The Candice Malcolm Show - January 21, 2022


Quebec TV show uses children to advocate for arrest of the unvaccinated


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In this episode, we reenact a clip from a Quebec TV show where a police officer asks a group of children about getting the flu vaccine. The answer? Kids don t want to get the shot. And the government wants them to get it anyway.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the Candice Malcolm Show. My name is Candice Malcolm. It is great. Wait, wait a minute.
00:00:10.560 No, this is fake. This must be fake news Friday. That was definitely not true. It is the Candice
00:00:15.560 Malcolm Show. I'm not Candice Malcolm. That would be a horrible, horrible, horrible thing
00:00:20.240 to have happened to the wonderful Candice Malcolm if she came on air looking like this. No,
00:00:24.000 I am Andrew Lawton. Thank you so much for tuning in. As you know, if you are a longtime viewer and
00:00:29.700 listener of the Candice Malcolm Show, we do things a little bit differently. At the end of the week,
00:00:33.880 we look back at the week that was, and we point out the best and, well, often not the best, but the
00:00:39.600 most accurate examples of media inaccuracy, perverse as that sounds. And to do so this week, we have
00:00:46.920 True North journalist and producer Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, welcome. Good to talk to you.
00:00:51.680 Happy to be here, Andrew. Happy to get into some more fake news stories.
00:00:55.260 Yes, we are shining light on the darkness of the legacy media, or so often that's how it feels.
00:01:01.740 And there's actually a few to get through. We're going to try to cover a lot of ground here in the
00:01:06.100 time that we are doing this show. But the big one I have to start off with, and I should say,
00:01:11.120 this is not just a Canadian fake news story at this point. This is one that has traveled around
00:01:16.360 the globe. I've had people from, I had someone from Hungary this morning message me saying what the
00:01:22.000 heck is going on in Canada. It is a clip from a Quebec television show on Nouveau, hosted by Julie
00:01:29.060 Snyder. And this is one of those things where I don't think I could set it up as well as the clip
00:01:35.320 itself does. So why don't you take a look?
00:01:37.100 On voyage, est-ce que vous avez vos vaccins, vous autres?
00:01:39.680 Oui. Tous les dons, on a une seule dose. 0.92
00:01:41.960 Ah oui? Puis est-ce que vous êtes d'accord, vous autres, avec la vaccination obligatoire?
00:01:46.000 Oui.
00:01:46.500 Oui? Ah oui, hein?
00:01:48.000 Wow.
00:01:48.340 On dirait que je les ai drilés, Julie.
00:01:49.760 Oui.
00:01:51.160 Puis qu'est-ce qu'on devrait faire avec les gens qui veulent pas se faire vacciner?
00:01:54.260 On devrait appeler la police.
00:01:57.120 Oh, oui.
00:01:58.180 Oui.
00:01:58.880 S'ils n'ont pas leur vaccin, ça peut mettre beaucoup de personnes en danger.
00:02:02.560 Fait que comme le gouvernement est en train de faire en ce moment, il faut leur couper
00:02:06.280 petite chose à petite jusqu'à temps qu'ils se donnent puis qu'ils se fassent vacciner.
00:02:11.060 En tout cas, on a des futurs politiciens à côté de nous.
00:02:14.000 Merci.
00:02:14.740 Merci beaucoup à tous vos amis.
00:02:15.800 Now, I realize that not all of you may have caught the captions.
00:02:18.800 Some of you may be listening to the podcast.
00:02:20.820 You didn't have the benefit of seeing it.
00:02:22.540 Harrison and I are going to walk through this here.
00:02:25.040 We're going to do a reenactment of sorts.
00:02:27.660 We're not going to do it in French.
00:02:28.660 We're going to do it in English for you.
00:02:29.940 Because I want you to just understand the absurdity of it.
00:02:33.400 Because I'm the host, Harrison is stuck playing the children.
00:02:36.900 But I'm going to play Julie Snyder here.
