The radical left has always existed, but in the last five years – a small group of ideological radicals have been empowered to hijack mainstream thought and institutions without recourse, correction or apology.
The Left has been spiralling out of control ever since. The political left has drastically changed. They have become more fervent, more radical, less tolerant and less liberal.
On the season finale of the True North Speaker Series, Candice Malcolm is joined by one of the most popular political pundits in the US — Dave Rubin. Dave was one of the first to notice these changes to the Left, and one of the strongest and clearest opponents of this new regressive brand of Leftism.
In this exclusive interview, Candice and Dave discuss where and why the Left went so wrong and how we can expose their hypocrisy and combat their efforts to tear apart the foundations of our society.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh told reporters that U.S. President Donald Trump is doing more to address systemic racism than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“The fact that President Trump, who has been horrible on this issue, who has said hateful things and I’ve called him out on that, has done more in terms of a concrete policy change than the prime minister of Canada who says that he is an ally, that to me is really troubling. He’s literally done nothing,” Singh said.
In June, Trump signed an executive order restricting the use of force by law enforcement after the death of George Floyd while being arrested by Minneapolis police.
Compared to Trump, Singh says Trudeau has done practically nothing.
“The most he has done is a vague reference to body cameras,” Singh said.
At the same press conference, Singh commented on the recent incident at Rideau Hall.
Last week an armed man entered the property of Rideau Hall, which contains the homes of the prime minister and governor general. After a two-hour standoff police managed to arrest CAF Reservist Cory Hurren.
Singh called the incident an example of systemic racism in law enforcement as Hurren, who is white, was arrested without incident.
“That contrast — someone showed up to potentially kill the prime minister of Canada, or with weapons at his residence, and that person was arrested without any violence and you had a person who in his own home was killed,” Singh said.
Singh’s claim goes directly against those of RCMP Deputy Commissioner Mark Duheme, who last week said that race was not a factor in the Rideau Hall incident.
“Our intervention, regardless of who the person is, is always based on the environment and the threat cues that are being posed,” he said.
“It’s got nothing to do with ethnicity, it’s to do with the environment that we’re in, the threat that we have, the analysis that the officer is making, the subject’s behaviour and whatnot, the environment that’s around us for tactical cover.”
Hurren faces 22 charges related to the incident.
While senior RCMP officials have been inconsistent on claims of systemic racism in the force, the RCMP Veterans’ Association has fought against recent racism allegations.
Canada’s auditor general has found major flaws in the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) handling of immigration cases, particularly when it comes to enforcing deportations.
A report released on Wednesday found that the whereabouts of a staggering 34,700 people up for deportation are not known, and that the CBSA was not conducting regular attempts to locate them.
The auditor general concluded that the CBSA is routinely failing to provide basic immigration enforcement in a timely manner.
“A case can sit inactive during the removal process for many valid reasons: Waiting for requested travel documents is one example. However … we determined that there were thousands of inactive cases in the agency’s working inventory with no explanation,” the auditor general wrote.
“Despite its mandate to enforce removal orders as soon as possible, we found that the CBSA did not effectively monitor enforceable cases in its working inventory to make sure they were advancing toward removal.”
Over 1,500 deportation orders could not be enforced because of errors made by immigration and agency officers when they entered the orders into the immigration database.
The report did not mention how the speed of deportations would change since CBSA paused deportations in March due to coronavirus concerns.
The report suggests that thousands of deportation orders have been enforceable for 4 years or more without deportation actually occurring.
In January, it was revealed that CBSA had a massive backlog of people of over 52,000 individuals awaiting deportation.
According to the CBSA, failed asylum claimants make up the largest share of deportation orders. However, the January report said only a small fraction of those ordered to leave since 2017 have actually left.
The mainstream media is obsessing over covertly snapped photos of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer not wearing a mask at Pearson airport while ignoring yet another ethics investigation of Justin Trudeau.
Also, a victory for parents’ rights, self-flagellating wokeness from Harry and Meghan, and politically correct Scrabble. Plus, Rebel News’ Ezra Levant joins True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss his new book, China Virus.
