The Candice Malcolm Show - September 16, 2025


Canada’s media SMEARS Charlie Kirk + Liberals BLOCK moment of silence

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Charlie Kirk assassination Charlie Kirk and his views on religion
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Candice Malcolm
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Charlie Kirk Charlie Hebdo Rachel Gilmore Robinson Kaz Najatian Erica Kirk Pierre Poilievre Barbara Perry Andreas Nicholas Rachel Thomas Morgan Wallen Donald Trump Charles C.W. Cook Irene Gallia Spencer Cox Ken Paxton Waterloo Rebel Jobs
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Candace Malan talks about the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, and how the legacy media and mainstream media have reacted to it, and the possibility of leftist involvement in the killing of a conservative voice in the public sphere.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:05.360 Folks, we have a lot to get to today, and I'm going to be perfectly honest to you.
00:00:09.880 The last few days have been incredibly difficult.
00:00:12.520 Ever since Wednesday night, when we learned that Charlie Kirk was assassinated and murdered
00:00:17.800 on a university campus while having a debate politely with his political opponents, it's
00:00:23.440 been hard to watch.
00:00:24.200 It's been scary.
00:00:24.900 It's been really, really emotional for many of us, and particularly watching the way
00:00:30.720 that the legacy media have reacted to it, the way that many journalists, many mainstream
00:00:35.220 voices here in Canada have reacted to it, has been absolutely sickening.
00:00:38.900 We're going to get to all of it.
00:00:40.160 First, I want to start with the latest on the news front, so you know where we are with the
00:00:45.400 assassin, with the murderer of Charlie Kirk.
00:00:47.960 So I'm going to read here from Daily Wire.
00:00:49.940 Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox and President Donald Trump have pointed to radical left
00:00:54.820 ism as a potential factor in the killing of Charlie Kirk, an influential conservative.
00:00:59.420 It's very clear to us and to this investigation that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated
00:01:05.580 with leftist ideology, Cox said over the weekend.
00:01:08.700 In comments to reporters on Monday, Trump discussed the federal government looking into a potential
00:01:13.160 role that leftist groups played in the assassination, saying that the left has a lot of problems.
00:01:18.140 Trump added that it appears Robinson was radicalized online.
00:01:22.060 Something happened to him over a fairly short period of time.
00:01:25.140 It looks like he was radicalized over the Internet and radicalized on the left, Trump said.
00:01:29.400 Robinson, who lived with his trans-identifying roommate, they were in a romantic relationship.
00:01:34.960 I'll say that again.
00:01:35.820 The shooter was in a romantic relationship with his trans-identifying male roommate.
00:01:42.160 And he discussed his dislike of Kirk with a family member at dinner before the assassination
00:01:46.460 and mentioned that Kirk would be coming to Utah Valley University, according to authorities.
00:01:50.620 Officials added that Robinson had become more political in recent years.
00:01:54.220 In an online message account tied to Robinson, Robinson appeared to have confessed to assassinating
00:01:59.400 Kirk.
00:01:59.720 The Washington Post reported on Monday, just hours before Robinson was arrested, the account
00:02:04.160 linked to him posted an online message saying, hey guys, I have bad news for you.
00:02:08.100 It was me at UVA yesterday.
00:02:09.780 I'm sorry for all of this.
00:02:11.920 We will continue to provide the latest updates and the latest news on this.
00:02:15.020 But as of now, Charlie Kirk, the voice of a generation, a conservative leader, the most
00:02:21.160 prominent, probably the most powerful, the most influential, the most well-spoken, the
00:02:25.760 kindest, the most clear-minded person on the right in the public sphere was assassinated.
00:02:33.540 Charlie was a once-in-a-lifetime leader.
00:02:35.660 He was on a profound journey to reach young people and to teach them about the foundations
00:02:40.220 of our civilization, about faith, about family, about freedom, about how to live a fulfilled
00:02:45.940 life and how to defend and revive a civilization.
00:02:49.760 And Charlie Kirk was winning.
00:02:51.380 And then he was murdered.
00:02:53.640 The assassin's bullet hit Charlie's neck and ended his life.
00:02:56.780 But it also deliberately struck at the heart of our value structure, free and open debate.
00:03:02.720 Western liberal democracies are built on our ability to discuss ideas, to debate ideas,
00:03:07.800 to disagree with ideas.
00:03:09.960 That is why universities exist.
00:03:11.420 That is the purpose of universities.
00:03:13.080 Charlie went to those universities to try to win them back, to try to counter the ideological
00:03:18.000 programming that happens on university campuses.
00:03:21.200 He was so good at it.
00:03:22.460 He was so successful.
00:03:23.480 You know, his videos are going viral all over the internet.
00:03:26.480 I think his life and his legacy will continue.
00:03:28.920 He will be more impactful in death than he was in life because people are curious.
00:03:33.620 They want to know what it was that he did, what he said.
00:03:36.600 And when you go and you listen to the source and you see how he acted, the grace, the dignity,
00:03:41.740 the way, the kindness that he used when he was speaking to people, even whom he disagreed
00:03:46.360 with, it takes a lot of courage.
00:03:48.480 It takes a lot of wisdom to be able to go and speak with people with whom you disagree
00:03:52.320 with.
00:03:53.080 Charlie did it.
00:03:54.320 And political dialogue is the foundation of our civilization.
