There is something deliciously ironic about free-market ideologues asking a government commission to force consumers to buy their product. [caption id="attachment_11799" align="alignright" width="250"] Kory Teneycke, former Harper flak and SunNews VP turned government handout seeker[/caption] That's what SunNews, the right-wing Canadian cable news channel, is asking the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. SunNews has been a dud in the market. Canadians have chosen not to watch what's often called Fox News North. So the tax-and-spend hypocrits at Sun want to force-feed us by getting the CRTC to require cable companies to put them in the basic cable package, a notion called mandatory carriage. If...

24 April, 2013