tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40053858464797811132012-02-14T15:54:09.315-05:00A blog for former and current employees of the Toronto Sun and siblings to reflect on 40 years of life in a word factory, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer.Toronto Sun Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371905107394425335noreply@blogger.comBlogger23831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4005385846479781113.post-31576215247512404582011-12-10T22:55:00.001-05:002011-12-10T23:19:11.592-05:00

Keep in the loop by posting comments here on any Sun Media subject: layoffs, retirements, deaths, cutbacks, your memories, union settlements/strikes etc.  Comments will be moderated and posted, but they won't be edited so do try to be tidy in your typing. Open Forum 1

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Comments re Nov. 28, 2011 Sun Media layoffs:

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A 20th anniversary video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

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The Toronto Sun's 10th anniversary video, 1981:

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Long lost video of Doug Creighton's 64th birthday party in the Eclipse White Wear Building, where the Toronto Sun was born on Nov.. 1, 1971, brings us back to TSF The November 27, 1992, birthday video was shot by Sun copy editor Phil Johnson. If any newcomers wondered about the "family" in Toronto Sun Family, the video is Exhibit A. The five-part video, uploaded to YouTube and also posted in the

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Five years ago, about 150 current and former Toronto Sun employees gathered for a reunion at a downtown hotel and the lapel stickers read Save Our Sun. It had been seven years since Quebecor purchased Sun Media, lock, stock and barrel and the ongoing slashing of employees and benefits was worrisome. During several hours of reminiscing and conversations about the state of the Sun, several

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Of all the words spoken at 40th anniversary parties last night, Hartley Steward summed up the feelings of most in saying the Toronto Sun years with Doug Creighton at the helm were "magical." He spoke briefly during the reunion of former employees on the 38th floor of the Westin Harbour Castle Hilton, as did Andy Donato and John Downing, two Day Oners in the gathering of about 80. MC Tom McMillan

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - BJ Del Conte  I'm a Sun Day Oner. Obviously, not as an employee - but as a reader. My mother would bring home British tabs from her co-workers, which I would voraciously consume, so this Toronto Star delivery boy was no stranger to a new, local and weird sized paper with screaming headlines and a snappy style of writing. I saved the first Sun, but it's lost to

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Gail Zangen  Thanks to Wayne Janes for posting a comment on Facebook about this blog. I spent the morning reading the posts and catching up with the Sun Family. It all brings back many memories.It is true that many of the back office staff are missing in the comments. I hope they are aware of the blog too. Spreading the word is so much easier today, but so

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To Doug, Peter and Don, for past parties and good times:

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Happy 40th one and all.  Looking forward to reading today's 80-page special spearheaded by Toronto Sun vet Ian Robertson. We're hoping the Sun gave us proper credit for any TSF content used. Meanwhile, it's now or never for Toronto Sun memories on the Toronto Sun Family blog. We'll post any submissions of any length received by midnight tonight.  TSF is receiving emails from readers thanking

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A salute to The 62, or so Well, here we are on the 40th anniversary of the Toronto Sun and we're still working on the Day Oners list. In no particular order: Don Hunt: Of the three wise men who co-founded the Toronto Sun, Don worked mostly behind the scenes. His brother, Jim Hunt, a legendary sports writer, was far more high profile at the Tely and Sun. Don, a former public relations worker,

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What side of the bed did Christina Blizzard get out of today? Her 40th anniversary column: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/31/the-sun-shines-on-despite-the-naysayers

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Catch the four-minute Toronto Sun's 40th anniversary video: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/31/happy-birthday-to-the-sun An 80-page 40th section will be in Tuesday's print edition. Catch it before the three parties around town.