00:03:57.440 And that is why everybody should unite in mourning, in stopping and saying something evil
00:04:03.300 happened last week, something profoundly evil.
00:04:06.320 And we must unite against that.
00:04:08.440 And yet the left can't do that, right?
00:04:10.920 The left won't do that.
00:04:11.980 Instead, what did we see?
00:04:14.040 We saw many people cheering.
00:04:15.600 We saw people gloating and laughing and saying that he deserved it and taking words out of context
00:04:20.900 and saying that he was a fascist and that he called for violence and that he called for
00:04:25.540 hate.
00:04:25.940 None of those were true.
00:04:27.060 People are going and looking that up.
00:04:28.680 And I'm glad for that because people deserve to know the truth.
00:04:32.600 And, you know, it's interesting because Charlie said the purpose of why he would go and have
00:04:36.520 those discussions is because he was trying to humanize the other side, trying to allow
00:04:40.800 people to get to know a conservative, right?
00:04:43.380 Charlie was a conventional conservative, a Christian conservative.
00:04:47.540 He holds the same beliefs that I believe.
00:04:49.480 He holds the same beliefs that millions and millions of Americans and Canadians hold.
00:04:54.820 Actually, the views that the vast majority of people in our civilization, in our history
00:04:59.820 have held, the views of Canada's founders, the views of America's founders, those were
00:05:04.960 Charlie's views.
00:05:05.960 And he was so good at articulating it.
00:05:08.120 He said the reason that he was there was because we have to be able to battle with words
00:05:11.780 and ideas to avoid battling with violence, battling with swords and bullets.
00:05:17.120 And yet that's what we have come to, right?
00:05:20.160 The left can't win arguments, Charlie would quit.
00:05:21.980 And so they resort to attacks and the attack on Charlie Kirk was not just an attack on him.
00:05:27.300 It was an attack on all of us, on decency, on democracy and our ability to coexist.
00:05:32.940 It was a Charlie Hebdo moment and level of attack on freedom of speech. 0.51
00:05:38.460 And everyone should be able to acknowledge that.
00:05:40.860 They took out a generation's leader, the voice, the conservative voice of an entire generation.
00:05:46.140 And let's be clear, folks, this happened because of years and years and years of conditioning
00:05:53.160 by the mainstream media, by mainstream voices who call conservatives vile, vicious names.
00:05:59.160 They call all of us these names. 0.92
00:06:00.960 They call us fascists, Nazis, far right, radicals, racists, extremists, domestic terrorists, and 0.83
00:06:07.720 so on.
00:06:08.220 Every single conservative in the public square in the United States, and especially here in
00:06:13.580 Canada, have been hit with these inflammatory, hateful, and untrue smears.
00:06:18.380 They say these things about us over and over again.
00:06:20.880 I get called the same things that Charlie Kirk gets called.
00:06:23.960 The legacy media in the United States, and especially in Canada, they do the following things.
00:06:28.660 They accuse conservatives of spreading hate, which is an accusation specifically designed
00:06:34.140 to make people hate conservatives, right?
00:06:35.760 They say we're spreading hate, they say that we're hateful, and the purpose of saying that 0.99
00:06:39.960 is to make people hate us.
00:06:42.720 What else do they do? 0.89
00:06:43.800 They insist that conservatives are fascists.
00:06:46.380 They say that our words are violent. 0.92
00:06:48.760 They accuse us of violence against trans people, against gay people, against indigenous people, 0.84
00:06:53.360 against black people, whatever.
00:06:54.700 They say that our criticisms of public policy are akin to violence.
00:06:59.980 And it turns out that when you say that, it enables actual violence against us, actual
00:07:07.080 violence against Charlie Kirk.
00:07:09.220 And then they play these six-degree games of separation where they try to link conservatives
00:07:13.540 to violent extremism on the political right, which, let me remind you, is a very minuscule
00:07:18.380 problem.
00:07:19.520 It's an almost non-existent problem.
00:07:21.120 But they pretend that it's the biggest problem, and they go out of their way to try to say,
00:07:25.580 oh, Pierre Polyev shook the hand of this guy who said this online, who believes this, who's
00:07:30.380 friends with that guy, so Pierre Polyev must be a fascist extremism.
00:07:34.580 They play these games, these sleight-of-hand games of six degrees of separation to make us
00:07:39.280 look like extremism.
00:07:40.200 And meanwhile, at the exact same time, they will shamelessly promote real violence and
00:07:47.360 real violent extremism on the political left, folks.
00:07:51.020 It's scary.
00:07:51.580 We're living in a time of political violence.
00:07:54.820 And so what can we do, right?
00:07:56.120 What can we do to combat this?
00:07:58.160 Well, we have to start telling the truth.
00:07:59.720 We have to use our voices.
00:08:00.940 We have to be braver and bolder than ever.
00:08:03.520 I personally look to Charlie.
00:08:05.280 Look, he's a bit younger than me.
00:08:06.860 I, when I first came on the scene, I had a hard time kind of taking him seriously because
00:08:12.080 he talked about Christianity so much.
00:08:14.720 He put that at the forefront of his views.
00:08:16.500 And for me, as a Canadian, I thought, you know, let's leave religion out of politics.
00:08:20.800 Let's stick to the political sphere.
