LIVE UPDATES: Former UCP candidate suing media outlets over defamation claim
Caylan Ford, a former candidate for the UCP in Alberta's 2019 provincial election, alleges media reports asserting she held white supremacist views were defamatory.
A Calgary courtroom is hearing a former United Conservative Party candidate's defamation suit against multiple media outlets this week.
Caylan Ford argues the outlets harmed her reputation and left her life in ruin following the 2019 publications of stories alleging she held white supremacist views.
Rebel News reporter Angelica Toy is in the courtroom covering the case as it happens. Follow along with live updates directly on X or on this page below.
Ford says she would like a model of civic nationalism to function in Canada. She does not want Canada to be ethnically fractured.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Her impression was that he had an idea about nationalism and didn’t want to be challenged, and would sometimes get aggressive when she pointed out problems in his thesis.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Caylan has been asked about her understanding of Karim Jivraj and Islam.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
She says she hasn’t met anyone as vocally contemptuous of Islam as Karim Jivraj. It was something of a fixation for him.
She says Jivraj would ask her to take a position on Islam, and she would respond…
Court is on break for 15 minutes.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
He never published this document.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Ford says she felt that Jason Kenney was encouraging her to run for public office by offering suggestions and providing contacts who could help.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Jivraj said he was not favoured by the political class in Calgary and that he wasn’t very well liked.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Ford ended up blocking Jivraj on Facebook messenger where they were commonly conversing.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
This individual had contacted a number of politicians and said that she was making false rumours of sexual harassment before they had this conversation to clear things up. So now this rumour had spread.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Karim Jivraj also told people she was a racist bigot.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
She said the combination of this things lead her to suspect that he for whatever reason did not have her best interest at heart.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
He says he doesn’t even know what’s going on here.
She says that she doesn’t want him to go after other people and doesn’t want to drop anymore…
Shortly after this convo Schumann reaches out that the three of them should meet and discuss and get clarity on the situation.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Jivraj showed up late and drunk to the meeting.
He came clean at the meeting but first asked everyone to put their phones out on the table.
He said he…
Apparently he was so drunk he didn’t even know when he had to attend the Alcoholics Anonymous even or if he already attended.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Caylan Ford decided to run in Calgary–Mountain View in the 2019 provincial election.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Jivraj thanked her for not speaking ill of him to another individual at the event. Ford found it strange that he knew the details of their conversation.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
He waited outside and, when he saw Ford, insisted that she should not leave and that they should go somewhere for drinks to…
Karim Jivraj purchased a domain name similar to hers that she was using for the election campaign. Caylan Ford had https://t.co/zvVhA78uir, and Jivraj bought the .ca version.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
October 2018
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Ford contacted Jivraj because she wanted the domain name as soon as possible and did not want to wait for the government process to resolve it.
She told him, “Let’s resolve this on our own. I don’t think you want a public decision. Just transfer me the domain…
Next interaction. Karim Jivraj sent her an email that had sort of a joke in it (I didn’t fully catch it).
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
Ford’s family had hosted a meet-and-greet for Greg McLean, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre.
It was an intimate, private event.
Ford felt that the…
UCP rules strictly require that a person must be a resident for six months to become a member and must have lived in the province for at least one year before becoming a candidate.
— Angelica (@_angelica_toy) March 4, 2026
A concern was raised that she may have deliberately misled people about her residency.
She was a…
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-03-04 22:21:06 -0500The MSM is known for doing the dirty work of the left. One of its tactics is to throw mud and hope something sticks. Then again, whoever throws mud first wins, whether or not it hits the target. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2026-03-04 19:33:02 -0500I hope the UPC candidate wins. The regime media loves to smear conservatives.
