Quebecor and Pierre Karl Peladeau

Pierre Karl Peladeau: "It's a damn shame that the guy's chosen to go separatist," Earl Porter barked down the telephone line Tuesday. , according to CBC. But less widely recognized is that if you live in Fort McMurray or Grande Prairie, Alta., Kenora, Sault Saint Marie, London or Niagara Falls, Ont., your local community daily is under the ownership of Quebecor of which Peladeau controls almost three quarters of the voting shares. The mayor of Portage la Prairie, Man., is not happy that his local community newspaper is owned by a media magnate who wants to break up the country. Much has been made already of Pierre Karl Peladeau's sudden jump into Quebec provincial politics on behalf of the separatist Parti Quebecois and the unsettling dominance there of his Quebecor media empire. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.