00:08:22.420 But over the last few years, and in listening to Charlie, I think Charlie was right.
00:08:27.080 Like, our problems are beyond just political.
00:08:29.980 And I think that the answers have to come from a revival.
00:08:33.540 They are spiritual at the end of the day.
00:08:35.340 Our problems are spiritual.
00:08:36.900 And so we all need, we need a little bit more God in our lives and in our civilization.
00:08:42.680 One of the things I personally did over the weekend was I took my family to church.
00:08:46.780 We used to go to church every weekend.
00:08:48.620 We now have four kids.
00:08:49.500 It's really hard to load up four kids and get them out the door on a Sunday morning,
00:08:53.240 get them to sit still for a two-hour service, even though some of them go to Sunday school.
00:08:57.320 It's still hard, and it's easier just not to do it.
00:08:59.580 So we stopped going to church, and we, my family and I decided no more.
00:09:04.080 We went to church, and let me just tell you, it was a wonderful experience.
00:09:08.120 Yes, it was a little hard getting the kids, getting everything organized.
00:09:11.040 But once we were there, what do you see when you go to church?
00:09:14.160 Young families, happy people, hopeful people, messages of community and togetherness and hope
00:09:20.900 and praying with your community.
00:09:22.580 And that is exactly what I needed, and I think what the country needs.
00:09:27.200 Okay, I want to get into a little bit of the reaction to Charlie Cook.
00:09:30.060 Look, this is my first show since Charlie was assassinated, and I want to go through the reaction from the media
00:09:36.640 just to show you how totally insane it was, right?
00:09:38.940 So here we'll start Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday evening, before Charlie was even dead.
00:09:43.820 What did the CBC do?
00:09:44.880 The first thing that they did was they put out an article, some of Charlie Kirk's most controversial takes.
00:09:51.020 And so this is how it read.
00:09:52.520 Charlie Kirk, who died after being shot during an appearance at Utah Valley University.
00:09:56.200 Okay, he didn't just die, right?
00:09:58.380 He was murdered.
00:09:59.440 He was murdered in cold blood by someone with your leftist ideology, CBC.
00:10:03.440 So you don't just say he died, right?
00:10:04.940 He died, maybe he got hit by a car or there was some kind of accident.
00:10:08.060 No, Charlie Kirk was murdered.
00:10:10.600 He was murdered by someone on your side. 0.56
00:10:13.240 Okay, Charlie Kirk, who died after being shot during an appearance at Utah Valley University Wednesday,
00:10:17.160 had a long history of contentious views and often corded controversy with statements that seemed designed to provoke those who disagreed with him, right?
00:10:27.480 So what is the CBC doing?
00:10:28.900 They're sort of conditioning you to say, well, he was killed, but he had controversial views, and he corded the controversy.
00:10:35.800 And here are some examples of the absolute worst things that he said, right?
00:10:38.960 The man hadn't even died yet, and the CBC were already justifying his murder and saying, well, he was controversial, he was far right, he was bad, and therefore he died.
00:10:49.260 He died.
00:10:50.000 He didn't get murdered.
00:10:50.760 He died.
00:10:51.640 That's the CBC.
00:10:52.380 That's mainstream in Canada.
00:10:54.500 Of course, there were also the sort of bottom-dwelling hard leftists, and I'm going to try to demonstrate that there's actually not much of a difference between the hard left in Canada and the mainstream.
00:11:03.600 This is a publication called Cult Montreal.
00:11:05.320 A lot of people rushed out to show how they get taxpayer subsidies and taxpayer dollars.
00:11:09.920 No surprise, every media outlet in Canada does.
00:11:12.500 All the mainstream media outlets does.
00:11:14.160 Not Junior News, not Junior North, not The Rebel, but everyone on the political left and political center, all the mainstream legacy media, all get your taxpayer dollars.
00:11:21.460 Well, this is just one example from an organization called Cult Montreal.
00:11:25.580 To hell with Charlie Kirk.
00:11:27.140 Again, this is published on Thursday, September 11th, the day after Charlie was murdered.
00:11:30.940 This is what the author writes.
00:11:32.300 Charlie Kirk died as he lived, promoting hateful myths about marginalized groups and society.
00:11:37.940 There's no excuse for political violence, but Charlie Kirk is absolutely responsible for making political violence more likely in America.
00:11:44.900 You reap what you sow.
00:11:46.300 Okay?
00:11:46.720 So now you know exactly where they stand.
00:11:49.360 This is the mainstream view on the political left.
00:11:51.800 And again, I'll show you how the political left and the mainstream establishment center in Canada are the exact same thing.
00:11:58.540 Rachel Gilmore writes that this is what she writes shortly after Charlie's death.
00:12:03.820 I actually don't even think he had died at this point when she wrote this tweet on Wednesday afternoon.
00:12:09.260 She instantly, instantly hearing that someone had been assassinated for political speech in the United States of America.
00:12:15.540 She writes, terrified to think of how far-right fans of Kirk, aching for more violence, could very well turn this into an even more radicalizing moment.
00:12:27.160 Well, they now believe their fears have been proven right and feel they have the right to retaliate, regardless of who's actually behind the initial shooting.
00:12:35.280 So you see what she does.
00:12:37.240 She doesn't take even a moment, even a second, to observe the fact that someone on the right was murdered, right?
00:12:44.380 That there was political violence aimed towards a conservative.
