The Candice Malcolm Show Podcast

Canada’s system of fiscal federalism and equalization is fundamentally broken and Albertans are finally being given the chance to do something about it.During next week’s municipal elections, Albertans will have the rare opportunity to participate in direct democracy and vote on the fairness of Canada’s equalization program. Specifically, they will be asked whether equalization payments should be removed from the constitution.While a “yes” vote will not change the program immediately, it will send a strong message to the political class that Albertans are not on board with Canada’s equalization program.To discuss the referendum and the broken system of equalization, True North’s Candice Malcolm is joined by the Executive Director of Fairness Alberta Dr. Bill Bewick. Bill is the man behind equalizationreferendum.ca and the lead spokesman for the “yes” campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We live in a society where our Prime Minister takes a beach vacation while our public health officials say ‘no’ to Thanksgiving gatherings for the unvaccinated and ‘no’ to beach vacations for all Canadians. Enough is enough, says Candice Malcolm. Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude and to pause and appreciate all the wonderful things in our lives: family, friends, faith, peace, stability and our great tradition of democracy and ordered liberty. But if we don’t remain vigilant, we may lose our ancient freedoms. If we let heavy-handed public health order and propaganda media erode our freedoms, we may never get them back.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A number of legacy media outlets joined forces to condemn “heinous and threatening messages” sent to journalists in recent weeks. Where were these media outlets when conservative journalists were harassed and assaulted?Plus, it appears the Laurentian elite are turning on Justin Trudeau and many are speculating Trudeau may resign as prime minister. But as Candice Malcolm explains, the Liberal Party is a cult of personality around Trudeau – he is not going anywhere any time soon.It’s Fake News Friday on The Candice Malcolm Show. Tune in now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trudeau apologized for his ill-advised beach trip during Canada’s first-ever Truth and Reconciliation Day – sort of. He apologized for “travelling on September 30” – which is not why Canadians are mad. We’re mad that he misled us about what he was doing. And we’re annoyed that Canada’s loudest virtue-signaller doesn’t actually care about honouring those who went to Residential Schools. And, as Candice Malcolm explains – the story is getting worse by the day for Justin Trudeau. On Thursday, we learned that the owner of the luxury beachfront mansion that Trudeau stayed in LOBBIED the Federal Government, including Trudeau’s office. Was it a quid pro quo? Is this another Ethics violation? Candice breaks down all the facts in Trudeau’s latest unravelling scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole will survive this week as leader, but did he learn anything from his loss? Did he learn anything from Tuesday’s caucus meeting? Candice Malcolm says no, he didn’t. In fact, yesterday he said “the simple reason” why the CPC lost the election is because “Trudeau used the pandemic to divide Canadians. We did not.” O’Toole doesn’t seem to be learning any of the right lessons from this election. We go through key Conservative MPs statements from outside of yesterday’s caucus meetings and talk about why the Tories are leaving O’Toole in as leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today is the first Conservative party caucus meeting since the disappointing election result, and we’ll soon find out if O’Toole will stay on as leader of the party.On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice breaks down the various rumours and media leaks leading up to the big meeting. She dispels some as fake news and discusses the validity of other theories.Plus, Candice deconstructs the Red Tory case for O’Toole to stay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are two big events this week that will determine the future of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). The first is a private luncheon in Toronto with conservative insiders and his top campaign advisors to do a “debrief” on what went right and what went wrong. The second is a meeting of all CPC MPs in Ottawa — the first bit meeting since the election — to air their grievances about all the mistakes on the campaign. On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice discusses the importance of these two events and breaks down the various camps fighting for the heart and soul of the Conservative party. Even if O’Toole survives the first caucus meeting, he still has a long way to go to make it up to the base for abandoning conservative principles and ideals during the campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why didn’t anyone from the Parliamentary Press Gallery report on Trudeau skipping town to go to the beach on a solemn day that Trudeau spends so much time virtue-signalling about?Trudeau is a hypocrite, but the legacy media is complicit in protecting him.Plus, we’ll talk about the UCP in Alberta pulling a Stephen Guilbeault by dishonestly attacking independent media and show the CBC getting destroyed in a brilliant interview with lawyer Marie Henein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even if you combined the PPC and Conservative vote in the 2021 election, Erin O’Toole would still not be Prime Minister.On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice is joined by pollster Hamish Marshall to do a deep dive into the election outcome, looking at the numbers, analyzing the close races and dispelling emerging media narrative myths about the election.The biggest takeaway: this election was a total waste of time that led to a more divided country and a water-down Liberal-lite Conservative Party of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice outlines how O’Toole duped CPC party members by running as an authentic conservative. In fact, O’Toole 2020 leadership campaign focused on attacking Peter Mackay and warning CPC members not to go with a “Liberal-lite” candidate who would take the party back to the “mushy middle.” Ironic! Given that O’Toole did just that. But this isn’t the first time this has happened to Conservatives. Former Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown played the same trick. He pretended to be a grass-roots conservative, then as soon as he got elected he showed his true colours: banning social conservative issues and introducing a carbon tax. Brown is a case study in bait and switch conservatism, and should be a cautionary tail. Instead, O’Toole used his playbook. And just like Brown, O’Toole failed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices