LIBERAL MEDIA
It is during the selection and determination of what is "news" that much bias creeps in. If this story is only about a "few" individuals and their individual decisions to move to Canada, then it is not "news" that warrants its publication and distribution by a news organization, in this case, the Associated Press. Far from being just a quaint little human interest piece, it draws greater conclusions based on those few interviewees (which include a Minnesota puppeteer and a gay "executive"). Witness the author's leading observations in the story:

Discontent Americans Consider Canada

For all they share economically and culturally, Canada and the United States are increasingly at odds on basic social policies.

I will give the author credit for including this paragraph, though buried:

But every year since 1977, more Canadians have emigrated to the United States than vice versa — the 2001 figures were 5,894 Americans moving north, 30,203 Canadians moving south.

Perhaps an honest news story would have been titled Discontent Canadians Consider The United States, with a collection of anecdotes about our better health care system and lower tax burden. Instead, we get this spin from the AP.

No, this story is not legitimate "news", but simply an effort to give a soapbox to a very small group of people (and the author) to extoll the virtues of the wonderful, open, unselfish, liberal society that has been constructed to our North.

Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean that they aren't out to get me.