00:12:48.500 Doesn't care about that.
00:12:49.640 Doesn't care at all.
00:12:50.740 What is Rachel Gilmore terrified of?
00:12:52.800 She's terrified to think of how Kirk's fans could turn this into a radicalizing moment.
00:12:59.420 So killing him wasn't a radicalizing moment.
00:13:01.940 That's nothing to fear.
00:13:02.900 Nothing to fear that someone would go and speak to students on campus and they would get shot in the neck for it.
00:13:09.460 What she fears is that people who like Kirk could get angry about this and that their fears could be proven right, that they had the right to retaliate.
00:13:19.900 So she's worried about right-wing violence, right?
00:13:21.700 She's watching left-wing violence pour out in front of her. 0.99
00:13:25.180 And what does she do? 0.94
00:13:26.300 She immediately thinks of right-wing violence, which is a figment of her imagination.
00:13:30.720 It doesn't actually exist.
00:13:32.360 Well, Rachel got a little bit of what was coming to her because some sleuths on the internet decided to take note of all the people who were celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
00:13:41.660 And as you know, folks, it was far too many.
00:13:43.880 I believe the list has some 60,000 people on it, many of them saying far, far worse things than what Rachel did, celebrating, cheering, laughing, mocking,
00:13:53.040 doing all kinds of absolutely despicable anti-social, anti-civilization reactions on social media.
00:14:00.040 Some conservatives decided to create a database to try to shine light on the fact that there are horrible human beings in our society that live amongst us who would cheer on political violence.
00:14:11.240 Rachel's name got added to the list.
00:14:12.520 And so what happens?
00:14:14.180 Well, the entire media establishment rally around Rachel because Rachel's the true victim in all this.
00:14:19.840 Rachel's the true person that we should feel sympathy for.
00:14:22.760 Not Charlie Kirk, not his wife, and two very, very young children.
00:14:27.160 I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old just like Charlie does, and I can't imagine what his wife is going through.
00:14:31.820 I'll put it that way.
00:14:32.460 But no, the media establishment rally around Rachel Gilmore because poor, poor Rachel Gilmore is getting some pushback for her completely insensitive tweets. 1.00
00:14:43.580 So the amount of sympathy, I feel, for Rachel Gilmore is next to none.
00:14:48.800 But again, this is where we are, right?
00:14:52.260 People are more worried about a left-wing journalist out there basically doing her shtick where she's trying to get notoriety and fame over pointing at mainstream people and calling them radical.
00:15:06.540 That's what Rachel does. 1.00
00:15:07.300 She points to people like me, people like my husband, all of us here at Juno News, Kian Bexty.
00:15:11.980 She points to us and tries to make you hate us, try to make you think there's something wrong with us and say that we are extreme and we are dangerous.
00:15:18.880 And then when our followers say, what are you talking about?
00:15:22.560 You're wrong. 1.00
00:15:23.480 Shut up. 1.00
00:15:24.380 She plays a victim, crouches over and starts crying and talking about how she's scared. 1.00
00:15:28.800 She did the same thing with Charlie Kirk, except for it's not just our audience of, you know, Canadian conservatives saying, you know, shut up, Rachel.
00:15:36.420 It's the entire American mainstream saying, don't do this.
00:15:41.560 Don't mock a man who is dying.
00:15:43.840 Don't try to flip the switch.
00:15:45.460 Let's actually focus on the real issue at hand, which is that the left murdered somebody and she's playing the victim.
00:15:51.780 And, of course, the legacy media are rallying around her.
00:15:55.240 OK, so those are the extreme voices, right?
00:15:56.900 Rachel Gilmore, Cult Montreal.
00:15:58.620 You've probably never heard of it, but it's a left wing reg and the CBC.
00:16:02.000 That's that's that's the hard left.
00:16:03.640 But there isn't really a difference between the hard left and the media establishment.
00:16:07.520 I mean, you could say that the CBC is the media establishment, it is the biggest recipient of taxpayer dollars, even though I think Canadians mostly realize that they exist on the fringe.
00:16:16.480 Well, this is something else that the CBC did the day after Charlie Kirk was murdered and assassinated. 0.90
00:16:21.980 They had a hate expert on a woman named Barbara Perry, who came on and lied about Charlie and basically said, took his words out of context, said that he called for gay people to be executed, which is the most absurd thing ever. 0.78
00:16:37.280 Let's play that clip. 0.98
00:16:37.940 The language even that Charlie Kirk uses, you know, vilifying particular groups, talking about the Democrats, for example, as, and I quote, standing for everything that God hates, claiming that, you know, queer people are defective and dangerous and should be executed. 0.91
00:17:01.780 I mean, that's sort of polarizing language that contributes to this environment. 0.95
00:17:05.780 Charlie Kirk never said that gay people were defective and need to be executed. 0.98
00:17:11.320 The CBC is lying, as usual. 0.99
00:17:13.620 You can head over to Juno News.
00:17:14.980 My colleague debunked that entire statement. 0.98
00:17:17.600 So where did they get this idea that Charlie Kirk said that gay people need to be executed?
00:17:21.260 He was quoting Leviticus because a YouTuber who has a show dedicated to reading to little kids and teaching little kids or audiences, two and three year olds. 0.93
00:17:30.840 No, I don't let my children watch that kind of thing, but many, many parents do.