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A salute to The 62, or so Life at the Toronto Sun would not have been as whole without the ladies on the switchboard, including Day Oners Jean Osborne and Margaret Kmiciewicz, aka Mrs. K. Reporters depended on  them daily for incoming and outgoing calls from and to people around the world, often when time counted and deadlines were near. But when the pace was slower and there was time to chat,

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Paul Gillespie I started my journey at the Toronto Sun the way most 'day-oners' did, by working at the Toronto Telegram.  I worked in the Syndicate Department as a messenger. We were a news service, sending columns, cartoons and photos to other newspapers all over the world.  My job was to get columns and cartoons made up in the Tely composing room, then send them

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Former Toronto Sun city desk vet Bill Duff sends this link to a Globe and Mail story about former Sun colleague Bill Sandford's love of Jeeps. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-life/classic-cars/jeep-soldiers-on/article2214692/

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The Toronto Star's Rosie DiManno says it all about media conglomerates and the state of print media in her column today: "It’s not that newspapers are dying because they’ve reached a point of extinction, a selected media Darwinism. It’s because they’re being stabbed in the back by those operating from within the boardrooms.  "We’re deliberately weaning readers off the tactile experience of

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - John Cosway  Nothing in Toronto print media circles in the early 1970s said "underdog" more than the Toronto Sun's factory environment in the Eclipse White Wear Building at King and John Streets. Creaky wooden floors, exposed overhead heating vents, holes in the walls, an elevator with attitude, a side view of a car wash. But of my 19 years in the Sun

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Peter Worthington Sun co-founder Peter Worthington marks his pending 40th with a column posted online tonight. http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/28/still-kicking-shins-cheeky-feisty-competitive-sun-quickly-adapted-to-the-times-in-1971

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Joan Sutton Straus 2  Morning and the East River tides are moving along . . . more memories.  George Gross and the word scoop. He was the only person outside of a movie I ever heard use that word. George lived for the glory of getting a scoop and his angst was rooted in his fear that he might, somehow, be scooped.  Scoops were the province of Bob MacDonald. While the

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Joan Sutton Straus It is two o'clock in the morning; I've poured myself a single malt, stream of consciousness time.  I won't be at the party at the Westin, not because I don't want to be there, but life, duty, love, get in the way.  Love, what else would you expect from Sutton's Place?  Do all roads lead back to the Sun? Not all, but this one does. I write this from

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A salute to The 62, or so 39 - Jim Thomson was one of four messengers at the Sun on Day  One, and is one of four remaining Day Oners on the job, along with Peter Worthington, Andy Donato and Christina Blizzard. Jim eventually worked his way into the graphics department, becoming  an unsung  hero who gave the tabloid its quality colour front pages and eye-catching photos and graphics

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One Toronto Sun fact that hasn't been nailed down in its first 40 years is the number of authenticated Day Oners, people who were on the job and on the payroll contributing to the first issue of the tabloid. Most quoted number over the years is 62? Why? Who knows, but TSF should have been paying tribute to The 62, or so.  In his 1993 book, Sunburned - Memoirs of a Newspaperman, Doug Creighton

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Mike Strobel's ode to the Toronto Sun's 40th. http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/29/strobel-a-number-of-reasons-to-love-the-sun-on-our-40th

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The third Toronto Sun 40th anniversary party?   Pssst, it's at Betty's, Tuesday, 7 p.m. to who knows when.  Hoist a few to Doug Creighton and the 40th anniversary of that tabloid across the street.  It started with Tim Fryer and Woody McGee, two former veteran Sun desk aces, casualties of the Quebecor crunch, agreeing to meet for a few beers to mark the anniversary. Then they decided to invite

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - John Downing Read Dunf's remarks like I was drinking cognac. What a wonderful thinker! No wonder he didn't survive against the Barbarians. He mentions five or six of us taking Liz Braun to the House of Lancaster for lunch. It is burned into my memory. Liz sat there, stared at the strippers, and muttered "what am I doing here? I have five sisters." And I sunk low in

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Updated 31/10/11 One more day to share Toronto Sun memories with TSF readers. Memories of any length can be submitted by email until midnight Tuesday, Nov. 1, the 40th anniversary of the flagship tabloid and the sign-off of TSF as an active blog.  What a nostalgic and heart-felt collection submitted to date by current and former employees representing various departments over the decades:

