Juno News - March 26, 2026


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

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Melanie Bennett Paul Calandra Bill C-63 Mark Carney Doug Ford Hamilton Harrison Faulkner Tristan Hopper Andrew Scheer Andrew Lawton Anita Anand Mark Miller Juno News Bridgewater Melody Sikh
CBC is Panicking University puts “IDENTITY POLITICS” over STUDENT SAFETY

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Melanie Bennett of Juno News joins the show to talk about her reporting on the Air Canada plane crash, and the lack of compassion shown by the company's CEO. She also talks about a new report that accuses Canada of harbouring a terrorist organization.

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00:00:00 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Today is Thursday, March 26,
00:00:06 2026. We have a great episode for you today, folks. We have Juno News investigative journalist
00:00:11 Melanie Bennett joining the show in a few minutes to talk about her exclusive reporting for Juno
00:00:15 News. Her reporting is so good, folks, that it was recently ripped off by the Toronto Star. Yes,
00:00:20 Toronto Star took her journalism, passed it off on their own, didn't give her any credit,
00:00:24 didn't give her any mention. See how it works is the legacy media is subsidized by the government.
00:00:28 They take government money, they take your money, they take taxpayer-funded money, and they steal
00:00:32 their work from the independent press. We don't take any money from the government, and yet they
00:00:37 are still stealing our stuff. It's really unbelievable. We're going to get to that in a few minutes.
00:00:40 I want to talk about some news that unfolded yesterday in Ottawa. So on Monday on the show,
00:00:44 we covered the horrific tragedy over at LaGuardia Airport, where an Air Canada plane collided with
00:00:50 a rescue truck, a fire truck, on the runway. Sadly, the two pilots were killed, the pilot
00:00:56 and the co-pilot. Shocking to this story is that there have been no Air Canada fatalities in over
00:01:03 40 years. So this is one of the safest airlines in the world, in history. One of the safest airlines
00:01:09 and tragically the first casualties happened earlier this week, the two pilots. Now this
00:01:14 turned into somewhat of an embarrassing national scandal because when Air Canada released a letter
00:01:21 with their condolences and talking about how sad the situation was, they did it in English. The CEO
00:01:25 did it in english and this is very unacceptable in canada this is what constitutes as a national
00:01:30 scandal apparently and so here is our prime minister mark carney for all the things happening
00:01:34 in the country for all the problems that we have what is the thing that mark carney gets worked up
00:01:39 over and issues a very angry like statement here saying that he's very disappointed and that it
00:01:47 shows just a total lack of judgment and yeah the thing that our prime minister gets worked up over
00:01:51 is scolding a company a private company for not communicating in the way that he wants really
00:01:58 unbelievable let's roll that clip we live as i just said in a bilingual country we proudly live
00:02:05 in a bilingual country and companies like air canada particularly have a responsibility to
00:02:11 always communicate in both official languages regardless of the situation i'm very disappointed
00:02:19 in, as others are, rightly so, in this unilingual message of the CEO of Air Canada.
00:02:29 It doesn't matter the circumstance, but particularly in these circumstances, lack of judgment and
00:02:35 lack of compassion, lack of compassion.
00:02:38 And as you know, the Committee of Official Languages has summoned the CEO to appear before
00:02:47 it.
00:02:47 I will follow his comments closely and comments which I would expect in due course from the board
00:02:53 of directors. And I just want to point this out. So Harrison Faulkner, who is with Juno News now,
00:02:57 he's the one that posted that video, got over a million views because it's so weird and tone
00:03:01 deaf. Tristan Hopper of the National Post posts this, Air Canada has gone 43 years without a
00:03:05 fatal incident. My entire life up to this point was lived in a country where the flag carrier 0.95
00:03:10 never got a single person killed in the crash. The record is a totem of what serious people can
00:03:14 accomplish. So naturally, Mark Carney is screaming at them to instead focus on nonsense. That's
00:03:20 exactly right. This is like the major problem in our country. We can't tell the difference
00:03:24 between a serious problem and something very stupid. And on that same light, here's Foreign 0.99
00:03:29 Minister Anita Anand. She was asked about that report that we covered here on Juneau News,
00:03:34 I think it was on a Monday, about the U.S. Treasury cracking down on money laundering for
00:03:38 terrorists, specifically Hezbollah. They listed Canada as a bad actor that does harbor terrorists
00:03:43 And one specific company was named that Seven Seas out of Vancouver.
