Juno News - This is NOT how a FREE PRESS should operate

00:00:00.000 Canada's media is captured. They're bought and paid for by the Trudeau Liberals. They have been completely compromised in their ability to publish honest, objective, and fact-based journalism.

00:00:12.080 The latest example comes courtesy of the Toronto Star, a once-respected publication that has now resorted to publishing PMO propaganda created by Justin Trudeau's office.

00:00:24.380 Has Canada's legacy media given up on even pretending to be objective and neutral? It certainly looks like that. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:33.480 Hi, everybody, and thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. So as you noticed, we did not do an episode on Friday. We didn't do our usual fake news Friday because it was good Friday, and we didn't want to compromise that somber holiday by having to talk about the absolute train wreck, which is Canada's media.

00:01:02.200 So we decided to save it and do the sort of fake news Friday-esque show for you today. So we're going to be covering some of the absolute worst examples of media fails in Canada, which just becomes so frequent.

00:01:14.580 It's like low-hanging fruit every single day. There's worse and worse examples, but there was one from last week that really stood out from the Toronto Star.

00:01:22.500 We're going to get to all of that. Before we do, please remember to like this video, subscribe to our True North channel if you're new around here.

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00:01:42.500 Okay, so by now you are very aware of the Trudeau government's online harms bill and how it includes hefty fines and possibly even jail time for online speech.

00:01:54.280 Yes, it includes life imprisonment for crimes that could be motivated by the ill-defined and hazy concept of hate.

00:02:01.280 They never really tell us exactly what that hate means, but we know that it will be defined by Justin Trudeau and his henchmen.

00:02:08.080 So this egregious bill has been discredited by people all around the world and all across the political spectrum from sort of high-profile mainstream celebrities like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan to respected lawyer Michael Geist to renowned author and let me just mention like a hardcore sort of left-wing person, Margaret Atwood.

00:02:28.420 So it's not just conservatives, it's not just the political right that opposes this bill, it's pretty much everybody.

00:02:35.400 And so what does the Toronto Star do? What do readers of the Toronto Star see about the censorship bill?

00:02:41.580 Well, they see a full-throated defense of the Online Harms Act.

00:02:46.240 There was an article published last week, it was titled,

00:02:49.140 Have you heard the one about Justin Trudeau attacking your free speech online?

00:02:53.000 Trust me, it's just rage farming.

00:02:56.720 Trust me, guys, there's nothing to worry about.

00:02:59.040 It's just a bunch of crazy people online that are saying that this is going to be an affront to free speech.

00:03:06.020 But it's not, it's just rage farming.

00:03:08.460 So who is the person who published this piece in the Toronto Star?

00:03:13.560 Well, not that you would know from reading it, but it's not just any old defense of a terrible liberal bill.

00:03:19.400 This article is written by a woman called Supriya Develdi, and she is also a senior advisor to Justin Trudeau.

00:03:27.400 Yes, she works in the prime minister's office. 0.94

00:03:30.140 She works for Justin Trudeau directly, not like the journalists who sort of work indirectly.

00:03:34.880 She is, she's a direct advisor.

00:03:37.060 She's on Justin Trudeau's payroll.

00:03:39.440 And yet her job somehow includes writing articles in a newspaper that Canadians used to trust.

00:03:46.160 So look, the Trudeau liberals are so unpopular right now that if there was an election held today, they wouldn't even be the leader of the opposition.

00:03:53.040 It's likely the Bloc Quebecois would win more seats.

00:03:55.720 It's possible that the NDP and Jagmeet Singh would even win more seats than the liberals.

00:04:00.840 They're, they're absolutely desperate.

00:04:02.760 And so they're resorting to basically forcing the newspapers that they subsidize into publishing their government propaganda.

00:04:10.160 You can always count on the bought and paid for legacy media if you are a liberal and you want to push out your spin.

00:04:17.960 Usually they do it through like a proxy, through someone who's not directly working for the prime minister in the prime minister's office.

