The Calgary Sun is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is a division of Sun Media, a Quebecor company. Jump to: navigation, search {{Hide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: {{Unhide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Heart of the new west City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada location. ... Motto: Fortis et Liber (Strong and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Area 661,848 km² (6th) Land 642,317 km² Water 19,531 km² (2. ... Sun Media Corporation is the owner of several widely read Canadian tabloid newspapers. ... Quebecor (written without an accent on the first e, even in French) is a Quebec-based company with two main spheres of activity: Quebecor World is the largest commercial printing company in the world, with 39 000 employees around the world. ...

First published in 1980, the tabloid-format daily replaced the long-running broadsheet newspaper, The Albertan. Jump to: navigation, search 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...

The newspaper, like most of those in the Canadian Sun chain, are known for short, snappy news stories aimed primarily at working class readers. The Sun format is based somewhat upon that of British tabloids.

One regular feature, the Sunshine Girl, is a daily glamor photograph of an amateur model, usually dressed in a bikini. This idea was also borrowed from British papers, although in accordance with Canadian morality standards, no nudity is allowed and models must be 18 years of age or older (unlike the UK version in which topless models as young as 16 were at one point allowed, although this age limit was recently raised to 18). Originally placed on the third page of the publication (as per the UK format), Sun management in the early 1990s decided to relocate the feature to the Sports section as it was felt the photo interfered with the paper's ability to present serious news stories up front. This attitude was later adopted by the other Sun newspapers in Canada. The Calgary Sun has considered dropping the Sunshine Girl feature on numerous occasions, and has run occasional "trial balloon" issues without a Sunshine Girl, but reader support for the feature remains strong. A Sunshine Boy photo feature used to appear regularly, but has been cancelled. Bikini is also a Hungarian rock band. ...

The newspaper makes no secret of its conservative political stance and it a vocal opponent of the current Liberal government, although it also has several liberal-leaning columnists. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas current governing political party. ... Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism, an adherent of the ideology espousing individual liberty and private property, meaning varies country to country American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Modern liberalism, in the USA, describes a political ideology that favors government intervention to promote equality Political progressivism, a political...

For many years, the Sun also published a popular local weekly, The Calgary Mirror, which covered community news. This publication was discontinued (after a nearly 50 year history) in 2001. It was succeeded by FYI Calgary In-Print, a free weekly newspaper intended to be a print equivalent to the Sun's much-publicized FYI Calgary news website. The new publication failed to click with readers and advertisers and was discontinued in May 2001 during a reorganization of Sun Media; the website abandoned the FYI concept about a year later and rebranded itself as Calgarysun.com. Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

The Calgary Sun is one of two daily newspapers currently serving the Calgary area. The second is The Calgary Herald. Jump to: navigation, search The Calgary Herald is a daily Calgary, Alberta newspaper. ...

External link

• http://www.calgarysun.com