00:02:39.040 So Julie starts off by asking these kids, and I don't know how old they are, but they
00:02:42.960 look like they're maybe, what, eight, nine years old.
00:02:45.260 Are you in favor of mandatory vaccination?
00:02:48.760 Yes.
00:02:49.980 And then there's someone else that says, it looks like I drill them because the kids
00:02:53.440 all nod up and down like automatons.
00:02:55.900 Julie, what should we do with the people who don't want the vaccine?
00:02:58.840 Kids, we should call the police.
00:03:02.620 Yes, yes, yes.
00:03:06.220 Kids, what the government does now, we should cut everything from them little by little
00:03:10.840 until they submit and get vaccinated.
00:03:13.300 It looks like we have some future politicians here.
00:03:17.220 Now, we are both waiting with our arms outstretched for our Emmys for that performance.
00:03:22.260 Thank you very much.
00:03:23.360 I'd like to thank Harrison and Candace, who will certainly never invite me back.
00:03:27.080 But this is what happened.
00:03:29.140 This was on television.
00:03:30.200 I'm making light of it, but this was a serious point.
00:03:32.400 The host of this show went on and not only asked kids what they should do with the unvaccinated 1.00
00:03:38.920 and let the kids answer in a way that I assume they only got from their parents,
00:03:42.980 then cheered them on as they said they wanted to throw the unvaccinated in jail. 1.00
00:03:49.080 This is on Canadian television.
00:03:50.860 Julie Snyder has since apologized for the question, but I don't really buy it because she chose to ask that.
00:03:56.560 This was part of the show.
00:03:57.760 And more importantly, all the people cheering it along, this is what they believe.
00:04:02.340 Yeah, and here's the thing, Andrew.
00:04:04.280 Obviously, what we've known is that there's something really, really wrong going on in Quebec these days.
00:04:09.280 The amount of pressure that they're putting on unvaccinated people,
00:04:12.840 the language that the government is using against them, it's really disgusting.
00:04:17.620 And here's the thing about Julie Snyder and this program she runs. 1.00
00:04:20.700 They actually ran in September of 2020 or 2021, but months before this, they ran a segment in a classroom
00:04:31.560 where it appears that they're the same people that were on that program, the same kids.
00:04:35.900 And they were talking about the same sort of thing.
00:04:37.980 They were talking about how this is what we need to do to the unvaccinated. 1.00
00:04:41.040 We need to lock them up, keep them in their homes, and make sure that they don't spread the virus.
00:04:46.760 So they're using kids to push the government message.
00:04:50.280 And really, it brings up the worst imagery, as we've seen using children for propaganda.
00:04:57.180 But here's the thing.
00:04:58.160 Obviously, there's been a lot of pushback with this story.
00:05:02.940 And just when this story came out, when this clip kind of was translated into English and spread,
00:05:08.700 a lot of people took issue with it.
00:05:11.000 And a petition was started to have her booted from Nuvo, which is run by Bell.
00:05:16.140 And that has 45,000 signatures already.
00:05:19.140 So clearly, this is not being received well.
00:05:21.800 And they're trying to backtrack.
00:05:23.220 But what can you say?
00:05:24.460 It's disgusting.
00:05:26.240 It's scary to watch.
00:05:28.980 And really, you just want to see, we need to see this stuff change.
00:05:34.420 This is just far beyond what should be acceptable.
00:05:37.660 Children should not be used to push the government message.
00:05:39.960 And when you see that, you know something is really wrong.
00:05:43.740 And some of the biggest names on Twitter, some of the biggest names in Canada, like Jordan
00:05:49.000 Peterson, he chimed in on this and called it appalling.
00:05:52.640 Gina Carano, who was in The Mandalorian and who's now with Daily Wire, she tweeted this
00:05:57.380 and said, neighbors turning on neighbors, even children.
00:06:00.300 So sad, such a slippery slope.
00:06:02.080 And now we have kids reciting this.
00:06:04.080 And even True North's Cosmon, Georgia, wrote on Twitter, they stole the future of our
00:06:09.020 children, and now they're using them to peddle their hatred, sick and deranged.
