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The Toronto Sun is a right-wing rag published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is owned by Quebecor's Sun Media Corporation.[2] The Toronto Sun is to English-speaking Canada what the New York Post is to the United States and what The Sun is to the U.K. Unlike the British paper however, its "Page 3" model (the "Sunshine Girl") isn't naked, and is usually like a picture torn from a page of Maxim.
Its sports section notes some reporters of quality who have received several writing awards. However, this is balanced out by notorious political polemicists and third-rate scribblers spouting Tea Party babble in the wrong country,[3] and a comments section that is trying to make Yahoo! News run for its money.
For a time, it had a "sister" television station, the full-on wingnut Sun News Network,[4], which opened with great fanfare in 2011, only to rapidly hemorrhage viewers, lose massive amounts of money, and quietly die in 2015 after a prolonged period on life-support[5]. Such are the disadvantages of trying to emulate Fox News in Canada.
In 2014, Pierre Karl Péladeau, who was the CEO of Sun Media for 15 years (and still owns the majority of its shares), announced that he would run for the separatist Bloc Parti Québécois in the 2014 provincial election;[6] unsurprisingly, he was one of the major reasons why the party lost the election.[7]
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[edit] External links
- "Welcome to Hell"
- Tight vagina power!
- An open-minded (read: hideously long) review of Sun News Network.
- The Sun's choice of words on Ontario's first lesbian premier. (And its choice of comics.)
- A graphical analysis of one Sun columnist's tweets.
- It takes one to be an Islamophobe, but thanks for managing to offend Protestants too.
- The political equivalent of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ The hilarity is everywhere.
- ↑ It's actually not owned by Rupert Murdoch.
- ↑ Anti-Ziganism, calling a Jew a Nazi and a dead Prime Minister a slut, guess who that might be?
- ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Sun News Network.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Pierre Karl Péladeau to run for PQ in Saint-Jérôme, CBC
- ↑ How the PQ election campaign went so wrong, Toronto Star