The Toronto Star described Gooch's decision to put an end to its traditions, activities and distinguishing characteristics as " neutering Animal House.

The Toronto Star adopted this new spelling policy in September 1997 after that publication's ombudsman discounted the issue earlier in 1997.

In 1992, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster told the Toronto Star that the name derived from 1930's cinematic leading men Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, but the persona from bespectacled silent film comic Harold Lloyd and himself.

The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal ’ s La Presse, The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to the way in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.

* The Real Castle Frank ( Toronto Star )

Vit Wagner, writing for The Toronto Star in 2001 on the re-mastered edition of " Forever Changes ," said, "( It ) might not rank with the Beach Boys ' ' Pet Sounds ' and the Beatles ' ' Revolver ' and ' Sgt.

In February 2010, an investigation of the Toronto Star daily newspaper found that black people across Toronto were three times more likely to be stopped and documented by police than white people.

Peter Howell, in his review for the Toronto Star, wrote, " It's hard to believe that this is the work of a team that won an Oscar last year for the original screenplay of Fargo.

Toronto Star ( Nov. 24, 2003 )

While praising the film's first two hours as " compelling ", the Toronto Star remarked, " But when Cameron takes the adventure to the next step, deep into the heart of fantasy, it all becomes one great big deja boo.

As the article in the Toronto Star specially isolates, it is not so much a problem of a doctor shortage but of a shortage of ' licensed doctors '.

The prize was established as the Giller Prize in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star, and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward ( then CAN $ 25, 000 ).

However, in 2009 a Toronto Star journalist obtained a private investigator's licence in Ontario with no training, and reported that other Ontarians had done the same.

Berton joined the Toronto Star as associate editor and columnist in 1958, leaving in 1962 to commence The Pierre Berton Show, which ran until 1973.

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The Toronto Star announced Clark's victory with a headline that read " Joe Who?

Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star listed " Cape Feare ," " Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming " and " Brother From Another Series " among the best episodes of the series, writing " forget Frasier, these are Kelsey Grammer's best roles.

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Many Canadian newspapers, including the Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, carry cryptic crosswords.

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He took a job with Independent Telephone Company, which manufactured radios, and left that job and university when his father — the sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star — told him that the Star was going to start its own radio station.

Though Toronto mayoral elections are non-partisan, during the 2010 mayoral election, it endorsed George Smitherman, who before the election was a provincial cabinet member of McGuinty's Liberal government.

Rae endorsed Susan Eng's successful bid to chair the Metro Toronto Police Services Board in early 1991, over the opposition of several police officers.

Former Toronto ( pre-amalgamation ) mayors David Crombie and Art Eggleton also endorsed Smitherman.

In January 2012, Polley endorsed Toronto MP Peggy Nash in the 2012 New Democratic Party leadership race to succeed Jack Layton.

Volpe later endorsed Mel Lastman's bid to become Mayor of Toronto in 1997 municipal election.

In a November 2008 book review entitled " Deflating the Churchill Myth ", Margolis in the Toronto Sun endorsed Pat Buchanan's book Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War as a " powerful new book ".

In the 2006 Toronto municipal election, Grafstein endorsed City Councillor Jane Pitfield for Mayor of Toronto.

The bill was endorsed by the Toronto Star newspaper the following week.

She was endorsed for re-election by the Toronto Star newspaper in 2003, although the Star also accused her of " hypocrisy in fighting housing for homeless youth, despite her New Democratic Party roots.

Controversy also developed when Mayor of Toronto Mel Lastman endorsed Davis, despite an earlier pledge to remain neutral.

Because of his long running and historic criticism of the NDP's legislative failure on gay rights issues, Rae surprised many when he endorsed former New Democratic Party Premier Bob Rae ( who is no relation to Kyle Rae ) when the latter successfully contested the Toronto Centre federal by-election on March 17, 2008 as the Liberal Party candidate.

He endorsed Ken Chan, a former police officer and aide to London Mayor Boris Johnson in the Ward 27 council race and Toronto mayoral candidate George Smitherman.

Saundercook's committee endorsed an aggressive recycling and green-bin plan, but also endorsed a controversial plan to ship Toronto's garbage to Adams Mine outside Kirkland Lake, Ontario, but on the condition that Toronto would not be locked into sending fixed amounts of garbage and the city could recycle as much as they wanted.

Grier endorsed Tooker Gomberg for Mayor of Toronto in 2000.

