Coverage of Harry Potter event coming to Stanley Park was riddled with bias

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Two city councillors in Vancouver have thrown an impotent fit over a Harry Potter “Forbidden Forest Experience” walking tour set to come to Vancouver’s Stanley Park this fall. Cancel it, they demanded — don’t you know that J.K. Rowling is a witch? (Considering the number of times Rowling has thwarted her own cancellation, I, too, am beginning to wonder if she might indeed be some sort of enchantress.)

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The CBC, in turn, has drummed the councillors’ ineffective outburst into a full-fledged “controversy,” complete with radio segments and a news story implying that fault lies with J.K. Rowling — who is now perhaps equally as famous for writing Harry Potter as she is for standing up for women’s rights.

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