Damien C. Kurek: I have a pretty high tolerance for political spin. You kind of have to when you’ve spent years in the House of Commons and on the ground here in Alberta. But a recent opinion column published right here on this platform claiming “moderates are fleeing” the Conservative Party crossed the line from standard spin straight into fiction.
It’s a perfect example of a double standard in our national media that’s getting harder and harder to ignore. As a western and rural Conservative, I’d be the first to suggest there’s always been a left-leaning bias in parts of the press. But since Mark Carney took over the Prime Minister’s Office? It’s on a whole different level. Every single day, it seems like many in media are simply a megaphone for Liberal insiders to vent their wishful thinking about their opponents. Meanwhile, the Carney government gets a near free pass on policies that are actively crushing a once prosperous middle class…