00:06:12.800 And I frankly couldn't agree more, Andrew.
00:06:15.000 Yeah, Cosmon's point is actually an interesting one here.
00:06:18.280 Because I say actually, like I'm not surprised, like I'm surprised.
00:06:20.840 No, no, no.
00:06:21.080 He makes lots of interesting points.
00:06:22.460 But this particular one, because no child that I've heard of, and I don't have kids,
00:06:27.180 but I've got nephews, I've got friends who have kids, I've known kids, I read what parents
00:06:31.540 are saying online.
00:06:32.660 No kids are excited about this.
00:06:34.580 No kids are happy to be out of school right now.
00:06:37.100 So the idea that these kids are like the most lockdown, happy, restriction, happy kids in
00:06:42.220 the world, like I hope that they aren't representative of a larger group.
00:06:45.840 That other clip you mentioned from September, we have here.
00:06:48.680 I want to roll that for you.
00:06:49.820 We'll spare you the reenactment of that one.
00:07:19.760 But basically, as Harrison said, it's one of the girls in question says, the pandemic
00:07:24.940 means we have to lock up people in their homes, because if not, they will start to talk and
00:07:30.300 touch each other, and they will give each other the virus and then give it to others
00:07:34.060 and others, which just means that everyone will get it, and many people will die.
00:07:38.020 And she's saying it with a smile, like a good student.
00:07:40.040 But basically, these children have been programmed to believe and recite.
00:07:44.560 And the French media in Quebec, Nouveau, is fueling this, that if you don't lock people
00:07:50.740 in their homes or jail the unvaccinated, that there's just going to be like mass casualties. 0.52
00:07:55.160 Everyone's going to die.
00:07:56.200 And it is child abuse to put children here.
00:07:58.480 Like, I don't like when I see kids at protests.
00:08:00.640 I don't like when I see kids that are forced into situations where they're making a point
00:08:05.380 because people think if a kid makes it, they're going to be like, oh, that's so cute,
00:08:08.640 instead of engaging with the actual arguments.
00:08:12.120 But what's happening here is you've got legacy media that are fueling that very dynamic.
00:08:17.700 Yeah.
00:08:17.920 And, you know, speaking of Bell, speaking of Nouveau, which is run by Bell, CTV News,
00:08:23.060 also owned by Bell, they had a little moment last week, I believe it was, that we need to
00:08:29.300 get into.
00:08:30.540 They ran a segment called Week in Review, in which they basically spent the entire time
00:08:35.460 criticizing Spotify, who owned the Joe Rogan podcast.
00:08:39.380 They were criticizing Spotify for not censoring Joe Rogan, because recently, Joe Rogan, as
00:08:45.100 I'm sure most of you know, did an interview with Dr. Robert Malone, and it has been watched
00:08:50.540 tens of millions.
00:08:52.380 I think it's 20 million views, something wild.
00:08:55.500 It's really one of the most popular podcasts of all time.
00:08:57.860 And to give you some context here, a group of 200 plus doctors, they, I say doctors, they're
00:09:07.020 not doctors.
00:09:07.900 It turns out that the majority of them are not direct medical providers or not even legally
00:09:12.740 permitted to practice medicine on their own.
00:09:14.940 And nearly 100 of them hold PhDs, not medical degrees.
00:09:19.140 And they basically criticized Spotify for not censoring Joe Rogan.
00:09:23.060 So CTV News picked this up.
00:09:25.040 They invited two people on the show.
00:09:27.780 One of these guests is this no-name podcast host, Neil Headley.
00:09:33.420 And the other one is a morning radio host here in Toronto.
00:09:37.860 I want to play this clip because it really shows you just how convinced and focused the legacy
00:09:46.240 media are in censoring any kind of conversation that goes against the legacy media narrative
00:09:54.540 on COVID that could potentially lead those people to have a difference of opinion on vaccines.
