A lot has happened in 2024 and Canadians have continued to trust True North as their go-to source for independent media.
Our readers tuned into True North to escape the constant bias and dishonest narratives spun by the pro-establishment legacy media on issues like immigration, political corruption and citizen protests.
In 2024, Canadians turned up in droves to read stories they couldn’t find anywhere else.
Using Google Analytics to determine which stories got the most attention, True North has compiled a list of the top five most-viewed stories of the year.
5. Jagmeet Singh caught getting into a Maserati on Parliament Hill
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh likes to present himself as a champion of the working class but in reality he was photographed getting into a luxury Maserati SUV on his way back from work at Parliament Hill in early October.
According to the car website driving.ca, the Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price for a 2024 Maserati Levante ranges from $127,000 to $213,800 – a price out of reach for the majority of Canadians.
The most recent data from Statistics Canada shows that the median Canadian salary is now around $71,000 per year.
Though he did not respond to True North for comment at the time – after the story broke and after Conservatives began labelling Singh a “Maserati Marxist,” Singh denied the scandal, saying the vehicle wasn’t his.
Singh has been criticized in the past for his lavish spending, including multiple Rolex watches priced anywhere between $8,000 and hundreds of thousands. His wife was also spotted wearing a $1,124 Zimmerman dress in a 2021 maternity shoot when the NDP promoted a tax on “luxury goods.”
4. Federal court declares Trudeau’s use of Emergencies Act unconstitutional
Nearly two years after the Emergencies Act was invoked to crackdown on peaceful Freedom Convoy protesters demonstrating at Parliament Hill, the Federal Court ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s measures were unreasonable and unconstitutional.
The Emergencies Act allowed the Trudeau Liberals to freeze the bank accounts of protesters, conscript tow truck drivers, many of whom objected to helping otherwise, and arrest people for participating in assemblies the government deemed illegal.
The court found that the decision to invoke the Act, formerly known as the War Measures Act, and the associated Regulations and Order was unreasonable and beyond the scope of the Emergencies Act and thus unconstitutional.
3. Trudeau falsely accuses Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson of being funded by Russia
While testifying at an ongoing foreign interference inquiry in October, Trudeau accused Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson and American media personality Tucker Carlson of being funded by Russia without any evidence to substantiate his claims.
Trudeau mentioned a recent US Department of Justice indictment which implicated a since disbanded conservative media company, Tenet Media, in a foreign influence scheme orchestrated by employees of Russia’s state broadcaster, “Russia Today.”
Neither Peterson nor Carlson were named in the indictment, nor did they have any involvement with the company. Despite this, Trudeau suggested that Russia used them to amplify messages that were “destabilizing democracies.”
At the beginning of December, Peterson addressed Trudeau’s accusations on his daughter Mikhaila Peterson’s podcast. He noted that no legal action could be taken against the Prime Minister as his speech during the committee hearing was protected under Parliamentary privilege.
2. Canadian Cancer Society apologizes for not calling cervix “front hole” in non-binary disclaimer
In June, the Canadian Cancer Society apologized for referring to the cervix by its technical name instead of using non-gendered terms such as “front hole.”
The agency apologized, saying the term “cervix,” could be considered offensive, and instead, they should use the term “front hole.”
The cancer society said that men can have “these body parts too” and that LGBTQ+ people face “significant barriers” to accessing healthcare and are less likely than “cisgender” people (people who don’t identify as trans or non-binary) to be screened for cancer.
1. Ontario resident goes viral after speaking out about immigrants pooping on the beach
The most popular True North story this year was about one Ontario resident going viral for raising awareness about an alleged rise of public pooping incidents on Wasaga Beach, Ont.
Videos from Tiktoker ItsNattyLxnn2.0, a now-deleted Tiktok account, went viral in July after she accused immigrants, namely from India, of defecating in holes on the beach and burying it.
Natty claimed that she could not take her kids to the beach because visitors were using it as a toilet. She alleged that she found feces on multiple occasions after witnessing Indian families digging and setting up tents over the holes during their day trip to the world’s longest freshwater beach.
Following the viral online moment, “Natty” was visited by Wasaga police following complaints that she was being racist for making the claims online. She noted that her daughter has Indian heritage, and she’s not being racist and that she was just concerned about the “bio-hazard” of human feces found on the beach.
The Wasaga Beach Provincial Park later denied having observed such behaviour on its beach.
