The Candice Malcolm Show - CBC is IMPLODING, wild accusations from former host + CTV has its ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ moment

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Folks, we have a great episode for

00:00:07.280 you today. A little later in the program, we will be joined by True North's Melanie Bennett. She

00:00:11.360 has an absolutely explosive story reporting out of Nova Scotia where the progressive conservative

00:00:17.120 government is doing something totally unconscionable and we will get into the lower

00:00:22.240 details of that. I want to talk a little bit about Mark Carney at the Calgary Stampede and

00:00:27.760 Canadian Press CTV is having a little bit of a let's go Brandon moment trying to cover up the

00:00:32.160 fact that this man is wildly disliked in Western Canada. But first, I want to talk about our friends

00:00:37.840 over at the CBC. Yes, the state broadcaster is imploding in real time. We have an unbelievable

00:00:44.800 story. Travis Danraj, who is a former host of the network, and he announced on social media that he

00:00:52.880 was leaving not on his own terms, not because he wants to. So this is the letter that he posted,

00:00:59.120 that was posted on his behalf on social media. He says, Dear colleagues, after more than 20 years

00:01:04.320 in Canadian television journalism, I have been forced to resign from CBC News. This was not a

00:01:09.440 voluntary decision. It comes after trying to navigate a workplace culture defined by retaliation, exclusion,

00:01:15.040 and psychological harm. A place we're asking hard questions about tokenism, masquerading as diversity,

00:01:21.120 problematic political coverage protocols, and the erosion of editorial independence became a career

00:01:27.600 ending move. Wow, folks, you know, this is the kind of thing that I would say about the CBC,

00:01:33.600 that they push tokenism, masquerading as diversity, and that they have some problems with their political

00:01:40.240 coverage, that they openly hate conservatives, and they have no tolerance for conservative ideas,

00:01:45.040 conservative opinions, or conservative people. Even mild-mannered, centrist, conservative politicians

00:01:51.360 get put through the ringer when they go on the CBC. Well, now one of their own is saying it. He's

00:01:56.880 blowing the whistle, and I will continue to read from his letter. He writes, I was once one of CBC's

00:02:03.680 most visible journalists, a senior parliamentary reporter, co-host of Marketplace, and most recently,

00:02:09.200 host of Canada Tonight, promoted as a symbol of progress until I began questioning the gap between

00:02:14.960 CBC's stated values and its internal reality. When I pushed for honest conversations about systemic

00:02:20.880 issues and editorial imbalance, I was shut out, sidelined, silenced, and ultimately erased. Unbelievable,

00:02:27.680 folks. Okay, continue reading. CBC calls itself a champion of inclusion and public trust, but those

00:02:33.440 ideals are too often deployed as branding tools, not lived principles, and Canadians are noticing what's

00:02:39.760 happening inside this institution is no longer just an internal problem. It's a public one. I

00:02:45.200 completely agree with every word about this. Look, the CBC pretends to be the voice of Canada, but

00:02:51.520 everybody knows that it's not, right? It is a voice of hard left ideologues. They're pushing their values

00:02:57.120 on the rest of Canadians, and Canadians are rejecting it. That's why their viewership numbers are so bad.

00:03:01.920 That is why nobody's tuning into them. Unfortunately, there is a small percentage of Canadians that are

00:03:06.480 sort of captured by this institution, and I think that is why something like this, a story like this,

00:03:12.960 is incredibly damaging because, look, to people watching my podcast, to me personally,

00:03:18.160 I have no faith in the CBC. I've never really had faith in the organization because it is so biased,

00:03:23.360 but if you can't see that bias, if you watch the CBC and you take it as gospel, and then you see,

00:03:28.880 you know, one of your favorite hosts, Travis Danraj, saying this stuff out in the open,

00:03:34.240 sounding a lot like us at Juno News with our criticisms of the CBC, I think that would be an

00:03:39.520 eye-opening experience. So yes, forgive me for having a little bit of schrodenfrode right now,

00:03:44.160 but the CBC is getting exactly what they deserve when you have people like this coming forward.

