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Originally Posted by The Goon

The G&M's left-wing? This is news to me.

A quick search revealed some info about their political stance. Looks like they've been centrist on average.

Let me qualify that statement a little bit better.

Centrist by our standards is fairly left by most of the Western world's standards. While the editorial board has supported Harper in both of his victorious campaigns, I find as a political scientist that stories that are of more interest to the left are found more easily in the G&M, especially when compared to the National Post.

Bear in mind, also, that the Liberals are a centrist party, so by left in that statement, I'm saying that they would typically be a more Liberal-friendly (centrist) paper than, say, the National Post who is a reasonably right-leaning paper despite the Aspers' efforts otherwise around the dawn of the millennium.

My point is that they'd be the first to break a story that may look bad to the Conservatives if they're left-wing or centrist because such stories would be in diametric ideological opposition to the current government. This is evidenced in that I've found Jaffer has been the lead story on their website with much greater frequency than the Post. So that they're the first to break that the government rejected Jaffer's proposals would say to me that if a voice that would generally look for negativity on the right has produced these documents, perhaps Jaffer's 'meetings' with Prentice aides were apparently met with an emphatic 'buzz off'.