00:03:48 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 And what does our foreign minister have to say?
00:04:03 Well, absolutely nothing.
00:04:04 She has absolutely nothing to say about a private company harboring terrorists.
00:04:09 Let's roll that clip. 0.89
00:04:09 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 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 and then also Bill C-246, which would have prevented concurrent sentences. So this is what
00:05:03 former leader Andrew Scheer, Conservative MP, had to say, breaking Carney's liberals just voted down
00:05:08 common-sense conservative crime bills to, one, repeal liberal easy bail regime, two, end the
00:05:15 sentencing discount for non-citizens convicted of crimes, and three, require consecutive sentences
00:05:21 for sexual offenders. Every day, Carney proves he's not special, he's just another liberal.
00:05:25 unbelievable. We have a third world crime wave going on in Canada and the liberals don't care.
00:05:30 They won't even pass basic bills to crack down on this. This is the same day, by the way,
00:05:34 that this unbelievable video is doing the rounds on social media. Check out this. I don't know what
00:05:38 kind of gun this is like a pump action shotgun. Someone shooting up a suburban neighborhood in
00:05:44 Vaughn. Nice touch there that you have the Indian or Sikh rap music playing in the background. So
00:05:50 we know exactly who these perpetrators were. They posted it on their own social media. Let's roll
00:05:54 that clip. That's our justice system. If you're a foreigner, you get a lighter sentence than a 1.00
00:06:08 Canadian because heaven forbid, we don't want to have to deport you. And that if you're convicted
00:06:12 of sexual offenses, you don't have to go the full time in jail. You can just add those together.
00:06:16 Plus, obviously, our catch and release jail system causes huge problems. So liberals don't
00:06:22 want to change anything about the broken justice system. But what they do want to do is start
00:06:26 cracking down on free speech. And so what they did pass last night was Bill C-9, which was the
00:06:32 bill. Remember, we had Conservative MP Andrew Lawton on the show last week talking about how
00:06:37 they shut down debate in committee on this bill and that they're pushing it through without the
00:06:42 religious exemption. So here is Heritage Minister Mark Miller specifically saying that the Bible
00:06:50 is full of hate, and if you cite it, you could be breaking the law, or you should be charged
00:06:56 with hate crimes. This is just so despicable. This is from October 2025. Let's roll that clip.
00:07:01 Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Romans, there's other passages. There's clear hatred towards, for
00:07:04 example, homosexuals. I don't know, I understand how the concept of good faith could be invoked 1.00
00:07:09 if someone were literally invoking a passage from, in this case, the Bible, but there are
00:07:14 other religious texts that say the same thing, and somehow say that this is good faith. I mean,
00:07:19 Clearly, there are situations in these texts where these statements are hateful.
00:07:23 They should not be used to invoke or be a defense.
00:07:28 And there should perhaps be discretion for prosecutors to press charges.
00:07:32 So according to Canada's minister, the Bible is hateful.
00:07:36 You know that text that our entire civilization was built upon? 0.98
00:07:39 Well, he is now going back and saying, actually, the Bible is hateful towards homosexuals. 0.52
00:07:43 So if you state it, you could be breaking the law in violation of the law. 0.58
00:07:47 They use that word, right?
00:07:48 Hate.
00:07:48 It's like the Bible doesn't have hate towards anyone.
00:07:52 It's teaching you how to live a good life and how to live a life in accordance to what
00:07:56 God wants and what Christ wants for us.
00:07:57 And yet he's going back and saying, that's hateful and you can't invoke it.
00:08:02 I mean, this is just absolutely wild.
00:08:04 The bill will be passed without that religious exemption, which would have enshrined that
00:08:09 if you had a deeply held, truly held religious belief, you couldn't be prosecuted under the
00:08:13 law.
