Western Standard News Editor Dave Naylor has spent more than a month investigating the story of Caylan Ford. Ford seemed certain to be a potential political star – intelligent, photogenic and ready to make a mark.She was recruited by Jason Kenney to run for the Alberta UCP in the 2019 election. Ford seemed to be on the path to stardom when she was shot down in flames by rumours, innuendos and planted news stories in an NDP-affiliated propaganda “news” website.Ford blames one man for her downfall – Karim Jivraj. Much of this story is almost unbelievable and would not have been taken seriously by the Western Standard had it not been for the hard proof obtained by its staff. Over the next week, Naylor will tell their story backed with interviews, and court documentation..It’s a case of sex, lies and agent provocateurs.It’s a story of how a cancel culture mob – fuelled by fake news stories – ruined the life a woman and rising political star.It revolves around Caylan Ford, mother-of-two, who Alberta Premier Jason Kenney talked into running for the UCP in the constituency of Calgary-Mountainview.She didn’t know it at the time, but her nemesis is Karim Jivraj, another highly-educated political operator, whose own court testimony shows that he tried to destroy Ford by planting admittedly fake stories in the NDP-linked “news” outlet, Press Progress.Edited parts of private philosophical conversations involving Ford were given to Press Progress with media quickly claiming it was evidence of her “white supremacist” or “white nationalist” views.Before deciding to take a run at politics, Ford earned master’s degrees from George Washington University and Oxford University in international affairs and international human rights law. She also worked as a senior policy advisor at Global Affairs Canada (formerly called the Department of Foreign Affairs) and has created an award-winning documentary on the torture of Chinese political prisoners.Ford and Jivraj met in 2017 at a Tory Lunar New Year function in Toronto.They quickly became friends and enjoyed long talks about political philosophy and world affairs.Jivraj was also highly educated, having studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and Cornell.He was a long-time Tory operator and ran for the party in in the last election. He finished third in the University-Rosedale constituency in Toronto behind Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland who won the seat.He has been pictured with numerous Tory big wigs including Stephen Harper and Andrew Scheer.Jivraj decided to move to Calgary, Ford’s home town, after problems in Toronto where, reportedly, Tory insiders were sure he was using fake twitter accounts to spread false rumours..Once Jivraj landed in Calgary, Ford helped him find a place to live with a friend of hers and also helped him get a job at a city law firm.It was in 2018, and the problems began with an explosive accusation. At the height of the #MeToo movement, Jivraj started a rumour that Ford had made unfounded accusations of sexual harassment against another political candidate. He later admitted that Ford had never done this. In January 2019, anonymous Twitter account started tweeting out screen shots of Ford’s private Facebook messages.A Tory source told Ford someone was shopping private Facebook messages of hers around to lots of media outlets.Under oath, Jivraj has admitted to creating numerous fake Twitter account to spread malicious rumours, and lies of sexual impropriety against Ford and other conservative women..Jivraj email to Ford asking her attend his doomed political launch At that time, Jivraj was vying for the federal Conservative Party nomination in Calgary Centre. The party later refused to allow him to run, said Ford.And after Ford announced her run in the riding of Mountain-view on June 18, 2019. Jivraj then suddenly ran to become the riding association president.On November 25, 2018, a mass anonymous email was sent to 1,400 party members with the headline “Caylan Ford: Too Good To Live Here.”It contained false allegations that Ford had never worked in Calgary and had mocked the Mountainview constituency.In March 2018, Ford alleged Jivraj was the anonymous source behind widely-publicized accusations she expressed sympathy for “white supremacist” terrorists in private Facebook messenger conversations years before. On March 18, 2019 at 2:49 p.m., Press Progress editor Luke LeBrun contacted Ford’s campaign in an email asking for comment on private messages they had obtained.In subsequent emails looking for comment, Lebrun told her the emails were sent to him by a “a prominent conservative.” Knowing Press Progress had strong NDP ties, Ford declined to comment.Ford said the emails contained edited snippets of conversations she was having with a trusted friend. She admits the messages were badly worded.But the damage was done and Ford was quickly forced to step down as a candidate..The feud came to a head January 9 last year, when Jivraj filed an assault complaint with the Calgary Police Service where he alleged Ford had “aggressively placed her hand on his back.”In later court testimony, Jivraj admitted the incident only involved a tap on the back to get his attention as he sat in her neighbourhood coffee shop.