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Even before the Globe merged with the Mail and Empire, the paper was widely considered the voice of the Upper Canada elite — that is, the Bay Street financial community of Toronto and the intellectuals of university and government institutions.

The merger of the Liberal Globe and the Tory Mail and Empire prefigured the paper's characteristically Red Tory editorial stance, as its support alternated between the two established national parties.

In the past century, the paper has consistently endorsed either the Liberal Party or the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in every federal election.

The paper had endorsed a third party on two occasions at the provincial level: it endorsed the social-democratic New Democratic Party in the 1991 Saskatchewan provincial election and British Columbia provincial election.

The New Democrats won both elections and went on to form provincial governments.