The Dean of Sun News reporters, Peter Worthington of the Toronto Sun, cites Fox News as the template for Sun TV News.  He’s presumably not one of the “critics thowing stones” that Kory Tenyecke complains about.  As reported by the Canadian Press:

Peter Worthington, writing in The Sun, part of the Quebecor Media empire, welcomed the Canadianized Fox News channel. “Unless one views Americans as mostly mindless, rightwing nutbars, since around 2002 Fox News has dominated rival channels and has earned the title ‘Fair and Balanced’ that once went to CNN,” he said.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVaqV22MAeE

Kory Teneycke on the CBC, April 8, 2010

From Bruce Cheadle of the Canadian Press regarding Kory Teneyke’s Facebook page:

He lauds Glenn Beck, Fox’s anti-government conspiracy theorist, and makes note of a National Enquirer headline about “Obama Cheating Scandal.”

“The Enquirer has a remarkably strong track record on these stories of late… Tiger Woods and John Edwards. We shall see …” writes Teneycke.

And his edgy, controversial humour shines through: “To the pot heads who keep sending me crazy, profane emails: I hope (imprisoned pot activist) Marc Emery enjoys group showers as much as he enjoys pot. Three cheers for the DEA.”

More about Marc Emery here.

This didn’t take long.  Kory Teneyke has apparently been saying for years that Canada needs a Fox News.  Now that the analogy has people alarmed, he’s claiming it’s merely “critics throwing stones.”

The Sun TV News Wikipedia page:

Kory Teneycke, a former chief spokesman to Prime Minister Stephen Harper who will head the network in his capacity as Quebecor’s vice-president of development,^[1][3] dismissed the “Fox North” comparisons as critics throwing stones . . . .

Don Newman:

The first time I met Kory Teneycke, he told me that Canada needed a Fox News channel of its own.