00:03:49.040 And we've had instances like this in the past. We've had, you know, Tara Henley famously resigned

00:03:54.160 a few years ago from the CBC, making very similar allegations. We know all of this stuff is going on,

00:04:00.320 and so Travis resigned. He posted this letter to his colleagues. He also had another letter

00:04:05.760 that he sent to CBC management. Brian Lilly over in the Toronto Sun had access to that letter,

00:04:11.280 and I'm going to read a little bit of this one. So he says, you know, he's writing to the CBC

00:04:16.720 management. He says, Dear CBC leadership, this is an involuntary resignation. Later in the letter,

00:04:22.960 he says, I was repeatedly denied access to key newsmakers. Internal booking and editorial

00:04:28.640 protocols were weaponized to create structural barriers for some while empowering others,

00:04:33.520 particularly a small circle of senior Ottawa-based journalists. Hmm, I wonder who he could be

00:04:39.040 referring to. He says, When I questioned these imbalances, I was met with silence, resistance,

00:04:43.360 and eventually retaliation. I was fighting for balance and accused of being on a crusade.

00:04:50.320 Now, listen, folks, Travis is not some fire breathing right winger, right? He's not a hardcore

00:04:56.720 conservative. He is a probably a moderate centrist, small l liberal, but even to someone like that,

00:05:03.760 who's reasonable and just wants to be able to have free conversation and free debate. If you don't fall

00:05:09.760 into this narrow ideological worldview, and it sounds like a little bit of like clicky mean girl behavior,

00:05:16.160 as well as some toxic femininity in there, if you don't conform to that, the way that they treat you, 1.00

00:05:22.240 it seems is just absolutely reprehensible. They will bully you, they will push you out. The things

00:05:27.440 he talks about, silence, resistance, eventually retaliation. I mean, it sounds pretty miserable.

00:05:32.960 It sounds a pretty miserable experience to work at the CBC. You know, another example popped to mind,

00:05:39.840 Jesse Brown, he used to work at the CBC. And he, when he resigned, maybe this was maybe 10 years ago,

00:05:44.880 and he launched Canada land, he mentioned similar kinds of things. So we've had many people come

00:05:50.560 out and say this is a problem, right? The problem with CBC isn't just that their propaganda is for

00:05:55.280 the liberal party. It isn't just that they are completely captured by left wing hard left ideologues

00:06:02.800 that work there. But they're actually kind of nasty people to their bullies, they're mean, and they bully 0.98

00:06:08.400 people who don't conform. This, this is not okay. Like, like, even, even if you're not a right winger, 0.97

00:06:14.400 even if you're, you're okay with the CBC promoting a left wing Canadian view, and you're okay with that,

00:06:20.160 you can't be okay with this kind of behavior, this kind of bullying. And so I'm happy to hear that Travis

00:06:26.240 has retained a lawyer, Catherine Marshall, she's actually a friend of mine, and he has retained her because

00:06:30.880 he's weighing his legal options. And they're considering a complaint to the Canadian Human

00:06:35.920 Rights Commission about the way he was treated. Allegations would include discrimination, reprisal,

00:06:41.200 and harassment, she says. So really not a good day for the CBC, not a good look for the organization.

00:06:49.360 It is imploding. And it is so hard to justify at this point why they would deserve more of your money,

00:06:55.120 why they would deserve more than the $1.4 billion that they're getting. And yet,

00:06:59.840 because we just had an election, every time there's an election in Canada, the CBC gets more

00:07:04.800 money, the bidding goes up, the Liberals offer them more and more money, more payment for complete

00:07:10.960 submission to their worldview, to the coverage. And I think Canadians have had enough. We're starting

00:07:16.480 to see through it. Heck, that's why Juno News is doing so well, folks. That's why we're really

00:07:21.040 catching on, we're growing faster than we could have imagined. I don't know if you saw this story,

00:07:24.880 but over the weekend, my co-founder and colleague here at Juno News, Kian Bextie,

00:07:29.520 hosted a Calgary Stampede reception. He hosted a party on behalf of Juno News. He's based in Calgary.

