Juno News EXPOSES shocking allegations against Liberal Candidate Thomas Keeper
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Summary
In this episode, Candice and Kian discuss a breaking news story that has just come out on Juno News, exposing the Calgary Confederation candidate, Thomas Keeper. In this story, Kian and Candice discuss the allegations that Keeper brags about having sex with his wife, whether or not she wanted it or not, and how he treats his own wife.
Transcript
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Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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I am very pleased to be joined by my co-founder here at Juno News, Kian Bextie.
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Kian is a fantastic reporter and journalist, and he has done what he does best, which is
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And Kian has an incredible breaking news story that has just come out on Juno News, exposing
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the Calgary Confederation candidate named Thomas Keeper.
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Really unbelievable and explosive details in this story.
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Yeah, so for background on this, Calgary Confederation is a swing riding in Calgary.
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It's something, it's a riding that the Liberals could conceivably win if polling stays consistent.
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Their candidate, Thomas Keeper, is running against the conservative Jeremy Nixon.
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We were sent a ton of information about Thomas Keeper, which is, you know, we get information
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about politicians all the time, but this was a lot that we got on Thomas Keeper, and it
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was consistent across all of my sources that I spoke to.
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I spoke to eight people who know Thomas Keeper intimately.
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Um, they were his friends, some still are his friend, some just know him through business,
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uh, and they came to me with shocking, shocking allegations.
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And I'm going to read to you here from the story because I don't want to step out of bounds.
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Um, Brett Pierce, a management consultant in Calgary, um, met Thomas Keeper at several
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Um, it was sort of through business, sort of through friends, and he recalls the real
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estate agent talking casually about disregarding his wife's consent.
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This is something that multiple sources told us about that frequently he brags about having
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sex with his wife, whether she wants it or not.
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Um, the quote from Brett is he was talking about how whenever we want to have, uh, however,
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whenever he wants to have sex with his wife, he just forces her to do so.
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Um, Brett asked him, he said, is she okay with that?
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Um, that is one example of him treating women with allegedly huge amounts of disrespect.
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Um, one of our sources said to his face that that is effing rape, Thomas.
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Your wife says, no, it is effing no, not you'll take it whether you like it or not.
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Uh, another fellow who did business with him and was not his friend said, quote, he's a
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I'm not qualified to give mental health diagnoses, but this guy is a psychopath that was corroborated
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by pretty much everyone that we spoke to saying that they got really weird feelings whenever
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they talked to Thomas keeper and the way that he treated other people, especially women
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Uh, I mean, I can't believe what I'm hearing about the way that a man allegedly treated his
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Um, obviously these, uh, there's no, there's not been charges laid against him.
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That's like, that is one example that we reported on.
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Uh, there's several examples, some we haven't reported on yet.
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Uh, we're waiting for Thomas to answer some questions and we're waiting to, uh, to send
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Let's just, let's just, uh, explain to the, to the viewer.
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So Thomas keeper was a real estate agent prior to entering politics.
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So he has a career in Calgary, uh, a well-known person.
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He seems like he's very social, has a wide circle of friends in Calgary as a realtor.
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So a fairly high profile person, uh, someone who's known to a lot of people and this is
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Uh, yeah, he's been involved with several progressive candidates in Calgary city council, from my
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understanding, namely Jean-Carlo Carra, um, whether Carra knew these allegations about
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I don't know the extent that he was involved there.
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I've just seen pictures of them together at campaign events.
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Um, but this is his first real personal foray into politics himself.
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He's not, this is not the first time he's been in the news though.
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Mind you, um, the first story we published was a republication of a story that was published
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in the United Kingdom about Thomas keeper, breaking his legs so that he could grow four
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inches, um, so that he would be more appealing to women.
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And he said that, um, well, he's, he didn't say this, but, um, his wife said this, that
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people at his original height, she just wasn't attracted to, um, after we've learned all that
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we have learned about Thomas keeper, I'm starting to understand that maybe it's not
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Um, and maybe he was dealing with some other issues.
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I think that he has some mental health problems, honestly, if I could be honest and just.
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Well, there's a lot, there's a lot of, of, like you said, you spoke to a lot of
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sources, a lot of corroborating evidence to point to these allegations being true.