00:09:58.960 But here's the thing about Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan, much like your, let's pick a major fast food
00:10:07.260 drive-through Joe Rogan.
00:10:09.100 And this is from the inside on the podcast industry side.
00:10:11.740 Joe Rogan makes really tasty garbage, like so many of the fast food chains do.
00:10:17.360 It's stuff that's not good for you, but people consume it en masse.
00:10:21.360 I actually listened to Joe Rogan's podcast, even though it's not healthy.
00:10:25.280 I listened to it, and I know a lot of people listen to it, and I know it's so popular.
00:10:31.020 The likelihood that they'll do something, I don't think very likely, but they need to.
00:10:35.860 They need to because, unfortunately, because COVID has been so politicized, it's been allowed
00:10:41.620 to have all this misinformation around it.
00:10:45.180 If this was like the AIDS crisis, you could not possibly go on the air and spread this information.
00:10:51.960 If this was cancer, tuberculosis, any other crisis that didn't have politics around it,
00:10:57.860 you couldn't do it because it would be false, it'd be offensive, and it'd be dangerous.
00:11:02.160 But COVID got politicized, and now you can say all these really wild things about it,
00:11:08.100 and people will actually believe it and defend it.
00:11:10.120 And it's crazy because people are dying and getting sick around it.
00:11:14.920 It's unbelievable.
00:11:16.380 Do you hear a lot of COVID misinformation when you listen?
00:11:18.800 It's a lot of debates.
00:11:19.740 They'll have these debates around the ivermectin and, oh, I've got the T cells, and I've got immunity.
00:11:28.100 And it's all these debates, and it's like a lot of it's just not the facts from real.
00:11:33.480 You know, they'll have doctors who are coming on and trying to have competing. 0.99
00:11:37.240 Sanjay Gupta was on there the other day competing with Joe Rogan.
00:11:40.660 You know, so, you know, it's a lot of debates, but some of the information just should not be
00:11:45.780 allowed to be spread on such a wide scale.
00:11:49.040 And two quotes I want to pull from that clip.
00:11:51.420 The first is from this Headley, this Neil Headley, who runs this podcast, which no one
00:11:57.520 has ever heard of.
00:11:58.900 He says, the thing about Joe Rogan is that he makes really tasty garbage.
00:12:03.020 It's stuff that's not good for you, but people consume it en masse.
00:12:07.260 And then this other quote from Jamar McNeil, he says, I listen to the Joe Rogan podcast.
00:12:12.180 Even though it's not healthy, COVID got politicized, and now people can say whatever they want
00:12:16.480 and all these wild things.
00:12:17.760 And he says, and he goes on to say, actually, what makes Joe Rogan's podcast problematic
00:12:23.500 is that there are a lot of debates, and it's not just the facts.
00:12:27.900 So apparently, Andrew, having debates with people from both sides of an opinion is wrong.
00:12:35.160 Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to this, because on one hand, I believe that, you know, TV should
00:12:40.800 be able to have the debate that they're having about whether someone should be listened to
00:12:45.160 or whether someone should be taken seriously.
00:12:47.000 That's all fair game.
00:12:48.420 But when you start saying so-and-so should be deplatformed, which was really the premise
00:12:52.920 of this panel, that Joe Rogan should not have distribution, his podcast should not exist
00:12:57.820 on Spotify, they're saying that we believe that we are the gatekeepers of who deserves
00:13:02.320 to be heard.
00:13:03.500 And Joe Rogan has an audience that the vast majority of Canadian media outlets would absolutely
00:13:08.240 just, you know, give their left kidney and their firstborn for.
00:13:12.260 He has a lot more legitimacy than most legacy media.
00:13:17.020 Now, it's not a popularity contest.
00:13:18.780 Just because you have more listeners doesn't mean you're more right, doesn't mean your facts
00:13:21.940 are better than their facts.
00:13:23.480 But it does mean that you can't be discounted.
00:13:25.600 If you want to go up against Joe Rogan, start refuting.
00:13:29.200 Start combating it.
