Juno News - Toronto Star STEALS our journalism + Liberals ignore Third World crime wave

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Today is Thursday, March 26,

00:00:06.400 2026. We have a great episode for you today, folks. We have Juno News investigative journalist

00:00:11.280 Melanie Bennett joining the show in a few minutes to talk about her exclusive reporting for Juno

00:00:15.980 News. Her reporting is so good, folks, that it was recently ripped off by the Toronto Star. Yes,

00:00:20.640 Toronto Star took her journalism, passed it off on their own, didn't give her any credit,

00:00:24.480 didn't give her any mention. See how it works is the legacy media is subsidized by the government.

00:00:28.720 They take government money, they take your money, they take taxpayer-funded money, and they steal

00:00:32.860 their work from the independent press. We don't take any money from the government, and yet they

00:00:37.700 are still stealing our stuff. It's really unbelievable. We're going to get to that in a few minutes.

00:00:40.820 I want to talk about some news that unfolded yesterday in Ottawa. So on Monday on the show,

00:00:44.980 we covered the horrific tragedy over at LaGuardia Airport, where an Air Canada plane collided with

00:00:50.840 a rescue truck, a fire truck, on the runway. Sadly, the two pilots were killed, the pilot

00:00:56.760 and the co-pilot. Shocking to this story is that there have been no Air Canada fatalities in over

00:01:03.660 40 years. So this is one of the safest airlines in the world, in history. One of the safest airlines

00:01:09.500 and tragically the first casualties happened earlier this week, the two pilots. Now this

00:01:14.820 turned into somewhat of an embarrassing national scandal because when Air Canada released a letter

00:01:21.020 with their condolences and talking about how sad the situation was, they did it in English. The CEO

00:01:25.960 did it in english and this is very unacceptable in canada this is what constitutes as a national

00:01:30.360 scandal apparently and so here is our prime minister mark carney for all the things happening

00:01:34.600 in the country for all the problems that we have what is the thing that mark carney gets worked up

00:01:39.160 over and issues a very angry like statement here saying that he's very disappointed and that it

00:01:47.080 shows just a total lack of judgment and yeah the thing that our prime minister gets worked up over

00:01:51.640 is scolding a company a private company for not communicating in the way that he wants really

00:01:58.040 unbelievable let's roll that clip we live as i just said in a bilingual country we proudly live

00:02:05.240 in a bilingual country and companies like air canada particularly have a responsibility to

00:02:11.720 always communicate in both official languages regardless of the situation i'm very disappointed

00:02:19.240 in, as others are, rightly so, in this unilingual message of the CEO of Air Canada.

00:02:29.800 It doesn't matter the circumstance, but particularly in these circumstances, lack of judgment and

00:02:35.080 lack of compassion, lack of compassion.

00:02:38.860 And as you know, the Committee of Official Languages has summoned the CEO to appear before

00:02:47.040 it.

00:02:47.240 I will follow his comments closely and comments which I would expect in due course from the board

00:02:53.000 of directors. And I just want to point this out. So Harrison Faulkner, who is with Juno News now,

00:02:57.040 he's the one that posted that video, got over a million views because it's so weird and tone

00:03:01.120 deaf. Tristan Hopper of the National Post posts this, Air Canada has gone 43 years without a

00:03:05.720 fatal incident. My entire life up to this point was lived in a country where the flag carrier 0.95

00:03:10.000 never got a single person killed in the crash. The record is a totem of what serious people can

00:03:14.360 accomplish. So naturally, Mark Carney is screaming at them to instead focus on nonsense. That's

00:03:20.760 exactly right. This is like the major problem in our country. We can't tell the difference

00:03:24.060 between a serious problem and something very stupid. And on that same light, here's Foreign 0.99

00:03:29.300 Minister Anita Anand. She was asked about that report that we covered here on Juneau News,

00:03:34.180 I think it was on a Monday, about the U.S. Treasury cracking down on money laundering for

00:03:38.740 terrorists, specifically Hezbollah. They listed Canada as a bad actor that does harbor terrorists

00:03:43.940 And one specific company was named that Seven Seas out of Vancouver.

