The Candice Malcolm Show - COUNTDOWN： Top 5 Fake News Narratives of 2021

00:00:00.000 It's Fake News Friday, and we'll go through the biggest, worst examples of legacy media

00:00:04.200 fake news narratives. Plus, you'll have your chance to vote on what you thought

00:00:07.380 was the biggest fake news narrative of 2021. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm

00:00:12.280 Show. Hi, everyone. Happy Friday. Thank you so much for tuning into the program. So as you know,

00:00:21.260 here at The Candice Malcolm Show, we dedicate one show per week, an entire episode of this show,

00:00:26.080 to exposing the fake news in Canada, to point out all of the various ways of how the media in Canada

00:00:32.960 is corrupted. Let me tell you, they are for so many different ways. So the first biggest problem,

00:00:37.800 it's obvious, and it's been this case for a long time, is that most media have a left-wing bias.

00:00:42.440 They pretend to be objectively telling you the facts, reporting the truth, reporting the news,

00:00:47.220 but in reality, and this has become so obvious in recent years, but what they're really doing is

00:00:52.020 pushing their own worldview, pushing their own ideology. They are trying to guide you in a

00:00:56.800 certain direction, and they're not being honest about it. So here at True North, you know that

00:01:00.780 editorially, we are conservatives, that we have a conservative worldview. We believe in limited

00:01:05.360 government and traditional principles about society, and you can see that in the editorial

00:01:09.120 side of things. You can see that in the way that I present my show and do my podcast. However,

00:01:13.720 when it comes to our news reports, they are fact-based, but they're going to be stories of interest

00:01:18.700 to conservatives, because that's what the legacy media ignores. Now, the legacy media isn't open

00:01:23.960 and transparent about their own biases. They don't come out and say, look, we are left-wing,

00:01:28.040 we have a liberal worldview, we like Justin Trudeau, we're going to vote for him. They don't say any of

00:01:32.040 that. They just pretend to be neutral, even though we know that they're not. We know that they push

00:01:35.700 their own agenda, and they create their own narratives that are often very removed and divorced from the

00:01:39.960 facts on the ground. In the U.S., you see it with the Democrats. You see how they celebrate Democrats,

00:01:44.920 how they parrot Democrat talking points. The same thing happens in Canada with

00:01:48.640 the Liberal Party, but in Canada, it's much worse. In Canada, you can compound that problem of media

00:01:52.780 bias, but the fact that the media in this country are reliant on funding from the Trudeau government,

00:01:58.560 from the federal Liberal Party, so it's not just the CBC. The CBC has always been a bad actor in this

00:02:03.240 case, taking billions of dollars from the taxpayer. Every time there's an election, Justin Trudeau

00:02:07.720 pledges even more money to the CBC, so the CBC has grown in scope significantly since Trudeau became

00:02:12.400 prime minister. And then starting in 2017, he extended that funding to newspapers, to failing

00:02:17.940 newspapers. So we had that $595 million bailout to subsidize journalists. So you have this situation

00:02:25.220 in Canada where you have the parliamentary press gallery, the very people who are charged with

00:02:29.500 exposing corruption or fraud, holding the government accountable, exposing wasteful spending, bad

00:02:35.660 programs, failed programs, politicians acting in unethical ways, really holding the government to

00:02:41.360 account. The people who are charged with doing that are funded by the same government that they're

00:02:46.020 supposedly holding accountable. It's such a conflict of interest. It's so ridiculous, the fact that this

00:02:51.320 is the case, this is the status quo that people accept in this country. So here at the Candace

00:02:55.500 Malcolm Show and at True North, we spend a lot of time exposing this corruption, exposing the

00:03:00.600 manifestation of it, which is just really bad, really biased media and news stories that often have

00:03:05.880 no bearing on reality. And so for today's episode, it's a special episode. I've gotten together with my

00:03:11.680 producers here at the Candace Malcolm Show and we've come up with nominations. So these are what we think

00:03:17.400 are the five biggest examples of fake news narratives of the year in Canada 2021. And we're going to ask

00:03:23.960 you the viewers to vote. So you're going to get to determine what you think was the biggest fake news

00:03:27.920 narrative of the year. Head on over to tnc.news slash fake news or just tnc.news and you'll see a banner

00:03:34.040 that you can click on. And you can see we've got these five nominations. You can click on the one that you

00:03:38.700 think is the worst example and the biggest fake news narrative of the year. And then next week on

00:03:43.740 this show, it'll be the last fake news Friday of the year because the next Friday is Christmas Eve

00:03:48.120 and the following Friday is New Year's Eve. I won't have shows those days. So next Friday will be the

00:03:51.900 last fake news Friday of the year and we'll do something fun. We'll have a little party and we

00:03:56.140 will announce what the True North viewer determined was the biggest fake news narrative of the year.

