The Candice Malcolm Show - October 15, 2021


The legacy media misleads Canadians about a teen dying of COVID-19

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Peter Mansbridge Joe Vipond Dina Hinshaw Justin Trudeau COVID-19 Ian Hannah Mansing Peter Manjbridge Justine Spitzer Simone Spitzer Malcolm Show Jason Kenney Jova Pond
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The legacy media mislead the public about a teen dying of COVID, Peter Mansbridge roasts the CBC for being untrustworthy, and CBC Edmonton admits to airing fake news. It's Fake News Friday, and on today's episode of The Candice Malcolm Show, host Candice Malan takes a look at the latest examples of the legacy media pushing fake news and disguising their own opinions as fact.

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00:00:00.000 The legacy media mislead the public about a teen dying of COVID, Peter Mansbridge roasts the CBC for being untrustworthy, and CBC Edmonton admits to airing fake news.
00:00:11.020 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:18.920 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:22.780 And on Fridays, we always go through the most outrageous examples of the legacy media here in Canada pushing fake news, pushing misinformation, disguising their opinion or their own editorial position as fact or as news.
00:00:37.460 We see it so much in Canada.
00:00:39.120 And in fact, this week there has been sort of a fake news theme.
00:00:42.160 Every day this week, more or less, I have been covering stories in the legacy media, specifically the CBC, but also other outlets who push their opinion as fact.
00:00:51.900 I'll give you an example.
00:00:53.100 On Thanksgiving or before Thanksgiving, the CBC did a special talking about the issues that may arise with Thanksgiving dinners, having family members, some who are vaccinated, some who are not.
00:01:03.780 And so they went out, they created a montage, which is just a collection of short little clips of different Canadians.
00:01:09.460 They featured five or six Canadians who were all talking about their experience in having Thanksgiving dinner.
00:01:15.100 Of course, it's the CBC, so all five people more or less had the exact same opinion.
00:01:19.180 The opinion was they were vaccinated and that they were angry that there were some people in their family who were not vaccinated and therefore they didn't want to have dinner with them.
00:01:27.640 Literally, all the people who they found had the exact same opinion.
00:01:30.940 And then after they showed that montage, they went back into studio where Ian Hanna Mansing, the host of the show, talked to two other Canadians who also had that exact same opinion,
00:01:40.860 who were also vaccinated, who were also angry or concerned that there were unvaccinated family members and they didn't want to have dinner with them.
00:01:47.340 So it was literally, the entire show was just dedicated towards people with the exact same opinion.
00:01:52.800 Like I said at the time, they couldn't have gone out and found a couple of Canadians who were unvaccinated to explain their position,
00:01:58.840 why they chose not to get vaccinated, or they couldn't have found someone like me.
00:02:02.620 I am vaccinated, but I don't care if you're vaccinated or unvaccinated.
00:02:06.220 I would happily have you over to my Thanksgiving dinner.
00:02:09.180 And the status of vaccination is not going to determine whether or not I let a family member into my home.
00:02:14.680 But instead, no, the CBC wants to push division.
00:02:18.080 They want to pit us against each other. 0.82
00:02:19.900 And so they put this ridiculous collection together and show that as what the norm in Canada is. 0.96
00:02:25.900 It's such a disservice to our country. 0.62
00:02:28.420 Well, I've got some fresh examples here for Fake News Friday that I'm going to run through.
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00:03:47.640 Okay, so the first story I want to cover today on The Candace Malcolm Show is a really sad,
00:03:52.140 tragic story out of Alberta.
00:03:53.480 It's hard to even cover these kind of stories as a journalist when we're talking about kids
00:03:57.900 who die, and it's just so, so sad, so horrific.
00:04:02.400 And to make matters so much worse is when the media try to politicize the death of a
00:04:07.240 child.
00:04:07.560 There's absolutely nothing more despicable than when journalists use the death of a child
00:04:12.140 to drum up a narrative, to push an agenda, and to sensationalize the news, but this is
00:04:17.680 unfortunately what we're seeing out of Alberta this week.
00:04:20.440 So lots and lots of outlets for covering this story.
00:04:22.480 I'll just read you a couple of the headlines here.
00:04:24.100 This is in 660 News, a radio station, and the headline reads,
00:04:27.720 Young teen among new COVID deaths reported Tuesday.