00:08:14 Again, there are so many problems in our country.
00:08:15 There are so many issues, and this is the stuff that the Liberal government is focused on.
00:08:20 It's really outrageous.
00:08:21 All right, folks, I'm pleased to now be welcome, pleased to now welcome Melanie Bennett, my
00:08:24 colleague here at Juno News.
00:08:26 She's an investigative journalist focusing really on K-12 education, but also secondary
00:08:31 higher education, and just the absolute woke takeover of our society, trying to push back
00:08:35 against it, doing a great job.
00:08:36 So Melanie, welcome to the program.
00:08:38 Hi, thanks for having me.
00:08:40 Okay, I really want to talk about your Hamilton School Board piece.
00:08:43 We're going to walk the audience through the unbelievable chain of events.
00:08:47 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 And actually, in this case, having a really good impact.
00:08:59 The Minister of Education clearly reads her stuff, Melanie, and clearly agrees with you, or at least in part does.
00:09:04 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 Unbelievable, right?
00:09:24 You know, I thought a graduation ceremony was supposed to be focused on the achievements of the students who are graduating.
00:09:30 But no, no, no, they always have to make it political, make it woke, make it very anti-Canadian.
00:09:34 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 So I've spent many years before becoming a journalist, developing relationships with with people.
00:09:47 And some of those people work within these school boards and schools.
00:09:51 And one of my sources at the board does feed me information.
00:09:54 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 And every now and again, I'll pull it out.
00:10:02 And this is another one that I was like, OK, what am I going to write about this week?
00:10:05 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 That was going to be the theme. It also included information about how citizens are named citizens of Turtle Island.
00:10:29 so referring to the decolonial agenda within the schools, and also that parents and students would
00:10:34 not have to stand for O Canada this year. For some reason, this particular one, like I put out so
00:10:41 many stories about some of this crazy divisive politics that's going on in schools. I mean,
00:10:44 that's the primary driver of my journalism. For some reason, this one took off. I like to post
00:10:51 the material so people can read it for themselves. I made a post on X, which I attached to the
00:10:55 article. That post, I think at this point is nearly 380,000 impressions on X alone. And so
00:11:02 it caught the attention of the public. There was something about this memo going around within the
00:11:07 schools to the educators themselves, asking them to do a decolonial anti-oppressive graduation that
00:11:13 caught the attention of the public. Unbelievable. Yeah. So you can see folks on the screen here.
00:11:17 This is Melanie's viral tweet, just again, exposing this stuff. Like they don't refer to
00:11:22 Canadians as Canadians were citizens of Turtle Island. I mean, it's just, I think most people
00:11:27 are, I can safely say, you're just sick of this stuff. And especially when it comes to a graduation
00:11:32 ceremony, again, this is like, supposed to be about the children and the students and their
00:11:37 amazing accomplishment. And this next step that they're taking in life, right? They're leaving
00:11:40 the comfort of their friends and their teachers and entering the real world. At least that's sort
00:11:45 of the idea of graduation ceremonies is about the kids. And instead to make it about politics. And
00:11:51 this is something that I find so outrageous. Melanie, this is all happening under a so-called
00:11:56 conservative government in Ontario. We have had Premier Doug Ford in office for years and years
00:12:03 and years, and it has all happened under conservatives, right? So it's not like you
00:12:07 can even point and say, well, it's an NDP government, and maybe when the conservatives
00:12:09 get back, we'll right the ship. Like, this has all happened under their watch. It's truly
00:12:13 outrageous. I will just say that the new education manager seems to actually not like this stuff
00:12:20 and be attempting and trying to change it.
00:12:24 So in response to your excellent reporting
00:12:26 that you had on this memo and on the story,
00:12:29 the Ontario Ministry of Education
00:12:31 responded with a statement
00:12:33 pushing back on the directive
00:12:34 voicing concern about the politicization of school events.
00:12:38 So that came out on March 20th.
