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Originally Posted by burn_this_city

To think people here whined about a purported bias against Nenshi in the herald.

Well Nenshi does take on the ridiculous focus and angle of that article:

Last week I had a great meeting with the Calgary Herald editorial board. We spent well over an hour discussing in detail my ideas for the city, my leadership experience, and what sets me apart from Barb Higgins and Ric McIver. In this age of sound-bite politics, it was refreshing to hash out issues in detail, with full, open and honest discussion. This is how I've run my campaign, and it's how I pledge to run city hall.

At the very end of our time, I was asked a question that no one in the mainstream media has ever asked me before: "is Calgary ready for a Muslim mayor?" I answered that question as I do now -- that I have grown up in this great city never for one second believing that there was anything I would be prevented from doing because of my faith.

You can imagine, therefore, my surprise to open my Herald the next day and see that this 30 seconds became the main focus of the story, complete with quotations from someone in Toronto whom I have never met or spoken to, who I am pretty sure doesn't follow Calgary politics, but who happens to follow a faith somewhat related to my own.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Ne...#ixzz11ggMVM9k