00:04:30.720 I'll just read a bit from the story.
00:04:33.360 Calgary, as Albertans celebrated Thanksgiving across the province this past weekend,
00:04:37.420 Alberta reported its youngest COVID-related death to date.
00:04:40.580 Among the 33 new deaths reported over the weekend was a 14-year-old who had complex pre-existing
00:04:46.140 medical conditions.
00:04:47.360 Dr. Dean Hinshaw said the pre-existing conditions played a significant role in the teen's death.
00:04:53.000 So we're told that this 14-year-old died from COVID.
00:04:55.640 However, they also had pre-existing conditions that played a significant role.
00:05:00.180 All right, next, head on over to the CBC.
00:05:03.560 CBC Calgary says, COVID-19 ER visits and hospitalizations on the rise among Alberta kids.
00:05:09.060 And then the sub-headline here says, a 14-year-old in Alberta died of COVID-19 on October 7th.
00:05:15.580 So the story itself is about how there are more cases of COVID among young kids and pre-teens in Alberta.
00:05:22.280 I'll just read a bit from the story.
00:05:23.420 It says, a Calgary doctor says, the emergency room at Alberta's Children's Hospital is treating
00:05:27.500 more children for COVID-19 now than during any other wave of the pandemic.
00:05:31.580 COVID-19 rates among 5 to 11-year-olds who are too young to be vaccinated skyrocketed in September.
00:05:36.740 And with such high transmission rates, experts were expecting a correspondent surge in ER visits
00:05:43.400 and hospitalizations.
00:05:44.980 And then it goes down a little further to talk about a teen death.
00:05:48.500 So let's zero in on this.
00:05:49.720 It says, on Tuesday, the province's chief medical officer of health reported a 14-year-old
00:05:54.980 died of COVID.
00:05:56.400 The boy from Alberta's central zone died on October 7th.
00:05:59.760 He is the youngest Albertan to die of the virus since the start of the pandemic.
00:06:03.240 An 18-year-old girl, also from the central zone, died in September.
00:06:07.400 Now here they repeat the claim that Dr. Dina Henshaw made about how the pre-existing medical 0.89
00:06:11.720 condition played a significant role.
00:06:13.380 However, the CBC adds its own spin to make it controversial, to make it, to be critical
00:06:19.740 of that.
00:06:20.400 So here it says, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Dina Henshaw, drew criticism
00:06:25.540 for noting the boy had complex pre-existing medical conditions that played a significant
00:06:29.860 role in his death.
00:06:30.580 As she made the announcement during Tuesday's news conference.
00:06:33.920 And here we have our old friend, Dr. Joe Vupond.
00:06:35.960 You may remember we covered him here on the Candace Malcolm Show a couple of months ago
00:06:39.940 when we learned that he is, this is a person who is constantly, constantly being interviewed
00:06:46.380 on the legacy media throughout Alberta.
00:06:48.680 He is like the go-to guy to criticize the government, to advocate for more lockdowns and
00:06:54.640 more heavy-handed restrictions.
00:06:56.120 In Alberta, of course, at True North, we reported that he's also a huge NDP donor, probably one
00:07:02.060 of the biggest donors in the province of the NDP donors, thousands and thousands and
00:07:06.160 thousands of dollars to the NDP.
00:07:07.560 But nobody in the legacy media bothered to ask him about his huge donations to a political
00:07:12.360 party before trotting him out as this supposed non-partisan expert.
00:07:16.960 So anyway, here we have our go-to guy, Joe Vupond, being interviewed in this story.
00:07:21.380 So here we go.
00:07:22.280 This is a quote.
00:07:22.900 He says,
00:07:23.780 Oh my God, we had our first true pediatric deaths at emergency room physician, Dr. Joe
00:07:28.900 Vupond, during a Protect Our Province update on Tuesday.
00:07:32.500 Of course, they don't mention that he's an NDP donor here either.
00:07:35.800 The group of physicians began holding their own updates to fill the void left by fewer government
00:07:41.400 COVID-19 updates.
00:07:42.660 So here is a quote from Dr. Joe Vupond, really trying to politicize this horrible, tragic
00:07:47.820 death of a child.
00:07:48.620 So here he goes.
00:07:49.280 He says,
00:07:50.060 In the press conference, I heard a caveat that there were comorbidities.
