Kory Teneycke was born on 1974 and is the former vice-president of Sun News Network.
18 Facts About Kory Teneycke
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Kory Teneycke was the former Director of Communications to the Prime Minister's Office under Stephen Harper.
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Kory Teneycke was the campaign manager for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 2018 Ontario election, 2022 Ontario election and 2025 Ontario election.
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Kory Teneycke is personal friends with Jenni Byrne and Ray Novak, all of whom were close advisors to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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Kory Teneycke worked on the Progressive Conservative campaign in the 1991 Saskatchewan election.
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On July 7,2008, shortly after the passage of C-33, Kory Teneycke was appointed the Director of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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The Hill Times reported on August 31,2009, that Kory Teneycke had accepted a three-month contract to provide strategic communications advice to Sun TV.
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Kory Teneycke rejoined Sun News in 2011, where he remained until Sun News Network shut down on February 13,2015.
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Former Sun News Network senior anchor Krista Erickson wrote an article for National Newswatch in 2015 that singled out Kory Teneycke, who was in charge of the channel, for criticism calling him a "controlling authoritarian" whose pro-Conservative Party "partisanship often went into overdrive" at the channel's expense.
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Erickson claims that, had the CRTC approved the channel's application for a mandatory carriage license, Kory Teneycke planned to fire up to 50 per cent of Sun News Network staff, whom he suspected of being Liberal sympathizers or otherwise politically out of step with Kory Teneycke's views, and replace them with former Conservative Party staffers.
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Kory Teneycke was active as Chief Spokesman for the Conservative Party for the fall 2015 federal election.
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On March 20,2018, it was announced that Kory Teneycke was assigned to be the campaign manager for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 2018 Ontario election.
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In June 2015 during an interview with Global TV journalist Tom Clark, Kory Teneycke defended the federal Conservative Party's use of ISIS terrorist videos which could be in violation of the Conservatives' own anti-terrorism legislation.
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In September 2010, Kory Teneycke responded to criticism of his initiative to start a news channel in Canada which was perceived as getting preferential treatment by the incumbent Conservative government, his former employer.
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In news interviews, Kory Teneycke pointed out that a petition operated by the group Avaaz opposing the new channel was being infiltrated by illegitimate signatures, going so far as to send an update about it on Twitter.
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CBC political blogger Kady O'Malley had questioned the source that Kory Teneycke had cited in his Toronto Sun article as there was no way of knowing who had actually signed up for the Avaaz petition as the signees were not published.
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Kory Teneycke then admitted that he had a source who had provided false names to prove a point.
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Later in an interview, Avaaz executive director Ricken Patel indicated that the fake signatures that Kory Teneycke had cited were all added from the same IP address at the time when Kory Teneycke had published the Sun article critical of the petition.