00:03:48.920 So a Vancouver company is spending millions of dollars, possibly hundreds of millions of dollars, funneling tax money laundering money over to Hezbollah, a terrorist group.

00:04:00.540 And what does our foreign minister have to say?

00:04:03.720 Well, absolutely nothing.

00:04:04.900 She has absolutely nothing to say about a private company harboring terrorists.

00:04:09.020 Let's roll that clip. 0.89

00:04:09.460 So, yes. In Canada, we schooled one company for failing to say something in French. And then when you're harboring terrorists, we have nothing. We have nothing to say to you.

00:04:29.860 Also unrolling in Ottawa yesterday was that the Liberals voted down three Conservative motions on justice reform. Conservatives put these motions forward to fix Canada's justice system. This was Bill C-242, jail not bail. This was also Bill C-243, which would have amended the criminal code to not allow judges to give lighter sentences to foreigners, which is unbelievable that that already happens.

00:04:57.720 and then also Bill C-246, which would have prevented concurrent sentences. So this is what

00:05:03.860 former leader Andrew Scheer, Conservative MP, had to say, breaking Carney's liberals just voted down

00:05:08.460 common-sense conservative crime bills to, one, repeal liberal easy bail regime, two, end the

00:05:15.080 sentencing discount for non-citizens convicted of crimes, and three, require consecutive sentences

00:05:21.200 for sexual offenders. Every day, Carney proves he's not special, he's just another liberal.

00:05:25.400 unbelievable. We have a third world crime wave going on in Canada and the liberals don't care.

00:05:30.220 They won't even pass basic bills to crack down on this. This is the same day, by the way,

00:05:34.280 that this unbelievable video is doing the rounds on social media. Check out this. I don't know what

00:05:38.720 kind of gun this is like a pump action shotgun. Someone shooting up a suburban neighborhood in

00:05:44.460 Vaughn. Nice touch there that you have the Indian or Sikh rap music playing in the background. So

00:05:50.080 we know exactly who these perpetrators were. They posted it on their own social media. Let's roll

00:05:54.600 that clip. That's our justice system. If you're a foreigner, you get a lighter sentence than a 1.00

00:06:08.600 Canadian because heaven forbid, we don't want to have to deport you. And that if you're convicted

00:06:12.360 of sexual offenses, you don't have to go the full time in jail. You can just add those together.

00:06:16.880 Plus, obviously, our catch and release jail system causes huge problems. So liberals don't

00:06:22.460 want to change anything about the broken justice system. But what they do want to do is start

00:06:26.300 cracking down on free speech. And so what they did pass last night was Bill C-9, which was the

00:06:32.700 bill. Remember, we had Conservative MP Andrew Lawton on the show last week talking about how

00:06:37.940 they shut down debate in committee on this bill and that they're pushing it through without the

00:06:42.940 religious exemption. So here is Heritage Minister Mark Miller specifically saying that the Bible

00:06:50.060 is full of hate, and if you cite it, you could be breaking the law, or you should be charged

00:06:56.260 with hate crimes. This is just so despicable. This is from October 2025. Let's roll that clip.

00:07:01.200 Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Romans, there's other passages. There's clear hatred towards, for

00:07:04.920 example, homosexuals. I don't know, I understand how the concept of good faith could be invoked 1.00

00:07:09.440 if someone were literally invoking a passage from, in this case, the Bible, but there are

00:07:14.280 other religious texts that say the same thing, and somehow say that this is good faith. I mean,

00:07:19.980 Clearly, there are situations in these texts where these statements are hateful.

00:07:23.800 They should not be used to invoke or be a defense.

00:07:28.940 And there should perhaps be discretion for prosecutors to press charges.

00:07:32.900 So according to Canada's minister, the Bible is hateful.

00:07:36.540 You know that text that our entire civilization was built upon? 0.98

00:07:39.840 Well, he is now going back and saying, actually, the Bible is hateful towards homosexuals. 0.52

00:07:43.920 So if you state it, you could be breaking the law in violation of the law. 0.58

00:07:47.540 They use that word, right?

