BY ANDREA HOUSTON – An ad that activists have called transphobic, which ran in the National Post and the Toronto Sun during the Ontario election campaign, appears to now be airing on Sun TV._jpg.jpg)
On Oct 24, Savannah Garmon tweeted a link to a YouTube video of the ad about an hour after Queer Ontario’s Casey Oraa asked the Twitterverse to record a copy. The offending section starts at the 1:00 mark.
During the election, the Toronto Sun refused to apologize for running the ad, which outraged activists have called transphobic and misleading, in its Oct 2 edition but did say that it would not run it again.
The ad, from the Institute for Canadian Values, is a slightly modified version of a full-page ad that ran in the National Post on Sept 24 and Sept 28. Following a social media outcry, the Post issued an apology and stated that the proceeds from the ad sale would be donated to a queer charitable organization.
It is not known when the ad ran on Sun TV. No one was available for comment at the Toronto Sun at 11pm.
This is a developing story.
Follow Xtra reporter Andrea Houston on Twitter at @DreaHouston.
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