In an open letter in Harper’s Magazine – which is known to be left-leaning – over 150 public figures voiced their concerns about the recent protests by leftist activists.
Well-known liberals like Margaret Atwood and Michael Ignatieff all signed the open letter, and condemned de-platforming and cancel culture.
True North’s Anthony Furey asks will the woke mob actually listen to their elders or do they think they know better?
A segment on a CBC children’s news show calling J.K. Rowling “transphobic” didn’t meet the state broadcaster’s journalistic standards, CBC admits.
In response to a complaint to CBC’s ombudsman filed by Toronto lawyer Kaveh Shahrooz, a producer acknowledged the episode’s shortcomings.
“In the end, this segment did not achieve the balance we intended, and did not live up to the standards to which we as a public broadcaster hold ourselves,” says an email from CBC Kids senior producer Lisa Fender.
A CBC spokesperson confirmed to True North the original segment “did not achieve the balance of perspectives we aspire to.”
The CBC is telling children that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is “transphobic” and “dangerous” for saying that only women can menstruate.
The segment was from a June 12 episode of the CBC Kids News show Recap, in which the young co-hosts take aim at Rowling over a tweet indicating only women are capable of menstruation. In the segment, the hosts tell Rowling to “read the room” and say she’s been “accused of transphobic stuff in the past,” referring to Rowling’s support of a woman fired for believing people cannot change their biological sex.
While the tweet triggered a firestorm of both backlash and support for Rowling, who later expanded on her views in a lengthy essay about womanhood, the CBC segment itself was one-sided.
In his complaint, Shahrooz was clear to neither defend nor attack Rowling’s views.
“My sole concern is with the lack of balance in this coverage of this issue on a program aimed at children, a segment of the population most likely to take the pronouncements heard on television at face value,” he wrote, noting debate around gender identity is a “live issue with two sides.”
Fender says CBC Kids News decided to cover the controversy “when we heard that it was a topic that kids were hearing about from their peers, through social media and in the news,” adding CBC Kids News aims to “provide a trusted service” for coverage of issues that kids are hearing about.
“While popularized through social media, we knew that this was a complex and layered debate that presented many nuances, some which might be too complex for us to fully tackle in one story,” Fender writes. “We knew that we wanted to lay out how kids felt about what they were hearing and decided that we could…give the show’s kid commentators an opportunity to present the debate in a balanced, yet digestible way.”
Recognizing the segment did not do that, Fender says the network has “taken steps to correct this,” including a follow-up episode “which provides perspectives missing in the June 12th segment.”
In the follow-up episode, Recap host Myah Elliott acknowledges “conversations about gender can be confusing and layered” and quotes Rowling’s own words as well as a tweet from a Rowling defender. Elliott also shares that “there are a lot of people that stand with J.K. Rowling and her views on being female.”
Shahrooz, a self-described CBC supporter, says he was “satisfied with (CBC’s) response.”
CBC has not yet responded to a request for comment from True North, though if the network responds it will be included.
After weeks of record spending, the Trudeau government is projecting a $343.2 billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said in a fiscal “snapshot” Wednesday afternoon.
Added debt will bring the net federal debt to $1.2 trillion by next March, with a projected debt-to-GDP ratio to rise to 49.1% in 2020-2021.
The deficit forecast is 10 times higher than the previous fiscal year’s deficit. Before the coronavirus pandemic, Morneau had projected a $28.1 billion deficit for this year.
Morneau did not reveal a plan to balance the budget in his update.
“We faced an enormous shock to our system,” Morneau said to reporters.
“It’s hard to know where we will be in a month, two months, or six months.”
The Canadian government will spend more this year than it did during the entirety of the Second World War, even adjusted for inflation.
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced various economic measures in an attempt to financially assist Canadians and businesses and stimulate the economy as a result of mandatory lockdowns.
In May, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux told the House of Commons finance committee his office couldn’t keep track of the Trudeau government’s record-breaking spending.
At the time, Giroux predicted that federal debt could reach $1 trillion this fiscal year and that “the figure of $252.1 billion is very likely to be a very optimistic scenario.”
