RADICAL RIGHT — CANADIAN BILLIONAIRE SET TO LAUNCH A CONSERVATIVE NETWORK BEING DUBBED ‘FOX NEWS NORTH’: Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ex-communications director Kory Teneycke has teamed up with media company Quebecor — run by billionaire media tycoon Karl Pierre Peladeau — to start a new “24-hour conservative news and comment channel” called Sun TV News, which many media insiders are dubbing “Fox News North.” Interestingly, Teneycke met with News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch and Fox News President Roger Ailes just four months before leaving his position to join Quebecor. The meeting was not listed on Harper’s public itinerary and “only came to light when The Canadian Press searched media consultant Ari Fleischer’s mandatory disclosures with the U.S. Justice Department,” although Teneycke insists that the Quebecor venture was not discussed. However, just four months later — “barely a year into his job as Harper’s chief spokesman” — Teneycke “pick[ed] up a contract with Quebecor to explore a project that Ottawa insiders almost immediately described as a fledgling ‘Fox News North.'” Teneycke, now the vice president of Quebecor, has told the press that Sun TV News will offer “an attractive mix of hard-news reporting during the day and straight talk opinion journalism at night” that will take on “smug, condescending, often irrelevant journalism” and “political correctness.” He insisted that the channel “will not be another network catering to elite opinion” or the “lame-stream media,” a phrase also used by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Peladeau plans to “invest $100 million over five years to tear up Canadian TV’s rule book with [the] conservative all-news channel in a mostly liberal Canuck TV landscape.”
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