As editor, hisĮditorials won him a National Newspaper Award in 1961. Sun in Manitoba was his first Canadian newspaper stop. His wife and young son and a decade later, moved to Canada. Returned home and was a Radio Prague broadcaster until the Communist Of the Czech underground and was a World War 2 hero. He fled toĮngland in 1939 after the Nazis invaded his homeland, became a member Lubor, born in Klapy, Czechoslovakia inġ920 had first hand experience with dictators and communists. The columnists looked for communists under every rock, as Paul Writing team consisted of Peter Worthington, Bob MacDonald and Lubor J. Just over two decades, the Toronto Sun’s impassioned anti-communist The Toronto Sun Family : 1971 - 2013 blog provides this synopsis of Zink's life which helps us understand why Zink was fiercely opposed to communism. Zink whose columns relentlessly painted Trudeau as a crypto-communist. Leading the Trudeau attack was Czechoslovakian-born Lubor J. Among the Sun's favourite targets in the 1970s was then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Many would suggest that the Sun has never been a 'non-partisan voice of moderation'. Prepared to tackle the arrogant left and the misguided right when Moderation in Canada made itself heard loudly and clearly, in firmĪnswer to the shrill nonsense and ideology that is espoused these daysĪre neither right nor left we dislike fanatics of any hue, and are That may sound wishy-washy, but we won't be. The Sun's journalistic philosophy was outlined in its first editorial :ĭefine ourselves as a politically non-partisan voice of moderation. The sender of this letter to the 'Sun' did not know the address but provided a detailed description of its location enabling Canada Post to deliver the cover.

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