Have Canada's legacy media given up on even pretending to be objective and neutral? It certainly looks like that. The latest example comes courtesy of the Toronto Star, a once-respected publication that has now resorted to publishing PMO propaganda created by Justin Trudeau's office.
00:00:00.000Canada's media is captured. They're bought and paid for by the Trudeau Liberals. They have been completely compromised in their ability to publish honest, objective, and fact-based journalism.
00:00:11.720The latest example comes courtesy of the Toronto Star, a once-respected publication that has now resorted to publishing PMO propaganda created by Justin Trudeau's office.
00:00:24.440Has Canada's legacy media given up on even pretending to be objective and neutral? It certainly looks like that. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:33.520Hi, everybody, and thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. So as you noticed, we did not do an episode on Friday. We didn't do our usual fake news Friday because it was good Friday, and we didn't want to compromise that somber holiday by having to talk about the absolute train wreck, which is Canada's media.
00:01:02.240So we decided to save it and do the sort of fake news Friday-esque show for you today. So we're going to be covering some of the absolute worst examples of media fails in Canada, which just becomes so frequent.
00:01:14.620It's like low-hanging fruit every single day. There's worse and worse examples, but there was one from last week that really stood out from the Toronto Star.
00:01:22.520We're going to get to all of that. Before we do, please remember to like this video, subscribe to our True North channel if you're new around here.
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00:01:42.540Okay, so by now you are very aware of the Trudeau government's online harms bill and how it includes hefty fines and possibly even jail time for online speech.
00:01:54.320Yes, it includes life imprisonment for crimes that could be motivated by the ill-defined and hazy concept of hate.
00:02:01.320They never really tell us exactly what that hate means, but we know that it will be defined by Justin Trudeau and his henchmen.
00:02:08.120So this egregious bill has been discredited by people all around the world and all across the political spectrum from sort of high-profile mainstream celebrities like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan to respected lawyer Michael Geist to renowned author and let me just mention like a hardcore sort of left-wing person, Margaret Atwood.
00:02:28.460So it's not just conservatives, it's not just the political right that opposes this bill, it's pretty much everybody.
00:02:35.440And so what does the Toronto Star do? What do readers of the Toronto Star see about the censorship bill?
00:02:41.620Well, they see a full-throated defense of the Online Harms Act.
00:02:46.280There was an article published last week, it was titled,
00:02:49.180Have you heard the one about Justin Trudeau attacking your free speech online?
00:03:39.480And yet her job somehow includes writing articles in a newspaper that Canadians used to trust.
00:03:46.200So look, the Trudeau liberals are so unpopular right now that if there was an election held today, they wouldn't even be the leader of the opposition.
00:03:52.940It's likely the Bloc Quebecois would win more seats.
00:03:55.760It's possible that the NDP and Jagmeet Singh would even win more seats than the liberals.
00:04:02.800And so they're resorting to basically forcing the newspapers that they subsidize into publishing their government propaganda.
00:04:10.200You can always count on the bought and paid for legacy media if you are a liberal and you want to push out your spin.
00:04:17.980Usually they do it through like a proxy, through someone who's not directly working for the prime minister in the prime minister's office.
00:04:24.980But they've become so brazen in their ability to manipulate the facts and manipulate the media that now they're just pushing out staffers, like backroom staffers, to write articles accusing any, any, any, any criticism of the prime minister as simply being rage farming.
00:04:44.080Okay, so let's go through a little bit about what Supriya Devedi had to say about Justin Trudeau's online harms bill.
00:04:52.400So you can see again, this article, have you heard the one about Justin Trudeau attacking your free speech online?
00:05:08.460She writes, from the people who brought you classic hits, such as adding gender identity to the Human Rights Act would criminalize free speech.
00:05:15.960And signing on to the UN Global Compact on Migration would mean Canada's immigration policy is being set by foreign entities.