Notwithstanding this, he was generally supportive of progressive legislation and was regularly endorsed by left-leaning groups in Toronto.

He endorsed Dianne Cunningham's unsuccessful bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party in 1990, and did not seek re-election in that year's provincial election ( Toronto Star, 3 May 1990 ).

In the 2006 general election, AAEV's free-time political ads endorsed the New Democratic Party, counterbalanced by the statement that voters could also vote for AAEV leader Liz White in Toronto Centre.

After initially supporting Grossman, he endorsed Alan Pope for the party leadership in late 1985 ( Toronto Star, 6 November 1985 ).

Jack Layton addresses the 2003 NDP convention in Toronto, where he was elected leader

Layton was elected leader of the NDP at the party's leadership convention in Toronto, on January 25, 2003.

Olivia Chow and several other prominent Toronto NDP candidates lost tight races and Layton won his own seat against incumbent Liberal Dennis Mills by a much narrower margin than early polls indicated.

However, the NDP managed to take many seats from the Liberals in the Greater Toronto Area, and also did better than ever before ( or in some cases, since ) in many other cities and rural areas.

Opposition parties were strongly opposed to the move ; the NDP took the unusual step of attempting to filibuster against the bill by reading out the name of every street name in Toronto.

While the NDP only outpolled the Liberals by a narrow six-point margin, they managed to unseat many Liberal incumbents in the Greater Toronto Area.

Although the NDP finished only three percentage points ahead of the Liberals, they managed to take many seats in the Greater Toronto Area away from the Liberals.

However, the Liberals reversed their position and declared that the NDP would retain party status even if they lost the upcoming Toronto — Danforth by-election.

Some opposition sources believed the Liberals, mindful of their humiliating defeat to Horwath, had loosened their interpretation of the rules so that whomever ran for the NDP in Toronto — Danforth couldn't use the threat of lost status in a campaign.

This issue became moot when, on March 30, 2006, NDP candidate Peter Tabuns won the by-election in the Toronto — Danforth riding by a 9 % margin over the Liberals ' Ben Chin, alleviating another party status crisis.

During her time as leader of the federal NDP, McDonough was romantically involved with David MacDonald, a former Progressive Conservative ( PC ) MP for Toronto Centre — Rosedale and a cabinet minister.

MacDonald ran as the NDP candidate in Toronto Centre — Rosedale in the 1997 election ; in the previous election, he was the PC incumbent, and like every other PC candidate in Ontario in 1993, was defeated.

She was the first mayor of Toronto to be a member of the NDP since William Dennison.

Jack Layton addresses the 2003 NDP convention in Toronto, where he was elected leader

The NDP rebuilt itself and went through a painful confrontation between a left-wing movement dubbed " The Waffle " ( a name derived from Toronto leftist economist Gordon Laxer's quip that if he was perceived to be " waffling " on a policy question, then he'd " rather waffle to the left than waffle to the right ") and the more centrist-oriented party establishment.

* 1993 – 1998 Michael Prue – later Toronto city councillor and current NDP MPP

Jack Layton, who had led the NDP to official opposition status in the 2011 election, moved in a month after the election, but stated that he would continue to live in Toronto when Parliament was out of session.

In 1993, the now governing New Democratic Party ( NDP ) under Bob Rae proposed provincial funding for four subway / LRT projects for the Toronto Transit Commission ( TTC ).

Ianno narrowly defeated Toronto city councillor Olivia Chow in the 1997 election and Globe and Mail journalist Michael Valpy who ran for the NDP in the 2000 election.

Cho was a New Democratic Party candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election and was initially identified as a New Democrat when he joined Metro Council, however, he soon became an ally and supporter of then Metropolitan Toronto Chairman Alan Tonks and dropped his NDP affiliation.

* January 25-Jack Layton is elected leader of the NDP at the party's convention in Toronto.

** NDP: Jack Layton makes controversial comments on homelessness, blaming Paul Martin for the deaths of homeless people in Toronto.

** The NDP announce that they no longer support their previous platform promise of having an inheritance tax, possibly to increase support in wealthy upper-class neighbourhoods such as those in the Toronto riding of Beaches — East York.

On February 15, 2006, the Toronto — Danforth NDP riding association nominated Tabuns as the party's candidate in the provincial byelection, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of former NDP Member of Provincial Parliament Marilyn Churley.