24 Hours

I admit I have a sort of bias to this newspaper. This bias comes from the fact that the company who owns Sun News is also in charge of 24 hours.
What is my problem with Sun News? Their reporting is very American, in your face, and flashy. It’s even been called «fox north.» It’s more of an attack or dramatization than actual reporting. It’s very conservative, and right wing which sometimes is notabile in the 24 hours newspaper, especially in the editorial sections. Why the 24 hours does not seem as bad as it could be is that you may notice many of it’s article are taking from Reuters, the London news publishing firm which is far more controlled than say Sun News reporting style. 24 hours and the metro both pay to use many of Reuters articles on international news.
If anything read the Metro if your in need of some free news, and avoid picking up the 24. You’ll still get many of the Reuters articles, and a news firm that really cares about Canadians.

I pick this up everyday and it sure beats the Sun and Province rags. After all anything of interest locally is in here and if I do need to read more in-​depth stuff I can go elsewhere. For «free» it works for me.

Although having to run a gauntlet of orange-​clad 24 Hours distributioneers every time I go a SkyTrain station is annoying as all get out, it’s not a bad little paper. At the very least, I prefer it over the Metro for being a smaller size, having staples, and having no flyers — all of which makes it a better read for a crowded, standing-​room-​only space.
Also, the crossword puzzle is much better than the Metro’s, despite the fact that I must fold the page so as not to have Tamara Taggart’s Botoxed face staring at me from the weather column.
Altogether, it’s a good, free commuter paper with lots of short, interesting articles spanning news, celebrity gossip, lifestyle, entertainment, and science, with a bit of humour thrown in there. Love the eBay Eccentric guy. They have some pretty good regular columnists.
My only wish is that more people would recycle their own copies of the 24 so it wouldn’t litter the SkyTrain cars and sidewalks. Boo, litterers!