00:04:24.940 But they've become so brazen in their ability to manipulate the facts and manipulate the media that now they're just pushing out staffers, like backroom staffers, to write articles accusing any, any, any, any criticism of the prime minister as simply being rage farming.

00:04:44.040 Okay, so let's go through a little bit about what Supriya Devedi had to say about Justin Trudeau's online harms bill.

00:04:52.360 So you can see again, this article, have you heard the one about Justin Trudeau attacking your free speech online?

00:04:57.260 Trust me, it's just rage farming.

00:04:59.420 So yes, this woman is a advisor in the PMO.

00:05:03.720 You have to go all the way to the bottom of the piece to find that out.

00:05:06.500 So let's read from this article.

00:05:08.420 She writes, from the people who brought you classic hits, such as adding gender identity to the Human Rights Act would criminalize free speech.

00:05:15.920 And signing on to the UN Global Compact on Migration would mean Canada's immigration policy is being set by foreign entities.

00:05:22.560 Here comes the latest, newest sensation on the scene, portraying the All in Harbs Act as a total affront to freedom of expression online.

00:05:29.840 Well, just wait a minute, because this is just the intro of the article.

00:05:33.140 And she's already made a couple of blatant errors.

00:05:34.780 So she's trying to claim that adding gender identity to a protected class as part of the Human Rights Act would criminalize speech. 1.00

00:05:42.640 This happened five years ago.

00:05:44.200 And yes, we were warning about this back then, that this is a huge affront to freedom of speech.

00:05:48.900 And those warnings have come true, because there have been several examples of Canadians who have been fined or gone to jail for the crime of misgendering someone.

00:05:58.520 So look at this, a story from October 2021.

00:06:01.640 A BC restaurant was fined $30,000 for using the wrong pronouns.

00:06:07.900 And it's always in BC, another BC story here.

00:06:10.640 A British Columbia father was jailed.

00:06:13.000 He was put in jail for opposing his daughter's sex change operation.

00:06:17.860 Yes, this is because of adding that provision of gender identity to the Human Rights Act criminalizing speech.

00:06:25.160 So even though the PMO staff were here is trying to use it as like a throwaway line, saying like, remember the crazy stuff they told you in the past?

00:06:31.500 It's not true.

00:06:32.540 Except for that's not true.

00:06:33.860 It is true.

00:06:34.960 And the second one that's signing on to the UN Compact on Migration, a United Nations bill that came out, I believe it was 2017, 2018.

00:06:42.420 Us here at True North were some of the biggest critics of this compound.

00:06:48.360 Basically, the legacy media tried to tell you, oh, it's non-binding.

00:06:53.300 It's just emotion.

00:06:54.260 It doesn't mean anything.

00:06:55.660 It's just aspirational.

00:06:57.220 Well, Canada still signed it.

00:06:58.540 Canada still ratified it.

00:06:59.980 This is absolutely radical bill.

00:07:02.760 The UN Global Compact on Migration gave anybody in the world, every single person in the world, the right to migrate to a Western country.

00:07:11.040 So they're putting the rights of a foreigner ahead of your rights as a Canadian. 0.56

00:07:16.140 They're saying that anybody in the world had the right to come to Canada.

00:07:19.560 Well, what happened?

00:07:20.700 I mean, just look at one of my latest news stories that came out in March.

00:07:24.200 How else would you explain a 14x increase in illegal immigration over the past 10 years?

00:07:30.300 Yes, an unprecedented surge.

00:07:32.480 In 2023, Canada saw over 140,000 people cross our borders illegally and make an asylum claim.

00:07:40.540 Those are the kind of rights that were given to them by the same kind of concept that was floated in this UN Global Compact on Migration.

00:07:48.500 So, again, to write that off and just say the people who oppose that UN Compact are crazy, just look at the numbers.

00:07:54.580 Look at how many people came into Canada illegally in 2023.

00:07:58.540 I think we have a graph just to show you how much it has grown.

00:08:01.800 You know, Canada went from having maybe 10, 12, 14,000 people come in illegally per year all the way up to 143,000 in one calendar year.