00:04:02.000 Okay, without further ado, let's get to these nominations of the five fake news narratives of the year.

00:04:08.700 So number one story, this is one that I spent a lot of time researching, reporting on and uncovering

00:04:14.040 and this was just one of the worst examples of the media narrative being so removed from the facts

00:04:20.060 and in such a negative way, really just painting the absolute worst picture of Canada that frankly

00:04:25.360 Canadians deserve so much better. And of course, I'm talking about the story of the unmarked graves.

00:04:30.100 So back in May 2021, news broke of unmarked graves discovered at a residential school in British

00:04:36.200 Columbia. It was the Takamloops First Nations. They wrote up a press release. It was two pages.

00:04:40.820 It was mostly quotes from within their own community about how sad they were. Very, very few,

00:04:45.700 very scant on facts and details. So without verifying any of this, without trying to uncover

00:04:50.880 what it was that was actually supposedly discovered, the media just ran with the story, exaggerated it,

00:04:56.540 sensationalized it, jumped to the very worst conclusions you could possibly imagine about Canada,

00:05:01.540 about our country, saying that we had committed genocide, saying that these children were murdered,

00:05:06.660 saying that these schools, these residential schools were basically akin to Nazi death camps.

00:05:11.720 That's the narrative. That's what they spun out of this story. And to most Canadians, if you just

00:05:16.220 weren't really paying attention or you didn't bother to go and do your due diligence, you might have

00:05:20.440 walked away thinking that that was the case. Of course, that's not what the facts on the ground about

00:05:24.900 the story told us. And so while many media reports said that these were mass graves, many of them

00:05:30.260 confirmed that they belong to children, confirmed that they were First Nations children, confirmed

00:05:34.520 that these graves belonged to former students of the residential school. None of that is true.

00:05:39.740 None of that is confirmed. None of that is the case. And as for mass graves, the whole assumption

00:05:43.960 that Canada was digging up mass graves and throwing bodies in there is just repulsive. That sort of

00:05:50.200 conjures the worst images of 20th century collectivist governments, mass murder, genocide,

00:05:56.300 firing squads, all that kind of stuff. That's not what was happening in Canada. So if we

00:06:00.240 take a step back and look at what was confirmed and what was verified versus what was unverifiable,

00:06:05.740 we see that the story is really quite different. So as we know now, there were no excavations,

00:06:11.540 there were no bodies, there were no remains that were actually discovered. It was never

00:06:14.960 confirmed that these graves had anything to do with the residential schools, that they

00:06:18.960 belonged to children or that they belonged to First Nations. And in fact, some of the news

00:06:22.520 stories and reporting that has come out since really sort of disproves some of the basic

00:06:26.700 tenants of the story. I'll give you an example. So here's a Global News story, and they spoke

00:06:30.900 to the former chief of the St. Mary's Indian Band. And so just as further context, after

00:06:36.520 the first band in Kamloops came out with their claim, we saw four or five other First Nations

00:06:40.560 come out with similar claims. And so this is referring to one of those other bands. This

00:06:45.200 one was in Kootenai. So Sophie Pierre, who's a former chief, told Global News that while news

00:06:50.020 of the unmarked graves had a painful impact on her and surrounding communities, she said that

00:06:54.060 they had always known that the graves were there. And then this is a quote, she said,

00:06:57.940 there's no discovery. We knew it was there. It's a graveyard. The fact that there are graves

00:07:01.920 inside a graveyard shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. According to Pierre, wooden crosses

00:07:06.720 that originally marked the grave sites had been burned or deteriorated over the years. Using

00:07:11.480 a wooden marker at a grave site remains a practice that continues to this day in many Indigenous

