Juno News - August 12, 2024


What is going on in Brampton?


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10 minutes

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174.96312

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1,898

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00:00:00.000 Brampton is just a very strange place every week something happens in Brampton that goes
00:00:22.560 extremely viral on social media and you just have to ask why exactly that is a lot of us
00:00:28.760 know why that is for many Canadians Brampton looks and feels like a totally foreign place but right
00:00:36.280 now some very strange things are happening in Brampton that warrant mention and further
00:00:40.060 investigation well one of the things happening in Brampton right now which many of you who watch
00:00:44.540 the show regularly will know about is that for months almost every weekend large groups of
00:00:50.200 international students with expiring work permits have been protesting in the streets not only
00:00:55.860 demanding work permit extensions but also calling for an end to online hate and racism targeting
00:01:02.580 Indians they also keep bringing up the Komagata Maru incident which happened in 1914 now what does
00:01:10.900 that have to do with anything going on right now well we will get into that later on in the show
00:01:14.780 also for whatever reason many young people in Brampton seem to have a penchant for open air
00:01:20.940 street brawls but these clips of open air street brawls in Brampton have become such an issue that
00:01:26.760 even the mayor Patrick Brown had to get involved and had to issue a statement on social media over the
00:01:32.020 weekend about it lastly all those slumlords in Brampton you know the ones who rent out basement units to
00:01:38.540 seven tenants at a time well they're very upset that Brampton is now trying to institute a licensing
00:01:44.300 program for landlords that they are now protesting in the street demanding a right to remain as a
00:01:50.540 slumlord they don't want to have any rules placed on them and they don't want to have any oversight
00:01:54.620 from the city placed on what they're doing well we know what they're doing and it's quite ridiculous
00:01:59.780 you know in Canada we don't really do the whole slumlords thing but to these guys I guess they think
00:02:05.160 otherwise all of this is happening at once in Brampton just adding to the intrigue that so many Canadians
00:02:11.660 have over this very strange city in Canada we're going to get into all of that on the show but
00:02:16.980 before we do be sure to drop a like in this video help us out by subscribing to the true north youtube
00:02:21.080 channel and the common question for the episode is this do you think these protests in Brampton will
00:02:27.200 escalate into something worse in the future let me know your answer in the comments below and let's get
00:02:32.120 into it well we start with the protesting international students demanding work permit extensions in
00:02:37.400 Brampton they've been protesting almost every weekend since we covered those first few protests
00:02:43.520 in Brampton over a month ago now first it was out in PEI then it came to Brampton you saw what happened
00:02:50.000 when we were there a few months ago they refused to speak to us they said that we could cover their
00:02:54.900 protests but they weren't going to talk to true north journalists because we were racist against them
00:02:59.320 we were spreading racism online hate you see these protesters in Brampton they've picked up a new
00:03:05.280 slogan that they keep using no more Komagata Maru now for those of you who don't know what the
00:03:11.820 Komagata Maru incident was the ship carrying hundreds of Sikhs in 1914 planning to immigrate to Canada
00:03:18.600 was named the SS Komagata Maru now the story we've been fed about the truth behind the Komagata Maru
00:03:24.660 incident is not really the case politicians and Sikh activists in Canada have tried to tell us that
00:03:30.220 really the Komagata Maru incident was one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history when the Canadian
00:03:34.680 government turned around a group of Sikhs who wanted to immigrate into Canada because we had
00:03:39.080 racist policies targeting Indians the Komagata Maru project was actually an immigration challenge
00:03:46.160 designed to undermine Canadian immigration laws the passengers on the Komagata Maru boat were actually
00:03:53.340 being fed anti-British and extremist literature being taught Marxist lessons on the ship before they got
00:04:00.340 to Canada it's funny that part of the story never actually seems to make it into the common dialogue
00:04:06.720 perhaps a further investigation into what the Komagata Maru story really was is warranted on this show but
00:04:12.560 for now we'll just leave it at that ultimately these protesters in Brampton they want to try to use that
00:04:18.080 story to say that they are the victims here they are the ones being victimized by a racist Canadian
00:04:23.900 government that wants to ship them back to India these protesters in Brampton they came here
00:04:28.660 as temporary residents they came here as international students and told a Canadian border services agent
00:04:35.940 that when their visa was up they would go home there was no promise of being a permanent resident
00:04:41.500 there was no promise that they would even find work here because they were all supposed to go back
00:04:46.660 when their studies were finished now these people in Brampton the same group that is protesting in PEI
00:04:53.040 they want to demand a right to stay in our country well they have no right to make any demands they
00:04:59.640 never did have any right to make any demands but their rhetoric is rising their frustration towards
00:05:05.480 Canadians is rising and now they are taking the extreme step believe it or not of threatening the
00:05:11.820 Canadian government and blaming the Canadian government for things that are happening to the protesters in PEI
