In 1998, the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) singled out the newspaper National Post as a leading consistently Islamophobic media outlet in Canada.[77] A 2006 study at the University of Alberta reported that during 2006 federal election, 42% of National Post’s election-time articles associated Islam and Muslims with terrorism, compared to 9% of stories in the Globe and Mail and 14% of stories in the Toronto Star.[81] National Post's Jonathan Kay has argued that the media are fascinated with the subject of terrorism because that is what their audience, the Canadian public, are interested in.[78] Kay also argues that Islam is conflated with terrorism in the media only because prominent terrorist groups consistently commit atrocities in the name of Islam, which the media is obliged to report as such.[78]