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Occupy Canada movement unscathed by phoney MACLEAN’S attack

MACLEAN’S Andrew Coyne tried to tear a strip off the Occupy Wall Street movement in Canada

Andrew Coyne Occupy Canada movement unscathed by phoney MACLEAN’S attack photo

Andrew Coyne, Macleans (photo National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy)

By Nick Fillmore

The right-wing Canadian media establishment unleashed one of its loudest barking dogs.

Coyne’s cover story acknowledged that anyone living in the United States would have “good reason to be ticked” because of the wide range of serious problems in that country, but then, talking about Canada, he cited dozens of often odd statistics to attempt to show that, except for the poorest-of-the poor, things are hunky-dory here.   Continue reading