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Coren’s epiphany

07/02/2014 by the editor

By Montreal Simon For as long as I can remember, Michael Coren has been one of the most ghastly anti-gay voices on the Canadian airwaves. A hardline right-wing Catholic who seemed to take pleasure in playing down the suffering of LGBT people, and mocking their struggle for equality. So you can imagine how shocked, and […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, LGBTQ, Michael Coren, newspapers, Sun Media, Sun News Network, Toronto

The Video: SUNdefreude

06/01/2014 by the editor

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, CBC, comedy, internet, Sun News Network, television, youtube

Sun News finally gets it

05/29/2014 by the editor

A BoB Short: It took half a week for Sun News to pick up on the joke, but the right-wing news network has finally managed to have comedian Scott Vrooman’s blatantly tongue-in-cheek interview with correspondent Adrienne Batra pulled from the Internet. Or not. According to Vrooman, who honed his hyper-conservative alter-ego on CBC’s This Hour […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, CBC, comedy, internet, Sun News Network, television, youtube

Peladeau kicks Sun TV to the curb

03/10/2014 by the editor

By Montreal Simon Well it wasn’t a total surprise, but it was still a stunning sight. Pauline Marois and her new star candidate Pierre-Karl Péladeau. Pierre-Karl Péladeau, controlling shareholder of the Quebecor media empire, on Sunday announced he will run for the Parti Québécois, saying his top motivation is to make Quebec independent. “My joining […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Brian Mulroney, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, newspapers, Parti Quebecois, Paulette Marois, Pierre-Karl Péladeau, Quebec, Quebecor, Stephen Harper, Sun Media, Sun News Network, Sun TV News Channel

No reporters allowed (speaking of STFU)

10/17/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside At his last Con caucus meeting and presser five months ago, Harper so disliked the grilling he got from media about Nigel Wright’s cheque to Senator Mike Duffy and what Steve knew about it — see above — that today he decided to allow only cameras into his pre-throne speech caucus meeting without […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian, Canadian politics, David Johnston, Governor General, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper, Sun News Network

The Conservatives’ invented reality

06/28/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Fakers. Fake F-35 mock up cockpit from Lockheed Martin for DefMin Peter Airshow MacKay to hold $47,000 presser in to announce purchase of 65 Lockheed Martin stealth fighters in 2010.       Fake citizenship ceremony in which half of the participants were actually Citizenship and Immigration Canada staff passed off as new […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bev Oda, Calgary, Canada, Canadian International Development Agency, Conservatives, F-35, First Nations, G20, G8, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Peter MacKay, PMO, robocall scandal, robocalls, Stephen Harper, Sun News Network, Tony Clement

Sun News might just get its way

01/23/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special tax on cable consumers to guarantee it a revenue source. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, CRTC, Quebecor, Sun News Network, television

Coren vs. Boteach: let’s go to the tape

02/25/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher A passel of Michael Coren supporters have arrived at backofthebook to defend his “interview” with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the SUN “News” Network. (I always keep a small pile of ironic quotation marks handy when I write about SUN TV.) You’ll find them milling in the comments section following Rabbi Boteach’s account […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: bad behaviour, Michael Coren, religion, Sun News Network, television

Rabbi Boteach schools Michael Coren

02/23/2012 by backofthebook.ca

It would appear that the bush-leaguers at SUN TV are once again abusing their guests. In the wake of some forgettable broadcaster’s pummelling of Margie Gillis, Michael Coren has now taken the opportunity of an interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, ostensibly about his new book Kosher Jesus, to . . . well, read on. Rabbi […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: bad behaviour, Michael Coren, religion, Sun News Network, television

War on Christmas? I hadn’t noticed.

12/23/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless War […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Charles Adler, Christmas, Ezra Levant, religion, Sun News Network

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