It appears that the Rogers Communications (TSX: RCI.b) owned media outlet CityNews was pushing false information last night in relation to the supporters of disgraced Toronto mayor John Tory. The outlet issued a story outlining that Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland had urged Tory to remain in the role, despite having slept with and having a relationship with a subordinate.
That story has since seen its title modified to remove Freeland, however the body of the text still mentions that Freeland encouraged Tory not to resign.
Reporter Laura Stone, whom works for The Globe and Mail, meanwhile is said to have spoke with a federal government source last night that denied Freeland urged John Tory to remain as mayor. Instead, she is said to have spoke to him and sent him well wishes, but did not encourage him to remain in the role.
A later update by Stone indicated that the office of Freeland is officially denying the claim that she urged Tory to stay in the role, instead stating that he was an “important partner,” who has “taken responsibility for a mistake.”
With the initial report of Freeland supporting Tory coming from CityNews, it brings into question the role that Rogers is playing in the ordeal. Tory has a long history with both the company and the family behind it, with Tory having been personally hired by Ted Rogers as a journalist in the early 1970’s. In the late 1990’s, after a stint with politics, he returned to Rogers in the role of...
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