00:08:11.900 I mean, how else would you describe that?

00:08:13.420 How else would you explain that?

00:08:14.780 I don't think you can just use that as a throwaway point when that is literally exactly what has happened.

00:08:20.260 Okay, so let's go back to this Toronto Star PMO piece.

00:08:25.100 She says, critics are once again engaging in bad faith tactics, trying to frame the issue of online harms as a false economy between freedom of expression and clamping down on online harms, including online speech.

00:08:35.820 Don't let them.

00:08:36.660 She writes, while our government is certainly up for debate on how to improve the bill, including hearing from stakeholders, experts, and everyone in between on which provisions they feel should be fired into the sun, we have to have a conversation that is rude in reality.

00:08:50.160 Fortunately, a lot of the commentary on the bill has been light on facts and heavy on hyperbole.

00:08:56.020 She goes on and on about how basically like peace bonds are just fine and that there's like a history of common law.

00:09:03.940 And so Canadians just basically shouldn't worry about it because we live in a free country.

00:09:07.200 So something bad like getting thrown in jail for life for saying something or thinking something could never happen.

00:09:13.160 She doesn't really provide a very good defense of the bill. 0.99

00:09:16.200 And the reaction was pretty fierce and pretty strong.

00:09:19.920 So we had Conservative MP Michelle Garner tweet, this Toronto Star article was written by Prime Minister's office's key spin person with no mention of her employer in the Apple News edition.

00:09:33.000 Toronto Star is heavily subsidized by federal tax dollars.

00:09:36.220 I would love the opportunity to write a rebuttal.

00:09:39.320 I don't believe that they extended that offer to Michelle Garner, but they probably should if they want to be seen as fair.

00:09:45.840 If they're going to publish a PMO Liberal, they should probably publish some Conservatives.

00:09:51.080 We also heard from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and basically debunking this claim.

00:09:57.620 They said that Ms. DeVetti in her Toronto Star op-ed claims that large online platforms are currently unregulated companies,

00:10:04.520 prioritized harmful content over these types of content to maximize engagement and profits ignores the fact

00:10:11.540 that posting child pornography as well as intimidations or threats directed at an adult or child

00:10:17.480 by advocating for violent overthrow of government sedition are already criminal offenses.

00:10:22.740 Perhaps law enforcement need more resources to enforce laws that are exist.

00:10:26.840 DeVetti also ignores the fact that what she and her prime minister consider harmful

00:10:31.360 will differ from what others see as harmful.

00:10:35.240 Now, to their credit, the Toronto Star did publish a opposition voice, a respected lawyer

00:10:41.060 and the head of the Canadian Constitutional Foundation, Christine Van Gein, had an article the next day

00:10:47.120 writing that name-calling won't sound Justin Trudeau's critics.

00:10:51.280 Maybe it's time for the Liberals to stop lecturing and start listening.

00:10:54.880 She has a very good legal refute of the original article.

00:10:58.860 I recommend you go take a look at that.

00:11:00.960 I won't read it out, but I will say she has a very good point at the end here, which I will read.

00:11:05.180 She says, these criticisms are not rage farming or bad faith.

00:11:08.900 Free speech is not a threat to peace, security or democracy.

00:11:12.340 It's a precondition for them.

00:11:14.500 This government would do well to remember that and to listen to its critics instead of attacking it.

00:11:20.280 That's some good free advice to the Toronto Star.

00:11:23.600 Rather than publishing propaganda pieces from the PMO, maybe you should be publishing more Canadians

00:11:29.140 and their concerns around some of these Liberal government bills and to the Prime Minister's office.

00:11:34.800 Not that they would ever listen to criticism, but, you know, when it comes to cracking down on so-called online harms

00:11:42.080 and basically just cracking down on your opposition and what they can say and read and what they can write online,

00:11:48.560 not a very good sign for a Liberal free democracy.

00:11:51.940 OK, so this article in the Toronto Star, written by a Trudeau propagandist, got a lot of attention.