00:07:53.880 In my mind, there are no comorbidities that matter in this instance.
00:07:58.320 A 14-year-old is a 14-year-old.
00:08:00.260 And for the record, if I were to pass away tomorrow, I would be listed as a 52-year-old
00:08:04.160 with comorbidities, he said.
00:08:06.320 So in his mind, it does not matter what else this boy died of.
00:08:10.220 The fact that he had COVID is all that matters.
00:08:12.820 It should be a COVID death and nothing else.
00:08:15.500 Well, I'm going to have to burst his bubble and the CBC's bubble because what they are
00:08:19.800 pushing is not accurate.
00:08:21.340 It is not true.
00:08:22.400 And don't take my word for it.
00:08:24.040 How about listen to family members of this 14-year-old boy who passed away?
00:08:28.980 So here's Simone Spitzer. 1.00
00:08:30.200 She posts this story from Edmonton City News.
00:08:32.960 The headline says,
00:08:34.120 Alberta reports youngest COVID-related death to date.
00:08:37.660 And then she has this as her comment.
00:08:41.140 The 14-year-old on the article is my brother.
00:08:44.100 He died from stage four brain cancer, not COVID.
00:08:47.860 This is fake news.
00:08:49.420 He was diagnosed in January 2021 and hospitalized in August.
00:08:53.600 Two days before his death, he was tested for COVID and it turned out positive.
00:08:58.020 Please share and comment that this is fake.
00:09:01.180 And now another post.
00:09:02.540 This one from Justine Spitzer.
00:09:04.260 She also says, this is my brother and he had stage four brain cancer for nine months,
00:09:10.760 not COVID.
00:09:11.780 This is fake news.
00:09:12.900 This is incorrect.
00:09:14.020 There is not even 1% truth. 0.55
00:09:16.200 This is disgusting.
00:09:17.780 He was diagnosed in January 2021 and hospitalized in August.
00:09:21.680 Two days before his death, he was tested for COVID and it turned out positive.
00:09:25.700 This is all false information.
00:09:27.960 So here we have a case where sadly, tragically, horrifically, a young man, a 14-year-old is
00:09:34.840 diagnosed with brain cancer stage four.
00:09:37.880 He tragically succumbs to his illness.
00:09:40.460 He passes away.
00:09:41.640 And here we have the media sensationalizing the death and treating it as though he died
00:09:46.300 of COVID even though he died of brain cancer.
00:09:48.200 And then you have some blowhard top doctor saying it doesn't even matter what his comorbidities
00:09:53.020 are because he only died of COVID.
00:09:54.740 It doesn't matter any of the other facts about this story, any other facts about this
00:09:58.500 boy and his life and what happened to him.
00:10:00.500 None of that matters.
00:10:01.480 All that matters is that we want to politicize this tragedy, politicize COVID, make everybody
00:10:06.060 afraid, make all the parents out there very worried that their 14-year-old could get COVID
00:10:10.460 and die too, even though that is not the case in this story.
00:10:13.320 The case is that this boy sadly, tragically died of a brain tumor.
00:10:17.480 He had stage four brain cancer.
00:10:18.920 That is why he died.
00:10:19.700 He caught COVID probably in the hospital, on his deathbed, and there is no rational way
00:10:25.680 that this should be considered a COVID death.
00:10:28.120 And yet here you have the activists in the media, activist journalists, activist doctors
00:10:32.180 like Jova Pond insisting on something that is true when the family of this boy say something
00:10:37.600 completely different.
00:10:38.520 This is just so despicable.
00:10:40.140 I've seen this so much in Alberta.
00:10:41.520 It's like, yes, there is a fourth wave in Alberta.
00:10:44.200 Yes, things are bad.
00:10:45.160 But the media are so dead set on basically just trying to humiliate Jason Kenney, making
00:10:49.380 the situation seem far worse than it was.
00:10:51.720 I showed this on my social media a couple weeks ago that Global News was pushing the
00:10:56.160 idea that the death rate in Alberta was nearly 10 times what it actually was.
00:11:00.300 They showed the death rate that was the death rate for the entire province of all deaths
00:11:04.320 and they made it seem like it was just COVID deaths.
00:11:06.980 The media is so obsessed with trying to drum up fear, trying to push this narrative, trying
00:11:11.800 to humiliate conservative political leaders.