00:17:33.860 And so this left-wing YouTuber came out and said that conservatives should accept gay marriage because the Bible says, love thy neighbor like themselves.
00:17:43.100 Charlie Kirk hit back saying, are you sure you want to quote Leviticus? 0.90
00:17:46.780 Maybe you should read the entire book before you quote it out of context because it said a lot of other things, including a line saying that a man shall not lie with another man or he shall be stoned, which is why they say that Charlie Kirk called the execution of gay people.
00:18:00.540 It's so despicable, how they take him out of context.
00:18:04.000 They do this.
00:18:04.740 They lie about conservatives to make you hate them. 0.93
00:18:08.380 And then people, crazy people like the assassin in this story who is dating a trans man, a trans person, take those words literally and believe that they have the right to do what they did. 0.99
00:18:21.120 It is truly despicable. 0.59
00:18:22.000 So more from the CBC, it's not just their guests, it's not just their panelists who are totally lying about Charlie Kirk and being extreme.
00:18:29.840 It's actually their anchors and their journalists and their hosts as well.
00:18:33.040 So here is CBC anchor Andrew Nichol and he called Charlie Kirk hateful.
00:18:37.280 Again, just hours after Charlie was murdered, the CBC is saying, well, he kind of deserved it, didn't he?
00:18:43.540 Let's play that clip.
00:18:44.180 Let's play that clip.
00:19:14.160 What conservatives view.
00:19:15.980 And so saying that he had hateful things and then he called for violence because people is just not true.
00:19:20.420 It's incredibly reckless.
00:19:22.240 Let's play a clip from CTV.
00:19:24.340 This is how they covered the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:19:27.880 They wanted to point out that he was highly contentious and highly controversial.
00:19:32.400 Let's play that clip.
00:19:33.920 Charlie Kirk's death gets the death penalty.
00:19:36.020 Charlie Kirk had found a turning point USA back in 2012 and had turned it into a major political force, raising a lot of money.
00:19:44.560 He would typically go to campuses, universities and colleges and say, prove me wrong.
00:19:49.420 They would have debates about a whole bunch of different topics.
00:19:51.900 Charlie Kirk was considered to be a masterful debater, but also, as I mentioned, highly controversial with views on race and on women and on the gay community that were highly, highly contentious.
00:20:06.100 Highly, highly contentious.
00:20:08.500 Let me tell you, folks, Charlie Kirk's views on race, women and the gay community are from the Bible.
00:20:13.880 His views are the same views that are held by Christians, by Catholics, by anybody who believes the Bible, by Jews.
00:20:21.140 And so to say that they were highly, highly contentious is naive to the basic principles of our society and the culture and where we are as a culture and as a society.
00:20:33.800 Yes, most people in Canada don't want to talk about religion.
00:20:36.820 They want that out of politics.
00:20:38.260 That's fine.
00:20:39.160 But the reality is that our society and our civilization are based on Christian values, Christian principles, and they're based on biblical values.
00:20:47.140 That's what Charlie pointed out.
00:20:48.700 That's what he said.
00:20:49.460 The Globe and Mail continues to smear against Charlie Kirk.
00:20:53.360 This is how they covered it.
00:20:54.880 Charlie Kirk's videos thrived on controversy as he used the manosphere playbook to reshape politics, says the headline in the Globe and Mail.
00:21:03.040 He used the manosphere.
00:21:04.660 They can't even get their phrases correct, right?
00:21:07.440 Charlie Kirk was a family man.
00:21:09.220 He promoted the idea of marriage and children and building a legacy.
00:21:13.740 And they just kind of group him together with the manosphere because what?
00:21:16.700 Because he's a man?
00:21:17.360 Great observation there.
00:21:19.460 Globe and Mail.
00:21:20.340 This was the story, though, that really, really upset me.
00:21:23.860 This is from CTV.
00:21:25.240 This is what the headline says.
00:21:27.140 Right-wing anger surges as Kirk's killing fuels calls for vengeance.
00:21:33.520 Right-wing anger surges as Kirk's killing fuels calls for vengeance.
00:21:38.280 And the story, it's not even worth reading the way that they phrase this, right?
00:21:43.440 So the story here isn't that the political left is violent and murdered our spokesperson and murdered our leader.
00:21:51.040 No, no, no.
00:21:51.340 The story is that right-wingers are angry and that we're calling for vengeance.
00:21:56.360 That's not what I saw, folks.
00:21:58.040 That's not what I saw.
00:21:59.040 I'll show you what I saw.
00:22:00.400 This is the reality.
00:22:01.200 This clip is going viral on TikTok and social media of the difference between what right-wing grief looks like versus what left-wing grief looks like.
00:22:11.220 Let's play that clip.
00:22:11.980 Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
00:22:32.100 So what do conservatives do when they kill our leader?
00:22:58.060 We pray.
00:22:59.080 We gather.
00:23:00.080 We remember his legacy.
00:23:01.220 We have vigils.
00:23:02.380 We light candles.
00:23:03.400 We hold hands.
00:23:04.160 We pray and we cry.
00:23:05.300 We weep for Charlie.
00:23:06.680 What does the left do when someone dies, wasn't even a leader?
00:23:11.220 They go and riot.
00:23:12.540 They cause violence. 0.98
00:23:13.700 They kill people.