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Uh, why don't you, why don't you walk us through a couple, um, more allegations that
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you've, that you've been able to uncover here, Kian?
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The most egregious event, um, well, perhaps not the most egregious, but the one that we
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have the most evidence for that is shocking, that backs up everything else that we reported
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on was an event, uh, in Calgary called top 40 under 40.
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Um, Thomas keeper was in attendance there with his wife.
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Um, it is the most public incident of abuse that we've, um, reported on corroborated by
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Brett Pierce and other witnesses who were at this event.
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And, and just, just to stop you right there, King, can you tell us who Brett Pierce is?
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This is one of the sources that you spoke to that was willing to give his name, go on the
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record because he was so concerned about Thomas keeper.
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Tell us who Brett Pierce is a respected management consultant in Calgary.
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Uh, he was involved in the sort of rich socialite community a little bit.
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Uh, these, these communities, you know, the, the, it starts at the polo club.
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Um, and it goes to these, you know, hobnobby events, the top 40 under 40, they all like
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Uh, and here we are now with, uh, his corroborated story of, um, him accusing Thomas keeper of a
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story that he heard that Thomas keeper had sexually, um, groped a young man in his twenties
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Um, and, um, um, he accused him to his face in public at this top 40 under 40 event.
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Uh, and then allegedly keeper said to the individual who he assaulted previously, allegedly,
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Um, the, the 20 year old, the, the, the man in his twenties, um, this drew the attention
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All of this was alleged again, not proven in court, but this is corroborated by people
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Um, and don't really have a reason to be lying about this.
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Um, saying that his wife approached the commotion.
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Uh, and when she did, keeper grabbed her by the scruff of the neck, uh, and yanked her super
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hard to the point that she fell off of her shoes, lost her shoes, and he took her out
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Uh, she here is a victim allegedly of Thomas keeper.
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One of apparently many, uh, most of them are women.
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One of them apparently, uh, uh, if, if this allegation that Brett made, uh, at this event
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It's, it's just really shocking behavior for someone who wants to be, uh,
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a member of parliament working in Ottawa as, you know, one of Mark Carney's team.
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Um, this is part and parcel for people you'd expect to be working for Justin Trudeau.
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In fact, this is how Justin Trudeau behaved his whole life, treating women, just like how
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Thomas keeper alleged is alleged to have been treating these women in that one man.
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Um, Mark Carney though, you'd think would draw the line and say that this just, even these
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allegations, they need to be hashed out off campus.
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Uh, you can't be bringing that to Ottawa, uh, sort that out before you try to run for
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politics, because this is really unbecoming of all everyone that he is associated with
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everyone, uh, in the liberal party that is condoning this tacitly just by these allegations
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Um, but from so many people now, like we said, we haven't yet, uh, published anything
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about any criminal charges or criminal reports about him.
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And I want to wait until our research is done, but just, just from this story, you know, the
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people that we've spoken to, the sources, the eight sources that we spoke to, most of them
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said in one way or another, that this should be disqualifying for public office.
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And the fact that the liberals are not even looking into this, we reached out to the liberal
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party so that they would comment on these allegations of sexual and physical abuse.
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And tell us about the candidate vetting process, because typically when a campaign is selecting
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candidates in the various writings, they have to go through some kind of a screening process
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where they have to, you know, show, do they have a criminal background?
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Do they said anything publicly that might preclude them from being elected?
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And usually a lot of this stuff does come out in that process.
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Do we know anything about the, what the liberals have done and if they're, if they know about
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Well, Mark Carney says that the famed liberal green light committee, um, which is the green
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light to say, yeah, you can be a candidate, uh, is rigorous, thorough and respected.
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He said this when he was talking about, uh, the original candidate for Ottawa Nepean, Chandra
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Aria, who is disqualified, did not get the green light to run and be a candidate.
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Apparently they did investigations into his background, into his finance, all the stuff
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Um, and they've done that for many candidates across the country.
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So we can only assume that their vetting of Thomas was thorough and they knew about this
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That is all we can assume since they will not respond comment and they have not fired
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Well, tell us about the process because, you know, as a journalist, one of the things that
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we do is we give the person who's the subject of a story, the opportunity to give their
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own comment, to tell their own side of the story, perhaps to add some context to these
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conversations to maybe say, look, the source you're talking to, this is why you shouldn't
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trust them or whatever, we give them an opportunity as journalists to be fair.
