Wednesday, April 18, 2012 They launched with great fanfare, vowing to deliver a viewing experience no other Canadian broadcaster dared to put on the air. Yet exactly a year after it went live, media observers and viewership figures suggest Sun News Network, which promised 'hard news and straight talk,' is lagging behind its competitors. BLOG POSTS  | Nicholas dePencier Wright: Why are Taxpayers Subsidizing the Dying Seal Slaughter Industry?
 Newfoundland's government has recently injected cash into the seal industry, a fraction of what taxpayers will be picking up this year to sustain the dying commercial seal slaughter. The end of the industry is inevitable. It's time to take the politics out of the debate and redirect wasted taxpayer-supported subsidies to buy out the sealing licenses. |  | Noah Richler: What Army Recruitment Ads tell us About Ourselves
 Canadian recruitment ads are markedly different from those of other nations. War does not feature. The ads show Canadian soldiers herding citizens toward a Red Cross truck that could but as easily not be in Afghanistan, rescuing the survivors of a winter plane crash, forest fires and flooding. |  | Kristina Groves: Randy Starkman: Big Heart, Big Results
Just prior to the Olympics in Vancouver, Randy Starkman wrote an article about me with the headline "Big Heart, Big Results." When I think of Randy and what he meant to me, to Canadian Olympic athletes and to the entire amateur sport community, the one word that comes to mind is: ditto. The shocking news of his death yesterday was so devastatingly tragic. Canadian athletes have lost their voice. |  | John Laforet: Let's try that Ontario Election Again, Shall We?
If there was ever a time to have an election it is right now, before the proposed provincial budget for 2012 passes the legislature. Ontario's last election was light on policy and heavy on platitudes from all sides. Is there any reason to deny Ontarians the opportunity to chart the course they want our government to take? |  | Douglas Anthony Cooper: Katniss Fight: Could Jennifer Lawrence Take Down PETA?
 "Screw PETA," quoth Jennifer Lawrence, the actress of the moment. Although clearly a young woman with genuine courage, I suspect she is not quite prepared for the way she will probably be terrorized by the group in the months to come. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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