00:12:40 And then a couple of days later in Queen's Park,
00:12:42 Education Minister Paul Calandra
00:12:44 slammed the Hamilton School Board
00:12:46 for pushing divisive ideology onto teachers
00:12:49 who organize these graduation ceremonies this is about a minute long this is a clip of Ontario
00:12:55 Minister Paul Calendra just saying enough is enough roll that clip there was a a memo that
00:13:00 went out from the Hamilton District School Board to teachers so a faceless superintendent in that
00:13:06 board decided that graduation ceremonies shouldn't focus on student achievement student achievement
00:13:11 by the way which comes about because of the hard work of teachers right so a graduation ceremony
00:13:18 is about the student success but it's also a way for parents to recognize what teachers have done
00:13:24 to build on that success so this superintendent in hamilton decided let's make it divisive let's
00:13:29 turn it away from the success of students and put that on the responsibility on the shoulder
00:13:35 of the teachers organizing well that superintendent you know what that superintendent should do
00:13:40 go to every single one of these graduation ceremonies so that when parents are upset by
00:13:44 by the divisive nature of it.
00:13:46 When parents are upset that the focus is not on students,
00:13:49 let them take the heat from the students, not the teacher.
00:13:53 So that's great.
00:13:54 That's as it should be, right?
00:13:56 We shouldn't politicize these things.
00:13:57 Now, I wanna go to the next twist in this story,
00:14:00 which is that the Toronto Star decided to write about it,
00:14:03 just decided to write about the memo that you unearthed
00:14:06 and didn't do the basic journalistic integrity move
00:14:10 of just saying the source of this, right?
00:14:12 Like, you uncovered this through your exclusive source.
00:14:15 You had the memo.
00:14:16 Your tweet went viral.
00:14:17 Like, it's pretty clear that that is where this all came from.
00:14:21 And yet the Toronto Star and the reporting can't be bothered to mention that.
00:14:25 So I'm going to show the audience what the Toronto Star readers saw.
00:14:29 Ford government warned school boards to keep graduation ceremonies apolitical.
00:14:33 I love how they put apolitical, like, in scare quotes as if it's somehow controversial.
00:14:36 like like maybe if the conservative government was saying hey let's make graduation ceremonies
00:14:41 politically conservative that might be something that you would say hey maybe we should do that
00:14:46 but but they're actually just trying to make it neutral saying don't make it left don't make it
00:14:49 right just make it apolitical and somehow the toronto star thinks that that's outrageous anyway
00:14:55 so they the story talk the story is written by this reporter kristin rushaway a senior writer
00:15:00 with the toronto star she writes about the ministry and paul colander's statements and what
00:15:05 he is trying to do and then it's later in the piece it says this all came from the hamilton
00:15:10 board's memo focused on the anti-oppressive anti-racist anti-colonial lens that they were
00:15:15 pushing and basically copies your reporting and again doesn't give you any any mention that this
00:15:22 was actually written by another reporter in an independent news outlet really outrageous what do
00:15:26 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 place that this journalist could have obtained this information. I mean, I suppose there's a
00:15:40 possibility that, you know, she might have seen it, but it's so infinitesimally small that that
00:15:46 would have happened. And at the time before Calandra actually came out and said what he said
00:15:52 in the legislature about Hamilton, directly referencing the memo in Hamilton, this is when
00:16:00 the Toronto Star article came out right so before uh the legislature speech by Calandra and the the
00:16:06 journalist like you said uh references that this may be in part due to a memo from Hamilton well
00:16:11 where did she get that she got that from me and the funny thing is it was actually another source
00:16:17 that I was speaking to yesterday morning who sent me a link and said can you unpaywall this and I
00:16:21 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 going to be perfectly honest because it is not the first time that journalists take my work or
00:16:32 cleverly paraphrase my work, which is originating from me because of the relationships that I've
00:16:37 developed with these people over a long period of time. So not only is this journalist stealing
00:16:41 from another news organization, another journalist, but they're stealing from members of the public
00:16:46 who want this information to be out there, who want it to be shared with the public.