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What, what, what happened when you tried to contact Thomas Keeper to get his side of the
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Yeah, it's called responsible communication and it's a really important aspect of journalism
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to make sure that you have a story that is fair and has all sides of the story so that
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you're not going on some witch hunt against someone just, just to publish some salacious
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news, um, it's important that we gave Thomas the opportunity to say, no, no, he's insane.
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He, he, you know, he could say, yeah, this is all true.
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We don't know what he was going to say, but we had to give him the opportunity, uh, to
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refute, to agree with, or even tweak some of the information that we had.
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Maybe he could provide us with documentation showing that these people were all serial harassers
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So we provided all of the allegations that we had of him and we sent him, uh, that by
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And eventually I showed up to his campaign office at 709 Edmonton trail, right on the
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And I waited in my car for Thomas to show up while he was campaigning.
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And lo and behold, he did, uh, middle of the day and I had an envelope of questions to
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I approached him and I said, Hey, Thomas, we have some questions to ask you.
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And in fact, he hid behind his wife and he hid behind liberal party staffers who shielded
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When I also tried to ask his wife questions, um, because as a victim and as a pretty vocal
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like center point of the story, she also has a right to respond to these allegations.
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Um, we, we have, we have a footage of that cause you were wise enough to take the interaction.
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And so let's play this as a footage of Kim Bexley trying to get comment from the liberal
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We just, we just have some questions to ask you.
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You, you didn't even come within a couple of feet of him.
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Like as soon as he saw you coming, he bolted in the door and closed it before you could even
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get physically near him, which is an interesting and important point because of what happened
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So why don't you walk us through what happened next?
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It's really important that we get the facts straight.
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It's important that we speak to all the subjects of the story.
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And what happened sort of confirmed my suspicion that this guy is a pathological liar.
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People don't want to answer questions from journalists.
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He called the police and the police spoke to me and they arrived.
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I mean, you might want, I think we have a video of this too, but I'll describe it.
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They asked me right off the bat, was there any violence involved?
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And I thought, well, is this just standard for any police on the scene to ask?
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But then what happened after that was they went inside, they spoke to Thomas, they came
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I waited across the street just so that he wouldn't feel super threatened.
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And the police came across the street after talking with him for about 10 minutes and
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they said that Thomas told them that I got physical with him, that I ran up to him, went
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inside, came in hot and got physical, which is obviously untrue.
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Uh, and the fact that he would tell, uh, officers of the law something about a journalist like
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I mean, I think that he didn't realize that we had cameras.
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So he probably thought he could get away with a lie, which horrifies me about, you
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know, if he was a politician, I guess he would fit in in Ottawa, but the, just the casualness
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of this lie, supposed lie, I suppose we didn't, we didn't hear him say this to the police, but
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And it would be the basis for a restraining order against me, which again, a politician
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getting a restraining order against a journalist because they have a story that is huge, breaking
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Um, uh, you know, that's, that's pretty crazy to do in a free country, um, to abuse the,
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the, the system, uh, the, the court of law and, and the justice system to your own benefit
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I think we should play the clip though, because it sounds wild.
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We do have the clip of Kian Bexty interacting with the police in Calgary.
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At any time, was there any physical contact or anything like that?
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Yeah, just the, uh, nature of the interaction is just you asking him some questions.
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If a restraining order gets granted, there may be a clause in there with no communication.
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You don't get served a copy of it before it is.
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So I heard your side of the story, I heard a side of the story, I guess.
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He just claimed when you went in and came in kind of hot and made physical contact with
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So, I mean, this does show his character that he was willing to say that you made physical
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contact and that that was the basis for a restraining order.
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So, almost accusing you maybe of assault, where we could see very clearly from that first video,
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He was able to close the door in your face before you were able to get there.
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So, really unbelievable that you caught him in that lie.
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And I think that doesn't bode well for his character, given these other really, really
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shocking and disturbing allegations that have come out in your report.
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Yeah, I mean, our readers can go check out the story.