00:05:22.540Here comes the latest, newest sensation on the scene, portraying the All in Harbs Act as a total affront to freedom of expression online.
00:05:29.780Well, just wait a minute, because this is just the intro of the article.
00:05:33.140And she's already made a couple of blatant errors.
00:05:34.820So she's trying to claim that adding gender identity to a protected class as part of the Human Rights Act would criminalize speech.
00:05:44.240And yes, we were warning about this back then, that this is a huge affront to freedom of speech.
00:05:48.940And those warnings have come true, because there have been several examples of Canadians who have been fined or gone to jail for the crime of misgendering someone.
00:05:58.560So look at this, a story from October 2021.
00:06:01.680A BC restaurant was fined $30,000 for using the wrong pronouns.
00:06:07.940And it's always in BC, another BC story here.
00:06:13.040He was put in jail for opposing his daughter's sex change operation.
00:06:17.900Yes, this is because of adding that provision of gender identity to the Human Rights Act criminalizing speech.
00:06:25.200So even though the PMO staff were here is trying to use it as like a throwaway line, saying like, remember the crazy stuff they told you in the past?
00:08:14.820I don't think you can just use that as a throwaway point when that is literally exactly what has happened.
00:08:20.300Okay, so let's go back to this Toronto Star PMO piece.
00:08:25.120She says, critics are once again engaging in bad faith tactics, trying to frame the issue of online harms as a false economy between freedom of expression and clamping down on online harms, including online speech.
00:08:36.680She writes, while our government is certainly up for debate on how to improve the bill, including hearing from stakeholders, experts, and everyone in between on which provisions they feel should be fired into the sun, we have to have a conversation that is rude in reality.
00:08:50.200Fortunately, a lot of the commentary on the bill has been light on facts and heavy on hyperbole.
00:08:56.060She goes on and on about how basically like peace bonds are just fine and that there's like a history of common law.
00:09:03.980And so Canadians just basically shouldn't worry about it because we live in a free country.
00:09:07.240So something bad like getting thrown in jail for life or saying something or thinking something could never happen.
00:09:13.200She doesn't really provide a very good defense of the bill.
00:09:16.240And the reaction was pretty fierce and pretty strong.
00:09:19.960So we had Conservative MP Michelle Garner tweet, this Toronto Star article was written by Prime Minister's office's key spin person with no mention of her employer in the Apple News edition.
00:09:33.040Toronto Star is heavily subsidized by federal tax dollars.
00:09:36.260I would love the opportunity to write a rebuttal.
00:09:39.360I don't believe that they extended that offer to Michelle Garner, but they probably should if they want to be seen as fair.
00:09:45.880If they're going to publish a PMO Liberal, they should probably publish some Conservatives.
00:09:51.120We also heard from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and basically debunking this claim.
00:09:57.660They said that Ms. DeVetti in her Toronto Star op-ed claims that large online platforms are currently unregulated companies,
00:10:04.560prioritized harmful content over these types of content to maximize engagement and profits ignores the fact
00:10:11.580that posting child pornography as well as intimidations or threats directed at an adult or child
00:10:17.500by advocating for violent overthrow of government sedition are already criminal offenses.
00:10:22.780Perhaps law enforcement need more resources to enforce laws that are exist.
00:10:26.880DeVetti also ignores the fact that what she and her prime minister consider harmful
00:10:31.400will differ from what others see as harmful.
00:10:35.280Now, to their credit, the Toronto Star did publish a opposition voice, a respected lawyer
00:10:41.100and the head of the Canadian Constitutional Foundation, Christine Van Gein, had an article the next day
00:10:47.160writing that name-calling won't sound Justin Trudeau's critics.
00:10:51.320Maybe it's time for the Liberals to stop lecturing and start listening.
00:10:54.920She has a very good legal refute of the original article.
00:10:58.900I recommend you go take a look at that.
00:11:01.000I won't read it out, but I will say she has a very good point at the end here, which I will read.