00:13:30.340 Start having these debates.
00:13:31.480 But you're only able to unlock the truth through that process of debate, not through silencing
00:13:36.800 others.
00:13:37.640 And it's very rich coming from a legacy media outlet to have this discussion about who doesn't
00:13:42.500 deserve an audience, who doesn't deserve to be heard.
00:13:44.640 Well, whether you like it or not, audiences are not choosing you.
00:13:47.760 They're choosing Joe Rogan.
00:13:49.920 Absolutely.
00:13:50.640 And Andrew, one other thing too.
00:13:52.620 So Joe Rogan has this massive audience.
00:13:54.620 Is CTV telling us that they couldn't find one person to defend Joe Rogan?
00:13:59.500 They couldn't find one person on this panel or in Canada to defend Joe Rogan having the
00:14:05.860 platform that he does?
00:14:06.960 One in which, as you said, so many people just love.
00:14:10.800 They love his podcast.
00:14:12.560 They take it as a breath of fresh air.
00:14:14.040 And no wonder.
00:14:14.980 This is what you get on legacy media.
00:14:16.360 You get one-sided opinion and political opinion at that versus Joe Rogan, who has different
00:14:23.880 guests of different opinions, different guests of different experiences, and they cover all
00:14:28.320 different topics.
00:14:29.120 So really, it's no surprise that Rogan has the audience he does and that CTV has a dwindling
00:14:33.760 audience that they have.
00:14:35.720 Yeah.
00:14:36.360 And again, I don't want to just pick entirely on Bell Media here.
00:14:39.600 There's lots of fake news to go around.
00:14:41.340 In fact, even across the border, this story needs to be mentioned here.
00:14:44.820 The Wall Street Journal, who generally I find is pretty good on economic issues and on
00:14:49.720 energy issues.
00:14:50.440 So this one really surprised me, wrote a very lengthy story in which they talked about Canada's
00:14:55.800 oil sands.
00:14:56.800 And if you were reading through it, you'd get basically the impression that this was just
00:15:01.920 the worst thing in the world, the Canadian energy sector.
00:15:04.980 That was how a lot of the so-called facts that they were talking about in this article,
00:15:09.720 which you can see up here, one of the world's dirtiest oil patches is pumping more than
00:15:14.280 ever, are ripped right out of the environmental activist playbook.
00:15:17.740 Now, whether that's just because that's what the reporter believes or that's just the only
00:15:21.520 research he did, I have no idea.
00:15:23.260 But I want to go through this because one of my big frustrations here is that a lot of
00:15:27.920 the things in there are very demonstrably combated.
00:15:31.460 Like one of the claim in the article is, as you see in the headline there, that this is
00:15:35.580 one of the world's dirtiest oil patches.
00:15:37.900 And the reality is far from this.
00:15:41.280 So what we do know is that emissions, if we start using all of these terms that are supposed
00:15:45.940 to be good to the environmental left, emissions have decreased by over a quarter since 2013.
00:15:51.200 And global production has gone down by less than half of that.
00:15:55.860 And more importantly, oil sands producers have all linked arms and said, we're going to go
00:16:00.320 to net zero.
00:16:00.980 So they're doing exactly what all industry is being told to do by the folks that, you
00:16:05.460 know, COP26 and whatever.
00:16:08.000 There is also, I mean, this one's just basic math.
00:16:11.640 And I have to give credit, the Canadian Energy Center found this number.
00:16:15.240 The article says the oil sands cover an 88,000 square mile area in Northeast Alberta.
00:16:21.720 That's not right.
00:16:22.580 It's 55,000 square miles.
00:16:24.300 And you may think that's not all that relevant, but it is because if you can misrepresent by,
00:16:29.320 you know, 60%, the size of the area you're crapping on, then surely what else are you missing
00:16:36.680 out and on and misrepresenting would be the question I'd ask.
00:16:39.800 And incidentally, only 3% of that area is ever used for oil sands mining.