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One big day - the 40th anniversary of the Toronto Sun - and three separate parties. One at the Westin for former employees; one at Pier 4 for current employees and a third that organizers have asked TSF not to publicize, but most will guess its location. All the result of a media conglomerate that will no doubt share in the celebration with empty rhetoric about the flagship tabloid's achievements

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Len Fortune The following is a list of Sun people, living and dead, who influenced my performance, my progress and my humanity while at the little paper on King Street: Doug Creighton : Provider of the best work environment that anyone could possibly hope for: It really was paradise. I miss you Big Guy. Peter Worthington: Canada's most prolific journalist and my

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Les Pyette The first day on the job at the upstart Toronto Sun was July 9, 1974. Believe it was election  day and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau won in a landslide. I sat on the rim, but was hired by Ed Monteith to be the paper’s new city editor. Problem was, Ed had yet to tell City Editor Ken Robertson that I was the new kid on the block. Wearing clogs to give me

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The Toronto Sun Family's list of authors inches closer to 60 with the addition of three books by Gary Dunford, the tabloid's popular former Page 6 columnist.   Gary is author No. 57. Dunford, Gary: Good Buy, Canada, 1975, co-authored with Murray Soupcoff and Rick Salutin, J. Lorimer & Company, 100 pages (NF); Never Sit Where the Cat Sat: Gags, Giggles and Gossip, 1980, Best Sellers, Inc., 180

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A salute to The 62 Jac Holland, one of the three lens men amigos on the photo staff on Day One, along with David Cooper and Norm Betts, recalls all three having so much fun they never took a day off until Ray Biggart, the city editor, insisted. The fun in photo assignments near and far and the parade of SUNshine Girl volunteers kept Jac glued to the tabloid from 1971 to the mid-80s. Ironically,

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Gary Dunford Bruno Gerussi - the Stratford actor-turned-Beachcomber - scored me the longest gig I ever had. He was chums with TV critic Bob Blackburn and the amazing Kathy Brooks and knew more than most about the death of the Tely and birth of the Sun. As the Sun invented its new Sunday edition, Gerussi insisted I meet Brooks and pitch a humour column. I added it to

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Wayne Janes My favourite memory of the Sun actually happened before I started working there.  I was associated with the Sun for a few years before I was hired. My ex-wife, Diane Kozlowski, worked in ad layout and I knew quite a few Sun people through her, mostly ad reps but a few Editorial people through hanging out at Hoofers (before Crooks).  This was the era when

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Today is the deadline for the 40th anniversary reunion party for former members of the Toronto Sun. RSVP bbester@postmedia.com today if you want to join the 6 p.m. Tuesday celebration at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel. It's $40 per plate, with a cash bar. Having two separate parties, one for former employees and another at Pier 4 for current employees, defeats the united spirit of the roots

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Calvin Reynolds Finally getting a chance to jot down some thoughts about my time in the Sun. I went to high school with Scott Stevenson and Kathy Vey. Kathy, who was on the rim at the time, was instrumental in getting Scotty his first job in the newsroom

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Jim Slotek  I was hired by the Sun twice - the first time as a proofreader while in my final year at Ryerson. It was a $5-an-hour job that often entailed emergency headline writing and editing just because it needed to be done now, you were there and a body was a body. Worked with a legendary rim that included Paul Heming, Ben Grant and Lloyd Kemp and was proud to

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He's back. Mike Balazo, the Toronto Sun Covers Reviews guy, is back with almost daily comedic reviews of the tabloid's front pages after a lull of nine months. The comedian and writer will have mountains of material if the keepers of the front page insist on turning the once iconic tabloid front into a Photoshop/Rob Ford/non news circus. We can't recall the last time the Toronto Sun had a spot

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Joe Duffy  I will always remember the best years of my life at the Sun. Great parties, ski trips, crazy events. The Sun did us all proud, we should all remember the great times.  Personally, I have met many co-workers over my 30 years that have provided memories for a life time. Cheers to great times forever.  Nov. 1 will be an event for the ages.  Joe DuffyToronto 

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Trudy Eagan  As we approach the 40th anniversary . . .    I will always remember having lunch with Doug Creighton the day before I was hired. Ann Rankin, then JDC's secretary, had become a friend and was planning on going back to school and pursuing a law degree. She asked me if I might be interested in meeting Doug and applying for her job before she left.