00:16:52 They trust me. So I'm not nuclear simply because of me. I'm also very upset because of what this
00:16:59 means for all the other people that they're shafting in situations like this. I immediately
00:17:04 wrote a letter to the editor, which by the way, the editor still has not responded. I DMed the
00:17:10 journalist directly. The journalist has not responded to me. And I shamed them on Twitter,
00:17:15 if I'm going to be perfectly honest, because many times since I've started, I've only been
00:17:19 a journalist 10 months now and multiple times my work has been taken and this was the last straw
00:17:24 for me and to put it behind a paywall to take people's money government funding to write articles
00:17:29 that you're supposed to represent the public then to not represent the public to take the work of
00:17:34 the journalist who is representing the public and to put it behind a paywall is just too much for me
00:17:39 it's it really is unbelievable that they both take government money money and funding implying that
00:17:45 they are some kind of a public utility right oh we have to do this journalism otherwise people
00:17:49 wouldn't get it, which is obviously not true because Juno News is here. We're creating
00:17:53 independent news. We're not taking any government money. There's actually a great business model
00:17:56 for journalism in this day and age. Toronto Star doesn't use that. They waste tons and tons of
00:18:00 money. And so they still are reporting and then they put it behind a paywall. It's just a bad
00:18:04 taste. So I'm going to read a little bit of the letter that you wrote to the Toronto Star. So
00:18:10 you wrote, I'm writing to raise a serious concern regarding Toronto Star's March 24th article on
00:18:15 graduation ceremonies. The piece presents information that was first reported exclusively
00:18:19 in my coverage, yet nowhere does it acknowledge that fact. There is no attribution, no reference,
00:18:24 and no indication to the reader that the underlying reporting originated elsewhere.
00:18:28 This is a failure of basic journalistic standards. Canadian press guidelines are clear. When a news
00:18:33 organization relies on reporting first uncovered by another journalist or outlast, attribution is
00:18:38 required. Readers deserve to know who did the original work. This is a cornerstone of transparency
00:18:44 and credibility. Well, I don't think that the Toronto Star cares much about either of those
00:18:49 things, Melanie, because obviously, I mean, they don't have a lot of credibility or transparency
00:18:54 when, again, they're taking money from the government and then pretending that they actually
00:18:58 hold the government to account. So good for you. I think that you are right. You are owed
00:19:03 proper credit. You are owed an immediate correction and a public apology. I don't know if you're
00:19:08 going to get it, but we're going to keep pushing on this because, I mean, again, this is journalistic
00:19:14 malpractice? Well, yes, I am owed an apology and all the rest. I will say that we are constantly
00:19:21 criticized for being misinformation and not real journalists and so on and so forth. And I can say
00:19:25 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 if I get the information from there. And I thoroughly research what I'm writing about and
00:19:35 cite it. And I do not overlook it simply for some kind of professional differences. So other
00:19:41 journalists should be able to do that too especially the ones that are supposed to be
00:19:44 considered the true journalists in this country they should be following those professional
00:19:48 standards 100 i wouldn't hold my breath i want to just uh show a little bit more reaction i saw
00:19:54 this one on social media this is city news and again this is fake this is fake news this is the
00:19:59 way that the fake news media reacts so you can see this post where they've quoted a critic of
00:20:04 paul calandra saying he's not the emperor of education right so they're presenting an opinion
00:20:10 but pretending that it's objective journalism, right?
00:20:13 Imagine seeing this story, folks. 0.98
00:20:15 Okay, so you have an insane person
00:20:17 at the Hamilton School Board
00:20:18 trying to make the graduation ceremonies woke,
00:20:22 not about the students, not about the teachers,
00:20:24 but about their extreme hard left agenda.
00:20:27 The minister stands up and says,
00:20:28 hey guys, let's just keep it apolitical.
00:20:30 And then the media responds by saying,
00:20:32 you're not the emperor of education.
00:20:34 How dare you say that?
00:20:36 Critics are saying that Paul Klander overstepped
00:20:38 when he sent a letter ordering these apolitical graduation ceremonies.
