Top notch CBC journalists—Trish Wood, Marianne Klowak, and Rodney Palmer—spill the beans. All three retired in disgust.
To understand what’s happened to journalism, we can point to the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a global news brokerage claiming to combat misinformation and fake news. TNI was formed in 2019 because public trust in media was only 29%. A shotgun wedding transpired between all legacy media and all big tech, including Facebook and Google. The motive was information control. When COVID hit, the vaccine failed and public trust sank even lower. The TNI propaganda machine went into overdrive pushing “misinformation” paranoia. They needed people to stay obedient, fearful, and arguing among ourselves. Instead, many of us turned to researchers, ethical scientists, medical activists and citizen journalists who had the facts.
How TNI works: editors and reporters send news stories to TNI for approval before the information can be released. If TNI doesn’t approve, the story is red-penned and sent back. When they don’t like the expert a reporter is quoting, the reporter is told to use their in-house expert instead. Do you notice that TV news presenters all say the exact same message, same phrases, same sentences, all at the same time? That’s not “trustworthy”, it’s Orwell’s Ministry of Truth: you only know what we tell you.
We must ask, what will censorship accomplish? If they manage to end free speech, what then?
TNI ended Marianne Klowak’s career. On the Trish Wood is Critical podcast (episode 159), Klowak said, “A number of stories that I put forward were blocked…it seemed to me as a journalist who’d been there 34 years, it’s like the rules had changed so quickly that it left me dizzy.” A scrupulous and trusted reporter, Klowak “had a show all put together about the vaccine injured, with interviewed experts who said the vaccine was a problem, and the CBC brass killed it. I took my concerns to the managing editor and senior executives but they didn’t care. Worse, CBC took the stance that anybody saying the vaccines were a problem was lying.”
Before Trish Wood retired, she hosted The Fifth Estate and did award-winning investigative reporting for over 20 years. Talking with veteran reporter Rodney Palmer (episode 158), Wood said, “This generation of new journalists aren’t trained to think outside the box. It’s not in a real journalist’s DNA to promote anything as ‘safe and effective’. The media no longer report fairly on things that require debate.”
Palmer was less diplomatic: “I had to stop listening to the CBC. I got a sore throat from screaming at the radio while I was alone in my car, because I know things to be true and they were saying the opposite and it was bloody dangerous! What we’re hearing is propaganda and false messaging on behalf of the government.”
They dig for facts and get the truth; they do so because they have our backs; they take no money from corporations or government; and they’re funded by the people.
SAM COOPER
@scoopercooper on X
You may know him from his many years reporting for the Province and Sun newspapers in Vancouver, then his years at Global TV. In 2023 he became an independent and opened The Bureau.
“Sam Cooper is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author, who has presented his anti-corruption findings to Canadian law enforcement agencies, officials in the Pentagon, financial and legal professionals, and academics.”
Over 30K Substack subscribers and many more followers.
Sam Cooper: They’re not looking at the banks. And they’re basically wrong?
Senior U.S. Expert: The issue isn’t a lack of skill—there are tremendously capable investigators in the RCMP. The problem is they don’t have the legal tools to back them up. For example, if I seize a drug lab, I’m required to immediately disclose the evidence. That exposes our trade craft. Once the network knows it’s being investigated, we can’t pursue them effectively anymore. So, in effect, the laws are protecting these criminal groups. That’s why they’re expanding—they’re not going away.
Sam Cooper: And that’s why they’re bigger in Canada.
Senior U.S. Expert: Exactly. And this is a critical point I want to make. As the U.S. tightens control over the southwest border and ramps up efforts against cartels in Mexico, what do you think happens in Canada? Who becomes the supplier?
James Corbett can teach you everything you need to know about everything. There are many excellent independent investigative journalists but he’s the one everyone should know about and visit often. He’s been at it for over 25 years, winning awards, writing, directing, hosting, and producing hundreds of podcasts and many excellent long-form documentaries. In every video he makes, he includes a list of primary source links so people can verify for themselves the truth in what he’s saying. He’s a brilliant humanist with a scrupulous ethical core. He brings a clear heart and temperate passions to the darkest subjects; his light touch, often laced with levity and wit, makes the hard truths easier to bear.
…hosted CBC’s Fifth Estate for a decade; she credits the CBC of yore with teaching her to be a great investigative journalist, which she’s been for over 35 years.
But the award-winning investigative journalist left the Mothercorp when its standards deteriorated and she couldn’t see herself being there anymore. Her excoriating criticism: “We don’t have media. The CBC is now evil. They’re populated with the left-wing that hates populism, they hate the Conservatives, they hate religion. The CBC was captured by extreme Wokeism really early on. They wouldn’t have jobs anywhere else so they are all in to drink—and force the rest of us to drink—the KoolAid. They are not reflecting what Canadians are thinking or need to be talking about. They hate the working class as much as the bureaucrats in Ottawa hate the working class. They think the working class are dirty, smelly racists and we need to get rid of all of them. The media caters to people’s biases because it’s more financially expedient to do so.”