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Updated 26/10/11 re Les Pyette comment Paul Warnick, a 1970s Toronto Sun newsroom manager, died Sunday from Parkinson's disease. He was 73. Paul's media career included reporter with the Stars and Stripes, the U.S, Department of Defense newspaper, while he was in the U.S. Marine Corps, says the Toronto Star obit written by Katie Daubs. He also worked on Fleet Street in London, England, as a

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Rob Lamberti I walked into the Toronto Sun newsroom Jan. 19, 1983, after spending 13 months and 5 days at the Chronicle-Journal in Thunder Bay, with a faux mohawk, black clothing and all the trappings of the punk sub-culture. And 28 years later I still feel the same, except that I have a "normal" haircut. The place was a riot, so much so that newcomers will never

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Linda Barnard In brief, I started at the Sun as a summer student while at Ryerson. Went to work at the (now-shuttered) Campbellford Herald and then the Cobourg Star. Worked freelance for the Star in the East Bureau out of Oshawa.  In February of 1984, I was hired by the Sun. I had to have my own car, be able to figure out which was the business end of a Sureshot

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Ousted Toronto Sun editorial page editor Rob Granatstein is back - in the Toronto Star. His lede: Rob Ford should never have become mayor of Toronto. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1075252--wrong-job-for-the-man The Star's bottom line reads: Rob Granatstein is a former editorial page editor of the Toronto Sun, and has written about Toronto City Hall for almost a decade.

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Memories of the Sun - Chris Gillespie I was let go in 2006 in a shocker of a day!  I had been in my 20th year at the Sun, depressed at the fired or laid off staffers before me.  From the moment I walked into work that day, I could smell a rat. As fate would have it, both my sister and I were let go the same time that day with me trying to call her and her trying to call me not knowing we both

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With one week to go before we wind down this blog, an email  from Mandy Martin, former editorial director at Northumberland Today, arrives. It justifies five years of dedication to this effort, which has been a labour of love, a conduit for all Sun Media employees, past and present. The email: "I do not know who you are. "I do know you are committed, honest and brave. "In this era of bullying

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Updated, with thanks to former Sun desker Lew Fournier http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/08/rebel-discovers-qaddafi-passport-real-spelling-of-leaders-name/244077/ Just how many ways can media spell a late dictator's name?  Online headings: Worthington: Don't judge Libyans by what they did to Gadhafi Peter Worthington: Murdering Gaddafi Was the Right Thing to Do Video

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A salute to The 62 Dick Shatto: While researching the whereabouts of the Toronto Sun's original 62, we realized the Dick Shatto mentioned in Ron Poulton's Life in a Word Factory as a Day Oner was THE Dick Shatto, the ex-Argo star. Doug Creighton announced Shatto would be joining the Sun team as national advertising manager 10 days before the tabloid was launched. The Ohio-born football player

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The salute to The 62 continues with a quest to update the life and times of the Toronto Sun's Day One display advertising staff.  Where now? 31 - Bruce Tuttle - deceased 32 - Hugh Funston - deceased 33 - Gord Jackson 34 - Norm Milne 35 - John McKay 36 - Noel Ing 37 - Domenica Farella Updates, or obits, and photos before Nov. 1 by email would be appreciated.