“It all demonstrates how easily a single bad actor can leverage the rhetorical toolkit of cancel culture to pursue a personal vendetta, destroying someone’s reputation and career with total impunity and anonymity, and with no semblance of due process for the accused,” said Ford to the Western Standard.“I’ve been reputationally and professionally ruined. I am still unemployable two years later.”“It’s also a case study in the hypocrisy of left/liberal institutions like the NDP, Press Progress, CBC, and the Toronto Star. All of these groups purport to care about reducing gender-based harassment, and encouraging women to run for public office.” “The CBC and Press Progress – and the Toronto Star to a lesser extent – knew Jivraj had a history of harassment against me and making false statements about me. Yet they cooperated with him to publicly humiliate me and force me off the ballot. They shielded his identity and falsified his motives to make him appear credible, which he is not. It seems they’re fine with harassing women in politics, as long as the woman is a conservative.”.In March 2021, Ford was contacted by his roommate who said he was living in fear of Jivraj and that he had been assaulted by himToronto police have confirmed to the Western Standard that Jirvaj was arrested on March 9 and charged with assault.“It is alleged that two men had a verbal altercation which turned physical,” said a Toronto police spokesman.Jivraj is scheduled to appear in court at Old City Hall in Toronto on May 19..The saga of Karim Jivraj’s campaign against Ford and other conservative women is just too incredible to be told in a single feature article. That is why the Western Standard has decided to break it down into a series which will dive into several of the actions taken by Mr. Jivraj. It is a story that we did not believe until we obtained the evidence..NEXT STORY: Jivraj admits using a fake Twitter account to spread false sexual innuendos..EXCLUSIVE: Tory candidate admits using a fake Twitter account to spread false sexual rumours.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standarddnaylor@westernstandardonline.comTwitter.com/nobby7694
Western Standard News Editor Dave Naylor has spent more than a month investigating the story of Caylan Ford. Ford seemed certain to be a potential political star – intelligent, photogenic and ready to make a mark.She was recruited by Jason Kenney to run for the Alberta UCP in the 2019 election. Ford seemed to be on the path to stardom when she was shot down in flames by rumours, innuendos and planted news stories in an NDP-affiliated propaganda “news” website.Ford blames one man for her downfall – Karim Jivraj. Much of this story is almost unbelievable and would not have been taken seriously by the Western Standard had it not been for the hard proof obtained by its staff. Over the next week, Naylor will tell their story backed with interviews, and court documentation..It’s a case of sex, lies and agent provocateurs.It’s a story of how a cancel culture mob – fuelled by fake news stories – ruined the life a woman and rising political star.It revolves around Caylan Ford, mother-of-two, who Alberta Premier Jason Kenney talked into running for the UCP in the constituency of Calgary-Mountainview.She didn’t know it at the time, but her nemesis is Karim Jivraj, another highly-educated political operator, whose own court testimony shows that he tried to destroy Ford by planting admittedly fake stories in the NDP-linked “news” outlet, Press Progress.Edited parts of private philosophical conversations involving Ford were given to Press Progress with media quickly claiming it was evidence of her “white supremacist” or “white nationalist” views.Before deciding to take a run at politics, Ford earned master’s degrees from George Washington University and Oxford University in international affairs and international human rights law. She also worked as a senior policy advisor at Global Affairs Canada (formerly called the Department of Foreign Affairs) and has created an award-winning documentary on the torture of Chinese political prisoners.Ford and Jivraj met in 2017 at a Tory Lunar New Year function in Toronto.They quickly became friends and enjoyed long talks about political philosophy and world affairs.Jivraj was also highly educated, having studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and Cornell.He was a long-time Tory operator and ran for the party in in the last election. He finished third in the University-Rosedale constituency in Toronto behind Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland who won the seat.He has been pictured