{"id":12648,"date":"2010-06-17T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=12648"},"modified":"2010-06-17T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:47:00","slug":"sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun News: Canada&#8217;s Cluster-Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12650\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg\" alt=\"mulroney-and-schrieber\" width=\"434\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg 434w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in the Prime Minister&#8217;s office with convicted international influence-peddler <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karlheinz_Schreiber#Role_in_Canada\" target=\"_blank\">Karlheinz Schreiber<\/a>.\u00a0 The inscription reads, &#8220;Karlheinz with best personal regards Brian Mulroney&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sun News, which is looking to launch a Fox-style &#8220;news&#8221; channel in Canada, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/Quebecor+aims+jump+queue+licence\/3159861\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Quebecor<\/a> of Montreal, whose board of directors includes former Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2007\/10\/31\/mulroney-schreiber.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Mulroney<\/a>.\u00a0 So you know it\u2019s on the up and up.\u00a0 No <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/article791663.ece\" target=\"_blank\">envelopes stuffed with cash<\/a> and left undeclared as income for more than a decade.\u00a0 No using his position and stature to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2007\/11\/29\/mulroney-lobby.html\" target=\"_blank\">enrich himself or his company<\/a>.\u00a0 And Quebec of course is celebrated world-wide for its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sponsorship_scandal\" target=\"_blank\">scandal-free culture<\/a> in business and politics alike.\u00a0 Scandal is a stranger (<em>l\u2019etranger<\/em>) in Quebec.\u00a0 So graft, bribes, kickbacks and favor-trading during the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/eng\/home-accueil.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CRTC<\/a> hearings are an outside chance at best.\u00a0 If Brian Mulroney can do for Sun News what he did for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada\" target=\"_blank\">Progressive Conservative Party of Canada<\/a> (1942-2003), we have nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in the Prime Minister&#8217;s office with convicted international influence-peddler Karlheinz Schreiber.\u00a0 The inscription reads, &#8220;Karlheinz with best personal regards Brian Mulroney&#8221;. Sun News, which is looking to launch a Fox-style &#8220;news&#8221; channel in Canada, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quebecor of Montreal, whose board of directors includes former Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sun News: Canada&#039;s Cluster-Fox - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sun News: Canada&#039;s Cluster-Fox - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in the Prime Minister&#8217;s office with convicted international influence-peddler Karlheinz Schreiber.\u00a0 The inscription reads, &#8220;Karlheinz with best personal regards Brian Mulroney&#8221;. Sun News, which is looking to launch a Fox-style &#8220;news&#8221; channel in Canada, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quebecor of Montreal, whose board of directors includes former Prime Minister [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-06-17T23:47:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"434\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"382\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Happy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Happy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Happy\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#\/schema\/person\/666be62a4e8014df67296baeeaf4db95\"},\"headline\":\"Sun News: Canada&#8217;s Cluster-Fox\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-06-17T23:47:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/\"},\"wordCount\":166,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Canada\",\"Current Events\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/\",\"name\":\"Sun News: Canada's Cluster-Fox - The Educated Imagination\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-06-17T23:47:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#\/schema\/person\/666be62a4e8014df67296baeeaf4db95\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sun News: Canada&#8217;s Cluster-Fox\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/\",\"name\":\"The Educated Imagination\",\"description\":\"A Website Dedicated to Northrop Frye\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#\/schema\/person\/666be62a4e8014df67296baeeaf4db95\",\"name\":\"Michael Happy\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe523aceeb39b65793575d0523e67cb779a13050efa89e2284a05c0d0a141aa9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe523aceeb39b65793575d0523e67cb779a13050efa89e2284a05c0d0a141aa9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe523aceeb39b65793575d0523e67cb779a13050efa89e2284a05c0d0a141aa9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Michael Happy\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/author\/michaelhappy\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sun News: Canada's Cluster-Fox - The Educated Imagination","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sun News: Canada's Cluster-Fox - The Educated Imagination","og_description":"Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in the Prime Minister&#8217;s office with convicted international influence-peddler Karlheinz Schreiber.\u00a0 The inscription reads, &#8220;Karlheinz with best personal regards Brian Mulroney&#8221;. Sun News, which is looking to launch a Fox-style &#8220;news&#8221; channel in Canada, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quebecor of Montreal, whose board of directors includes former Prime Minister [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/","og_site_name":"The Educated Imagination","article_published_time":"2010-06-17T23:47:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":434,"height":382,"url":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Michael Happy","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Happy","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/"},"author":{"name":"Michael Happy","@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#\/schema\/person\/666be62a4e8014df67296baeeaf4db95"},"headline":"Sun News: Canada&#8217;s Cluster-Fox","datePublished":"2010-06-17T23:47:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/"},"wordCount":166,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg","articleSection":["Canada","Current Events"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/","url":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/","name":"Sun News: Canada's Cluster-Fox - The Educated Imagination","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg","datePublished":"2010-06-17T23:47:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#\/schema\/person\/666be62a4e8014df67296baeeaf4db95"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/mulroney-and-schrieber1.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/sun-news-canadas-cluster-fox\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sun News: Canada&#8217;s Cluster-Fox"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/","name":"The Educated Imagination","description":"A Website Dedicated to Northrop Frye","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/#\/schema\/person\/666be62a4e8014df67296baeeaf4db95","name":"Michael Happy","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe523aceeb39b65793575d0523e67cb779a13050efa89e2284a05c0d0a141aa9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe523aceeb39b65793575d0523e67cb779a13050efa89e2284a05c0d0a141aa9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe523aceeb39b65793575d0523e67cb779a13050efa89e2284a05c0d0a141aa9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Michael Happy"},"url":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/author\/michaelhappy\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}