Rarely have a paper’s rivals been so thoroughly dominated on the coverage of a major story:

TORONTO, June 4 — The competition between Toronto’s four major daily newspapers is often intense, particularly over crime news. But its results are rarely as one-sided as the coverage that followed the arrests of 17 Ontario residents in what the police call a terrorist bomb plot.
Some readers of The Globe and Mail awoke Saturday to find nothing about the raids while, at the other extreme, The Toronto Star published 3,000 words and several photos spread over three pages.
The embarrassment of the other newspapers by The Star, which has emphasized crime coverage for much of its history, actually began while the raids were just getting under way on Friday night. Minutes after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued a cryptic press release at 9:16 p.m. about a news conference set for the following morning, The Star’s Web site produced a story breaking the news of the police sweep.
Nor did The Star, Canada’s largest newspaper by circulation, make any attempt at modesty. Underneath a main headline in type several inches high, another headline boasted that “The Star takes you inside the spy game that led to last night’s dramatic arrests.”

The Star not only provided the most in-depth coverage of the thwarted attack, but also its city columnist Rosie DiManno produced the most unflinchingly candid assessment of the discovery and its implications. Well done.

UPDATE: F.P.R. writes:

I am sure many Canadian readers are already telling you this but the Toronto Star is easily the most left wing major media outlet in a country full of left wing media. It could be argued that their constant support for multiculturalism and their soft on terror and crime views provided conditions favorable for these home grown terrorists to develop. It is therefore highly ironic that their strong crime beat is leading the coverage on this story, as there is not a more politically correct media outlet in the country.

Cori Dauber made this same point earlier at Rantingprofs. This is a triumph of beat reporting over political correctness.