Ken Whyte, editor and publisher of Maclean’s Magazine and the guy who told the Islamic Sockpuppets to take a flying leap, has been named Newsperson of the Year by The Canadian Journalism Project (a somewhat dubious honor, but whatever).
On solutions to battles with human rights commissions:
“I had some hopes early on that we might see a political solution to it, that the federal government might take the lead and bring in legislation to strike down that part of the Canadian Human Rights Act that allows the commissions to interfere with journalistic expression and free speech.
But from what I’m hearing in Ottawa, there’s no chance of that happening. Really, the problem is more at the provincial level than at the federal level. There’s not a political solution available. We’re still investigating a legal solution. We think it might be possible, even though we were successful in B.C., for us to bring a constitutional challenge to the B.C. Human Rights Act. The major barrier to it at the moment would probably be expense. It’s probably a $300,000 – $500,000 undertaking and this isn’t the best time to be taking on extra-curricular expenditures in the print journalism business.”
Perhaps it’s time for Ken Whyte to encourage his bosses at McLeans to step up to the plate on the issue of “Human Right” in this country.
It’s now or never as far as I can see.
Maybe Ted can see things clearer that he is truly on the side of the Angels.
Why has Mark Steyn’s columns disappeared from Macleans since June?
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I’d have more respect for Ken Whyte and more “belief” in his words if Mark Steyn was still to be found between the covers of Maclean’s magazine. Steyn was the PRINCIPAL reason why I subscribed to Maclean’s. If this situation doesn’t change, I’ll not be renewing my subscription to Maclean’s, the ONLY Cdn. magazine that i have even bothered with for over a decade.
There was a time when Canadian publishing produced worthwhile material, but those days are LONG GONE! Canada seems inextricably mired in an inability to be anything other than a second-rate, also-ran political jurisdiction of convenience for the perpetually aggrieved.
Like most professionally employed people of my vintage that I know, I’ve already arranged a lovely little parachute out of Canada following my retirement in a few years. I’ll keep USING Canada for healthcare and whatnot, but I’ll treart Canada the same way the Canadian government encourages new immigrants to treat Canada – as a convenient trough to dip into for personal gain.
Had I known 40 years ago how Canadian leaders would betray Canadians, i would NEVER have served in our armed forces and fought for this country which has decided that it isn’t a country after all.