00:07:15.900 communities across Canada. So what a leap, right? What you probably have more accurately

00:07:21.860 is stories of graveyards that had fallen into disrepair. Graveyards that were used by both

00:07:27.460 the Indigenous community and the non-Indigenous community. Graveyards that serviced a broader

00:07:32.140 area. In one instance, the graveyard was associated with a local hospital that predated the residential

00:07:37.320 school by a few decades. So again, this is quite the leap to go from what the media reported,

00:07:42.220 at least initially, that these were mass graves discovered at a residential school that contained

00:07:47.640 the remains of children who had been murdered at the residential schools to the later iteration,

00:07:52.480 which is that these graves were in existing graveyards, that they weren't mass graves.

00:07:57.160 They were individually marked graves. The graves had been deteriorated, that the graveyards serviced

00:08:02.060 the broader community. So it wasn't just First Nations, certainly not just residential schools.

00:08:06.140 And in one case, the graveyard was actually associated with a nearby hospital that predated the residential

00:08:10.960 school by a few decades. So a lot of the remains or the unmarked graves that we were told

00:08:15.680 belonged to children actually just belonged to early Canadians who lived there. None of it had

00:08:20.800 been confirmed. Of course, in many ways, there's no way of verifying any of this unless we were to do

00:08:26.280 excavations, which I don't think Canada ever would do. So just to see how removed from the facts on the

00:08:34.040 ground the narrative was. And of course, none of this is to say that residential schools were good.

00:08:37.560 I'm not defending residential schools at all. In fact, I think residential schools were a terrible

00:08:41.200 program. But that's the thing. Journalists aren't there to tell you their opinion on the news and to

00:08:46.480 shape the news based on their own opinions. Journalists are there to just present the facts

00:08:50.760 to the public. So the public is aware of what's going on. And in this case, the media, the legacy

00:08:55.180 media just absolutely failed. Okay, moving on to nomination number two, this is a huge presence in

00:09:00.980 all of our lives. And I'm talking about vaccines and the moving goalposts when it comes to the

00:09:05.900 requirements. So all the way back in April 2020, Justin Trudeau, our prime minister,

00:09:10.680 told Canadians that there would be no return to normal until a COVID vaccine was available to

00:09:16.880 Canadians. Likewise, Ontario Premier said that returning to normal without a vaccine would put

00:09:22.640 lives at risk. So Canadians could be forgiven for thinking that, okay, once the vaccine is available,

00:09:29.260 once people are mostly vaccinated, life will return to normal. But we all know that this wasn't the

00:09:34.660 case. Vaccines are now available. Most Canadians are now vaccinated. And yet we still are having COVID

00:09:40.020 outbreaks. We still have to live with masks in our lives, travel restrictions, all kinds of

00:09:45.100 requirements when it comes to how we can live in a free society. It's not like things have gone back

00:09:49.980 to normal. The opposite of that. Things are getting more restrictive and more tight. We've given up so

00:09:54.600 many of our liberties and we're just not getting them back. Same thing could be said with the vaccine

00:09:59.760 mandates. So months after the vaccine became available to Canadians, Justin Trudeau said that

00:10:04.600 vaccine passports would be left to the provinces to implement and that they would be divisive. Here's

00:10:09.700 a clip of Justin Trudeau saying that. One final question on COVID and then I'd like to pivot to

00:10:15.420 the South, if I may. Will Canada consider requiring people in this country to have proof of vaccination

00:10:20.900 similar to the digital passports that are being developed in places like Denmark and Greece and the EU?

00:10:26.480 I think it's an interesting idea, but I think it is also fraught with challenges. We are certainly

00:10:34.360 encouraging and motivating people to get vaccinated as quickly as possible. We always know there are

00:10:41.340 people who won't get vaccinated and not necessarily through a personal or political choice. There are

00:10:48.240 medical reasons. There are a broad range of reasons why someone might not get vaccinated. And I'm worried

00:10:54.640 about creating knock-on undesirable effects in our community. I think the indications that the vast majority

00:11:03.740 of Canadians are looking to get vaccinated will get us to a good place without having to take more extreme

00:11:12.140 measures that could have real divisive impacts on community and country.