00:11:57.240 A lot of people raised their eyebrows, raised some concerns and alarm bells about a Prime Minister's spin doctor

00:12:03.980 and propagandist being able to write in a mainstream newspaper.

00:12:07.060 It wasn't the only example of Trudeau having influence over the press.

00:12:11.080 We see it all the time.

00:12:12.140 One of the worst culprits of this is the Canadian press.

00:12:14.920 The Canadian press is a news syndicate.

00:12:17.100 So they write news articles that go across the entire legacy media and you see them everywhere from CTV to CBC to every single newspaper.

00:12:25.440 A lot of digital news outlets, they all use Canadian press reporting.

00:12:28.880 So in some ways, Canadian press has an even bigger influence than any of the individual newspapers,

00:12:33.380 possibly even bigger than the CBC, although it is close.

00:12:38.000 So I noticed this article that popped up last week as well,

00:12:41.820 and it's talking about how Muslims are turning their back on Pierre Paliyev.

00:12:46.580 The headline says, We Won't Forget, and basically how Muslims are opposed to Pierre Paliyev now

00:12:53.240 because of Pierre Paliyev's support for Israel and its right to defend itself in its war against Hamas.

00:12:58.620 OK, so let's take a look at this article.

00:13:01.980 Let's take a closer look.

00:13:03.020 I did a Twitter thread about it, and we can walk through that to show you some of the major issues,

00:13:08.760 sort of the anatomy of how a Canadian press journalist will try to pass off Trudeau government propaganda as journalism.

00:13:17.320 So here's a tweet.

00:13:18.600 I wrote, The Canadian press is once again publishing Trudeau liberal propaganda, trying to pass it off as journalism.

00:13:24.000 Here is our latest, telling us that Muslim Canadians won't vote for Pierre Paliyev 1.00

00:13:28.440 because of Paliyev's support for Israel and its fight against genocidal terrorism.

00:13:32.940 We won't forget how some Muslims view Paliyev's stance on the Israel-Hamas war.

00:13:38.280 And so basically, they go out and they talk to a guy.

00:13:41.520 They talk to a Muslim guy who kind of pretends to speak on behalf of all Muslims in Canada,

00:13:46.180 saying, We really don't like Paliyev.

00:13:47.820 We really don't like his position.

00:13:49.120 So to go back to my tweets, I write, The main source of the story is a man called Tahir Nawaz.

00:13:56.940 The article features half a dozen quotes from him, telling the reader that Muslims won't forget how Paliyev said he was a friend of Israel.

00:14:03.860 You can see how I've highlighted his name.

00:14:07.200 You can see how many times he was referenced.

00:14:10.160 He's disappointed in Paliyev's opposition to funding.

00:14:14.800 They just call it the UN aid agency, UNRWA.

00:14:17.740 Well, UNRWA was found to have hundreds of individuals that were involved in the terrorist attack in October.

00:14:24.080 So it's not exactly a neutral United Nations body.

00:14:27.680 It's a body made up of Palestinian activists and many terrorists.

00:14:32.680 He goes on to say there's no chance the Muslim community will forget the conservatives' position here.

00:14:38.340 Okay.

00:14:38.680 And as I mentioned earlier, this story was published in newspapers and digital media platforms,

00:14:43.740 including CTV, Yahoo News, the Winnipeg Free Press, Montreal Gazette, and really across mainstream media.

00:14:51.200 And they all imply this individual, Tahir, speaks on behalf of Muslims in Canada.

00:14:56.180 So what did the Canadian press miss?

00:14:59.600 Well, a simple Google search of the man would have shown that his online profiles all picture glowing and friendly pictures with him and Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:15:10.560 So this isn't just a regular person, a regular Muslim who speaks on behalf of many other Muslims.

00:15:15.400 This is an activist.

00:15:16.480 This is someone who stands on stage and introduced Justin Trudeau at events and they smile at each other.

00:15:24.100 They're professional colleagues of some sort.

00:15:26.320 They know each other.

00:15:27.040 They work together.

00:15:27.740 They're friends.