00:05:17.760 last week there was a fire that broke out among the tents from these international students protesting and
00:05:23.700 making an encampment outside the PEI legislature but the protesters in Brampton decided that yesterday
00:05:29.460 they would go on Instagram and release a statement not only blaming the federal government and racists for
00:05:35.700 the fire in PEI but also threatening the federal government with retaliation if anything like this happens
00:05:41.820 again take a listen to this someone tried to put the tent into the fire as the protesters were sleeping in the tent
00:05:49.260 so we deeply condemned this thing as we also know that it was done by some racist bodies or it must be done by the government
00:05:57.420 they were trying to intimidate the protesters but we are coming strong from Ontario as well and spouting all the PEI protesters
00:06:04.860 we have a message for the racist groups and the Canadian government who think that by this incident they could stop the fight
00:06:11.620 we are deeply condemning it also and if they are thinking that they could stop this fight like this
00:06:17.220 they are completely delusional right now so our struggle will be continued and even in Toronto we will have the protests and everything in their sport
00:06:26.360 so in the future if anything like this happens again and if there is any damage to any PEI
00:06:31.320 will be rolled up and the federal government is going to be comfortable for that
00:06:35.360 now while all of that was happening yet another open street brawl occurred in the beautiful and safe city of Brampton
00:06:41.960 take a look at this
00:06:43.000 now this brawl appears to have occurred at one of the many Brampton takeover car rallies that happens almost every weekend
00:07:02.500 according to the Brampton Guardian illegal takeover car rallies and street races become huge problem in Brampton
00:07:07.960 police say are these guys better at driving than they are at fighting because clips of that brawl are pretty pathetic
00:07:14.220 slapping each other around no one was even able to get in a good punch a good hook embarrassing if you ask me
00:07:20.060 if you're actually going to get into a brawl at least know what you're doing well the answer to the question is of course
00:07:24.360 no we know that because Brampton is one of the most dangerous places to drive a car in Canada
00:07:29.460 take a listen to the statistics published by the Brampton Guardian in this article
00:07:33.220 according to Peel Police
00:07:35.220 officers issued over 20,000 Highway Traffic Act charges including more than 4,200 speeding tickets
00:07:42.860 400 careless driving charges
00:07:45.360 1,300 charges relating to mufflers causing unnecessary noise and more than 900 charges for stunt driving and racing during the first six months of
00:07:54.680 2024
00:07:55.440 remarkable these street brawls happen all the time in Brampton before they all get speed tickets and caught by the police
00:08:01.340 they end up going for a little street brawl now this happened last year September 2023
00:08:06.100 and it looks like some of these people in this street brawl brought swords to the fight
00:08:10.340 and this is a famous brawl that occurred a few years ago when the Hindus and the Sikhs began fighting each other
00:08:15.600 in a mall just your typical fireworks war and street brawl you see it in every Canadian city big and small up and down the country
00:08:23.380 from the east coast to the west coast yeah who's kidding who that doesn't happen anywhere else it seems other than in Brampton
00:08:29.860 why is that this old clip resurfaced in the wake of that previous open street brawl clip
00:08:35.720 kind of hammering home the point that Brampton is a very weird place and it's not a very nice place
00:08:41.060 to the point in which Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown had to go onto social media and say
00:08:45.340 there was a lot of misinformation online this is yet another example of it
00:08:49.320 this wasn't in Brampton and it wasn't even an incident from this year
00:08:52.560 and lastly you've all seen the videos you've all seen the clips of the awful living situation
00:08:58.420 faced by so many in Brampton so many international students who travel from India to Canada
00:09:03.800 end up living seven to a basement or eight to a house clear violations of fire code and safety codes
00:09:11.420 you've seen the listings and you've seen the videos on social media that look like this
00:09:15.220 we're dealing with modern day slumlords in order to try to do something about this
00:09:19.700 Brampton has instituted a residential rental licensing program but at the beginning of August
00:09:25.040 they've only been able to license 1700 units the effort of course is to maintain community safety
00:09:31.980 to maintain tenant safety but the landlords have been protesting this in the streets the slumlords
00:09:39.940 I should call them they've been protesting this in the streets they don't want to have any oversight
00:09:45.040 over what they're doing to encourage more landlords to apply for the residential rental licensing program
00:09:50.880 the city removed the following requirements to simplify the application process property owners
00:09:57.200 are no longer required to submit proof of ownership a landlord is no longer required to provide a criminal
00:10:04.480 record check they aren't required to provide floor plans they aren't required to provide electrical
00:10:10.880 inspections they aren't required to provide gas inspections or parking and storage plans but yet
00:10:17.360 that is still not enough and these slumlords are still out in the streets protesting I mean come
00:10:22.240 on what exactly is going on here this cell seems very strange maybe we should actually go back to
00:10:27.840 Brampton to investigate this in more depth you let me know in the comments as well if you think we
00:10:32.000 should go back anyways that's gonna do it for us today on the show thank you so much for tuning in my
00:10:36.400 name is harrison faulkner and this is ratio