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If you are planning to attend Andy Donato's art show before it closes Nov. 1, sales next Sunday will help Alzheimer's research. Andy says 20% of the sales from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day will be donated. The exhibit - From Toronto to Tuscany, From Tybee to Twillingate, by Andy Donato - is in the Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery at the Columbus Centre on Lawrence Ave. W.. The day the show closes is

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - John Iaboni  There weren’t many things nicer than an autumn Saturday afternoon stroll from the University of St. Michael’s College at Bay and Wellesley, through Queen’s Park Circle and to Varsity Stadium. On this particular Saturday, I was freelancing on high school sports/college sports/minor hockey/minor sports for the Tely and set to cover a Varsity Blues

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A tribute to The 62 John Iaboni John Iaboni: Sports reporting in hometown Toronto has been John's working domain since high school, when he covered school sports for the Telegram.  In 1968, the Tely hired him full-time. Three years later, he became a proud Sun Day Oner. For the next 13 years, he worked for George Gross, as he had for three years at the Tely. John covered all major teams and

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Coverage of today's funeral for Ottawa Sun vet Earl McRae: Ottawa Sun, by Susan Sherring Ottawa Citizen, by Wayne Scanlan Ottawa Sun, by Larissa Cahute  Ottawa Citizen, by Glen McGregor CTV.ca

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A posted comment: "Keep in mind that this will be the last such anniversary party. After this, existing staffers won't care, ex-staffers will have long since moved on, and future staffers will have no knowledge of, and no connection to, Sun history.  "Quebecor will never do anything to revive it. It's proven time and again that it doesn't care for its employees or its readers. "The 50th

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A reliable source says: "Just found out that there are two 40th anniversary parties. One is for present staff and advertisers and is being held at Pier 4. I am sure everything is being paid for by management or the advertisers themselves. "The other one is for all of the ex-employees that have worked there, the one that Bev Bester is doing and costs $40 per plate and cash bar.  Interesting to

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Quote of the Week comes from a Toronto Sun newsroom staffer: "All we were offered was a subscription deal to celebrate the 40th: 40 weeks for $40 and a $20 Cineplex gift certificate. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside . . ." Yowzer.

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With 11 days to go to the Toronto Sun's 40th anniversary, Quebecor's unconscionable cheapness could lead to segmented celebrations. On the 20th anniversary in 1991, the lavish SkyDome party was free to all current and former Toronto Sun employees, a red carpet thank you from Doug, Peter and Don for a job well done. News yesterday of an independent Nov. 1 party organized by former employees

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Steve Ladurantaye, a Globe and Mail reporter and blogger, remembers Ottawa Sun legend Earl McRae from the days when he was in school and assigned to interview Earl. Steve says Earl's mentoring while a student, and later as an Ottawa Sun reporter, helped guide him through his early years in the media. The NNA winner's heart-felt tribute to Earl, who died at 69 from a heart attack Saturday night in

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A salute to The 62 Cal Millar Cal Millar: As a youngster, Cal dreamed of working for the Toronto Telegram. His adult journey began in October 1963 at the Peterborough Examiner, followed by the Windsor Star. In February 1967, the Tely hired him as a reporter/photographer and gave him the Etobicoke area to cover, including committee and council meetings. But with his spot news and cop desk

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A 40th anniversary party for current and former Toronto Sun employees has been organized for Nov. 1 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel. No financial input from Quebecor or Sun Media, just some former employees now at Postmedia who feel the need to party. With no money from management, this 40th reunion requires $40 admission, plus a cash bar, to cover the costs of the 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Cal Millar My journey with the Toronto Sun began just after midnight on Saturday, September 18, 1971 when the telephone rang at a hotel room where I was staying in the United States.  I was hours away from getting married to the most wonderful young woman in the world and realizing the night editor from the Toronto Telegram was calling, I was expecting some sort of

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A salute to The 62 Ken Robertson made his name at the Toronto Telegram as a police reporter and photographer and did he have stories to tell. He continued working the cop desk as a Day Oner at the Sun. In 1973, he was named city editor when Day One city editor Ray Biggart was moved to Queen's Park. But the WW2 vet's new role came to an abrupt end a year later when replaced by Les Pyette, an

