Faith Goldy

Faith Goldy
Born	Faith Julia Goldy (1989-06-08) June 8, 1989 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Havergal College
Alma mater	University of Toronto (B.A.) University of Western Ontario
Occupation	Political commentator, reporter

Faith Julia Goldy (born June 8, 1989 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian right-wing writer and commentator. She has been noted for her sympathetic coverage of the alt-right for The Rebel Media, particularly on her former program On The Hunt with Faith Goldy, and her live coverage of events surrounding the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. On August 17, 2017, her contract with The Rebel Media was terminated after an interview on a white nationalist site.

Life and career

Goldy was born on June 8, 1989 in Toronto, Canada, to a family of partial Ukrainian and Greek origin. Her father is a doctor in Toronto. She received her formal education at Havergal College and studied at Huron College at The University of Western Ontario. Goldy later graduated in politics and history from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, minoring in philosophy and physics. Goldy also began a Masters of Public Policy at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance. Goldy is a Christian, of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Goldy has been employed by a number of press and broadcast media organizations, including The Catholic Register, the Toronto Sun, TheBlaze, Bell Media, Zoomer Media, and the National Post. She is a former reporter with the Sun News Network and was employed by The Rebel Media, an online political and social commentary platform, where she presented political commentary in regular YouTube videos and a weekly show called On The Hunt with Faith Goldy. On August 17, 2017, The Rebel Media fired her as she had conducted an interview on The Krypto Report, a podcast produced by the white nationalist site The Daily Stormer.

Controversies

Goldy drew criticism in March 2017, when she posted on Twitter a video of herself in Bethlehem, expressing shock that she could hear an Islamic call to prayer in the city, and suggesting that “Bethlehem’s Christian population has been ethnically cleansed.”

In June 2017, Goldy broadcast on Rebel Media "White Genocide in Canada?", analyzing the Canadian government's foreign immigration policies with regard to the Third World and the effect of those policies on the demographic composition of Canadian society. She posited that the European population in the country was being replaced as a result. In response to the broadcast, several corporate entities withdrew their advertisements (and the revenue income derived from them) from Rebel Media.

According to Winnipeg Free Press columnist Dan Lett, Goldy seemed to be working to provide mainstream respectability to the far right demonstrators in the course of her reporting on the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, arguing that they suggested a wider "rising white racial consciousness" in America and referring to a manifesto by white nationalist Richard Spencer, which Lett described as including "calls to organize states along ethnic and racial divides and celebrates the superiority of 'White America,'" as "robust" and "well thought-out." These broadcasts, together with her interview on The Krypto Report, were central to the resignation of Brian Lilley from The Rebel, and Goldy's own subsequent dismissal.