00:20:42 I'm just going to play you a little bit of this news report 0.98
00:20:44 because this is just so pathetic. 0.97
00:20:47 The education minister facing criticism for directing school boards 0.98
00:20:50 to keep graduation ceremonies free from political views.
00:20:54 Critics are demanding an apology.
00:20:55 Why would you send a letter like this to every teacher?
00:21:00 I will simply not apologize for what is in that letter.
00:21:04 What we're doing is depoliticizing it so students can focus on one thing,
00:21:08 learning the education minister defending a letter he sent to educators and school board staff
00:21:13 ordering graduation ceremonies to be conducted in a manner that is strictly student-centered
00:21:19 apolitical inclusive and respectful and adding there is an unequivocal expectation that all
00:21:24 staff uphold the highest professional and ethical standards it has sparked a wave of backlash from
00:21:30 teachers unions who are calling the tone offensive demoralizing and unacceptable imagine if that's
00:21:36 the way that you wanted to paint the story to the viewers that like critics are demanding an apology
00:21:40 and how dare you send a letter to teachers you're only the minister of education you can't do that
00:21:45 like like i'm sorry the liberals in that clip they've lost the plot right if you think that
00:21:51 the controversy over this story truly is that the minister said let's make these things like
00:21:54 political and not the fact that the person running these ceremonies actually ordered that they become
00:21:59 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 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 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 and when the liberal minister said that he's not the dictator of or the emperor of of education
00:22:44 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 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 we're not we're not saying that you should politicize it in a conservative i would probably
00:22:59 like that maybe i wouldn't i homeschool my kids i wouldn't put my kids anywhere near an ontario
00:23:04 public school. That's just my opinion, my values. Maybe if we had a conservative government that
00:23:08 actually wanted to impose conservative values in schools, maybe I would consider it. But right now
00:23:13 they can barely even push back against the overwhelming woke takeover. Okay, we're going
00:23:17 to talk about a few more stories that Melanie has broken here at Juno News. I want to do a quick
00:23:22 pitch for Juno News, folks. We don't take any government funding, unlike the Toronto Star,
00:23:26 unlike the fake news media. We don't take money from the government. We rely entirely on our
00:23:32 audience and our readers and our supporters to fund our journalism. I really encourage you to
00:23:36 go over and get a subscription to Juno News. It only costs 10 bucks a month and you help support
00:23:41 incredible journalists like Melanie Bennett, who is working tirelessly to expose the insane
00:23:47 problems and corruption that happen in our country and exposing the media as well. Okay,
00:23:52 Melody, I want to talk about one other story that you had, which really got buried and didn't become
00:23:58 the national story that i think it ought to have now we remember the tumblr ridge school shooter
00:24:04 juno news was the first one to report that that individual was trans we did it through
00:24:07 old-fashioned reporting we actually called his family members and confirmed that he was the
00:24:12 shooter that he was trans right we broke that story and later the legacy media did follow up
00:24:17 rcmp did admit it and we know that is the case one of the things that the media kept saying though
00:24:23 is that it's incredibly rare it's incredibly incredibly rare for there to be a trans shooting
00:24:27 which is obviously not true it's not i looked at the last 10 shootings in the united states the
00:24:32 last 10 mass shootings and it was shocking how many of them were people who were either non-binary
00:24:37 or trans or formerly trans and the media does this weird little trick to say oh well they're
00:24:42 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 but then they then they went back to identifying by their birth gender birth sex anyway it is a
00:24:54 problem there is a correlation and you found another connection melanie between a foiled
00:24:59 mass school shooting plot out in bridgewater nova scotia and the fact that the person who
00:25:06 was the perpetrator who was stopped thank god was also trans why don't you tell us a bit about that
00:25:11 story so i was alerted again through some sources over the over the weekend um about the trans
00:25:20 identity of the the foiled shooter the accused the youth in nova scotia um i my sources knew some
00:25:27 parents of a child at that school and they they alerted me and so i looked into it the information
00:25:34 that i received was a little bit different than what was shared on cbc so there's some confusion
00:25:39 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 Monday pointing to the fact, burying it in the article, mind you, that the person who was accused
