
00:05:37.720 handing out free drugs to struggling Canadians so they can die on the street, as they can watch
00:05:45.520 our downtown cores across the country shrink and disappear and evaporate. That's the patriotic 0.99
00:05:53.000 party the party responsible for mass immigration for permanently changing the demographics of
00:06:01.560 canada in order to artificially chase gdp increases the party responsible for importing millions of
00:06:09.080 people into this country and essentially ruining the prospects for young canadians that's the
00:06:14.840 patriotic party the opposition to that they're the ones that have a patriotism problem really
00:06:23.000 The party responsible for the erasure of John A. Macdonald, for the demonization of Canada, of Canadian culture, of Canadian history, that's the patriotic party.
00:06:34.600 Are you starting to get it now? Just how backwards and insane this all is? It makes no sense.
00:06:40.680 oh but it's the ones who have been defending canadian history defending canadian culture
00:06:47.160 defending canadian identity the conservatives the right wing they are the ones that have the
00:06:53.480 patriotism problem andrew coin in his column he says that in pretty much every other western
00:06:59.520 democracy patriotism is the political domain of the right whereas in canada it is the political
00:07:06.760 domain of the left. Maybe that might tell you that Canadian patriotism as it is defined by the left
00:07:15.580 and by the mainstream media isn't patriotism at all. It's more about self-love. It's more about
00:07:20.600 tweaking and changing the country, rewriting history, apologizing for it, manufacturing the
00:07:27.840 country in order to make its presence worthy of praise, worthy of being patriotic.
00:07:36.760 Canadian Conservatives, meanwhile, were patriotic because we love the country as it is.
00:07:43.060 We love the country that it was, and we love the country as it is.
00:07:46.600 We don't try to apologize for the past.
00:07:48.960 We don't try to remake the image of Canada.
00:07:52.060 It wasn't Conservatives that erased the red ensign and raised the corporate, meaningless, symbolic maple leaf.
00:07:59.380 It wasn't Conservatives that turned Canada into the world's first official multicultural country.
00:08:06.760 why because canadian culture wasn't good enough as it is it wasn't a conservative prime minister
00:08:12.120 who entered office telling a foreign newspaper that canada was going to be the world's first
00:08:17.560 post-national state the party that promotes post-nationalism anti-nationalism anti-patriotism
00:08:27.400 is considered the patriotic party up until the 1960s the liberals were the party that
00:08:35.000 was always trying to promote free trade with the united states trying to promote closer integration
00:08:41.080 since the beginning of canadian confederation since john a mcdonald it has been the conservatives
00:08:47.000 the conservative right in canada until about the 1980s who were skeptical of the united states
00:08:54.600 project who built canada in order to resist continental pressures from the united states
00:09:01.640 everything about canada was designed as a way to counter the pressure of the united states
00:09:08.200 to preserve a conservative vision a country built on anti-revolution a country that earned
00:09:15.240 its independence not by the point of a bayonet not via rebellion and revolution we are a
00:09:22.200 conservative country the idea of canada is a conservative project peace order and good
00:09:27.320 government. And up until Brian Mulroney came along, it was always conservatives who understood
00:09:32.940 that the United States should be viewed with at least a hefty amount of skepticism. Of course,
00:09:39.860 the Globe and Mail article makes no attempt to add historical context at all. Is there a perception
00:09:46.880 problem right now among the Canadian electorate? Of course there is. There is a perception problem
00:09:52.200 that Canadian conservatives are seen as being too pro-Trump.
00:09:56.720 But that doesn't mean that it's actually true
00:09:58.980 just because the electorate has a perception of something
00:10:02.100 obviously driven in large part because of the mainstream media
00:10:06.400 and the political framing from the left
00:10:08.620 that doesn't make it factually true.
00:10:10.940 But now I've got to show you these cartoons from the Toronto Star,
00:10:15.680 Canada's largest newspaper by the way.
00:10:18.960 Now look at this one and I know it's a political cartoon
00:10:21.820 I get it. But these things give you good insight into the editorial mindset of the paper that
00:10:30.060 they're being ran in. This is just absurd. Pierre Polyev's the one at the deal-making table with
00:10:36.460 Donald Trump. I mean, just come on. And here again, Pierre Polyev cheering Trump on. The reality is
00:10:44.940 I'm almost certain here that Pierre Polyev has never publicly endorsed tariffs, endorsed Donald
00:10:54.440 Trump since he became elected again. Every time it's been brought up, Pierre Polyev has consistently
00:11:00.080 stood up on behalf of Canadians to oppose annexation threats and to oppose tariffs.
00:11:06.400 What we're watching here is a manufactured consensus, an attempt to design conservatives
00:11:16.960 as being anti-Canadian. But it's even worse than that, because they're trying to go even further.
00:11:24.380 When the Conservative Party has been 100% unequivocal in their support of a unified Canada
00:11:31.000 opposing Alberta separatism. They're trying to make it seem as though the conservative movement
00:11:37.740 is supporting Alberta separatism. They're trying to convince Canadian voters that the conservative
00:11:43.460 party is treasonous. And that is extremely dangerous. A reminder that you can use my code
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00:11:57.720 reminder to answer the comment question of the video. Do you still read the mainstream media in
00:12:02.720 Canada? That's going to do it for us this week on the show. My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is
00:12:08.500 Ratioed.