with numerous Tory big wigs including Stephen Harper and Andrew Scheer.Jivraj decided to move to Calgary, Ford’s home town, after problems in Toronto where, reportedly, Tory insiders were sure he was using fake twitter accounts to spread false rumours..Once Jivraj landed in Calgary, Ford helped him find a place to live with a friend of hers and also helped him get a job at a city law firm.It was in 2018, and the problems began with an explosive accusation. At the height of the #MeToo movement, Jivraj started a rumour that Ford had made unfounded accusations of sexual harassment against another political candidate. He later admitted that Ford had never done this. In January 2019, anonymous Twitter account started tweeting out screen shots of Ford’s private Facebook messages.A Tory source told Ford someone was shopping private Facebook messages of hers around to lots of media outlets.Under oath, Jivraj has admitted to creating numerous fake Twitter account to spread malicious rumours, and lies of sexual impropriety against Ford and other conservative women..Jivraj email to Ford asking her attend his doomed political launch At that time, Jivraj was vying for the federal Conservative Party nomination in Calgary Centre. The party later refused to allow him to run, said Ford.And after Ford announced her run in the riding of Mountain-view on June 18, 2019. Jivraj then suddenly ran to become the riding association president.On November 25, 2018, a mass anonymous email was sent to 1,400 party members with the headline “Caylan Ford: Too Good To Live Here.”It contained false allegations that Ford had never worked in Calgary and had mocked the Mountainview constituency.In March 2018, Ford alleged Jivraj was the anonymous source behind widely-publicized accusations she expressed sympathy for “white supremacist” terrorists in private Facebook messenger conversations years before. On March 18, 2019 at 2:49 p.m., Press Progress editor Luke LeBrun contacted Ford’s campaign in an email asking for comment on private messages they had obtained.In subsequent emails looking for comment, Lebrun told her the emails were sent to him by a “a prominent conservative.” Knowing Press Progress had strong NDP ties, Ford declined to comment.Ford said the emails contained edited snippets of conversations she was having with a trusted friend. She admits the messages were badly worded.But the damage was done and Ford was quickly forced to step down as a candidate..The feud came to a head January 9 last year, when Jivraj filed an assault complaint with the Calgary Police Service where he alleged Ford had “aggressively placed her hand on his back.”In later court testimony, Jivraj admitted the incident only involved a tap on the back to get his attention as he sat in her neighbourhood coffee shop.“It all demonstrates how easily a single bad actor can leverage the rhetorical toolkit of cancel culture to pursue a personal vendetta, destroying someone’s reputation and career with total impunity and anonymity, and with no semblance of due process for the accused,” said Ford to the Western Standard.“I’ve been reputationally and professionally ruined. I am still unemployable two years later.”“It’s also a case study in the hypocrisy of left/liberal institutions like the NDP, Press Progress, CBC, and the Toronto Star. All of these groups purport to care about reducing gender-based harassment, and encouraging women to run for public office.” “The CBC and Press Progress – and the Toronto Star to a lesser extent – knew Jivraj had a history of harassment against me and making false statements about me. Yet they cooperated with him to publicly humiliate me and force me off the ballot. They shielded his identity and falsified his motives to make him appear credible, which he is not. It seems they’re fine with harassing women in politics, as long as the woman is a conservative.”.In March 2021, Ford was contacted by his roommate who said he was living in fear of Jivraj and that he had been assaulted by himToronto police have confirmed to the Western Standard that Jirvaj was arrested on March 9 and charged with assault.“It is alleged that two men had a verbal altercation which turned physical,” said a Toronto police spokesman.Jivraj is scheduled to appear in court at Old City Hall in Toronto on May 19..The saga of Karim Jivraj’s campaign against Ford and other conservative women is just too incredible to be told in a single feature article. That is why the Western Standard has decided to break it down into a series which will dive into several of the actions taken by Mr. Jivraj. It is a story that we did not believe until we obtained the evidence..NEXT STORY: Jivraj admits using a fake Twitter account to spread false sexual innuendos..EXCLUSIVE: Tory candidate admits using a fake Twitter account to spread false sexual rumours.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standarddnaylor@westernstandardonline.comTwitter.com/nobby7694