00:11:13.940 And it is just too far.
00:11:16.200 This is 100% fake news.
00:11:17.960 This is one of the worst stories that I have seen on Fake News Friday since we started doing
00:11:22.560 this segment.
00:11:23.800 And really, it's truly despicable how they politicized COVID-19.
00:11:27.900 All right, moving on.
00:11:28.600 This is a story from a couple weeks ago, but I forgot to cover it before.
00:11:31.820 But here we have Peter Mansbridge, sort of the iconic CBC host, this sort of legendary
00:11:37.560 man who was host of the National for years and years and years before the decline and during
00:11:43.620 the massive decline in viewership.
00:11:46.000 Well, he retired a couple years ago and now he's come back to do an interview with the
00:11:50.460 CBC.
00:11:51.200 And he says, he's pretty frank here.
00:11:54.120 He's pretty clear in this interview that he says that the CBC needs to do better.
00:12:00.180 Here is the headline that the CBC put on this.
00:12:02.600 Peter Mansbridge says,
00:12:03.600 So the story over there on the CBC talks about how the media broadly have a decline
00:12:19.400 in trust, a decline in the way that people look at the profession of journalism.
00:12:24.840 And so this is a quote from Peter Mansbridge that says,
00:12:26.760 You only have to look at the ratings that come out every few months in different parts
00:12:30.020 of the world on trust in terms of different professions.
00:12:32.700 And for journalism, it's gone down.
00:12:34.900 It's not as low as politicians, but it's slow.
00:12:36.660 And yeah, we can't afford it to be this low.
00:12:38.820 CBC jumps in to say, according to a recent Ipsos service, Canadians public trust in news
00:12:43.460 media has declined from 72% in 2019 down to 66% in 2021.
00:12:49.720 That's a pretty staggering drop in just two years.
00:12:52.680 Obviously, that's because of the pandemic and the way that the media has just constantly
00:12:56.800 tried to drum up fear and misled Canadians, misled the public about this disease.
00:13:02.300 Then there is another, they quote another survey that's even worse.
00:13:05.480 It says,
00:13:06.140 In another report by communications firm Edelman, 49% of Canadians surveyed agreed that journalists
00:13:12.800 and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things that they know are
00:13:17.800 false or gross exaggerations.
00:13:19.980 It goes back to Peter Mansbridge.
00:13:21.400 It says, if we don't have the trust of our audience, you know, viewers, listeners, readers,
00:13:25.840 if we don't have that trust, we've got nothing.
00:13:28.460 Journalism is built on credibility.
00:13:30.240 Credibility is built on trust and truth.
00:13:32.860 And we're facing a challenge on the trust factor.
00:13:36.760 And then it goes on to talk about his new autobiography called Off the Record, released
00:13:40.540 on October 5th about his 50-year career in journalism.
00:13:44.560 But really quite something when you have Peter Mansbridge, probably the most well-known,
00:13:48.820 the most bankable newsman in the country, the most well-known, most trusted probably that
00:13:54.980 Canada has had.
00:13:56.600 And here he comes out and he says that he is worried.
00:13:59.140 He says that the CBC itself needs to do better.
00:14:02.380 He says this,
00:14:03.260 I'm forever indebted to the CBC, but I'm passionate about it and I worry about it.
00:14:07.380 I think the country absolutely needs the CBC.
00:14:09.720 Do they need the CBC they've got now?
00:14:11.740 Probably not.
00:14:12.560 They need it to be better.
00:14:13.680 So even Peter Mansbridge recognizes the fact that the CBC is just not trustworthy.
00:14:18.800 They're not presenting news in a factual way.
00:14:21.240 They have their own ideology.
00:14:22.800 They have their own agenda that they push above the facts and the news.
00:14:26.100 They would rather push their ideology and their agenda, whatever it is.
00:14:30.360 And you see it time and time again.
00:14:32.320 So pretty devastating stuff when you have your own most well-known, respected journalist
00:14:36.320 blasting your organization, saying that you need to do better and that the audience just
00:14:41.160 simply doesn't trust you.
00:14:42.160 And we can see that through declining viewership rates, declining ad revenue over at the CBC.
00:14:46.940 They have a real problem.
