Rick Mercer turns down job at Sun TV News

Apparently trying to score a coup for the new network, Quebecor Vice-President of Development Kory Tenycke offered Rick Mercer, the wildly-popular host of CBC's Rick Mercer Report, a job at Sun TV News, Mercer confirmed today.

Mercer seems like an unlikely personality for an openly-conservative news network, which will launch in January, but considering he hosts the highest-rated Canadian show in prime time, it is not so surprising that Tenycke would try to get him to jump ship. Mercer says that after considering the offer, he decided that he had no desire to part ways with CBC, a network he has been a fixture of for 15 years.

Of Tenycke, who he describes as a "smart fellow", Mercer said, "I never thought Kory had such good taste until he offered me a job."

Read the full story from the Toronto Star here.