In June, Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 13.7%, topping the previous high of 13.1% set in December 1982. Canada now has the highest rate of unemployment in the G7.
Two weeks ago, Alberta’s Conservative Premier Jason Kenney announced he was moving forward with new legislation that prevents sexual offenders from changing their name after their conviction.
This legislation, which targets predators like those who commit terrible sexual crimes against children, is a step in the right direction to make our communities safer and ensure people are held accountable for their crimes.
“Clearly, more needs to be done to protect innocent adults and children from the violent sex predators among us and one way to do this is ensuring they can’t hide by changing their names,” said Kenney in announcing the legislation, while going on to rightfully point out that thousands of paroled sex offenders live throughout Canada.
Yes – you read that right – thousands of sexual offenders, some of who have committed grotesque crimes against young boys and girls, live among our neighbourhoods and communities. And, as long as they are allowed to change their name, they are able to use these legal name changes as a mechanism to blend into our communities undetected and hide their previous identity.
What is most concerning is that sex offenders are very likely to re-offend. A study completed for the federal government in 2004 showed that 24% of those committed of sex crimes re-offended within a fifteen year time period.
For those convicted of molesting prepubescent boys, the number was even higher at 35%.
Alberta is the third province to implement new requirements for name-changes. First, Saskatchewan did so last year under the leadership of Premier Scott Moe, and in doing so, was able to effectively close a loophole that allows those who commit these serious crimes to avoid full accountability. Similarly, the Nova Scotia PCs – despite their opposition status – were able to move forward with legislation on this topic earlier this year by earning the support of the governing Liberals.
However, one problem remains – offenders can still relocate to other provinces, change their names and then return to their home communities with a new name. This is why in order to close the loophole permanently, provincial jurisdictions need to follow the lead of Premiers Kenney and Moe and introduce their own version of this legislation.
To those seven provinces, along with our territorial governments: it’s time to get to work, be tougher on sex offenders, hold them accountable for their heinous crimes and – most importantly – keep our communities safe.
Two individuals selected to advise on which news outlets deserve federal funding have a history of anti-Conservative and pro-Liberal statements.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, two members of the five-member Independent Advisory Board on Eligibility for Journalism Tax Measures have shown bias in the past.
These individuals are getting paid $450 a day to advise the government on how to disperse nearly $600 million in subsidies promised to news outlets by the Trudeau government.
Karim Karim, a journalism professor who sits on the board, directly attacked both former Prime Minister Stephen Harper on social media in 2015.
“Stephen Harper plays the politics of hate against Muslims,” he wrote in one post.
“Yes, I did write the tweets,” he said in a recent statement.
“No, I do not see a problem regarding my advisory role. If there is the slightest issue of bias against any media applicant, I will discuss it with the Board and recuse myself in the cases of conflict of interest.”
Another panelist, former newspaper editor Margo Goodhand wrote a column in 2013 praising Justin Trudeau and describing the Conservatives as “bullies.”
“I am not a member of the Liberal Party…but I’m watching new Liberal leader Justin Trudeau these days as he goes up against Team Harper, and I have to admit that I wish him well. I need him to stand up to the bullies,” she wrote in the Winnipeg Free Press.
“Canadian politics needs to take a new tack, Trudeau has the power and the momentum right
now to show us the way.”
“He’s not intellectual like his father, Pierre. He is possibly more like his mother Margaret, more emotional and empathetic…”
Karim and Goodhand will be providing advice on requests for subsidies from news outlets. National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier will have the final decision on who receives funding.
Unifor, a labour union that is also advising on the media bailout process, also has a long history of anti-conservative sentiment.
Unifor explicitly vowed to oppose Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party during the 2019 federal election.
In Vancouver, leftist activists are calling for the end of “street checks” or “carding.” According to them, this practice is discriminatory and racist.
Leftist activists need to be told the police will do their job as they see fit and that’s their call.
Former police officer Leo Knight points out how in urban cities like New York City and Toronto, gun crime and shootings skyrocketed when police stopped street checks and carding.