00:16:44.860 Another fact here that was put out that's not true, that oil sands and tailing ponds are,
00:16:50.560 quote, arguably the most visible human scars on the planet, unquote.
00:16:55.920 Now, again, the Canadian Energy Center did a lot of the research here, but you can verify
00:17:01.000 it all.
00:17:01.640 And that's what's so disheartening about this.
00:17:03.740 You could quite easily look up these numbers and challenge them, which it does not seem
00:17:07.920 like the Wall Street Journal did.
00:17:09.900 The tailings, settling basins and the oil sands are covering 175 square kilometers.
00:17:14.780 So that's one fifth the size of New York City.
00:17:17.360 If you compare it with China, which is the beneficiary of a lot of the production that we don't do
00:17:22.140 domestically, has its Three Gorges Dam, which includes a 386 square mile artificial lake
00:17:29.220 reservoir.
00:17:29.920 So, I mean, these may seem like abstractions, but the point is you can't say this is one
00:17:34.100 of the worst in the world when you can quite easily point elsewhere in the world and say,
00:17:37.460 well, you know, that's massively larger.
00:17:39.620 And also producers have spent $10 billion collectively to reduce this very problem.
00:17:45.900 So in Canada, when the industry is left alone, it comes up with solutions to all of these
00:17:50.940 challenges.
00:17:52.460 And then there's also this one here in the article, that investment in existing oil
00:17:56.560 stands projects has stalled and banks are refusing to fund new ones.
00:18:00.680 So production is booming.
00:18:02.220 There are a lot of barriers to it.
00:18:03.840 Certainly the carbon tax, other government measures.
00:18:07.020 There is some move towards divestment, they call it.
00:18:10.300 Activists encouraging banks to not finance anything in the energy sector.
00:18:14.200 But these are still minority positions.
00:18:16.920 So what's happening is Alberta's oil production last year reached a record and is still growing.
00:18:22.580 So again, very easily debunked.
00:18:24.020 They say it's in decline.
00:18:25.340 The facts tell a different story.
00:18:27.420 So quite a bit of fake news.
00:18:29.080 There were probably some other numbers I missed there.
00:18:31.140 To be honest, even the commas were probably not in the right places.
00:18:34.200 But I digress.
00:18:35.200 But yeah, amazing how diligently they fact check the energy sector, which would seem to be
00:18:40.040 not at all.
00:18:41.460 Well, exactly.
00:18:42.040 And here's the thing, Andrew, if this story was written about perhaps an energy or oil
00:18:47.760 patch somewhere else outside of Canada or outside of the United States, I can almost
00:18:52.340 guarantee that Reuters, AP, the fact checkers would come out and slap a fact check on this
00:18:58.720 article.
00:18:59.220 We found four facts that the article brought up, but it's a lengthy article.
00:19:06.240 So there's probably some that we missed in there.
00:19:07.800 And so, yeah, I just wonder, when will Aramco and the other oil producers in the Middle East
00:19:14.840 commit to the same emissions targets and emissions reduction targets as the Canadian
00:19:21.660 producers have?
00:19:22.800 And like you said, where are the fact checkers?
00:19:25.440 Where's Reuters?
00:19:26.620 Where's AP?
00:19:27.740 Where are the others that like to so often come down on news that they don't find to be
00:19:33.440 factual, when in reality, most of the time, it's just political news they don't like?
00:19:38.380 Yeah, for sure.
00:19:39.520 And just as we close things out here, I want to point out that we also like to give credit
00:19:44.240 where it's due.
00:19:44.860 As a longtime viewer of Fake News Friday, I know that CBC is a preferred target in the
00:19:50.600 metaphorical crosshairs.
00:19:52.140 But this is a week where CBC mistakenly, I think, got it right.
00:19:57.320 If you watch CBC's Instagram, which I don't know why, but if, if you do, I'm doing the hard
00:20:02.880 work so you don't have to.
00:20:04.160 You may have seen they actually gave some advice on how to prepare for COVID.