00:07:48.640 Hate.

00:07:48.900 It's like the Bible doesn't have hate towards anyone.

00:07:52.340 It's teaching you how to live a good life and how to live a life in accordance to what

00:07:56.020 God wants and what Christ wants for us.

00:07:57.960 And yet he's going back and saying, that's hateful and you can't invoke it.

00:08:02.140 I mean, this is just absolutely wild.

00:08:04.900 The bill will be passed without that religious exemption, which would have enshrined that

00:08:09.640 if you had a deeply held, truly held religious belief, you couldn't be prosecuted under the

00:08:13.740 law.

00:08:14.000 Again, there are so many problems in our country.

00:08:15.560 There are so many issues, and this is the stuff that the Liberal government is focused on.

00:08:20.360 It's really outrageous.

00:08:21.200 All right, folks, I'm pleased to now be welcome, pleased to now welcome Melanie Bennett, my

00:08:24.880 colleague here at Juno News.

00:08:26.300 She's an investigative journalist focusing really on K-12 education, but also secondary

00:08:31.140 higher education, and just the absolute woke takeover of our society, trying to push back

00:08:35.680 against it, doing a great job.

00:08:36.960 So Melanie, welcome to the program.

00:08:38.880 Hi, thanks for having me.

00:08:40.300 Okay, I really want to talk about your Hamilton School Board piece.

00:08:43.540 We're going to walk the audience through the unbelievable chain of events.

00:08:47.440 This is really, folks, why Juno News is so important, why we're having a big impact on the culture, on the country, because we're pushing back and exposing this stuff.

00:08:55.820 And actually, in this case, having a really good impact.

00:08:59.040 The Minister of Education clearly reads her stuff, Melanie, and clearly agrees with you, or at least in part does.

00:09:04.720 So we'll start at the beginning, which was on March 13th, you had an exclusive story, which was that the Hamilton Wentworth School District released an internal memo saying that graduation ceremonies should be guided by an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, anti-colonial lens.

00:09:22.660 Unbelievable, right?

00:09:24.280 You know, I thought a graduation ceremony was supposed to be focused on the achievements of the students who are graduating.

00:09:30.080 But no, no, no, they always have to make it political, make it woke, make it very anti-Canadian.

00:09:34.400 So why don't you tell us about this memo and tell us about how you how you were able to obtain this exclusive document?

00:09:41.860 So I've spent many years before becoming a journalist, developing relationships with with people.

00:09:47.600 And some of those people work within these school boards and schools.

00:09:51.280 And one of my sources at the board does feed me information.

00:09:54.360 I have when I say I have piles, I literally have boxes all over my house of documents like this, you know, bureaucratic stuff that nobody wants to read.

00:10:01.200 And every now and again, I'll pull it out.

00:10:02.500 And this is another one that I was like, OK, what am I going to write about this week?

00:10:05.380 So I wrote about it and it talks about it's an announcement from December that 25 telling I think it was December telling the educators that their graduation this year was going to be anti-colonial, like you said, anti-oppressive and so on, so forth.

00:10:21.980 That was going to be the theme. It also included information about how citizens are named citizens of Turtle Island.

00:10:29.060 so referring to the decolonial agenda within the schools, and also that parents and students would

00:10:34.720 not have to stand for O Canada this year. For some reason, this particular one, like I put out so

00:10:41.140 many stories about some of this crazy divisive politics that's going on in schools. I mean,

00:10:44.680 that's the primary driver of my journalism. For some reason, this one took off. I like to post

00:10:51.500 the material so people can read it for themselves. I made a post on X, which I attached to the

00:10:55.660 article. That post, I think at this point is nearly 380,000 impressions on X alone. And so

00:11:02.920 it caught the attention of the public. There was something about this memo going around within the

00:11:07.040 schools to the educators themselves, asking them to do a decolonial anti-oppressive graduation that

00:11:13.180 caught the attention of the public. Unbelievable. Yeah. So you can see folks on the screen here.

