Telegraph Journal a bastion for conservatism?

This article by the Telegraph Journal today, to me, is the equivalent of the Toronto Star offering up advice to John Tory and the PC party of Ontario whereby [they] tell them they're out of touch with their conservative values and principles because, hey, we slummed for a couple of days in Calgary at a media conference sponsored by a conservative think tank. Here's a small excerpt from their proscriptive screed:

In Calgary and Ottawa, conservatism is very much alive - led by men and women who would be assets in any political party, supported by a broad and growing constituency of Canadians, invigorated by inventive ideas about public policy that embody age-old political values. At the provincial level in New Brunswick however; it is faltering - not for lack of potential public support, but due to the paucity of its ideas and weak leadership.

Now don't get me wrong here, the TJ could be right on a few fronts regarding the plight of local NB conservatives, however, should the fact that your media organization broke bread a couple of days with a few neo-cons and Libertarians suddenly make you the voice of reason on the right? especially considering you scewered those same folks, both federally and provincially, for the other 363 days of the year. (re: for a little media perspective, think Shawn Graham riding the white horse on the front page of the TJ midway through the 2006 election on the same day they released the delayed liberal friendly CRA poll which was very damning towards Bernard Lord and his tories). Oh yeah, to add a bit more light to the bias of that situation, the president of CRA's New Brunswick division [Maurice Robichaud] is now on Graham's payroll.

In other words, calling out New Brunswick conservatives and telling them that they don't speak out enough is a little hypocritical coming from the Telegraph Journal, don't you think?

Furthermore, not that I am overly political (as this blog is non-partisan), but aren't the tories provincially called "progressive" conservatives or did they legally change their name a year ago? Why do I ask? Because the Telegraph Journal has been constantly using the term "conservative" in their articles when referring to the PCs. I guess that means there are no standards when referring to political parties anymore; so in retrospect, we should call the NDP just "democrats" or the Liberals just "puffins". At least until the TJ agrees to call the PCs by their rightful name.

Oh yeah, one more thing, if the TJ gets the energy to offer up some more political advice down the road, then I encourage them to call out the NB Liberals on their lack of accountability, poor fiscal management and using our tax dollars to reward partisan donors and members.