00:12:12.180One of the worst culprits of this is the Canadian press.
00:12:14.940The Canadian press is a news syndicate.
00:12:16.960So they write news articles that go across the entire legacy media and you see them everywhere from CTV to CBC to every single newspaper.
00:12:25.240A lot of digital news outlets, they all use Canadian press reporting.
00:12:28.920So in some ways, Canadian press has an even bigger influence than any of the individual newspapers, possibly even bigger than the CBC, although it is close.
00:12:37.560So I noticed this article that popped up last week as well, and it's talking about how Muslims are turning their back on Pierre Polyev.
00:12:46.620The headline says, we won't forget, and basically how Muslims are opposed to Pierre Polyev now because of Pierre Polyev's support for Israel and its right to defend itself in its war against Hamas.
00:12:58.660Okay, so let's take a look at this article.
00:13:03.040I did a Twitter thread about it, and we can walk through that to show you some of the major issues, sort of the anatomy of how a Canadian press journalist will try to pass off Trudeau government propaganda as journalism.
00:13:18.640I wrote, the Canadian press is once again publishing Trudeau liberal propaganda, trying to pass it off as journalism.
00:13:24.100Here is our latest, telling us that Muslim Canadians won't vote for Pierre Polyev because of Polyev's support for Israel and its fight against genocidal terrorism.
00:13:33.160We won't forget how some Muslims view Polyev's stance on the Israel-Hamas war.
00:13:38.360And so basically, they go out and they talk to a guy.
00:13:41.560They talk to a Muslim guy who kind of pretends to speak on behalf of all Muslims in Canada, saying, we really don't like Polyev.
00:13:49.180So to go back to my tweets, I write, the main source of the story is a man called Tahir Nawaz.
00:13:56.980The article features half a dozen quotes from him, telling the reader that Muslims won't forget how Polyev said he was a friend of Israel.
00:14:04.000You can see how I've highlighted his name.
00:14:07.240You can see how many times he was referenced.
00:14:10.200He's disappointed in Polyev's opposition to funding.
00:14:14.820They just call it the UN aid agency, UNRWA.
00:14:17.780Well, UNRWA was found to have hundreds of individuals that were involved in the terrorist attack in October.
00:14:24.140So it's not exactly a neutral United Nations body.
00:14:27.740It's a body made up of Palestinian activists and many terrorists.
00:14:32.780He goes on to say there's no chance the Muslim community will forget the conservatives' position here.
00:14:38.060Okay, and as I mentioned earlier, this story was published in newspapers and digital media platforms, including CTV, Yahoo News, the Winnipeg Free Press, Montreal Gazette, and really across mainstream media.
00:14:51.220And they all imply this individual Tahir speaks on behalf of Muslims in Canada.
00:14:59.640Well, a simple Google search of the man would have shown that his online profiles all picture glowing and friendly pictures with him and Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:15:10.600So this isn't just a regular person, a regular Muslim who speaks on behalf of many other Muslims.
00:15:28.320Could it be that this man is a liberal activist, a partisan who's wielding influence over the bought and paid liberal media to smear conservatives and boost the liberals?
00:15:38.860Because that's kind of what it's looking like here.
00:15:41.220I mean, like, did the Canadian press even bother to find out this about him?
00:16:04.240An individual by the same name, Nawaz Tahir, also from London, Ontario, is presumably the same individual.
00:16:10.100He donated over $13,000 to the Libs over the past five years.
00:16:15.680It's pretty much the max that you can give to an individual.
00:16:18.640So as you can see, just scrolling through Elections Canada database, you can see all of the donations this individual made to the Liberals over the years.
00:16:28.480Just donation after donation after donation, always to the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:16:32.580This would show all donations that he made to any party.
00:16:35.900And you can see that he donates to the Liberal Party over and over and over and over and over and over again.