00:14:48.700 And, you know, more and more money from Justin Trudeau, more and more money from the taxpayers
00:14:52.400 isn't going to fix the problem of credibility.
00:14:55.500 Sure, it might make it easier for them to afford to hire more journalists and, you know,
00:14:59.360 hire more people to put together these fancy studios and do more and more elaborate shows.
00:15:03.520 But at the fundamental level, it doesn't make Canadians increase their trust in you,
00:15:08.680 doesn't make Canadians trust you.
00:15:09.700 In fact, probably the opposite.
00:15:11.100 Canadians feel a sense of mistrust.
00:15:13.500 Why does the CBC have to continue to take all of this money from the taxpayers?
00:15:17.140 What is the value?
00:15:17.960 What are they providing?
00:15:18.940 Why do we need this service?
00:15:20.400 And I think that CBC is in a really rough spot right now.
00:15:25.060 All right, final story moving on.
00:15:26.400 And very closely connected to the previous story about Peter Mansbridge.
00:15:29.780 This is from CBC Edmonton.
00:15:31.660 This is what they posted on social media on October 12th.
00:15:34.580 They said, we know how important accuracy and transparency are to our viewers.
00:15:38.460 So tonight, our newscasts will address an editorial error in our programming this week.
00:15:43.560 Now, it's important to note that editorial error, okay?
00:15:46.820 Let me read what happened.
00:15:48.100 So it says this.
00:15:48.720 Earlier in October, we aired two stories on what patients can expect in a hospital ICU during the COVID crisis and the strain on nursing staff.
00:15:57.040 We shot footage for those stories at two Edmonton training facilities that showed mannequins in beds and a realistic-looking hospital setting due to restrictions.
00:16:07.280 Unfortunately, some of that same footage was then used in a different story about COVID protections and modeling last week.
00:16:14.420 Using those images outside the context of the training facility was inappropriate, and we apologize for the error in judgment.
00:16:21.700 The story has been corrected, okay?
00:16:24.040 So the CBC wanted to give you a taste of how chaotic the ICU at a hospital was during COVID.
00:16:30.940 And so rather than going in and filming a real ICU, which I understand is, you know, the last thing that real doctors and nurses want is a bunch of annoying CBC journalists getting in their way while they're trying to actually save lives.
00:16:45.060 So instead of going into a real ICU, the CBC journalists went into a training facility with fake people in hospital beds in a realistic-looking hospital.
00:16:55.420 I have a question.
00:16:56.280 The whole concern about the lack of ICU beds and the fact that the hospitals are overcrowded, why is it that we have training beds in a realistic-looking hospital setting?
00:17:07.800 Why do they have a whole separate hospital that's not being used for patients but being used for training and for CBC segments?
00:17:16.720 I mean, it just seems a little bit weird to me.
00:17:19.220 So regardless, CBC showed the seed not in the context saying this is what it might look like and this is a training facility, but then they just went ahead and used it in regular segments, pretending that it was real.
00:17:29.100 And I wanted you to pay attention to the fact that this was an editorial error.
00:17:32.960 Okay, so I've worked in a newsroom before.
00:17:35.040 There are a lot of people involved, and sometimes people make mistakes.
00:17:38.120 Sometimes you put up the wrong graphic.
00:17:40.400 You know, a junior producer puts something in or a researcher puts something in, and it's not the right graphic, and it goes to air, and it's a mistake, and it's a true accident, and they don't mean it.
00:17:49.940 But here, note how they say it is an editorial error.
00:17:53.920 So this was a deliberate choice.
00:17:55.780 This wasn't just some young intern or some young staffer making a mistake by putting up the wrong image.
00:18:01.140 This was a deliberate decision by a producer, by the editorial team, by the people who are producing the show, to show the public something that wasn't accurate, that wasn't true, because it was true enough, or they wanted the scene to look more chaotic than it was.
00:18:17.320 Yes, CBC, this is why nobody trusts you.
00:18:20.200 Peter Manjbridge is 100% correct.
00:18:22.620 You push fake news.
00:18:23.820 You get caught pushing fake news.
00:18:25.160 You apologize for pushing fake news, but then you turn around and you push fake news again.
00:18:29.920 This is why Canadians don't trust you.
00:18:31.880 Thanks so much for tuning in, everyone.
00:18:33.120 Have a great weekend.
00:18:33.960 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.