00:23:14.600 That is the difference between the left and the right.
00:23:17.500 It isn't a battle of left and right anymore, folks.
00:23:19.680 It is a battle of good versus evil.
00:23:21.940 This is what I wrote on X about it.
00:23:24.340 I said it isn't just Rachel Gilmore and Cult Montreal.
00:23:26.900 It's the entire Canadian media establishment.
00:23:29.480 They are bigots. 0.99
00:23:30.220 They hate Christians. 1.00
00:23:31.340 They loathe conservatives. 1.00
00:23:32.640 They promote hate and lies about us.
00:23:35.060 They exist in the illiberal woke fringes of society where our words are violent and their violence is justified.
00:23:41.860 They ignore the cold blood and the sassid, a fellow traveler fueled by their cultish ideology, and they focus on our grief, calling our vigils anger and celebrations of Charlie's life and legacy vengeance. 1.00
00:23:54.220 The Canadian media establishment is the most serious threat to our country and our future.
00:23:58.360 We cannot stop until every Canadian knows this truth and sees this light.
00:24:02.080 That is why I do what I do day in and day out.
00:24:03.900 That is why I started Juno News.
00:24:05.540 That is why I continue to podcast.
00:24:08.180 You know, I started my career doing something very similar to what Charlie Kirk did.
00:24:12.460 I worked for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:24:14.240 I wrote a book called Generation Screwed.
00:24:15.980 I traveled across the country and spoke to college students, universities all over the country.
00:24:21.520 I spent months traveling the country, going from school to school, speaking to students and talking to them.
00:24:27.340 I wasn't as good at it as Charlie.
00:24:29.020 I didn't have huge crowds of people, but I went and did it nonetheless.
00:24:32.480 And we have to double down our resolve.
00:24:35.000 We can't be scared.
00:24:36.080 We have to go and we have to continue to push our message of faith and freedom and family and not cower.
00:24:42.620 That's what they want us to do.
00:24:43.960 I want to share this post from Elon Musk because this is exactly what the media do, right?
00:24:48.340 So Elon shows a post of a university teacher saying they're all Nazis.
00:24:52.260 A TV with a host saying they're all Nazis.
00:24:55.180 A rock star on stage saying they're all Nazis. 0.80
00:24:58.000 And then a man with a rifle saying they're all Nazis. 0.76
00:25:00.280 That's exactly right.
00:25:01.120 That's exactly what has happened.
00:25:04.200 And we have to call it out.
00:25:05.820 We have to put a stop for it.
00:25:07.420 News from Parliament yesterday.
00:25:09.200 As you know, Parliament resumed.
00:25:10.940 And it turns out that the Liberals blocked a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk in Parliament.
00:25:16.020 Liberals reportedly shut down a conservative push for a unanimous resolution condemning political violence.
00:25:21.200 And for a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk in the House of Commons Monday, according to a confidential source, this is Juno News reporting.
00:25:28.520 The source said conservative MPs attempted to gain agreement with Liberal colleagues for a formal moment of silence and statement ahead of the return to Parliament.
00:25:37.620 But the Liberals refused to cooperate.
00:25:39.700 Is anyone surprised?
00:25:41.020 The conservative tried to get an agreement before today's session and were told it wouldn't be allowed.
00:25:46.320 The confidential source added, well, Conservative MP Rachel Thomas did deliver a beautiful, heartfelt tribute to Charlie Kirk in the House, promoting a standing ovation.
00:25:56.640 Let's play that clip.
00:25:58.600 Charlie Kirk was an outspoken advocate for faith, family and freedom.
00:26:02.920 Many disagreed with him.
00:26:04.240 Some were offended.
00:26:05.800 Tragically, on September 10th, he was assassinated in an attempt to silence his voice.
00:26:10.840 As we grapple with our personal response to this, may we honour, be honourable in our actions.
00:26:16.940 May we fiercely defend the right of our opponents to speak freely.
00:26:20.800 And may we join our hearts with Charlie's family, his wife Erica and his two young children.
00:26:26.300 Rest in peace.
00:26:32.480 Well, good for the Liberals to give a standing ovation, but I don't understand why they couldn't have given him a moment of silence as well.
00:26:39.820 Well, Albertans showed up in droves to pay their respects to Charlie Kirk and for a tribute to his life.
00:26:46.460 So a Calgary vigil draws thousands according to the Western Standard.
00:26:50.300 Many of these clips were going viral.
00:26:52.180 Thousands of people gathered outside City Hall in Calgary on Sunday for a candlelit vigil in honour of Charlie Kirk.
00:26:57.920 The event drew a large crowd of supporters, families, community members who came together to reflect, listen, speeches and share a moment of silence.
00:27:05.500 Look at that beautiful, beautiful crowd.
00:27:09.320 And on top of that, we had a concert in Edmonton.
00:27:13.540 So country singer Morgan Wallen, alongside tens of thousands of fans in liberal Edmonton,
00:27:19.440 also paid their tributes to Charlie Kirk, sent prayers to his wife Erica and their two small children.
00:27:25.900 Let's play that clip.
00:27:26.620 It's been hit me harder in the last couple of days, and I just wanted to let Erica Kirk know that me and my family are sending prayers their way.
00:27:36.400 I'll see you with me if you don't.
00:27:39.520 And to that, I also wrote this on Axe.
