Well, if I’m not mistaken the CRTC refused to allow them to be included as standard programming in basic packages, like CTV and CBC, which is kinda shitty really.
I don’t see anything wrong with having a right wing news station to provide a juxtaposed view. I don’t believe they were as blatantly misleading as Fox.
The most viewers across the entire country that Sun TV managed to attract was 8,000. On a good day. Any other channel with only 8,000 viewers wouldn’t have gained a basic slot, either. A Macramé Today channel would attract more viewers than that.
What is Sun TV? I’ve never heard of it.
^^ Sun TV, the Bubba North channel.
Channel 177 in Edmonton. The channel is still there (otherwise I never would have remembered the number) but at the moment is just showing a SUN News logo rather than their scheduled programs.
Blatantly misleading, just not a blatantly misleading as Fox. For example:
And that’s just one of their infotainers, Levant.
By all means have a rabid right, or loony left, or whatever blatently biased cable chanel your rating can attract, but don’t pretend that it is a news channel, for it isn’t, and don’t expect it to get the same positioning as a real news channel that is not just a mouthpiece for hatemongers to shout from.
When a self-described news network bases itself on bubbas like that, its not a news network. It’s just another platform for the bubbas (for example, Levant uses blogs, Sun Media articles and Sun News Networks to spew his bile – it’s not news, it’s personal opinion).
Not really, I personally sent the CRTC an email asking them to deny Sun News’ application for inclusion (the CRTC website asks for public opinion on such decisions).
If, however, “Sun News” acted like a real news agency and fired (hell, they never should’ve hired the guy) Ezra Levant for his disguising Roma rant I wouldn’t have sent that email. Listen to Sun VP Kory Teneycke completely avoid addressing the stink of Ezra’s racist rant (10 mins).
Speaking of Ezra and the loons on the right, I was heartened earlier this week to hear that the Wildrose Party in Alberta rejectedEzra’s close personal friend, Rob Anders, as a candidate for their vacated party leader role. Apparently even a hard-line right wing provincial party doesn’t want the stink of Anders on them. Classy as ever, Anders responded by saying (and I’m paraphrasing, but just slightly), “I didn’t want to be in their stupid club for jerks anyway.”
Any week in which Ezra and Anders both get knocked down a peg is a good week. What a couple of dicks.
disguising? (or did you mean disgusting?)
Yes, quite.
Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick’s piece on Sun News is worth a relieved chuckle that it’s gone.
With 50+ cm down and drifts about 5 ft high, today was not a good day to break a shear pin on the snowblower without having a replacement.
Also, if you leave your daughter’s half full thermos of alpha-getti from Friday to Sunday there is a chance it will exploded when you try to open it.
Two lessons I could have done without today.
When I broke my shear pin two winters ago, by running over an extension cord, I took it as a doom from the snow gods. Got rid of the blower (gave it to a handy friend who could both use it and repair it as needed), and hired a snow removal service. Haven’t looked back.
When I sent my snowblower away for a checkup this fall, I asked the repairman to check the transmission because the thing needed a helluva lot of pushing last winter. The year before was the worst winter in 100 years or more and I had used the snowblower to chop through tons — literally — of granite-hard windrows created by the ploughs.
Turned out to be a shear pin; only half the length of the blades axles was turning. I should have known, since I’m familiar with broken shear pins on outboard motors.
But a mirror would have been the only way to see the problem. I should buy one and plant it in the snow.
My neighbour has a jar of shear pins, and I have a jar of blower winch links. Between the two of us, his lawn tractor/blower keeps our common drive connected with the known universe. We don’t know what is wrong with Drunk Wally’s (my other neighbour)'s farm tractor/blower, but given his typical state, perhaps it’s just as well that he isn’t driving it.
Well, I managed to find the shear pins that came with the snowblower in my junk drawer. I had forgotten all about them. Back in business!
I do want to send a big thank you to Mother Nature and her wacky snow drift patterns! My driveway is mostly clear. My neighbour’s driveway (only 5ft away) is completely covered with 6ft of snow. You can’t even see that he has two cars parked there. Even with a snowblower I couldn’t imagine clearing that.
Are the Sun Newspapers down now too? I haven’t been able to read Toronto or Ottawa all day.
Sun Media including it’s Sun newspapers are down, but one of the survivors got the word out moments before the axe fell: after some fancy surgery, Anders bore Baird’s love child, Levant caught wind of it but was sacked before air time, so he then tried to post the pic of the little darling on page three, but Harper got wind of it and had CSIS shut down Sun Media and rendite its board of directors to ISIS. It’s all Obama’s fault.