Now a successful independent, Wood shares her wealth of experience and wisdom—in that mellifluous voice of hers you can listen to all day—with over 15K subscribers, and many more followers, on her podcast Trish Wood is Critical.
…has a brain and memory like an entire set of encyclopedias. Listening to her speak is a privilege; that she works so assiduously on behalf of humanity is a blessing to us all in these darkening days.
A sample of the way her comprehensive knowledge leads to confident, accurate assessments and on-the-nose predictions:
“Mark Carney isn’t stepping into power to protect Canadian sovereignty, he’s here to dissolve it. This is not an elected leader with a mandate from the people, this is a banker groomed by global institutions, positioned at the helm of the most powerful central banks in the West and now parachuted into Canada’s top office in the middle of an engineered crisis.
Carney was governor of the bank of Canada during the 2008 crash, then he was handed the top job at the bank of England becoming the first non-Brit to hold that position in over three centuries. That wasn’t a promotion, that was placement… a signal to the global financial elite that Carney wasn’t just one of them, he was ready for the next phase of the project and that project is global governance…technocratic control. A world where countries exist in name but real decisions are made by unelected bureaucrats, asset managers and central banks.
Carney has never hidden his loyalties. He’s a key figure within the World Economic Forum, a trusted Architect of Klaus Schwab’s “Great-Reset”. He doesn’t just support stakeholder capitalism, he helped design its playbook. He spent the last several years preparing the framework for an economic transition that replaces national interest with global compliance, freedom with surveillance and sovereignty with dependency.
Carney’s language is the same coded language used by every WEF loyalist…Sustainability, resilience, inclusion and climate finance. But decode that language and the reality is much darker. What they call climate finance is the commodification of nature. Turning forests, oceans, carbon footprints and even your personal behaviour into financial instruments to be tracked, traded and controlled. It’s not about protecting the environment, it’s about creating a new asset class for the elite, and once human behaviour becomes an asset it can also become a liability… something to be taxed, fined and even restricted. This is Carney’s real vision for Canada. NOT protection from Trump but deeper integration into a technocratic system designed in Davos and enforced through digital change.
He is a leading proponent of central bank digital currency (CBDC’s) which are being marketed as efficient and modern but are in fact tools of unprecedented control. Programmable money means conditional money. Money that can be restricted based on who you are, where you are, what you say or how you behave. Pair that with digital ID Systems, bio-metric tracking and algorithmic decision making and the result is a digital prison where your ability to participate in society depends on your willingness to comply with the demands of unelected global institutions.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is his openly admitted policy. Carney has published it, the WEF has published it, the International Settlements has published it. What they need now is public consent or at the very least public submission.”
Approaching 200K followers on X.Her mission is to expose Canadian government corruption and the malfeasance of the privileged minority. Her research uncovers the relationships and business connections among them, the colossal taxpayer money they misappropriate and lose (steal), and provides documentation that should bring the culprits to justice. If we had a healthy, functioning country these people would be brought down. But they aren’t, they remain in power, and a long ways from justice. By all appearances, Canada is run by an untouchable Swamp, Inc., primarily that historical Laurentian club concentrated in Ottawa/Montreal. You want to see a brilliant forensic investigator in action, check her out. Her posts are viewed by many more people than the mainstream news, by a long shot.
Neil Oliver, who many will know as the Coast Guy from former TV series and documentaries. A former practising archaeologist and show host, Oliver became a full-time citizen activist during COVID when he started connecting the dots of extreme corruption, lies and advancing tyranny. Like so many millions of us, the COVID scamdemic sent him down the rabbit hole where he discovered just how corrupt things are. He chronicles, step by step, that process, and he’s become much, much more than a TV host, he’s a beacon of light, a soul warrior. His new understanding of reality unfolds for himself in real time, as it does for his more than 325K followers. And he tells a great yarn while doing so.
Her personal story is riveting; a heavy weight in the financial world of the west, one of the few women inside the boys club with significant power and a front seat for decades—until she saw the depth of corruption and problems. When she could no longer support the fallacies of the boys club she became a whistleblower. For that betrayal she was persecuted for 11 years—but she survived. Assisted by the strength of her religious beliefs she hung onto her optimism and joy in life and now runs Solari, a successful business which situates money inside an ethical, holistic framework.
Wikipedia: “Catherine Austin Fitts is an American investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and, during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, as United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing. Fitts has researched and commented on government spending. In a 2004 study published in World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, she purported to find “evidence that a very large proportion of the nation’s wealth is being illegally diverted since several decades into secret, unaccountable channels and programmes with unspecified purposes, including covert operations and subversions abroad and clandestine military R&D at home. Public institutions have been infiltrated and taken over by shadowy groups in the service of powerful private and vested interests, often at the expense of the common good.”
She works tirelessly to warn about CBDC, digital IDs and programmable money.
The sum of the parts: when you add them all up, watch a bit here and there through your week, you end up being fairly well-informed, with facts at your fingertips and the ability to speak calmly and intelligently on many subjects.
So many more citizen journalists could be showcased here. Feel free to add your favourites in the comments.
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