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Some Occupy Toronto advocates say the movement should ignore the Toronto Sun and not post links to the tabloid on its website. "Please stop posting links to the sun," says Nicka. "We know they do not respect us, stop sending traffic their way. Instead, we should post links to articles supporting the cause." Others disagree. "While Sun Media post despicable things about occupy they have

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TSF has caught up to John Downing, one of the more prolific Toronto Sun writers over the decades, for his book efforts. John's two co-authored published books and background on other book projects make him the 56th current and former Toronto Sun employee on our author list. Downing, JohnOnce Upon a Century: 100 Year History of The Ex, co-author, 1978, J.H. Robinson Publishing Ltd., 143 pages (NF)

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It is 14 days and counting to the Toronto Sun's 40th anniversary and the deadline for TSF Sun memories submissions. To date, we have the memories of Cal Millar -  newsroom;  Nancy Stewart - composing; Bruce Borland - press room; Bill Brioux - TV writer; Steve Payne - newsroom; Sean McCann - newsroom; Ian Harvey -  newsroom; Bill Sandford - photo. If you are a Day Oner or one of the hundreds

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We missed Andy Donato's complete CFRB interview with Ted Woloshyn on the weekend, but found eight minutes and 12 seconds of Andy's amusing anecdotes on YouTube.     More of the interview, please. We couldn't find the complete audio replay online. Andy, a Toronto Sun Day Oner, is in his prime.

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Updated 20/10/11re Steve Ladurantaye memories Memories of Earl McRae, an Ottawa Sun sports and news columnist who died at work last night at age 69: Steve Ladurantaye, Globe and Mail Pat Hickey, Montreal Gazette Anita Li, Toronto Star Funeral details Brent Nacu, Earl's final interview, for an Ottawa Sun news column he never got to finish. Lew Fournier, former Toronto Sun desk vet: "Damn.

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Nancy on the job in 1974 Memories of the Toronto Sun - Nancy Stewart It was 1973 and things were happening in Toronto. I was in second year at McMaster University, working between studies as a typesetter for The Silhouette, the university's weekly newspaper, and all the buzz was about the new upstart, the Toronto Sun. The rumour was they were

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Earl McRae, a veteran Ottawa Sun news and sports columnist, collapsed and died tonight while at work. McRae, an award-winning Ottawa Sun columnist for 20 years, was working on a Sunday Sun news column when he died from an apparent heart attack. The father of five was 69.  Nominated eight times for the National Magazine sports journalism award, he won one gold and two silvers. He also won 10

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Somehow we left former Toronto Sun TV writer Bill Brioux off the TSF author's list with his first book - Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV's Most Famous Myths - published in 2007. The oversight was discovered in time for the pending release a new book he contributed to - Air Farce: 40 Years of Flying by the Seat of Our Pants, by Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott, due Dec. 13. Brioux, Bill 

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Sun Media is looking for a new comment section editor for the Toronto Sun, a position left vacant with the departure of Rob Granatstein in August. Which raises the question, if they are replacing Rob, why was he let go?  Politics?  Or is Sun Media looking for a half-price comment editor? Here is the job posting: Toronto, Ontario Division: Editorial Duration: Full Time

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Last call for Toronto Sun employees who have had books published in the past 40 years. We added Toronto Sun vet Ian Robertson to the author list this week, bringing the total to 54 men and women who have written books on a wide variety of topics. Robertson, Ian: Prince Edward County: An Illustrated History, 2009, County Magazine Print Shop, 228 pages, co-authored with Steve Campbell, and Janet

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A comment to TSF. The start of a movement? "I say we occupy the Sun lobby! Set up tents and camp there until PKP comes to his senses! Oh wait, the Sun doesn't own the lobby or 333 anymore and the only time PKP comes to his cents is when he visits his bank account. "Okay, let's occupy the cookie and crackers aisle at the No Frills store! We can protest until our paid parking in the 333 back

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It's 17 days to the Toronto Sun's 40th anniversary and TSF readers are asking: Where's the party? Some of them were around for the elaborate 20th at the SkyDome. But as of today, nothing is in the works for the 40th. Sources say money for a celebration was requested, but the answer was no party money for the flagship tabloid. If there is a hint of a rebellion, or small gatherings to mark the

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A salute to The 62 George Anthony helped launch the tabloid as the Day One entertainment editor, writing a column, a review of John Bassett's film Face-Off and a review of a Joe Orton play at the St. Lawrence Centre. Humble beginnings for the entertainment section, which included an Earl Wilson TV column. But like Paul Rimstead, George's entertainment column was an instant hit with readers.

