It is owned by The Klein Group circa 2024.Following its acquisition of Sun Media,[1] opinion plus an emphasis on local news stories, and extensive sports coverage.

The newspaper, like most of those in the Canadian Sun chain, are known for short, snappy news stories aimed primarily at working class readers.

The newspaper is distributed throughout the Winnipeg metro region through retail sales, vending machines and home delivery.

In response to demand for a new newspaper voice in the city, the Winnipeg Sun was announced at a press conference in October 1980,[4] and first published on November 5, 1980.

The newspaper started publishing Sunday through Friday beginning September 12, 1982, with its largest paper to date at 120 pages.

[8][9] Winnipeg, curiously, is one of the very few cities in Canada or the United States where a new daily newspaper emerged after the death of the No.

Some of the initial comics published in the Sun were Ziggy, Frank and Ernest, Dallas, Ben Swift, John Darling, Graves, Inc., Barbara Cartland's Romances, Heathcliff, The Neighborhood, and Winthrop.