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Update: Toronto Sun to cross floor over to Toronto Star; Stock Day to join Communist Party

…and I’m going to start caring about Garth Turner (a self described “one-day story”—October 19, 2006) and what he says or does immediately after I attend a gay pride parade. 

I liked the Toronto Sun’s (Sun Media) editorial this morning (hat tip to conservativegal and her forum post in this thread):

Inspired by Garth’s example

Inspired by yesterday’s floor-crossing example of Garth Turner, and before him Wajid Khan, David Emerson, Belinda Stronach, Scott Brison and Bob Rae, we here at the Toronto Sun editorial department have an important announcement to make.

After much thought, soul-searching and consultation with our families, we have decided to join the Toronto Star editorial board.

We realize that for 35 years we’ve disagreed with most Toronto Star editorials and have often told you they’re all bug-eyed crazy over there at One Yonge. Or, as we like to call it, Comedy Central.

And sure, they mostly back Liberals and we mostly back Conservatives. But, hey, that doesn’t mean they’re not nice people. And we were just kidding about that Comedy Central thing. Everyone knows the proper name for the Star’s editorial board is: “The Alien Space Command Centre”.

So beam us up, Prichard. Or is it Honderich? We can never tell over there these days.

Anyway, we figure if Garth Turner can go from Toronto Sun business editor, to Tory MP, to Tory cabinet minister to Tory MP—again—to independent MP to maybe thinking of joining the Greens to Liberal MP, anything’s possible. We also realize that, just like many of Garth’s constituents, some of you, our loyal readers, may be feeling betrayed by our decision.

To all of you, we say … who cares? This isn’t about you! This is about us. Us, us, us, us, us. Or, in Turner’s case, me. Me, me, me, me, me.

By the way, does anyone else find it ironic that Turner, a Conservative who is now a Liberal, won his Halton riding last year by defeating Gary Carr, a Liberal who used to be a Conservative MPP? We do.

Shortly after David Emerson defected from the Liberals for a cabinet seat in Stephen Harper’s new government last year, Turner wrote on his blog: “If you want to be a Liberal, be elected as a Liberal. All those things have honour but the honour is bestowed by the people, not by the individual.” Except, of course, when you’re Garth, apparently.

Finally, we should point out that unlike Garth did with the Liberals, we haven’t actually asked the Toronto Star’s editorial board if they want us.

But we figure if they’re anything like the federal Liberals and Tories these days, they’ll take anybody.

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