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We have profiled the late Mike McCabe in our salutes to The 62. Where are the three other Day Oners from the Toronto Sun's circulation department:   John LeMay Ron Tonks  William King If you are a Toronto Sun Day Oner and have a bio or memories to share, please email with a photo. If you are one of the hundreds of men and women in all departments who followed The 62 and

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Condolences to longtime Queen's Park columnist Antonella Artuso following the death of her mother, Isabella, last week.  If you didn't read the Toronto Sun obit, you missed how more obits should be written, with personal stories about the deceased's life.  We always ask couples how they met because how they met speaks volumes about  beginnings. As noted in the obit, Antonella's father first saw

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Mark Bonokoski's 2008 15-part series on the plight of Canadian urban First Nations people continues to draw awards three years later. The Canadian Criminal Justice Association has awarded the Toronto Sun columnist its Public Education Award, which will be presented Oct. 27 in Quebec City. Congrats, Mark.

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Longtime news hounds Cal Millar and Ian Robertson have teamed up to write a book about the Russell Williams sex assaults and murder spree. Millar, author of two cold case books about murder victims and missing women, men and children, has been a crime reporter for the Toronto Telegram, Toronto Sun and Toronto Star. Robertson has been a Toronto Sun reporter for almost 25 years, covering just about

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A posted TSF comment re Welcome to Hell: To 11:21 p.m.: I love how commenters like this one echo what has come to be the Sun's (and by Sun I mean SNN as well as the papers) new "either/or" ethos.  Some of us are proud of the work we do at the Sun, and quite comfortable with the changes in the industry, but still find that cover to be a complete humiliation.  The "pining for the old days" is

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 A salute to The 62 Jim Yates was a sailor at heart until silenced by colon cancer on Oct. 6 2003. Newspapers helped the native of Scotland sail the seas for 37 of his all-too-short 60 years. Jim landed on our shores in 1967 after working for breweries and newspapers in Scotland. The Toronto Telegram hired him the same year as a rewrite editor/copy editor. He left newspapers briefly in 1969 to

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A TSF reader says Sun Media's outsourcing service is Affinity, not Infinity. "Wrong company. It's Affinity that Sun Media uses. They do great work on short order. They do a lot of work for The Star as well so it's not just Sun Media out sourcing production." http://www.affinityexpress.com/ Affinity's online presence is much more professional than the Infinity site we mentioned in a previous

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From a TSF reader: "I was chatting with a Sun Media employee who told me that a company by the name of Infinity in India does some outsourced work for Sun Media." If it is Infinity Informations, based in New Delhi, we found this in its Q & A. 1. How can I save money by outsourcing my work to an Indian Soft ware (sic) Development (sic) company?  The cost of living in India is much lower than in

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A salute to The 62 Bob MacDonald spent 55 years in Canadian newsrooms before losing a 14-year battle with prostate cancer. Some of those years were spent at the Toronto Star and Toronto Telegram, but more than three of those decades were as "the anchor" in the Toronto Sun newsroom. The Nova Scotia native shone from Day One, with his front page story: A $10M Goof. He was still intent on writing

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  Hell is the current mindset of the Toronto Sun.