00:25:52 the youth wanted he, him pronouns and the police had said was a girl. Now, I was confused like this
00:25:58 because I don't remember the Bridgewater police stating publicly that it was a girl. I couldn't
00:26:04 find it online. I asked the journalist, can you tell me where you got this information? They didn't
00:26:07 respond to me. The police did respond to me after I originally wrote an article. And they said that
00:26:14 they did actually say the person that we apprehended is essentially a, they use a phrase
00:26:20 biological female. They proceeded to say, I provided names, the birth name and trans name
00:26:28 that I was given by my sources. They confirmed that those names are correct, that the trans or
00:26:34 that the individual, the youth is choosing to use their legal birth name. Although they never
00:26:41 confirmed which one was which. They use the word they all the time, even though the police are
00:26:45 saying she or he is using he, him pronouns. So it's very, very confused. We're having slightly
00:26:53 conflicting things. It's looking like it might be a female who is identifying as a male. However,
00:27:00 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 happen in this story. I'm continuing to look into it to try to verify some information because
00:27:13 there is so much contradictory information going on. And I think you're correct, Candice, that
00:27:18 there's too much, people are being too careful here. We're talking about a criminal. We're
00:27:23 talking about somebody who was planning mass murder of individuals. We need to understand
00:27:29 the situation, muddying the waters by saying preferred pronouns and using terms like biological
00:27:34 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 and i and you know the sources in the school are telling me one thing the police are saying another
00:27:43 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 into this a little bit more deeply and and we may or may not have some more information coming
00:27:53 forward well great reporting i want to tease one more piece of journalism that you exclusively
00:27:57 have for us this week really excited for this we're going to release this as a standalone episode
00:28:01 tomorrow. So folks may remember that you broke this big story last week about the University
00:28:07 of Windsor levying sexual misconduct allegations against a Pride Center volunteer. So there was
00:28:14 actually an internal investigation, we talked about this on the show last week, by the university.
00:28:18 They found that this individual was acting in an atrocious manner, a 46-year-old man
00:28:23 being a predator on a university campus, taking advantage of young students, really sick, 0.93
00:28:28 twisted stuff. Well, the story relied on an anonymous source who you promised to keep his
00:28:33 identity anonymous as journalists do. You know, we really take our sources seriously and we protect
00:28:38 their identity when they ask. But this individual has actually agreed to come forward and put his
00:28:43 real name and his real face out there because he is so concerned about this, again, 46-year-old
00:28:50 biological male student who identifies as trans who's out there committing crimes, committing 1.00
00:28:56 atrocious acts. And yes, so why don't you tell us a little bit about this interview that we're
00:29:03 going to have coming out tomorrow? Well, I won't share his real name. I think you'll have to watch
00:29:06 the interview to get to know his real name. But he's a very brave young man who has been through
00:29:12 quite a lot, both because of the assaults, but also because of the university. This has been
00:29:20 something that's been going on for a while and has affected other people. And he felt that it
00:29:25 was really important to come forward to put his face to the story so that if it's happening to
00:29:30 other people they know that they're not alone and they can reach out to him so he's telling his
00:29:34 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 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 um i've noticed that some people are saying this is misinformation and it's being transphobic and
00:29:48 he said i want to put my face forward for people to realize this is not about transphobia this is
00:29:53 about a creditor that needs to be exposed and so he put himself forward um voluntarily he asked to
00:29:58 do this interview so that's what we've put together and we have for the audience incredible so that
00:30:03 will be up tomorrow on our youtube melanie bennett thank you so much for all your incredible work
00:30:08 honestly you do so much so much more than what the legacy media is putting out so much so that
00:30:13 they have to resort to copying you and not giving you credit but we appreciate all you do and thanks
00:30:16 for joining us today thank you right folks this is melanie bennett investigative journalist here
00:30:21 at Juno Knows. Seriously, you should go subscribe and support independent media in this country.
00:30:25 We really need it. All right, folks, this is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for
00:30:28 tuning in. I'm Candice Malcolm. This is the Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you, and God bless.