Just yesterday I wrote (as a result of an editorial by David Asper, the paper’s owner) that in the National Post, they are so Toronto-centric and Ontario-centric that they don’t have a clue about the rest of the country. “Would this happen in any other Canadian city? Not a chance,” he said in his editorial about the Toronto city council’s snubbing of Miss Canada/Universe for idiotic politically correct reasons.
Today, Link Byfield of the Calgary Sun hits the Toronto Sun for being guilty of much the same thing—exposing Ontarians (themselves) as being blissfully Toronto or Ontario-centric to the point where it is insulting to westerners (or even to every other region) of the country—though as I said I’m sure they’re blissfully unaware of it.
I must say I saw the Toronto Sun editorial on Monday and I purposely zipped it because I like the Toronto Sun, but it was a pretty major transgression as far as I’m concerned. And I’m quite sure the Toronto Sun’s editorial team want Albertans on their side. So I’m glad Lynk Byfield has the cojones.
A Monday editorial in the Toronto Sun about Conservative leader Stephen Harper illustrates, in a small way, why this country doesn’t work.
They’re good people at the TorSun, who try in their polyglot left-liberal corner of the world to be sensible.
But sometimes even the good Ontarians just don’t get it.
Stung by some snotty comment in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun criticized Harper for wearing an ordinary white felt cowboy hat and an ordinary black leather vest at Stampede.(Check the picture for yourself at the web log http://www.warrenkinsella.com/musings.htm and scroll down to the July 14 entry.)
So scathing is the website about Harper in a cowboy hat that the Toronto Sun (which supports him) felt compelled to warn him, in the discreet tone of someone advising a friend to use deodorant, “Stop dressing up in funny hats and outfits like this, and trying to be a gladhander.”
Apparently cowboy hats turn off Ontarians in droves.
If true (and we have no reason to doubt it) we can hardly fault the Toronto Sun for telling us. But what does that say about Ontarians?
It tells us they expect us to conform to their tastes because they find ours ridiculous.
It tells us we may not celebrate our history and traditions if we want to be taken seriously on a national level.
It tells us they have the political acumen of teenagers, and will judge a national leader on what he wears rather than what he is.
And it tells us (if we needed to be reminded) that they hold Albertans to a double standard.
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