00:27:41.780 I said Charlie Kirk is mainstream.
00:27:43.540 CBC, Globe and Mail, Rachel Gilmore, etc.
00:27:45.660 They are the radical extremists.
00:27:47.480 Make no mistake, this is our turning point.
00:27:49.620 As you can see, people feel it.
00:27:52.660 People out there see that a mainstream conservative voice, someone who has the same views as just about every Christian out there, was assassinated,
00:28:01.540 and that many on the left celebrated that, and that many on the left and many in the mainstream and the mainstream media continue to demonize.
00:28:07.700 People are noticing.
00:28:08.660 People see that, and they're looking around, and they're saying something is wrong here.
00:28:12.980 Something is wrong that the left is not showing the type of grace and response as they should.
00:28:18.160 And I think it's a radicalizing moment.
00:28:19.820 I think it's turning many, many people against those institutions and putting them, letting Charlie win, letting people see what Charlie had to say, and that this is a moment of change.
00:28:32.100 Okay, I want to take a minute to talk about something a little personal.
00:28:35.640 This is related to everything I've been talking about on the show.
00:28:38.580 But Wednesday was a particularly hard day for all of us.
00:28:41.760 But for me, it was a day of mixed emotions.
00:28:43.680 Because on Wednesday, shortly before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, it was announced, actually, that my husband had resigned from his job at Shopify.
00:28:52.360 So for those of you who know, I've talked about it a little bit on the show.
00:28:55.060 But my husband was the chief operating officer for Shopify, which is Canada's most exciting company.
00:29:00.140 It's a great company.
00:29:00.960 I love what they do.
00:29:02.000 They enable entrepreneurs to put their business online, give them tools to succeed.
00:29:06.840 The world needs more entrepreneurs.
00:29:08.460 Shopify does an incredible job at that.
00:29:09.740 I was very proud of my husband's work with that company.
00:29:12.020 Well, on Wednesday, he announced that he was leaving Shopify and that he was moving to a company called Opendoor.
00:29:18.200 Opendoor is on a mission to try to get as many people to be able to buy homes as possible.
00:29:23.440 They're creating new financial tools, using AI to make it easier and more affordable for people to buy and own homes.
00:29:30.260 It's an amazing company.
00:29:30.980 I'm very proud of my husband.
00:29:32.520 So he's now the CEO of Opendoor.
00:29:35.040 And this is how the Globe and Mail, Canada's reputable publication, publication of record, the Globe and Mail, this is how they covered the news that my husband was moving.
00:29:46.520 Jobs says Shopify chief operating officer is leaving the company.
00:29:49.920 Let me just read a little bit from this Globe and Mail article.
00:29:53.220 Shopify chief operating officer is leaving the company.
00:29:55.300 Shopify, Inc. chief operating officer and vice president of product, Kaz Najatian, is leaving the company to become a chief executive officer of San Francisco-based real estate company, Opendoor Technologies, Inc.
00:30:05.760 So you would assume that the Globe and Mail, in a business report, right, this isn't opinion journalism.
00:30:10.580 This isn't even a woke political reporter.
00:30:12.280 This is a business report written by business reporter Irene Gallia.
00:30:17.340 What does she focus on in the story about my husband, Kaz?
00:30:20.260 Does she talk about his career, his accomplishments, maybe a little bit about Opendoor and what they do, maybe a bit about his accomplishments at Shopify?
00:30:27.660 After all, since Kaz was promoted to COO, I think the company has tripled in size and has had tremendous growth.
00:30:34.100 But no, no.
00:30:34.720 What does she focus on?
00:30:36.020 Let me read a little bit more from this Globe and Mail article.
00:30:39.020 Aside from his work at Shopify, Mr. Najatian has frequently gained attention for his association with True North, a right-wing Canadian media website.
00:30:47.600 In 2017, he and his wife, former Toronto Sun columnist Candace Malcolm, relaunched True North, which had been established in 1994 as a charity to welcome British immigrants.
00:30:58.580 Mr. Najatian serves as a board member.
00:31:00.700 In 2024, True North published and subsequently removed an interview with the founder of Proud Boys, which Public Safety Canada describes as a neo-fascist terrorist organization associated with white supremacist ideologies.
00:31:13.600 After reporting by news organization Press Progress, True North continues to operate as a charity in 2023, registering $2.3 million in revenue and $2.2 million in expenses, of which 90% were used for charitable programs, according to the Canadian revenue agency's listing.
00:31:30.000 In early 2025, Shopify shut down teams aimed at supporting black, indigenous, and female entrepreneurs.
00:31:36.100 These teams have reported to Mr. Najatian since 2024, the logic has reported.
00:31:41.640 Okay, so it's a 15-paragraph story about Kaz and his career change, and they dedicate a full five paragraphs to smearing him and linking him to fascism, terrorism, and white supremacy.
00:31:55.620 This is what the legacy media does.
00:31:57.780 This is what they do.
00:31:59.340 A businessman, someone who is a leader in tech.
00:32:02.500 This should be an incredible Canadian success story.
00:32:05.220 My husband, Kaz, is an immigrant.
00:32:06.920 He moved to Canada when he was 12.
00:32:08.660 He fled fascism and war and oppression in Iran and moved to Canada, where he found a safe haven with his family.
00:32:16.380 They had no money.
00:32:17.400 They had no family connections.