00:11:17.780 This is Melanie's viral tweet, just again, exposing this stuff. Like they don't refer to

00:11:22.420 Canadians as Canadians were citizens of Turtle Island. I mean, it's just, I think most people

00:11:27.320 are, I can safely say, you're just sick of this stuff. And especially when it comes to a graduation

00:11:32.940 ceremony, again, this is like, supposed to be about the children and the students and their

00:11:37.280 amazing accomplishment. And this next step that they're taking in life, right? They're leaving

00:11:40.680 the comfort of their friends and their teachers and entering the real world. At least that's sort

00:11:45.280 of the idea of graduation ceremonies is about the kids. And instead to make it about politics. And

00:11:51.680 this is something that I find so outrageous. Melanie, this is all happening under a so-called

00:11:56.220 conservative government in Ontario. We have had Premier Doug Ford in office for years and years

00:12:03.320 and years, and it has all happened under conservatives, right? So it's not like you

00:12:07.260 can even point and say, well, it's an NDP government, and maybe when the conservatives

00:12:09.760 get back, we'll right the ship. Like, this has all happened under their watch. It's truly

00:12:13.980 outrageous. I will just say that the new education manager seems to actually not like this stuff

00:12:20.760 and be attempting and trying to change it.

00:12:24.140 So in response to your excellent reporting

00:12:26.780 that you had on this memo and on the story,

00:12:29.780 the Ontario Ministry of Education

00:12:31.860 responded with a statement

00:12:33.120 pushing back on the directive

00:12:34.360 voicing concern about the politicization of school events.

00:12:38.640 So that came out on March 20th.

00:12:40.340 And then a couple of days later in Queen's Park,

00:12:42.740 Education Minister Paul Calandra

00:12:44.820 slammed the Hamilton School Board

00:12:46.840 for pushing divisive ideology onto teachers

00:12:49.640 who organize these graduation ceremonies this is about a minute long this is a clip of Ontario

00:12:55.240 Minister Paul Calendra just saying enough is enough roll that clip there was a a memo that

00:13:00.360 went out from the Hamilton District School Board to teachers so a faceless superintendent in that

00:13:06.200 board decided that graduation ceremonies shouldn't focus on student achievement student achievement

00:13:11.880 by the way which comes about because of the hard work of teachers right so a graduation ceremony

00:13:18.280 is about the student success but it's also a way for parents to recognize what teachers have done

00:13:24.280 to build on that success so this superintendent in hamilton decided let's make it divisive let's

00:13:29.960 turn it away from the success of students and put that on the responsibility on the shoulder

00:13:35.080 of the teachers organizing well that superintendent you know what that superintendent should do

00:13:40.360 go to every single one of these graduation ceremonies so that when parents are upset by

00:13:44.840 by the divisive nature of it.

00:13:46.460 When parents are upset that the focus is not on students,

00:13:49.280 let them take the heat from the students, not the teacher.

00:13:53.480 So that's great.

00:13:54.520 That's as it should be, right?

00:13:56.200 We shouldn't politicize these things.

00:13:57.900 Now, I wanna go to the next twist in this story,

00:14:00.600 which is that the Toronto Star decided to write about it,

00:14:03.520 just decided to write about the memo that you unearthed

00:14:06.240 and didn't do the basic journalistic integrity move

00:14:10.320 of just saying the source of this, right?

00:14:12.360 Like, you uncovered this through your exclusive source.

00:14:15.780 You had the memo.

00:14:16.960 Your tweet went viral.

00:14:17.940 Like, it's pretty clear that that is where this all came from.

00:14:21.860 And yet the Toronto Star and the reporting can't be bothered to mention that.

00:14:25.640 So I'm going to show the audience what the Toronto Star readers saw.

00:14:29.560 Ford government warned school boards to keep graduation ceremonies apolitical.

00:14:33.500 I love how they put apolitical, like, in scare quotes as if it's somehow controversial.

