Friday Funny: the Toronto Sun is rubber, you are glue

From the department of “I Know You Are, But What Am I?” There’s plenty to like about the Toronto Sun: Don Peat is one of the best reporters at city hall; its front-page headlines are consistently punny; Bob Elliott does a good job on the Blue Jays beat. But it’s not a perfect newspaper (if such a thing exists). Case in… Continue reading Friday Funny: the Toronto Sun is rubber, you are glue

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Why we should all just calm the heck down about breaking news on Reddit

By Ronan O’Beirne I spend an unhealthy amount of time on Reddit. It’s my go-to for funny stories that might be made up, graphs and discussion about hockey and pictures of train stations. (And the gifs. My God, the gifs.) I don’t go there for news, but sometimes I’ll see something on /r/worldnews that wouldn’t otherwise have crept into my regular browsing or… Continue reading Why we should all just calm the heck down about breaking news on Reddit

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Endangered species: why we’ll miss radio documentaries when they’re gone

Steve Wadhams is editing and layering the voices for a CBC radio documentary about the persecution of Italian Jews during the Second World War for his show, Living Out Loud. His office in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto is small and the door is open. The foot traffic of radio colleagues out in the… Continue reading Endangered species: why we’ll miss radio documentaries when they’re gone

Why conservative columnists can’t live up to Peter Worthington

In May 1976, three Mounties walked into Peter Worthington’s glass-walled Toronto Sun office with a search warrant. They wanted a leaked RCMP letter that contained information about Canadians charged with espionage and treason, which the Sun editor had recently mentioned in a column. He refused to hand it over. When they pleaded for a hint,… Continue reading Why conservative columnists can’t live up to Peter Worthington

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