00:11:17.520 And interestingly, in response, both Jason Kenney, the Conservative Premier of Alberta, and Doug Ford, the Conservative

00:11:22.900 Premier of Ontario, both ruled out implementing a vaccine passport system. Ford infamously said that he

00:11:29.040 didn't want to live in a split society and that a vaccine passport would create a split society.

00:11:34.060 And Jason Kenney said that a vaccine passport would violate Alberta's Health Information Act.

00:11:39.720 Now, we know that all of these politicians flip-flopped. During the federal election, it became the main

00:11:44.560 platform for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals that they would implement this vaccine passport, not just for

00:11:50.420 federal employees, but anyone wishing to travel, travel on an airplane, a train, or a bus in Canada

00:11:55.400 would be required to be vaccinated. And we know that Ontario and Alberta have each implemented their

00:12:01.040 own vaccine passport. So everything had to do with vaccines and vaccine passports. We were told one thing

00:12:06.700 and now it's another. And the media is just completely carrying water for these politicians and not really

00:12:12.080 holding them accountable, cheerleading and trying to pressure people into getting vaccinated and going so far as

00:12:18.840 to demonize those who do not get vaccinated, calling them anti-vaxxers and calling them extreme.

00:12:25.140 Okay, moving on. Number three, the legacy media, in a very similar vein, completely demonized people who were

00:12:31.680 opposed to the lockdown. So right from the beginning, right when people took to the streets in peaceful protests to say,

00:12:37.660 we've had enough of lockdowns, we've had enough of government overreach, let us go back to normal, let us go back to

00:12:42.420 our normal lives. The legacy media immediately started to demonize these people, to paint them

00:12:47.280 as fringe, extremist, paint them as even dangerous. We saw this over and over again, where rather than

00:12:52.420 trying to understand these people, rather than giving them a fair shake or explaining what it was

00:12:56.960 that was motivating them, the media played opposition and just started demonizing, attacking

00:13:01.940 these people, making them seem unreasonable, making them seem extreme, fringe, whatever it is, we saw it over and

00:13:07.300 over again. So here's some examples from the legacy media, CTV, pandemic of hate, leaders, experts warn

00:13:13.580 anti-lockdown protests linked to the far right. So we're told that these are conspiracy theorists and

00:13:19.060 that they're part of the far right. Next over the CBC, protests at Trudeau rallies, an evolution of

00:13:25.300 far right ideology. And they're always quoting these same idiots at the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, which

00:13:30.960 from best I can tell is just a very amateur blog. It has a professional sounding name. And so the media

00:13:36.280 go to these people for comments. But if you look at what they actually do, and the people that they

00:13:40.660 focus on, and the people that they try to expose, and it's really strange, it's really amateur. And

00:13:46.820 again, these people, this Canadian Anti-Hate Network, they get funding from the Trudeau government. So

00:13:51.400 Trudeau government is paying them to basically invent this boogeyman of a far right, which they expose on

00:13:57.700 their website. It's usually just really weird, anonymous online people that you've never heard of that have

00:14:02.360 no impact whatsoever on the Conservative Party or the Conservative movement. But they

00:14:06.160 pretend it's this big spooky force out there. Okay, moving on, this one's in the National Post.

00:14:11.000 Anti-maskers lockdown protests have links to a far right ideology, according to Jagmeet Singh,

00:14:16.840 the leader of the left-wing New Democrat Party. So here's Jagmeet Singh out there saying that these

00:14:21.560 people are far right because they are anti-mask and anti-lockdown. He said to brazenly not follow

00:14:28.020 public health guidelines puts people at risk. And that is something we've seen with extreme

00:14:32.160 far right ideology. Well, some went even further than that. Here is former mayor of Calgary,

00:14:38.040 Nahid Nenshi, saying that the anti-mask rallies are just thinly veiled white nationalist protests.