00:14:36.800 like like maybe if the conservative government was saying hey let's make graduation ceremonies

00:14:41.680 politically conservative that might be something that you would say hey maybe we should do that

00:14:46.060 but but they're actually just trying to make it neutral saying don't make it left don't make it

00:14:49.540 right just make it apolitical and somehow the toronto star thinks that that's outrageous anyway

00:14:55.040 so they the story talk the story is written by this reporter kristin rushaway a senior writer

00:15:00.300 with the toronto star she writes about the ministry and paul colander's statements and what

00:15:05.880 he is trying to do and then it's later in the piece it says this all came from the hamilton

00:15:10.120 board's memo focused on the anti-oppressive anti-racist anti-colonial lens that they were

00:15:15.240 pushing and basically copies your reporting and again doesn't give you any any mention that this

00:15:22.600 was actually written by another reporter in an independent news outlet really outrageous what do

00:15:26.700 you think well i i want to say that this kind of i guess leak is unique to me there is no other

00:15:34.180 place that this journalist could have obtained this information. I mean, I suppose there's a

00:15:40.200 possibility that, you know, she might have seen it, but it's so infinitesimally small that that

00:15:46.920 would have happened. And at the time before Calandra actually came out and said what he said

00:15:52.600 in the legislature about Hamilton, directly referencing the memo in Hamilton, this is when

00:16:00.180 the Toronto Star article came out right so before uh the legislature speech by Calandra and the the

00:16:06.600 journalist like you said uh references that this may be in part due to a memo from Hamilton well

00:16:11.740 where did she get that she got that from me and the funny thing is it was actually another source

00:16:17.160 that I was speaking to yesterday morning who sent me a link and said can you unpaywall this and I

00:16:21.720 I was helping her out and as I unpaywalled it I looked at it and I was absolutely livid if I'm

00:16:28.140 going to be perfectly honest because it is not the first time that journalists take my work or

00:16:32.560 cleverly paraphrase my work, which is originating from me because of the relationships that I've

00:16:37.860 developed with these people over a long period of time. So not only is this journalist stealing

00:16:41.520 from another news organization, another journalist, but they're stealing from members of the public

00:16:46.800 who want this information to be out there, who want it to be shared with the public.

00:16:52.420 They trust me. So I'm not nuclear simply because of me. I'm also very upset because of what this

00:16:59.060 means for all the other people that they're shafting in situations like this. I immediately

00:17:04.680 wrote a letter to the editor, which by the way, the editor still has not responded. I DMed the

00:17:10.060 journalist directly. The journalist has not responded to me. And I shamed them on Twitter,

00:17:15.220 if I'm going to be perfectly honest, because many times since I've started, I've only been

00:17:19.860 a journalist 10 months now and multiple times my work has been taken and this was the last straw

00:17:24.200 for me and to put it behind a paywall to take people's money government funding to write articles

00:17:29.100 that you're supposed to represent the public then to not represent the public to take the work of

00:17:34.780 the journalist who is representing the public and to put it behind a paywall is just too much for me

00:17:39.600 it's it really is unbelievable that they both take government money money and funding implying that

00:17:45.620 they are some kind of a public utility right oh we have to do this journalism otherwise people

00:17:49.780 wouldn't get it, which is obviously not true because Juno News is here. We're creating

00:17:53.200 independent news. We're not taking any government money. There's actually a great business model

00:17:56.100 for journalism in this day and age. Toronto Star doesn't use that. They waste tons and tons of

00:18:00.800 money. And so they still are reporting and then they put it behind a paywall. It's just a bad

00:18:04.880 taste. So I'm going to read a little bit of the letter that you wrote to the Toronto Star. So

00:18:10.120 you wrote, I'm writing to raise a serious concern regarding Toronto Star's March 24th article on

00:18:15.100 graduation ceremonies. The piece presents information that was first reported exclusively

00:18:19.940 in my coverage, yet nowhere does it acknowledge that fact. There is no attribution, no reference,

00:18:24.420 and no indication to the reader that the underlying reporting originated elsewhere.