00:07:36.400 Calgary Stampede is a great event. It used to be my favorite one to go to. I didn't make it out this

00:07:41.040 year. But I used to love going every year, kind of has that spirit, that Canadian spirit of the

00:07:46.560 frontier and independence and Mavericks. And so there we had Kian Bextie hosting this great event. And

00:07:53.040 much to my pleasure. We had Daniel Smith, premier of Alberta, was there, leader of the opposition

00:07:58.560 party. Pierre Polyev was here, leader of the Conservatives. And I'm going to play a clip here,

00:08:03.360 is Pierre Polyev pointing out that the CBC is failing to deliver on their mandate. They are absolutely,

00:08:10.720 atrociously wasting taxpayer dollars. And here we have Juno News, a small upstart, growing faster than the CBC

00:08:17.440 and doing it all without taking a penny from the taxpayers. Let's play that clip.

00:08:22.480 It was a real conflict because of course, CBC is having their party right now. So

00:08:26.560 my invitation was lost in the mail. So I ended up here at Juno News, which is much faster growing

00:08:34.320 than CBC. And does it without any tax dollars. And I want to congratulate the entire team. Is

00:08:43.120 Candace here as well? Candace here? She's not. My congratulations to Juno. I know this, it's an

00:08:48.560 incredible enterprise to go out there and create a news outlet and try to reach eyeballs and earlobes

00:08:55.760 without any backing. It's a big risk. And it's so far a risk that's paying off because frankly,

00:09:01.600 people want to have an independent voice. They want to know what's actually going on,

00:09:05.920 not what the government wants them to think. Absolutely. Thank you for those kind words to

00:09:10.800 Pierre Polyev. Next, we have Danielle Smith saying that she no longer trusts the legacy media. She

00:09:15.280 makes an interesting point here. But here she's saying that she used to read reports from the

00:09:20.240 independent media and then she'd just want to verify that they were true. So she'd go check the

00:09:23.520 legacy media. And now that's reversed. And I think that's exactly true. Let's play that clip.

00:09:29.360 I always used to say, well, I'm reading something interesting in independent media,

00:09:34.640 but until I see it in these august publications, until I see it in the mainstream media,

00:09:40.880 I can't trust it's true. Now it's the reverse. Now it's when I see something in mainstream media,

00:09:46.000 I don't trust it's true. It's true until I read it in independent media like Juno News. And I think that

00:09:50.960 that shows how much independent media is responding to the needs of the public, how much is serving a

00:09:57.680 public interest, how much it's giving a voice to those of us in the conservative movement who

00:10:02.160 continue to find ourselves showed a doubt by the mainstream media. And that's why I'm delighted to

00:10:06.800 be here this evening, delighted to see the work that Juno's doing and looking forward to seeing more of it.

00:10:12.240 Well, appreciate that, Premier Smith, those kind words as well. But it's true, right? Like maybe five,

00:10:17.280 10 years ago, the stories in the independent media that we were covering were things that the legacy

00:10:22.000 media would never touch, right? And sometimes the story would be so explosive that you would have

00:10:26.880 to kind of verify, is that actually true? Because it just seems so outrageous. Whereas now it's like

00:10:31.520 the legacy media, they just lie through their teeth. They misrepresent the situation intentionally.

00:10:36.880 And what we've tried to do at Juno News and what I did at True North before that is say, hey, we don't

00:10:41.840 just need to cover the niche stories that the legacy media responds. We're going to cover everything.

00:10:46.000 We're going to cover the entire spectrum of news. You can go to Juno News and be fully informed on

00:10:52.160 what is going on in the country. You can feel like you're not missing anything, right? You're getting

00:10:57.440 the full coverage, the stories that the legacy media covers, but with a different angle and without all

00:11:01.920 the propaganda. And then also the stories that they refuse to. And so again, we're just absolutely

00:11:08.640 delighted by the growth that we are experiencing. And we are here to replace the CBC. The CBC has to go.

00:11:14.800 The CBC is proving once and again that it's past its best before date. It is time to move on. And

00:11:19.840 Canadians need news that they can trust. And that is what we're trying to build, right? We're not

00:11:23.040 trying to build a small niche independent media company. We are trying to build the biggest media

00:11:27.760 company in Canada. So I encourage you to head on over to Juno News, support us on our mission and become

00:11:32.320 a premium subscriber. Now to me, Mark Carney at the Calgary Stampede is just an absolute embarrassment.

