By Montreal Simon Well it wasn’t a total surprise, but it was still a stunning sight. Pauline Marois and her new star candidate Pierre-Karl Péladeau. Pierre-Karl Péladeau, controlling shareholder of the Quebecor media empire, on Sunday announced he will run for the Parti Québécois, saying his top motivation is to make Quebec independent. “My joining […]
Sun News might just get its way
By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special tax on cable consumers to guarantee it a revenue source. […]
“The Postmedia chain has turned against the PM. Period.”
An anonymous missive has appeared on The Gazetteer, purporting to be from “a newsworker at Postmedia” and offering an explanation for that chain’s sudden turn against the Harper Conservatives. The Gazetter‘s proprietor, RossK, had wondered if aggressive work on the robocall file and other signs of journalistic life at Conrad Black’s former playthingie meant some […]
Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown behaviour to choose from
By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can’t seem to decide who is this week’s winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State Representative from […]
Really, Kory Teneycke, that’s all it took?
By Frank Moher Seriously, Kory Teneycke, that’s all you’ve got? Avaaz.org gets 80,000 of the left’s more suggestible adherents to sign its petition against SunTV, manages to rebrand your nascent operation “Fox News North,” and raises $110,000 in the process, and you step down? That’s all it took? Do you think your spiritual forefather, Roger […]
Sun TV: Teneycke’s cat and dog show
By Alison@Creekside Here’s Korncob Kory Teneycke on CBC’s Power and Politics on Friday, stating that his baby, Quebecor’s Fox News North, never asked the CRTC for a must-carry licence—the kind that would require cable and satellite providers to include the channel in their basic package: “We are not nor have we ever asked for mandatory […]
Sun TV vs. Avaaz and Atwood: who’s the real hate-monger?
By Frank Moher Sure we should wonder what Stephen Harper was doing having lunch with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes in New York last year. And of course the CRTC was right to refuse Quebecor a Category 1 specialty TV licence for its proposed SUN TV News Channel, which would force cable and satellite companies […]