00:18:28.100 This is a failure of basic journalistic standards. Canadian press guidelines are clear. When a news

00:18:33.040 organization relies on reporting first uncovered by another journalist or outlast, attribution is

00:18:38.300 required. Readers deserve to know who did the original work. This is a cornerstone of transparency

00:18:44.980 and credibility. Well, I don't think that the Toronto Star cares much about either of those

00:18:49.740 things, Melanie, because obviously, I mean, they don't have a lot of credibility or transparency

00:18:54.360 when, again, they're taking money from the government and then pretending that they actually

00:18:58.120 hold the government to account. So good for you. I think that you are right. You are owed

00:19:03.600 proper credit. You are owed an immediate correction and a public apology. I don't know if you're

00:19:08.940 going to get it, but we're going to keep pushing on this because, I mean, again, this is journalistic

00:19:14.560 malpractice? Well, yes, I am owed an apology and all the rest. I will say that we are constantly

00:19:21.520 criticized for being misinformation and not real journalists and so on and so forth. And I can say

00:19:25.680 for my own work, hand on heart, I cite everyone. It doesn't matter if I like you, I will cite you

00:19:30.400 if I get the information from there. And I thoroughly research what I'm writing about and

00:19:35.160 cite it. And I do not overlook it simply for some kind of professional differences. So other

00:19:41.940 journalists should be able to do that too especially the ones that are supposed to be

00:19:44.760 considered the true journalists in this country they should be following those professional

00:19:48.700 standards 100 i wouldn't hold my breath i want to just uh show a little bit more reaction i saw

00:19:54.080 this one on social media this is city news and again this is fake this is fake news this is the

00:19:59.120 way that the fake news media reacts so you can see this post where they've quoted a critic of

00:20:04.980 paul calandra saying he's not the emperor of education right so they're presenting an opinion

00:20:10.580 but pretending that it's objective journalism, right?

00:20:13.180 Imagine seeing this story, folks. 0.98

00:20:15.380 Okay, so you have an insane person

00:20:17.280 at the Hamilton School Board

00:20:18.860 trying to make the graduation ceremonies woke,

00:20:22.820 not about the students, not about the teachers,

00:20:24.320 but about their extreme hard left agenda.

00:20:27.260 The minister stands up and says,

00:20:28.700 hey guys, let's just keep it apolitical.

00:20:30.860 And then the media responds by saying,

00:20:32.540 you're not the emperor of education.

00:20:34.860 How dare you say that?

00:20:36.220 Critics are saying that Paul Klander overstepped

00:20:38.400 when he sent a letter ordering these apolitical graduation ceremonies.

00:20:42.780 I'm just going to play you a little bit of this news report 0.98

00:20:44.680 because this is just so pathetic. 0.97

00:20:47.160 The education minister facing criticism for directing school boards 0.98

00:20:50.520 to keep graduation ceremonies free from political views.

00:20:54.120 Critics are demanding an apology.

00:20:55.780 Why would you send a letter like this to every teacher?

00:21:00.340 I will simply not apologize for what is in that letter.

00:21:04.600 What we're doing is depoliticizing it so students can focus on one thing,

00:21:08.400 learning the education minister defending a letter he sent to educators and school board staff

00:21:13.840 ordering graduation ceremonies to be conducted in a manner that is strictly student-centered

00:21:19.040 apolitical inclusive and respectful and adding there is an unequivocal expectation that all

00:21:24.560 staff uphold the highest professional and ethical standards it has sparked a wave of backlash from

00:21:30.160 teachers unions who are calling the tone offensive demoralizing and unacceptable imagine if that's

00:21:36.320 the way that you wanted to paint the story to the viewers that like critics are demanding an apology

00:21:40.640 and how dare you send a letter to teachers you're only the minister of education you can't do that

00:21:45.440 like like i'm sorry the liberals in that clip they've lost the plot right if you think that

00:21:51.040 the controversy over this story truly is that the minister said let's make these things like

00:21:54.960 political and not the fact that the person running these ceremonies actually ordered that they become

00:21:59.280 very political and and and you're trying to paint it that way media is just so bad right so there's

00:22:05.280 There's no curiosity. There's no curiosity on the part of the journalist or apparently the left wing politicians ask, what is this all about? Why did it capture the attention of the public? Why are people upset about this? Why are teachers upset about this? By the way, my sources are not just individuals within schools, they're also educators themselves who are fed up and scared.

