The Media is the Message > Canada's Liberal Party employs phase 2 of press intimidation

 

Controlling the media is one of the first phases of turning a healthy democratic country into an autocracy. Trudeau started the process by offering $600 mn to media that reported Liberal-friendly news. Phase two is thanks to Art Mark Carney, who is intimidating the media with a lawsuit against Juno News. Like much of Europe, democracy is failing in Canada.

Carney Government launches CRIMINAL investigation

into JUNO NEWS

Keean Bexte joins Candice to discuss Ottawa’s investigation into Juno News’ reporting using an anti-free speech censorship law that was previously struck down as violating the Charter

Candice Malcolm

Sep 03, 2025

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This is one show you’re not going to want to miss (watch the full episode at the bottom of this message, but please READ first).

On today’s very special episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice and Juno News co-founder Keean Bexte discuss a letter he received from the Commissioner of Elections Canada informing him that he’s being investigated under Section 91 of the Canada Elections Act for supposedly knowingly misleading the public during an election.

Read the Commissioner's letter to Keean

If found guilty, Keean faces up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine!

Juno News unequivocally stands by our story and our reporter. These allegations are false and this investigation is politically motivated – with the intent of intimidating independent journalists and silencing dissent against the governing Liberals.

As the Litigation Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation responded yesterday:

“This isn't a criminal offence. Reporting, even if imperfect, should not be targeted by government agencies for sanction like this…This is weaponizing the law to stop journalism that the government doesn't like. I'm concerned it will chill reporting in the future.”

On today’s show, Candice and Keean discuss his report that prompted this investigation, where he painstakingly documented several disturbing allegations against former Liberal candidate Thomas Keeper based on firsthand testimonials from multiple independent sources. Keean even visited the Liberal Party campaign office in Calgary to hand deliver questions to Thomas Keeper – and Keeper called the police and made false allegations against him.

Keeper did not sue Juno News directly or allege defamation. Instead, the Liberal Government is bullying us with a criminal investigation.

As Candice reports, the Trudeau Government made changes to the Canada Elections Act back in 2019, using the Russia-gate hoax as justification. The Canadian Constitution Foundation challenged the law, and in 2021 it was struck down as unconstitutional by an Ontario judge.

The Trudeau Government made minor edits to the law, and this appears to be the first time anyone in Canada has been investigated under this act. There are three different tests that would need to be met in order for the government to charge Keean:

1. That he lied in his reporting

2. That he knew he was lying, and reported it anyway

3. That he intentionally wanted to interfere with the election by lying

All three of these allegations are wrong. Our story is based on corroborated first-hand accounts from multiple independent sources, so Keean didn’t lie – he certainly didn’t knowingly lie, and we released it to inform the public – not sway the election.

Find out more about this story at DefendJuno.com

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The Media is the Message > CBS’ “Face the Nation” edits Kristi Noem comments to make Garcia look better and the government look worse

 

Kristi Noem accuses CBS of ‘shamefully’ editing her interview on Kilmar Abrego Garcia to ‘whitewash’ MS-13 gang affiliation

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Diana Nerozzi

Published Sep. 1, 2025, 4:55 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem went on a tirade against CBS News on Sunday over allegations the network edited her interview about alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal migrant that theTrump administration deported to El Salvador earlier this year.

Noem was on CBS’ “Face the Nation” discussing Abrego Garcia Sunday morning, she said on X, but noticed by afternoon that the footage had been clipped to remove part of her answer.

“This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors, and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off, he was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children,” the DHS chief said in the full, unaired clip.

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Noem claimed a portion of her interview was cut from CBS.

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Comparison of Kristi Noem’s uncut and CBS-aired interview segments.

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“So he needs to never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice,” she added.

“Secretary Noem’s “Face The Nation” interview was edited for time and met all CBS News standards,” a CBS rep told The Post. “The entire interview is publicly available on YouTube, and the full transcript was posted early Sunday morning at CBSNews.com

Noem wrote on X, “This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.”

A US federal immigration judge ruled in 2019 that Abrego Garcia couldn’t be deported to El Salvador due to threats from local gangs — but the Trump administration flew him along with hundreds of other alleged gang members out of the country to a megaprison in the Central American nation earlier this year.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks during a rally and prayer vigil for him before he enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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The Trump administration claimed he was a member of the violent MS-13 gang — a US-designated foreign terrorist organization — based on a determination during that 2019 court proceeding.

Abrego Garcia and his defense attorneys have denied the allegation.

Democrats visited with and advocated for Abrego Garcia, saying he was “wrongfully” removed to El Salvador and kept there for weeks first at the notorious prison CECOT and then at a lower-security facility.

The purported Salvadoran gangbanger was eventually brought back to the US in June and charged with human smuggling, but released briefly before that trial only to be apprehended again by ICE on Aug. 25

He now faces the possibility of being deported to Uganda after having declined to plead guilty to the smuggling charges as part of an agreement that would send him to Costa Rica instead.

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers are still working on getting him asylum in the US. His first attempt in 2019 was denied, but if this one is approved, it could put him on a pathway to a green card and American citizenship.

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