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Andrew Coyne resigns as comment editor of National Post (but will continue as columnist)
Mon, 2015-10-19 16:25
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Andrew Coyne resigns as comment editor of National Post (but will continue as columnist)
Mon, 2015-10-19 16:27
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[url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/andrew-coyne-resigns-editor-national-pos... Coyne resigns as National Post comment editor after paper rejects election column[/url]
Andrew Coyne used Twitter on Monday to announce that he has resigned as editor of editorials and comment for the National Post, but would continue as a columnist with the paper.
He said his decision was made in response to a decision by the Post not to run one of Coyne's columns leading up to the federal election.
Postmedia, which owns the National Post, has endorsed Stephen Harper and the Conservatives. The website Canadaland published a story last Friday, saying the paper had spiked a weekend column by Coyne in which he endorsed a different party.
Go to the link to read Coyne's tweets today explaining his decision.
Tue, 2015-10-20 00:26
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Good on him.
Who said conservatives don't have principles.
Wed, 2015-10-21 22:24
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Nice Eulogy:
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/andrew-coyne-conservatives-bro...
There has been much talk of how Red Tories were made to feel unwelcome in the party. But the truth is no sort of conservative could really feel the Harper government represented them: not fiscal conservatives, $150 billion in debt later; not social conservatives, forbidden even to say the word “abortion”; certainly not old-time Reformers, the sort of people who went into politics to make governments and leaders more accountable, not less.
The only party faction that was really served was the yahoo faction, the “toxic Tories” as a friend calls them, to whom this government truckled and whose loyalty was rewarded in turn. MPs who were willing to say the opposite of what they believed, or believe the opposite of the facts, were promoted; those who were not found themselves out of cabinet, or indeed out of the party.
The people around Harper, always convinced of their own cleverness, grew drunk on their own cynicism. Having made the initial compromise with their principles — on policy — they found the next much easier, and the next, until they became contemptuous of anything resembling a principle, or anyone still able to discern a line — political, personal, ethical — he would not cross.