00:22:21.480 So people are fed up. We elected the Doug Ford government partly on a platform to depoliticize the education system. And eight years later, we're only just starting to see the buds of that potentially happening.

00:22:36.200 and when the liberal minister said that he's not the dictator of or the emperor of of education

00:22:44.120 he is i mean according to the law and policy he actually is and he can do this and so i for one

00:22:50.200 am happy to see that and i hope it continues and it's the very least they can do right well like

00:22:54.800 we're not we're not saying that you should politicize it in a conservative i would probably

00:22:59.120 like that maybe i wouldn't i homeschool my kids i wouldn't put my kids anywhere near an ontario

00:23:04.340 public school. That's just my opinion, my values. Maybe if we had a conservative government that

00:23:08.720 actually wanted to impose conservative values in schools, maybe I would consider it. But right now

00:23:13.120 they can barely even push back against the overwhelming woke takeover. Okay, we're going

00:23:17.820 to talk about a few more stories that Melanie has broken here at Juno News. I want to do a quick

00:23:22.780 pitch for Juno News, folks. We don't take any government funding, unlike the Toronto Star,

00:23:26.980 unlike the fake news media. We don't take money from the government. We rely entirely on our

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00:23:41.660 incredible journalists like Melanie Bennett, who is working tirelessly to expose the insane

00:23:47.480 problems and corruption that happen in our country and exposing the media as well. Okay,

00:23:52.340 Melody, I want to talk about one other story that you had, which really got buried and didn't become

00:23:58.380 the national story that i think it ought to have now we remember the tumblr ridge school shooter

00:24:04.060 juno news was the first one to report that that individual was trans we did it through

00:24:07.900 old-fashioned reporting we actually called his family members and confirmed that he was the

00:24:12.220 shooter that he was trans right we broke that story and later the legacy media did follow up

00:24:17.900 rcmp did admit it and we know that is the case one of the things that the media kept saying though

00:24:23.100 is that it's incredibly rare it's incredibly incredibly rare for there to be a trans shooting

00:24:27.820 which is obviously not true it's not i looked at the last 10 shootings in the united states the

00:24:32.060 last 10 mass shootings and it was shocking how many of them were people who were either non-binary

00:24:37.500 or trans or formerly trans and the media does this weird little trick to say oh well they're

00:24:42.940 not trans because they're just non-binary so they don't count um or oh that they used to be trans 0.73

00:24:48.140 but then they then they went back to identifying by their birth gender birth sex anyway it is a

00:24:54.540 problem there is a correlation and you found another connection melanie between a foiled

00:24:59.980 mass school shooting plot out in bridgewater nova scotia and the fact that the person who

00:25:06.780 was the perpetrator who was stopped thank god was also trans why don't you tell us a bit about that

00:25:11.980 story so i was alerted again through some sources over the over the weekend um about the trans

00:25:20.140 identity of the the foiled shooter the accused the youth in nova scotia um i my sources knew some

00:25:27.780 parents of a child at that school and they they alerted me and so i looked into it the information

00:25:34.620 that i received was a little bit different than what was shared on cbc so there's some confusion

00:25:39.420 at the minute because i i wasn't expecting the to see that the cbc i think it was on sunday or

00:25:45.800 Monday pointing to the fact, burying it in the article, mind you, that the person who was accused

00:25:52.060 the youth wanted he, him pronouns and the police had said was a girl. Now, I was confused like this

00:25:58.240 because I don't remember the Bridgewater police stating publicly that it was a girl. I couldn't

00:26:04.220 find it online. I asked the journalist, can you tell me where you got this information? They didn't

00:26:07.880 respond to me. The police did respond to me after I originally wrote an article. And they said that

00:26:14.420 they did actually say the person that we apprehended is essentially a, they use a phrase

00:26:20.600 biological female. They proceeded to say, I provided names, the birth name and trans name

00:26:28.360 that I was given by my sources. They confirmed that those names are correct, that the trans or

00:26:34.160 that the individual, the youth is choosing to use their legal birth name. Although they never