00:14:45.640 So if you oppose government overreach, if you oppose all of the various infringements on our

00:14:50.860 liberties and our freedoms over the past two years, it is because you are fringe, it is because you are

00:14:55.460 far right, it is because apparently you are a white nationalist, according to the legacy media

00:15:00.580 and the left-wing politicians that they parrot. Okay, moving on. This one's mostly a US one,

00:15:07.600 but it was so compelling that we had to include it in our list. Number four, the story of Kyle

00:15:12.060 Rittenhouse. So when a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of murder for fatally shooting two men

00:15:17.380 and injuring a third last year during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, politicians and the legacy media

00:15:23.440 collectively lost their minds. They portrayed Rittenhouse as a vigilante. They called him a

00:15:28.440 white supremacist. They said that he had gunned down innocent black men during a Black Lives Matter

00:15:33.800 protest. They said he used an illegal firearm. They said that he illegally crossed state lines with that

00:15:38.420 firearm. And they basically said that he just traveled across the country, traveled across state

00:15:42.800 lines to Kenosha, saying that it was a town that he had no connection to, saying that he went there for

00:15:47.860 the sole purpose of killing people, basically. That's more or less the narrative that we heard

00:15:52.560 in the media. So the facts on the ground told us that Rittenhouse was 17 at the time.

00:15:57.740 He went to Kenosha. It was a community that was close to where he lived. He considered it his own

00:16:02.500 community. He showed up out of concern for the lack of rule of law, for the arson and all the

00:16:07.960 vandalism that was taking place. He went there to protect a friend's car dealership, which had been

00:16:13.100 torched millions of dollars of property damage the night before. He went there to help secure the

00:16:18.940 property, but also to administer first aid for anyone who had been injured. He wasn't ideological.

00:16:24.380 He told Tucker Carlson in an interview that he supports Black Lives Matter. So very far from the

00:16:29.680 narrative that we heard from the media. And the facts on the ground, of course, are that he only

00:16:34.220 acted in self-defense. He didn't proactively go out and shoot anyone. It was only when he was in

00:16:38.740 imminent danger did he fire his weapon to protect himself. So he ended up fatally shooting two people

00:16:44.700 and injuring a third. The three men that he shot were all white. And I think it is worth noting

00:16:49.000 that they were all violent criminals with long rap shoots, including one of whom was a convicted

00:16:53.740 child rapist. So again, very different from what we were told. Regardless of all the facts and

00:16:58.860 everything we learned in the case, we had the Canadian left reacting as if we didn't know any

00:17:03.100 of those facts, as if the narrative that was presented by the media were the facts, even though

00:17:07.840 those weren't the facts. So here's Jagmeet Singh on Twitter saying, I know today's verdict is painful

00:17:12.460 for many. It feels like another failure by a broken system designed to protect some and hurt

00:17:18.180 others. And then he called it a denial of justice. So he thinks that it was designed to protect people

00:17:23.900 like Kyle Rittenhouse and to hurt others. I don't really understand. Next, we have Charles Adler. He

00:17:29.540 said that there are those who think if Kyle Rittenhouse was a young African-American, the verdict would have

00:17:33.880 been the same. I am not one of those. I don't really understand what he's talking about. If Kyle

00:17:37.740 Rittenhouse had been an African-American, this wouldn't have been a national story. This wouldn't have

00:17:40.840 been a national news story at all. The only reason why this case even went to trial, these charges were

00:17:45.820 even pressed against Kyle Rittenhouse was because of the narrative. And so this idea that it would

00:17:50.620 have been different if he was African-American, again, they're implying these terrible things about

00:17:54.420 the U.S. justice system with no basis in reality. It's so wild. The Toronto Star, of course, goes even

00:17:59.980 further. So here is a column where the author writes, damn the laws that acquit Kyle Rittenhouse for

00:18:05.480 they show no care for justice. Therefore, pardon me for thinking this, but who gives a damn about

00:18:10.740 the law when law keepers can kill and maim with abandon, when the law allows murder and corrupt

00:18:17.320 ideas of justice in the process? We live in times where taking a human's life in exchange for a threat

00:18:24.040 to one's property is given the all clear if the killer is white. This is just so deranged, not at all

00:18:30.120 based on the facts. I'm surprised that the editor of The Star would allow her to write this because,

00:18:34.320 again, it's not based on the facts. It's based on her feelings about the narrative and it has nothing

00:18:38.360 to do with the facts that we learn in the case. And this one is really the giveaway. Robin Urbach,

00:18:42.500 who I generally like, she's usually pretty good, but she gives away the thinking of the legacy media

