Toronto Sun

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{{cquote|We can now safely say: "the [[Quebec]] separatist-owned Sun News Network."|||Martin Patriquin, ''Maclean's''<ref>[https://twitter.com/MartinPatriquin/status/442630383885373440 The hilarity is everywhere.]</ref>}}
The '''''Toronto Sun''''' is a [[right-wing]] [[tabloid|rag]] published in Toronto, [[Ontario]]. It is owned by Postmedia Network.<ref group=note>It's actually not owned by [[Rupert Murdoch]].</ref> 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 [[United Kingdom|U.K.]]  Unlike the British paper however, its "Page 3" model (the "Sunshine Girl") isn't [[nudity|naked]], and is usually like a picture torn from a page of ''Maxim''. Also unlike the British paper, for a while the ''Toronto Sun'' pretended to balance the implicit sexism of the "Sunshine Girl" by also running a "Sunshine Boy" with the differences being that the Sunshine Boy ran near the back of the paper, was usually fully clothed, and wasn't necessarily always even particularly attractive as he was often selected for his actual record of professional accomplishment rather than as eye candy.

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<ref>[http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/09/29/a_collection_of_apologies_from_ezra_levant.html# Anti-Ziganism, calling a Jew a Nazi and a dead Prime Minister a slut], guess who that might be?</ref> and a comments section that is trying to give [[Yahoo! News]] a run for its money.

For a time, it had a "sister" television station, the full-on [[wingnut]] {{wpl|Sun News Network||,}} 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.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sun-news-network-to-shut-down-permanently-sources-1.2955664 "Sun New Network to Shut Down"],
 [[CBC]] News, 12 February 2015</ref> Such are the disadvantages of trying to emulate [[Fox News]] in Canada. Unfortunately, it found new life on the Internet as [[The Rebel Media]], founded by former Sun News host [[Ezra Levant]], because there's no shortage of [[alt-right]]ers willing to bite there. Interestingly for a Canadian news site, they seem awfully obsessed with [[Donald Trump]] and seem to import a lot of their crankery from the American right-wing in general.<ref group=note>As ''Maclean's'' [http://www.macleans.ca/politics/canadas-rebel-is-joining-the-global-class-of-paranoid-far-right-media/ puts it]: "Canadian eyeballs aren’t really what Levant’s after anymore, or what he’s getting. Canadians now make up less than 30 per cent of his website’s viewership, down from half earlier this year, according to analytics trackers Alexa and Similarweb. Its American traffic nearly matches the Canadian [...].".</ref>

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 Québécois|Bloc]]
 Parti Québécois in the 2014 provincial election;<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-votes-2014/pierre-karl-péladeau-to-run-for-pq-in-saint-jérôme-1.2565855 "Pierre Karl Péladeau to run for PQ in Saint-Jérôme"], [[CBC]] News, 9 March 2014</ref> unsurprisingly, he was one of the major reasons why the party lost the election.<ref>[http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/04/04/how_the_pq_election_campaign_went_so_wrong.html How the PQ election campaign went so wrong], ''Toronto Star''</ref>  

==See also==
*[[Irony]]

==External links==
*[http://www.torontosun.com "Welcome to Hell"] 
*[http://imgur.com/Gn4JR7m Tight vagina power!]
*[http://blog.fagstein.com/2012/04/18/sun-news-network-review/ An open-minded (read: hideously long) review of Sun News Network.]
*[https://twitter.com/DesmondCole/status/349636231463841792 ''The Sun'''s choice of words on Ontario's first lesbian premier.] ([https://twitter.com/sladurantaye/status/474609299029635072 And its choice of comics.])
*[http://infogr.am/SUE-ANN-LEVY-TWEETS/ A graphical analysis of one ''Sun'' columnist's tweets.]
*[https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/485862330392010752 It takes one to be an Islamophobe, but thanks for managing to offend Protestants too.]
*[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/sun-news-kills-ford-nation-tv-show/article15511486/ The political equivalent of the ''Star Wars Holiday Special''.]
*[http://www.therebel.media/ Sun News's undead corpse.]
*[http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/ezra-levant-the-rebels-unrepentant-commander/ "Ezra Levant: The Rebel’s unrepentant commander"], ''Maclean's''.
*[http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-rebels-steady-spiral-downwards/ "The Rebel’s steady spiral downwards"], ''Maclean's''.
*[http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/why-the-rebels-yell-wont-be-stifled-so-quickly/ "Why the Rebel’s yell won’t be stifled so quickly"], ''Maclean's''.

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