00:11:39.200 Okay. He is cosplaying. He is not beloved in Calgary. He is not, I won't say he's not welcome

00:11:44.800 because obviously a Canadian prime minister is welcome throughout the country, but it must be a

00:11:49.120 little bit of a shock to him to see how the people respond to him, right? When he's in Ontario, when

00:11:54.240 he's in Quebec, he's getting showered with love. When he goes to legacy media, he's getting showered

00:11:59.120 with praise. And that's what he's used to. That's his entire career is, you know, he's the master,

00:12:03.680 he's the central banker. He's part of WAF, you know, roll out the red carpet for Mr. Carney.

00:12:10.320 That's not the way he's getting treated in Calgary. A little bit amusing when he went to the

00:12:16.160 Chuck Wagon races on Sunday and he was given a warm Calgary welcome. Let's play that clip.

00:12:22.720 Please welcome the Right Honourable, Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada.

00:12:27.840 Oh my God, everyone's booing.

00:12:38.160 Not exactly the kind of warm welcome he was expecting. Now I want to zoom in a little bit

00:12:43.120 on the way that the Canadian press and CTV covered this. So I'm going to read from the CPP that was

00:12:49.440 posted on CTV. They write this later as he walked on stage before the truck wagon races at GMC Stadium,

00:12:57.520 Carney was met with a mix of boos and applause from the crowd of approximately 17,000 people.

00:13:03.600 They're saying woo. I heard woo, said the announcer, right? So they're gaslighting you folks. They're

00:13:09.360 gaslighting you. They're trying to make you think, oh, it was just a mix. You know, there was a handful

00:13:12.880 of hooligans that were booing. Most people were applauding. Even the announcer clarified and said that

00:13:18.560 they're saying woo. They're not saying boo. So you can kind of hear the announcer say that. I think he's

00:13:25.120 saying it tongue in cheek. I think he's trying to just smooth the air, make Mr. Carney feel a little

00:13:28.880 bit more welcome, but they weren't saying woo, folks. They were booing. Here, I'm going to play

00:13:33.760 the clip of the announcer just ever so slightly. You can hear him saying, they're saying woo. I heard woo.

00:13:38.400 You can barely hear, but the announcer said it. They're saying woo. They're saying woo. You know

00:13:52.240 what? You know what? This reminds me of something else I've seen. What does this remind me of?

00:13:56.960 Are they booing me? No, they're saying boo-erns. Boo-erns. Are you saying boo or boo-erns?

00:14:10.720 I was saying boo-erns. So you have one guy that was saying boo-erns. The whole rest of the crowd

00:14:16.960 was saying boo. I mean, the idea that that was a mix of boos and balls. I heard overwhelming boo, 0.93

00:14:21.360 and then like three or four people politely clapping. That is the reception that Mr. Carney got. You know,

00:14:26.800 this reminds me, folks, of the infamous let's go Brandon moment when Americans were not happy with

00:14:34.160 Joe Biden. They did not like President Joe Biden. They didn't like his economy. They didn't like his

00:14:38.000 inflation. And they were letting him know what they thought. And of course, just the propagandistic

00:14:44.080 influence instincts of a reporter is to say, no, they're not saying F Joe Biden. They're saying,

00:14:50.400 let's go Brandon, the name of the racer here. Let's play that clip.

00:14:54.720 They were definitely not saying let's go Brandon, but that was just the kind of day

00:15:12.240 that Mark Carney was having out in Calgary. Next, Mark Carney tried his luck. He tried to go to the

00:15:19.120 pancake breakfast. He didn't want to make the same mistake that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made,

00:15:22.960 which was just showing how he just completely unable to flip a pancake. Well, unfortunately

00:15:28.400 for Prime Minister Mark Carney, he made the same mistake. So here he is Saturday morning at the

00:15:34.320 pancake breakfast hosted by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. And yes, Mark Carney failed multiple

00:15:39.520 times to flip a pancake.

00:15:55.680 You're worse than Justin.