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Ian Robertson is busy gathering Top 40 favourites from various departments at the Toronto Sun for a special 40th anniversary section. Memories from current and former employees are to be a maximum of 40 words, which brings to mind Les Pyette's "tight and bright" mantra of the 70s that gave the tabloid much of its readership appeal into the 1990s. Toronto Sun Family blog readers are being given

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Memories of the Toronto Sun - Bruce Borland My media journey began as a long-haired, 16-year old hippy hopper on the back of Toronto Telegram delivery trucks. Within a year, a job was posted with the Syndicate news service.  This job would eventually lead to a lifetime of employment in the industry, and, thanks to the Sun, the completion of my high school at nights and the

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Time to pass the hat, PKP & son have dropped to 99th on the Top 100 list of Canada's wealthiest people with 0.61 billion. Canadian Business magazine says Pierre, 50, and son Erik's wealth, pegged at 85th in the 2010 Top 100 stats, lost 9.1% in the past year.  Down to a mere $610 million. Guess that is why the multi-millionaires rejected a request for cash to  throw a 40th anniversary party for

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Andy Donato's name isn't on Toronto's Italian Walk of Fame, but it should be. There he was last night at the opening of his new art show standing between Bill Davis, former premier of Ontario, and Roy McMurtry, former attorney general. At 75, Andy has been an influential and award-winning Canadian editorial cartoonist for more than four decades, first at the Toronto Telegram and at the Toronto

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CEP Local 87M launched a public organizing drive at Sun News Network in Toronto on Wednesday, hoping to add to Sun-related SONG membership.  Launched April 18, Sun News, also known as Sun TV and Fox News North, is owned and operated by Quebecor Media.  CEP's press release says the media union already represents 13 Sun Media workplaces in Ontario, including the Toronto Sun newsroom and

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Joining Bruce Borland in the Toronto Sun's Syndicate department on Day One were:17 - Ron Cornell  18 - Mary Buchanan 19 - Paul Gillespie 20 - Sandra D'Cruz  Where are they now? We'll save space for Day One profiles, Sun memories and photos for Ron, Mary, Paul and Sandra if emailed to TSF before Nov. 1.

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There are signs of life at the Toronto Sun as it nears its 40th anniversary on Nov. 1. It's not news of an open party, with Quebecor coughing up cash for a bash, mind you.  Ian Robertson, a Sun vet, is appealing for comments from current and former Toronto Sun employees for a special 40th anniversary section in the paper. And an email has been sent to most departments for Top 40 submissions,

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A TSF reader writes: A great new topic for debate with the company's lame ass push for videos using cheap equipment and poor bandwidth on their sites. http://jrnteaching.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/newspapers-should-jettison-most-of-their-web-video-efforts/

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A salute to The 62 Bruce Borland, one of five Day Oners in the Sun's Syndicate department, got his start in print media as a 16-year-old Toronto Telegram delivery truck hopper. A year later, he moved to the Tely's Syndicate news service. After the Sun bought the Syndicate off the doomed Tely for a reported $35,000, Don Hunt, Syndicate director, called Bruce into his office and said: "We are

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A salute to The 62 Norm Betts posed with Day Oner photo amigos Dave Cooper and Jac Holland for Ron Poulton's 1976 Life In A Word Factory book. There they stood in their hastily-prepared darkroom in the Eclipse White Wear Building ready to take on the world. Norm,  a University of British Columbia grad, shone as a news and sports photographer at the Tely and Sun, but he is also remembered as the

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The Toronto Sun's 40th anniversary is a month from today, do you know where your staff celebration organizers are?

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The same day Sun Media was beating its chest over NADbank's print and web stats, Quebecor was pink-slipping four Canoe.ca staffers. A TSF tipster says the four Canoe staffers axed include a vet of the "Canadian Online Explorer" site. It seems the only time TSF hears about Canoe it is for layoffs. Just how many people are  left to run the show there these days? The tipster didn't have names, but

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A salute to The 62 George Gross, founding sports editor, was a man of many sports talents in his youth in native communist Czechoslovakia before fleeing to Canada in 1949. After dabbling in farm work and freelance reporting for the Toronto Telegram, he was hired by the Tely full-time in 1959. For almost 50 years - 12 at the Tely and 37 at the Sun - The Baron, as he was affectionately called, set

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