00:16:46.040We have a high-priced donor and liberal activist who is in the paper, in the news, smearing conservatives.
00:16:54.680That's the main source of the article, smearing conservatives, happens to be a liberal donor, an activist.
00:17:01.340Why wouldn't the Canadian press include that information?
00:17:03.720Why wouldn't they tell you that the main person in their story is actually just a liberal activist who's smearing the opposition, which is what a liberal activist would do?
00:17:14.440The Canada's media, including the Canadian press, but also all those newspapers that publish this article without any comment or without any edits, which include Bell, Post Media, Toronto Starglades, Media, basically all of the media outlets in Canada, all of them.
00:17:28.100They're all corrupted by government funding.
00:17:29.880And you cannot trust them to tell the truth.
00:17:32.960I mean, what other explanation would there possibly be for publishing a story based on an individual who is a donor?
00:17:41.080I really wonder if the journalists even bothered to find that out.
00:17:44.980Now, interestingly, about two hours after I put out this information onto Twitter, I went on the Canadian press story and I noticed that they had made an update.
00:17:56.700And so let's go back to my tweet here.
00:17:58.560Here it says, update, the Canadian press inserted this stealth edit following my thread.
00:18:03.780So normally, if a newspaper is going to make a correction, if they've made an error in their piece that they want to correct, they write at the top, correction.
00:18:10.880And then they say, this story has been changed to reflect the fact that X, Y, and Z.
00:18:15.780But that's not what the Canadian press did in this in this instant.
00:18:29.460It says, Tahir acknowledged being a liberal supporter in the past, but now he considers himself nonpartisan, given his advocacy work.
00:18:38.740He said he's donated money to the liberals and the NDP, as well as conservatives, for whom he helped sign up 500 Muslims during the last leadership race.
00:18:47.180Okay, so he just kind of shrugs his shoulder and said, yeah, I donated money in the past, but that was ancient history.
00:19:35.120Somebody who claims to be a nonpartisan activist wouldn't have a picture of the liberal leader in his online profiles.
00:19:42.380If he's truly nonpartisan and his new role, he considers himself nonpartisan, maybe take down the pictures of you grinning and smiling ear to ear, standing next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:19:56.200And again, this isn't the only time it's happened.
00:19:58.740So someone sent me this tip after I put out that Twitter thread.
00:20:02.320Almost the same thing exactly happened last summer.
00:20:04.880So back in August 2023, we saw a Canadian press story telling us that Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party was embracing the language of mainstream conspiracy theories.
00:20:17.420The Tory leader's some or some speeches included a ramped up rhetoric about the World Economic Forum.
00:20:23.200Again, this is Canadian press, but again, it appears throughout legacy media.
00:20:46.540Activist, as was pointed out by our friend Gary Keller, he wrote this on Twitter, that actually the source of this story is a liberal donor.
00:20:56.520And you can see from the story itself that it features multiple quotes from this individual telling us how dangerous and how scary Pierre Polyev is for having the audacity to criticize the World Economic Forum and basically just saying that it's all nothing but conspiracy theories, mainstream conspiracy theories, whatever that means.
00:21:18.020Now, you would think that a responsible journalist would include that information in their story.
00:21:23.380You think they'd bother to check, bother to do the research.
00:21:35.360Or maybe they consider being a liberal donor to be a qualifier in order to be featured in a Canadian press story.
00:21:42.080Maybe that's how they find their stories.
00:21:43.440Maybe they just scroll through the list of Justin Trudeau donors and come up with, you know, call them up and ask them if they have any story ideas or any news tips.
00:21:53.220Of course, it's not how journalism works.
00:21:57.940This is not how a free press is supposed to work.
00:22:00.400This is not how a democracy is supposed to work.
00:22:02.740Canada is entering into dangerous territory where one party, the liberals, have bribed our country's journalists with billions upon billions of dollars.
00:22:11.160As a result, the journalists have been compromised.