00:15:28.780 Could it be that this man is a liberal activist, a partisan who's wielding influence over the bought and paid liberal media to smear conservatives and boost the liberals?

00:15:38.740 Because that's kind of what it's looking like here.

00:15:41.180 I mean, like, did the Canadian press even bother to find out this about him?

00:15:46.000 Did they know that?

00:15:47.040 Did they know that his profiles feature photos of him with Prime Minister when they featured him throughout the story?

00:15:53.120 Because the story certainly didn't mention anything like that.

00:15:56.860 OK, but wait, there's more.

00:15:58.060 So I did a little bit more digging through Elections Canada database.

00:16:03.280 And guess what?

00:16:04.180 An individual by the same name, Nawaz Tahir, also from London, Ontario, is presumably the same individual.

00:16:10.040 He donated over $13,000 to the Libs over the past five years.

00:16:15.640 It's pretty much the max you can give to an individual.

00:16:18.600 So as you can see, just scrolling through Elections Canada database, you can see all of the donations this individual made to the liberals over the years.

00:16:28.440 Just donation after donation after donation, always to the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:16:32.540 This would show all donations that he made to any party.

00:16:36.200 And you can see that he donates to the Liberal Party over and over and over and over and over and over again.

00:16:44.260 OK, so what do we have here?

00:16:45.980 We have a high-priced donor and liberal activist who is in the paper, in the news, smearing conservatives.

00:16:54.660 That's the main source of the article, smearing conservatives, happens to be a liberal donor, an activist.

00:17:01.320 Why wouldn't the Canadian press include that information?

00:17:03.880 Why wouldn't they tell you that the main person in their story is actually just a liberal activist who's smearing the opposition, which is what a liberal activist would do?

00:17:12.720 And this is a sad reality.

00:17:13.900 The Canada's media, including the Canadian press, but also all those newspapers that publish this article without any comment or without any edits, which include Bell, Post Media, Toronto Starglish Media, basically all of the media outlets in Canada, all of them.

00:17:28.060 They're all corrupted by government funding.

00:17:30.020 And you cannot trust them to tell the truth.

00:17:32.920 I mean, what other explanation would there possibly be for publishing a story based on an individual who is a donor?

00:17:41.040 I wonder, I really wonder if the journalists even bothered to find that out.

00:17:44.940 Now, interestingly, about two hours after I put out this information onto Twitter, I went on the Canadian press story and I noticed that they had made an update.

00:17:54.740 They had edited their story.

00:17:56.640 And so let's go back to my tweet here.

00:17:58.580 It says, update, the Canadian press inserted this stealth edit following my thread.

00:18:03.740 So normally, if a newspaper is going to make a correction, if they've made an error in their piece that they want to correct, they write at the top, correction.

00:18:11.160 And then they say, this story has been changed to reflect the fact that X, Y, and Z.

00:18:15.520 But that's not what the Canadian press did in this, in this instant.

00:18:19.520 They just added a paragraph.

00:18:21.140 They just, it's sneaky.

00:18:22.980 Just added a paragraph into the article, hoping that no one would notice.

00:18:26.880 And this is what the article says.

00:18:28.440 We can go back to that tweet.

00:18:29.980 It says, Tahir acknowledged being a liberal supporter in the past, but now he considers himself nonpartisan, given his advocacy work.

00:18:38.540 He said he's donated money to the Liberals and the NDP, as well as Conservatives, for whom he helped sign up 500 Muslims during the last leadership race.

00:18:47.140 Okay, so he just kind of shrugs his shoulder and said, yeah, I donated money in the past, but that was ancient history.

00:18:52.500 That was like 2023.

00:18:54.100 That doesn't even count anymore.

00:18:55.620 And I've also donated to the NDP and the Conservatives.

00:18:58.620 Well, when you look at Elections Canada and that database, it doesn't show any donations to the Conservatives.

00:19:03.360 None.

00:19:03.900 It does show one to the NDP a while ago.

00:19:05.920 It doesn't show anything to the Conservatives.