00:15:58.480 I don't know if he's worse than Justin. I would say equally as bad as us, but that's not it, right? So

00:16:02.800 Mark Carney admitted during the campaign that he doesn't buy groceries. He doesn't shop for himself.

00:16:07.920 He doesn't cook for himself. He's above all that. That's for the little people. 1.00

00:16:11.120 And yet when he has to go, you know, it takes a few tries. I'll admit it's not, it's not the easiest

00:16:16.480 thing to flip a pancake. Um, for me, mother of four, I'm making pancakes for my kids a couple times a

00:16:21.440 week. I've got it in the bag. I can do it with a baby on my hip. I can do it, uh, with the toddler

00:16:25.280 on my back. But for someone like Mr. Carney, you know, just practice a few times before the cameras

00:16:29.520 start rolling, do it at home, do it a few times. You got to wait for the pancake batter to cook

00:16:33.840 fully before you flip it over. And he, he just, he didn't have the patience and yes,

00:16:38.560 he got humiliated, but you know, I, I can't do justice, um, to just, you know, how embarrassing

00:16:44.480 that was for Mr. Carney. So let's go to Pierre Pauliev who really properly roasted the prime

00:16:50.640 minister for his abysmal, uh, pancake flipping. Let's play that clip.

00:16:54.880 I'm forced to do the customary thing and flip some pancakes. Now he's thought

00:16:59.760 he would be great at it because in his trade talks with Trump, he's had so much experience flip-flopping,

00:17:06.240 but, but, but still it didn't go as planned. One of the pancakes got broken in a half and the other

00:17:16.400 one splattered everywhere. And he, he owned up to it, but a careful review of a slow, slow motion replay

00:17:24.400 demonstrated exactly what the problem was. He couldn't figure out whether to put his elbows up

00:17:30.880 or down. There's some good lines in there. Yes. He's got a lot of experience flip-flopping

00:17:37.920 and it looks like he had his elbows down in that clip. I want to play another clip of Pierre Pauliev

00:17:43.600 giving what I thought was a really optimistic forward looking speech. I think Pierre Pauliev is

00:17:48.240 really finding his stride. Look, it was tough to lose an election, tough to lose his own seat. Of course,

00:17:52.560 he's running in a by-election in Alberta. So he will be an Alberta MP if all things go to plan.

00:17:58.720 But here he is giving his sort of optimistic view for Canada and also just letting Ottawa know that

00:18:05.040 the era of telling Alberta to pay up and shut up is over. Let's play that clip.

00:18:09.120 Let me tell you, we are going to fight for our province again. We will fight for oil and gas,

00:18:14.480 for farmers, for low taxes, for decentralization, a stronger military,

00:18:18.720 and a smaller federal government so that we can have a bigger Alberta.

00:18:25.600 And if elected in Battle River Crowfoot,

00:18:28.720 I'll use the platform of Leader of the Opposition to amplify the legitimate demands

00:18:33.520 of Western Canada to end the unfair treatment. The era of Ottawa telling Alberta to pay up

00:18:40.560 and shut up must end once and for all. All right, folks, moving on, I'm going to welcome

00:18:47.840 Melanie Bennett, who's an investigative journalist with True North. She's host of Disrupted,

00:18:52.160 which is aired right here on Juno News on Thursdays. And she has an absolutely explosive 1.00

00:18:57.680 piece out yesterday. So Melanie, welcome to the podcast. Hi, thank you for having me.

00:19:02.640 Okay, so this is explosive. We're going to cut this off from the YouTube because I don't think

00:19:08.480 that YouTube will let us talk in detail. I'll read the headline, exclusive Nova Scotia confirms that it

00:19:13.680 funds and performs surgeries for teens. So exclusive documents reveal that doctors in Nova Scotia greenlit

00:19:20.240 five surgeries to create artificial parts for patients listed under 19 years old. Folks, we're going

00:19:26.080 to cut this off and go over to junonews.com, become a premium subscriber, and you can catch the rest of

00:19:31.520 this conversation there.

The Candice Malcolm Show - July 08, 2025

CBC is IMPLODING, wild accusations from former host + CTV has its ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ moment

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