Right-wing propaganda channel coming

Now here's some depressing news. It looks like a right-wing Fox News propaganda channel is coming to the great white north. Unless of course the CRTC does not approve the proposed new channel (which I'm hoping will be the case). And the consortium putting this crap together are already following in Fox's footsteps, by lining up the CBC's Krista Erickson (who has a penchant for older men and Conservative MPs) and far right-wing blowhard and all-round obnoxious maniac Ezra Levant. Kory Teneycke, formerly of Stephen Harper's Prime Minister's Office, who also has no values, has been tipped as the channel's vice-president of development (likely developing more snide and obnoxious mouthpieces like himself). From the Canadian Press:

Montreal — Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau is expected to lift the veil Tuesday on his plans to launch a conservative television network.

The billionaire media baron has called a news conference at the Toronto Sun building to announce a "new investment in Canadian media."

Quebecor spokesman Serge Sasseville declined to make any comments about Tuesday's event or another one scheduled on Wednesday in Montreal.

Peladeau will join Videotron CEO Robert Depatie in a meeting billed as a "major announcement concerning the marriage of television and the Internet."

Quebecor Media Inc. has been filling its ranks apparently ahead of efforts to start an all-news network.

It tabbed Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief spokesman, Kory Teneycke, as vice-president of development.

Teneycke, who left the Prime Minister's Office less than a year ago, has been working on contract with Quebecor for months amid persistent reports of the development of a new, right-wing news channel modelled on the commercially successful Fox News in the United States.

It also hired David Akin, a correspondent for Canwest News Service and Brian Lilley, former Ottawa bureau chief for Astral Media Radio, Canada's largest private radio broadcaster.

Other on-air faces are expected to be added from CBC and other rival networks.

Quebecor has filed an application for an English-language TV news network with the CRTC, the federal broadcast regulator.

The investments come as the company is preparing to launch its wireless service later this summer.

Quebecor Media Inc. is a subsidiary of Quebecor Inc., which owns cable provider Videotron, French-language TV network TVA and Sun Media, Canada's largest newspaper publisher.