Kory Teneycke quits Sun TV

[EmilyKent]

He will be replaced by Luc Lavoie, a former aide to Brian Mulroney.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Kory+Teneycke+quits/3528195/story.html#ixzz0zc8tb3Yu

[CHIMO]

1. Former Tory spokesman exits Sun TV

He declined to answer questions at a Parliament Hill news conference, including whether his resignation is linked to his recent battle with Avaaz, a U.S. activist group campaigning against a “Fox News North” network in Canada.

Avaaz on Tuesday announced it had asked Ottawa Police and RCMP to probe what it said was tampering with its petition against SUN TV.

Avaaz alleged earlier this month that someone operating from an Ottawa-based web address was adding fictional and real names and email addresses to a petition to stop SUN TV.

They also accused Mr. Teneycke of having knowledge of the tampering.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/former-tory-spokesman-exits-sun-tv/article1708269/

[Spazito]

2. Well, it seems to me Avaaz had him dead to right regarding...

his knowledge of the tampering which, I'm betting, is only the tip of the iceberg regarding Mr. Teneycke's involvement.

How frigging stupid do they think Canadians are that there will be NO connecting of the dots that Fox North is a front for the Cons just like Fox is for the repubs? I guess they think we ARE pretty stupid when they replace one CON political operative with another, I hope we prove them very wrong.

[CHIMO]

3. History - Smoking Gun?

Avaaz.org vs. Sun TV vs. Unwitting Hill Journalists: And now you know the rest of the story. (Maybe)
September 3, 2010 5:04 PM

You can catch up on the first installment of the ongoing saga of the Great Sun TV Petition Anti-Drive here, but for the link-averse, here's the abbreviated version: Yesterday evening, various -- Maclean's columnists Andrew Coyne and Paul Wells, the Globe and Mail's Stephen Wicary, and the your humble blogatrix, among others -- were somewhat nonplussed to receive autoreplies from Avaaz.org, thanking us for signed their recently-launched petition calling on the CRTC to "Stop Fox News North," despite the fact that none of us had actually done so.

A steady stream of puzzled and irate reactions -- tweeted and otherwise -- from other Hill journalists, as well as political bloggers from both the left and right side , and even a handful of card-carrying Conservative staffers, made it clear that we weren't the only ones whose identities had apparently been appropriated by suspect(s) unknown.

The punch line -- or so it seemed at the time -- came a few hours later, when Kory Teneycke -- the PM's former communications director, brought on board by Quebecor with great fanfare earlier this year for the express purpose of getting the very network targeted by Avaaz on the air -- revealed that he, too, had "apparently ... signed the Soros-Atwood petition against Sun TV News as well."

Fast forward, then, to this morning, when a Teneycke-penned op-ed appeared throughout the Sun chain denouncing Atwood -- who had publicly endorsed the petition earlier in the week -- for an "ignorant attack" that, in his view, "confirms just why Canadians need Sun TV News."
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/09/avaazorg-vs-sun-tv-vs-unwitting-hill-journalists-and-now-you-know-the-rest-of-the-story-maybe.html

Bragi had this item posted one day ago. Good find Bragi.

[HEyHEY]

4. My first job was with Quebecor

1,700 CAD a month before taxes. Another scumbag corporation making money off the backs of educated young Canadians. We pay for the knowledge and education, they get the benefits for cheap.