00:20:08.520 And this was like a rare example of non-fake COVID news here and non-paranoia.
00:20:13.740 CBC says, experts say most Canadians will get exposed to the virus at some point.
00:20:19.520 Here's how to make the isolation and illness a little easier if you get sick.
00:20:23.200 They say you should prepare for COVID-19 infection by keeping on top of chores so you're not
00:20:28.820 dealing with them well sick because you're shoveling the driveway might be challenging
00:20:32.280 if you've got the Omicron or some other variation of COVID.
00:20:35.720 So you should make your bed and shovel your driveway and do whatever else when you can
00:20:41.000 so that you're not sidelined by COVID.
00:20:43.220 And then stocking up on soups, decaf teas, honey, lemon, and lime to help nourish yourself
00:20:49.540 and hydrate yourself.
00:20:50.740 And purchasing lozenges in case you get a sore throat.
00:20:54.260 Nothing in here about ICUs, nothing about ventilators, nothing about not being able to
00:20:58.880 breathe.
00:20:59.400 They're saying all you need to do to weather COVID right now is do your chores, buy some
00:21:03.960 tea, and keep an inventory of lozenges.
00:21:07.720 And Harrison, I mean, this is fine.
00:21:09.920 I think there's nothing wrong with this.
00:21:11.420 This is honestly how most people with the Omicron variant are getting by.
00:21:16.380 But this doesn't jive with other CBC coverage, even pretty recently about COVID.
00:21:21.760 No, not at all.
00:21:22.720 And yeah, like the CBC, they're basically the, they're our punching bag on Fake News Friday.
00:21:28.100 They always give us material.
00:21:29.480 If we're short one week, we can just jump onto the CBC and find something last minute.
00:21:33.360 So for our story this week, we were able to find something that I'm sure the editors
00:21:37.600 missed when they published it.
00:21:39.520 But yeah, this is coming from the same CBC that just this month published two opinion
00:21:45.020 pieces.
00:21:45.400 They call them kind of first person when, when they have a doctor write about their experiences.
00:21:50.740 Just for example, this was, I think a week ago or a week or two ago, and they wrote,
00:21:55.220 they published an article called, this is what a 16 hour hospital shift looks like for me
00:21:59.740 while Omicron rages.
00:22:01.480 And this doctor who I'm sure has a very difficult job and a job that we all thank, thank her to do.
00:22:08.380 But she writes, despite being entrenched on the front lines of the pandemic for two years,
00:22:13.040 this wave feels different.
00:22:14.680 Thankfully, people are less sick this time around due to vaccination and property of this new
00:22:18.100 variant.
00:22:18.840 Nevertheless, because it is so contagious, the sheer volume of people who are sick is that
00:22:22.560 much higher.
00:22:23.120 So like you said, it's definitely jive with the typical CBC editorial position of fear
00:22:29.460 mongering and pumping up the concern around Omicron.
00:22:34.240 And I guess apparently someone decided that actually, no, it's not that bit, not that bad.
00:22:38.340 We'll just, we'll just treat it with lozenges and tea.
00:22:41.340 Yeah.
00:22:41.500 And there was another story that I liked as well, which again, runs directly counter to
00:22:45.460 what the Instagram department at CBC is coming out with.
00:22:47.960 They say, how to build resilience when there's no end in sight to the pandemic.
00:22:51.740 So on one hand, there's no end in sight, but on the other hand, all you need is tea and
00:22:55.500 lozenges.
00:22:56.100 Now, whichever side you're on, the fact that these two conflicting narratives are being
00:22:59.980 published by CBC means inherently one of them has to be fake news.
00:23:03.700 I know which one I think it is, but you can decide for yourselves.
00:23:07.020 That does it for this edition of Fake News Friday on this January 21st, 2022.
00:23:12.820 My thanks to Harrison Faulkner for coming along here.
00:23:16.400 Candace Malgan will be back in her rightful place next week, but it's been a pleasure, everyone.
00:23:20.000 Thank you.
00:23:21.740 Thank you.