Canada General Discussion 1.5: The Countdown Begins

[King of Kensington]

Looks like the Liberals under Trudeau are putting together a pretty strong team of high profile municipal and provincial politicians moving "up" - Adam Vaughan in Toronto, Cote St. Luc mayor Anthony Housefather in Montreal and now Kent Hehr in Calgary. 

[King of Kensington]

I think she will.  As poorly executed as the last campaign was - and really there's no excuse for sacrificing 3 Toronto MPPs - nobody is waiting in the wings and Andrea Horwath's rhetorical shift to the left is probably enough.

[King of Kensington]

Great article by David Akin: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/david-akin-in-defence-of-sun-news/

Sad to see him without a job. Really surprised to see that Jack Layton approached him to be a candidate!

I despised Sun News and I certainly opposed their campaign for mandatory carriage.  As someone who is involved with the Roma refugee issue, it's hard for me to have a "neutral" opinion on Sun after Levant's appalling racist rant. 

But reading this, I do feel bad for Akin who is a very competent reporter and not at all a right-wing ideologue.  Unfortunately it was a hatemonger like Levant who was supposed to draw in the viewers, and it's not like Lilley or Coren were much better.  When you have Levant as your frontman, it greatly overshadows whatever was "good" about Sun News.

I wish Akin the best in finding new work.  Given his business reporting background, it would be nice to see him replace Amanda Lang.

[King of Kensington]

What I also find amusing is hearing Sun News supporters blaming "the left" (or Liberal bureaucrats at the CRTC or whatever) for the failure of Sun News.  It was available to 5 million households and had a viewership of 8,000.  Obviously Conservatives weren't watching it either. 

[King of Kensington]

Tory MPP says he doesn't believe in evolution: http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2015/02/25/tory-mpp-rick-nicholls-says-he-doesnt-believe-in-evolution.html

lolwut

I guess SW Ontario really is the "deep south" of Canada.

Rick Nicholls and leadership candidate Monte McNaughton come out of Ontario's Bible belt.