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There's other things that we haven't spoken about, about him verbally harassing women for
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being, you know, I don't want to put words in his mouth because I wasn't there, but this
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woman left a party in tears because apparently he was, he was, you know, saying very rude things
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Um, just, this is like a constant pattern, pattern of him treating everyone around him
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terribly in one way or another, whether it is alleged sexual abuse, whether it's alleged
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And in this case, um, taking advantage of the legal system and the justice system in the
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country to shut down a journalist as one of his first acts as a politician.
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It's embarrassing for him and the liberal party.
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Well, and so just tell me since the story has, we broke the story, what was it last night,
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uh, yesterday evening or yesterday afternoon in Alberta, what has been the reaction?
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I would have assumed key and that they would have fired him as a candidate after reading
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I mean, these allegations are horrific, uh, unspeakable things that he does, apparently
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brags about doing to his friends and to acquaintances and people who aren't his friends, um,
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about his wife, like really, really despicable things.
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Uh, how, how could a person like this still be up for public office in Canada?
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And I can't underscore enough that this is only half the story.
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Um, we have only published right now, half of what I've been told about him.
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And to answer your question, after we've published a story, even more has come out, um, of people
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giving us advice, telling us where to look for documents.
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Uh, and that's what I'm spending my day on today is digging deeper into this story to
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make sure that we do not leave any stone unturned.
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I mean, we're doing this for every politician, whether they're conservative or a liberal.
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If this many people come forward with claims of abuse, it needs to be investigated.
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And the fact that the liberal, maybe the liberal party is doing it behind closed doors right
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now, maybe they're taking, I mean, this took me weeks to put together.
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So maybe the liberal party is realizing right now that they're underwater and they need
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I'm not one to usually do that with the liberal party, but in this case, the claims are so,
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And frankly, it sounds crazy that a politician who has a past like this allegedly would ever
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I mean, that kind of shows that maybe, maybe the arrogance, uh, that someone like this doesn't
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Um, to, to me, it's, it's very concerning that the liberal party, you know, the party that
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if we believe the polls are set to win the next election, set to form government, uh, you
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know, our prime minister will remain a liberal for a fourth term.
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And this is the kind of people that he chooses to, that Mark Carney chooses to have on his team
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I mean, this, this shows a lot of red flags, uh, to Canadians about who, who exactly we're
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dealing with, uh, the kind of people that we're dealing with.
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So we encourage everyone to head on over to JunoNews.com where you can read the story.
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Please subscribe to JunoNews and help support independent journalists like Kian, like myself.
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You know, this is the kind of reporting that the legacy media won't do, right?
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The Globe and Mail is focused on fake news stories, like a CSIS agent speaking out of
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turn, pretending that somehow Indian interference, uh, helped Pierre Paliyev get elected as a
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conservative leader back in 2022, a complete ridiculous story, right?
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Um, meanwhile, independent journalists like Kian are doing the real work, uh, doing the
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digging and trying to expose the truth about this liberal party.
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Um, Kian, any, any final thoughts on the story?
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Yeah, I'll just say, you know, I, I offered publicly to the mainstream media and all other
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Uh, if you want to cover the story as well from a different angle, even from the same angle
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so that this is seen far and wide, I'm happy to help facilitate that.
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You know, we published it yesterday afternoon and it's tomorrow morning now, so we'll see what
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But, uh, I'm less interested in what the CBC thinks of this and I'm more interested in
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Mark Carney needs to personally answer for this candidate that he has agreed to join his
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Uh, and you know, when, when there's so many allegations of sexual abuse, physical abuse
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and verbal abuse, all from, you know, from many different people, over half a dozen eyewitness
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sources, um, Mark Carney needs to answer for that.
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Uh, and, uh, you know, I get Thomas Keeper, he's going to run, he's going to hide.
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Uh, and we're, we're going to try, you know, we're going to try to ask Mark about Thomas
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And we hope that frankly, the, the, the rest of the national media does the same.
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Well, it, it, it adds to a long list of questions that we have for Mr. Carney.
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He has not yet answered so many of the questions that Canadians demand to know.
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And I guess we'll just have to add, uh, Thomas Keeper's name to the list of questions that
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hopefully we'll get to ask him on this election campaign.
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Well, Kian Bexie, thank you so much for all your hard work, all your journalism.
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We'll be back again tomorrow with all the news.