00:19:07.320 But he doesn't really say that he donated to the Conservatives.

00:19:10.500 He just said, to the Conservatives, I helped sign up 500 Muslims during the last leadership race.

00:19:15.440 Presumably, he signed them up to vote for another candidate, not Pierre Polyev.

00:19:20.560 And then when Pierre Polyev won the leadership race, we don't even know if these individuals are still members of the Conservative Party.

00:19:26.520 So he was basically just wielding support in his community to try to weaponize it against Pierre Polyev.

00:19:32.500 And now he's not involved in the Conservatives anymore.

00:19:34.120 I'm sorry, somebody who claims to be a non-partisan activist wouldn't have a picture of the Liberal leader in his online profiles, right?

00:19:42.880 If he's truly non-partisan and his new role, he considers himself non-partisan, maybe take down the pictures of you grinning and smiling ear to ear, standing next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:19:53.820 Just a little bit of a tip.

00:19:55.800 And again, this isn't the only time it's happened.

00:19:58.660 So someone sent me this tip after I put out that Twitter thread.

00:20:02.280 Almost the same thing exactly happened last summer.

00:20:04.960 So back in August 2023, we saw a Canadian press story telling us that Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party was embracing the language of mainstream conspiracy theories.

00:20:17.200 The Tory leaders' summer sump speeches included a ramped up rhetoric about the World Economic Forum.

00:20:23.140 Again, this is Canadian press, but again, it appears throughout legacy media.

00:20:26.280 So here it was in the CBC.

00:20:29.180 Once again, throughout the piece, we see quotes from an individual named Khosr Ahmed.

00:20:35.120 We're told that he's a professor at the University of Winnipeg with a research specialty in conspiracy theories.

00:20:41.540 Well, he's not just a professor.

00:20:43.800 Turns out he's also a liberal donor.

00:20:46.500 Activist, as was pointed out by our friend Gary Keller, he wrote this on Twitter, that actually the source of this story is a liberal donor.

00:20:57.400 And you can see from the story itself that it features multiple quotes from this individual telling us how dangerous and how scary Pierre Polyev is for having the audacity to criticize the World Economic Forum.

00:21:10.820 And basically just saying that it's all nothing but conspiracy theories, mainstream conspiracy theories, whatever that means.

00:21:18.260 Now, you would think that a responsible journalist would include that information in their story.

00:21:23.340 You think they'd bother to check, bother to do the research.

00:21:26.360 Maybe they did.

00:21:27.620 Maybe they knew that all of these sources in their stories are actually just Justin Trudeau donors.

00:21:34.080 Maybe they just don't even care.

00:21:35.220 Or maybe they consider being a liberal donor to be a qualifier in order to be featured in a Canadian press story.

00:21:42.040 Maybe that's how they find their stories.

00:21:43.520 Maybe they just scroll through the list of Justin Trudeau donors and come up with, you know, call them up and ask them if they have any story ideas or any news tips.

00:21:53.220 Of course, it's not how journalism works.

00:21:55.500 It's not ethical.

00:21:56.200 It's not honest.

00:21:57.240 And it's not neutral.

00:21:57.880 This is not how a free press is supposed to work.

00:22:00.300 This is not how a democracy is supposed to work.

00:22:02.360 Canada is entering into dangerous territory where one party, the Liberals, have bribed our country's journalists with billions upon billions of dollars.

00:22:11.580 As a result, the journalists have been compromised.

00:22:14.640 We cannot trust a word they tell us.

00:22:17.560 Over the course of the past few years, we've seen Canada slide into an authoritarian one-party rule.

00:22:22.260 It's fueled by once-trusted media journalists now pushing out government propaganda and lies to prop up their man, Justin Trudeau.

00:22:31.240 This needs to end.

00:22:32.560 We need to restore freedom and democracy in this country.

00:22:35.760 And the first step, the very first step, is to cut off all government funding to the legacy media.

00:22:42.240 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:22:52.260 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

Juno News - April 02, 2024

This is NOT how a FREE PRESS should operate

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