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In 1971, the Toronto Sun Publishing was created and purchased the syndication operations and newspaper vending boxes from the Toronto Telegram, which ceased operations in the same year. The Toronto Sun also recruited staff from the former Telegram conservative broadsheet newspaper, and published its first edition on 1 November 1971. [3] [4]
The two companies had been formed in 1971 with the launch of the Toronto Sun by former staffers of the defunct Toronto Telegram. On February 14, 1978, the Edmonton Sun, the second member of what would become the Sun chain, was announced through a partnership of Sun Media and Edmonton Sun Publishing Ltd. The paper was launched on April 2, 1978.
Creighton founded the Toronto Sun with many of the Telegram's former employees and led the Sun to become a national chain of newspapers under the banner of Sun Media. [1] Creighton was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991. [3] [1]
The Ottawa Sun is a daily newspaper in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is published by Sun Media. It began publication in 1983 as the Ottawa Sunday Herald, until it was acquired by (then) Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation in 1988. [2] [3] In April 2015, Sun Media papers were acquired by Postmedia. [4]
Canoe's head office is in Toronto at 333 King Street East. [2] [4] At launch, Canoe was a joint venture between Sun Media (Toronto Sun Publishing Corp.) and Rogers Communications (Rogers Multi-Media Inc.); however, Rogers sold its shares of Canoe to BCE Inc. within its first year. [5]
Ownership in CKXT was split, 75 percent to 25 percent, between QMI's publicly traded broadcasting unit Groupe TVA and wholly owned publishing subsidiary Sun Media, which owned The Toronto Sun. The station would be re-branded as "Sun TV" on August 29, 2005.