Torontoist's Jamie Bradburn reports on how the Toronto Sun, the right-wing tabloid of note in Toronto, has since its foundation in 1971 has been a forum for expressing lots of terrible sentiments about lots of different people.

In a response to a reader question on Twitter earlier this week provoked by Toronto Sun columnist Tarek Fatah’s comments ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg talks about Poland's problems with economic growth, notes that McMansions are poor investments, considers what to do about the Olympics post-Rio, looks at new Japanese tax incentives for working women, looks at a French war museum that put its stock up for sale, examines the power of the New Zealand dairy, looks at the Yasukuni ( Read more... )

MacLean's carries Colin Perkel's Canadian Press article noting the investigation of what seems to be a sad mess at the Toronto Star newsroom.

Canada’s largest newspaper has agreed to an independent review of its newsroom culture in the aftermath of the suicide of a prominent reporter, its chairman and editor said Wednesday ( Read more... )

The CBC's Don Pittis reports on the grim future of Postmedia, and by extension of the Canadian newspaper industry. At best, the mass media in print might become a heritage industry. (At best.)

Reports this week that the U.S. hedge fund GoldenTree Asset Management is looking to sell its stake in the Canadian newspaper chain Postmedia may be less ( Read more... )

• Bad Astronomy shows a photo of an ancient X-ray jet amplified by photos from the Big Bang.
• Centauri Dreams considers fast radio bursts.
• The Great Grey Bridge's Philip Turner notes that the Republican Party establishment is finally responding to Trump.
• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad note the ridiculousness of Caitlyn Jenner's desire to be a trans ( Read more... )

What newspapers, if any, do you read? What television stations do you watch, on the Internet or otherwise? Do you follow particular magazines? Are there any other news sources you regularly engage with?

Please, discuss.

• blogTO notes some interesting-looking apartment complexes scheduled to be built in Toronto.
• Dangerous Minds notes that, in the late 1970s, Debbie Harry wanted to remake Alphaville with Robert Fripp.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that the Hubble telescope directly imaged gas giant 2M1207b, determining its rotation about its brown dwarf primary.
• The Dragon's ( Read more... )

David Olive's Toronto Star opinion piece on the 30th makes good points.

There is a cancer on Canadian journalism ( Read more... )

• On Livejournal, bitterlawngnome shares some remarkable vintage print ads from the early 20th century.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that robots installed the mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope.
• The Dragon's Tales notes the abundant water ice on the surface of Pluto.
• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad note the imprisonment of Philadelphia gaybasher Kathryn ( Read more... )

Writing in NOW Toronto, Ross Howard argues for the protection of Canada's mass media as cultural assets.

[A]s the Toronto Star’s David Olive presciently pointed out a year ago, most of the money drained by Postmedia from its newspapers - some of which were actually breaking even or better - went back to the offshore debt-holders (the company is ( Read more... )