00:32:18.860 They had no status.
00:32:19.960 And he rose from living in a small, slummy apartment in North York.
00:32:25.500 He went to Queen's Commerce.
00:32:26.920 He went to U of T Law.
00:32:28.420 He started a company, an Ottawa-based, a Waterloo-based tech company.
00:32:32.880 He rose to become the CEO of Shopify, and he's now the CEO of a publicly traded fintech company.
00:32:38.760 And what do they do? 0.93
00:32:40.000 They spend five paragraphs trying to plant the idea in the mind of the reader that he is somehow an evil, dangerous conservative, that he's a fascist, that he's somehow connected to white supremacy and neo-Nazis and terrorism. 0.76
00:32:53.860 This is what the legacy media does, right?
00:32:56.960 They put together, they weave together these half-truths.
00:32:59.800 They pick, they lift stories from press progress.
00:33:02.020 Press progress is a disreputable rag.
00:33:04.800 They lie.
00:33:05.520 They lie about conservatives for the sole goal of making people hate conservatives.
00:33:09.660 And they're not a serious publication.
00:33:11.960 But the Globe and Mail gives them credibility by copying their reporting and not even verifying.
00:33:16.940 I can go through this report about CAS and the Globe and Mail line by line and point out the many, many, many lies, right?
00:33:23.740 It's not true that my husband was a co-founder of True North.
00:33:26.580 I started True North by myself.
00:33:28.180 We didn't start it in 2017.
00:33:29.840 I started it in 2016.
00:33:31.860 And there's record of that.
00:33:33.000 You can go and see interviews that I did about True North back in 2016 announcing it, right?
00:33:38.160 This whole nonsense about how we relaunched a charity to take over from 1994.
00:33:44.780 This is just, it's full of half-truths, right?
00:33:48.340 But they don't care about the facts.
00:33:49.820 They don't care about the truth, right?
00:33:51.260 This idea that somehow the thing that everyone should know about True North is that we had an interview with the founder of the Proud Boys,
00:33:58.860 which public safety describes as neo-fascist.
00:34:01.160 That's totally irrelevant to CAS.
00:34:03.000 That's totally irrelevant to his career.
00:34:05.480 But again, the purpose is they want to plant this idea in your head that the right are dangerous, 0.72
00:34:11.260 that anyone who is tangentially related, connected to conservatism, deserves loathe, deserves to be hated.
00:34:19.400 And that is what the legacy media does. 0.97
00:34:21.120 They do it over and over and over again.
00:34:23.860 And we can't stand for this, folks.
00:34:25.840 We have to fight back against this.
00:34:27.960 We can't allow them to sit here and smear us because, like I said off the top,
00:34:31.940 they point to us, they call us fascists, and some people take them seriously.
00:34:36.420 I'm going to read one more tweet to end off the show here.
00:34:39.660 This is what I wrote just a few minutes ago.
00:34:41.760 Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a radical leftist ideologue.
00:34:44.920 That has now been proven.
00:34:45.860 That is a fact.
00:34:46.900 He murdered Charlie because he believed that Charlie was a fascist.
00:34:50.600 He believed Charlie was a fascist because mainstream voices in politics, media, and the culture called Charlie a fascist over and over and over.
00:34:58.820 Not just a handful of woke journalists, but the entire media establishment.
00:35:03.100 For a decade now, they push this idea that our words are violence and their violence is justified.
00:35:08.760 And let's be clear, it's not just Charlie.
00:35:10.460 The media smears the entire right with these absurd labels. 0.95
00:35:14.780 Fascist, Nazi, far-right, radical, racist, extremist, domestic terrorist, and so on.
00:35:20.220 Every single conservative in the public square in both the United States and especially here in Canada has been hit with these inflammatory, hateful, and untrue smears. 0.89
00:35:29.080 We are living in a time of political violence, and the media is to blame.
00:35:34.700 And that is why I will double, I will triple my efforts to do everything in my power to destroy the legacy media in Canada.
00:35:40.960 Like I said at the top, they are a threat.
00:35:43.460 They are a threat to our country and to our future, and they have to be stopped.
00:35:47.300 I hope you will join us on this mission.
00:35:49.540 That is why we're here.
00:35:50.320 We want to replace the CBC.
00:35:51.620 We want to replace the Globe and Mail.
00:35:52.920 They shouldn't get away with the kinds of smears that they put towards good people like Charlie Kirk.
00:35:59.080 Good people like my husband who did nothing wrong other than be married to me.
00:36:03.580 And he's out there building a company and working on tech and business, and he has nothing to do with politics, and yet they try to pull him in, try to smear him, try to discredit me.
00:36:13.720 It's disgusting.
00:36:14.880 And, again, we shouldn't stand for it.
00:36:16.800 All right, folks, say a prayer for Charlie Kirk, his beautiful family, his beautiful wife who are struggling right now.
00:36:21.940 And, again, I hope that this movement just continues to grow, that more and more young people get exposed to Charlie Kirk's amazing videos, and that he continues to change hearts and minds in death as he did in life.
00:36:33.740 All right, folks, that's all the time we have for today.
00:36:35.240 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:36:36.600 I'm Candice Malcolm.
00:36:37.060 This is the Candice Malcolm Show.
00:36:37.860 Thank you, and God bless.
00:36:38.920 Thank you, and God bless.