WINNIPEG, Aug 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Israel (Izzy) Asper, the CanWest Global media baron who recently purchased most of the Hollinger papers including a 50% share in the National Post, was reported today to be a “best” friend of abortionist Jack Fainman. Today’s Globe and Mail reports that “Izzy is the biggest media magnate in Canadian history” and suggests that that is “very bad news for Stockwell Day” since “Mr. Day is obsessed with abortion; one of Izzy’s best River Heights friends is Dr. Jack Faiman (sic), who has been threatened and shot at for performing abortions.” The Globe also notes “Izzy is fervently opposed to public funding of religious schools.”
On Saturday, in an article in the National Post, Hollinger’s Conrad Black responded to the concerns of conservatives who lamented that the relative fairness in coverage provided by Hollinger papers in Canada would be lost to the liberal monopoly in the print media. “The editorial position of the National Post ... (and) the other newspapers involved in this transaction will only change if the editors wish them to, unless relations between the Aspers and ourselves change drastically after 2002,” said Black. Black noted that the liberal media “have used their virtual monopoly of the working press in the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, CBC and Macleans these many years to impose a self-serving orthodoxy and strangle and ridicule all opposition.”
Black called the “jubilation” of political opponents “premature” and said “we have not changed our views, given up the fight, or handed over our newsrooms to political adversaries.” He did admit however that “this will be a long struggle in Canada and I don’t have another 30 years to spend on it.”