00:26:41.360 confirmed which one was which. They use the word they all the time, even though the police are

00:26:45.840 saying she or he is using he, him pronouns. So it's very, very confused. We're having slightly

00:26:53.860 conflicting things. It's looking like it might be a female who is identifying as a male. However,

00:27:00.780 I will say my sources are very, very clear that this is a male. So I don't know what's going to

00:27:09.100 happen in this story. I'm continuing to look into it to try to verify some information because

00:27:13.680 there is so much contradictory information going on. And I think you're correct, Candice, that

00:27:18.560 there's too much, people are being too careful here. We're talking about a criminal. We're

00:27:23.440 talking about somebody who was planning mass murder of individuals. We need to understand

00:27:29.680 the situation, muddying the waters by saying preferred pronouns and using terms like biological

00:27:34.900 female girl all this stuff when we don't even know what a girl is anymore that could mean anything 1.00

00:27:39.560 and i and you know the sources in the school are telling me one thing the police are saying another

00:27:43.820 i want to trust the police but at this point do we trust the police i've you know so i'm i'm looking

00:27:49.040 into this a little bit more deeply and and we may or may not have some more information coming

00:27:53.020 forward well great reporting i want to tease one more piece of journalism that you exclusively

00:27:57.940 have for us this week really excited for this we're going to release this as a standalone episode

00:28:01.900 tomorrow. So folks may remember that you broke this big story last week about the University

00:28:07.460 of Windsor levying sexual misconduct allegations against a Pride Center volunteer. So there was

00:28:14.880 actually an internal investigation, we talked about this on the show last week, by the university.

00:28:18.080 They found that this individual was acting in an atrocious manner, a 46-year-old man

00:28:23.680 being a predator on a university campus, taking advantage of young students, really sick, 0.93

00:28:28.560 twisted stuff. Well, the story relied on an anonymous source who you promised to keep his

00:28:33.820 identity anonymous as journalists do. You know, we really take our sources seriously and we protect

00:28:38.260 their identity when they ask. But this individual has actually agreed to come forward and put his

00:28:43.980 real name and his real face out there because he is so concerned about this, again, 46-year-old

00:28:50.440 biological male student who identifies as trans who's out there committing crimes, committing 1.00

00:28:56.980 atrocious acts. And yes, so why don't you tell us a little bit about this interview that we're

00:29:03.440 going to have coming out tomorrow? Well, I won't share his real name. I think you'll have to watch

00:29:06.980 the interview to get to know his real name. But he's a very brave young man who has been through

00:29:12.840 quite a lot, both because of the assaults, but also because of the university. This has been

00:29:20.400 something that's been going on for a while and has affected other people. And he felt that it

00:29:25.180 was really important to come forward to put his face to the story so that if it's happening to

00:29:30.720 other people they know that they're not alone and they can reach out to him so he's telling his

00:29:34.380 story i think he was very brave to do so i didn't ask him to come to to put himself forward he just

00:29:39.700 came to me after the story and he said listen you know i'm he was sharing the story around he said

00:29:43.840 um i've noticed that some people are saying this is misinformation and it's being transphobic and

00:29:48.940 he said i want to put my face forward for people to realize this is not about transphobia this is

00:29:53.420 about a creditor that needs to be exposed and so he put himself forward um voluntarily he asked to

00:29:58.900 do this interview so that's what we've put together and we have for the audience incredible so that

00:30:03.720 will be up tomorrow on our youtube melanie bennett thank you so much for all your incredible work

00:30:08.020 honestly you do so much so much more than what the legacy media is putting out so much so that

00:30:13.080 they have to resort to copying you and not giving you credit but we appreciate all you do and thanks

00:30:16.960 for joining us today thank you right folks this is melanie bennett investigative journalist here

00:30:21.440 at Juno Knows. Seriously, you should go subscribe and support independent media in this country.

00:30:25.480 We really need it. All right, folks, this is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for

00:30:28.280 tuning in. I'm Candice Malcolm. This is the Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you, and God bless.

Juno News - March 26, 2026

Toronto Star STEALS our journalism + Liberals ignore Third World crime wave

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