00:18:47.160 and the left when it comes to the way that they view this story. And she says this,

00:18:51.420 notwithstanding how much of an a-hole this guy is for carrying around a rifle during a protest like a

00:18:56.880 dress-up G.I. Joe, the prosecution's case here were pretty tough. The defense didn't have to prove

00:19:02.660 Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense. The prosecution had to disprove it. And the purpose

00:19:06.780 is that the media just really didn't like the way this guy looked. Forget about the facts on the

00:19:10.240 ground. Forget about what actually happened. Forget about self-defense. They don't like the way this

00:19:14.180 guy looked. The fact that he was carrying this gun made him guilty, made him a vigilante, made him a

00:19:19.200 white supremacist. That's how the media saw it, which again just shows the media's own cultural bias

00:19:24.180 when it comes to reporting on these cases. Okay, moving on. Number five, last one here. We'd be remiss.

00:19:29.500 It was an election year. We would be remiss if we didn't include the legacy media covering for

00:19:33.820 Justin Trudeau, playing defense, and basically acting like a third-party group campaigning for

00:19:39.100 the liberals throughout the campaign. There were just so many examples of this where the media were

00:19:42.640 just completely unfair. So here we have 2021, an election. An election that Justin Trudeau

00:19:48.080 needlessly called. The only reason for the election was that he wanted his own majority government.

00:19:53.040 That was the only reason. The government didn't fall on its own. The opposition was willing to

00:19:57.320 continue to work with this parliament. So there was no reason for the election other than Justin

00:20:01.320 Trudeau was going for a power grab. And yet that wasn't the focus of the election. That wasn't what

00:20:05.620 the media was talking about day in or day out. We didn't focus on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's

00:20:10.200 record in office. We didn't talk barely at all about the Wee scandal and the follow-up from that,

00:20:14.640 which by the way, Trudeau prorogued parliament to escape the committee that was investigating him.

00:20:18.900 And then he called an election again to escape scrutiny for this scandal that we've never really

00:20:23.940 gotten to the bottom of. The election wasn't about Trudeau's reckless spending, his borrowing,

00:20:29.080 the growing of debt, the printing of money, the inflation that has come from that. The media barely

00:20:33.840 focused at all on Justin Trudeau, in fact. They focused instead, as they always do, on the

00:20:38.800 Conservatives, on trying to demonize the Conservatives, paint them as scary, paint them as if they are some

00:20:43.800 threat to the Canadian ideal. And so whatever the Liberals' attack of the day was, whatever their

00:20:48.660 talking points were, that became the legacy media's focus. It became their own talking points,

00:20:52.760 and it became the story. So we saw the Liberals push attack ads claiming that O'Toole wanted to

00:20:57.500 privatize Canada's healthcare. The opposite was true, but that didn't matter. We saw stories about

00:21:02.420 how he wanted to push anti-abortion laws. The opposite is true. Aaron O'Toole is very proudly

00:21:07.040 pro-abortion. And we saw stories that said that Aaron O'Toole denied climate change, even though he

00:21:12.640 introduced his own carbon tax. So the media are more than happy to carry water for the Liberals. The

00:21:17.800 Liberals were never challenged by the legacy media. We barely saw stories about them at all,

00:21:22.760 instead it was all focused on demonizing Conservatives, promoting fear about what a

00:21:27.540 Conservative government would stand for, or completely demonizing people who were out there

00:21:31.900 protesting and out there demanding more freedoms and more liberties. So it's no surprise that

00:21:36.380 Justin Trudeau was able to hold on and win a minority government just by the skin of his teeth,

00:21:41.020 because he had so much institutional help from a very biased and very corrupt legacy media. Okay,

00:21:46.620 folks, those are the top five nominations for the biggest stories of the year. And again,

00:21:51.120 I'm going to get you to head on over to tnc.news slash fake news, or just head on over to tnc.news

00:21:57.420 and you can see a banner where you can vote on these top five stories. Again, I hope you will go

00:22:02.340 and do that. Go vote. Let us know what you think was the biggest story. And we'll be back again next

00:22:06.520 week with the winner. Thanks so much for tuning in. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm

00:22:10.140 Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - December 10, 2021

COUNTDOWN： Top 5 Fake News Narratives of 2021

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