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39 unusual facts about Toronto Star


1994 Pulitzer Prize

Paul Watson of the Toronto Star, for his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.

360 Screenings

It has been covered by a wide variety of news outlets, including; The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Metro News, Global TV, Newstalk 1010, Canadian Press and Business News Network.

Amanda Laine

Laine has also appeared at the Prada show in Milan, and was referred to as a "Canadian teen supermodel" by the Toronto Star.

Beauty Day

Beauty Day received average reviews from Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and Sun Media/QMI.

Bob MacDonald

He began his career with The Toronto Star in 1953 before moving to the Telly a few years later.

Brand New Planet

The Brand New Planet, also known as BNP, was a youth newspaper affiliated with the Toronto Star.

Dan Falk

He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Cottage Life, SkyNews, Astronomy and New Scientist, and has contributed to the CBC radio programs Ideas, Quirks and Quarks, Tapestry and Spark.

Eccleston Square Hotel

In 2013, the Toronto Star listed Eccleston as a "hotel for health-minded travellers" based on the sleep-induced sounds and images that are broadcast in each room which are designed to promote better sleep.

Eddie Zosky

So anticipated was Zosky's debut that Toronto Star writer Dave Perkins compared Zosky's debut to Lou Gehrig in 1925, asking "Did Manuel Lee just become Manuel Pipp?" (in reference to Gehrig usurping Wally Pipp's first base position that season).

Ernest M. Howse

After his retirement he became a regular writer on faith matters for the Toronto Star until 1979.

FNTSY Sports Network

CEO of Anthem Media Group Inc., Leonard Asper, only a few months after receiving approval from the CRTC, told The Toronto Star that the channel was slated for a launch in September 2013 after already securing one distributor to carry the channel; however, the channel did not launch as planned for unknown reasons.

French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec

French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec is a non-fiction book written by Chantal Hébert, a Canadian writer and columnist for the Toronto Star and Le Devoir, first published by Knopf Canada in April 2007.

Gary Woods

"I remember the snow on the field and I remember Doug Ault and I remember the excitement in the city," Woods told the Toronto Star in an article that was published on October 8, 1985.

Golden Parnassus

The Toronto Star reports that customers of another resort who found themselves in a similar predicament were told by Mexico's Tourist Bureau in Toronto that hotels that had accepted vouchers from Conquest as payment at check-in were not entitled to demand payment a second time.

Graham Fraser

During his career as a journalist, Fraser wrote for Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, The Toronto Star and Le Devoir.

He is the author of several books, both in English and French, and served as the National Affairs Correspondent for the Toronto Star, for which he also wrote a weekly column.

Grey Classic

Two months later, the January 10, 1989 edition of the Toronto Star reported that Grey Classic had dropped dead at the Sam-Son Farm in Florida.

Ian Urquhart

Ian Urquhart was the managing editor of the Toronto Star.

Isabel Vincent

However, a fellow investigative journalist, Caroline Mallan of the Toronto Star, also found strong evidence of Lamont's and Spencer's guilt, which she detailed in her own book Wrong time, wrong place?.

Island Public/Natural Science School

Jim Coyle of the Toronto Star wrote that the burning schoolhouse firework "supposedly" originated from this event.

Joe Leydon

His work as a journalist, interviewer and feature writer has appeared in the New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Tennessean, The Boston Globe, Toronto Star and the Austin American-Statesman; Film Comment and New Orleans magazines.

Marion K. Sanders

Under the name Marion Klein she was a free lance feature writer for a small news syndicate, as a stringer for The Toronto Star, which published several pieces (November 1925), reviewed books for The Book Review (March 1926), performed minor editorial chores for the Theater Guild Quarterly for which she also wrote a piece (April 1926), wrote several piece for the Chicago Journal under the byline Marionette (May 29, 1926, June 9, 13, 20 and 27,1926).

Mark Gayn

Mark Gayn (1902-1981) was an American and Canadian journalist, who worked for The Toronto Star for 30 years.

Mary Walker-Sawka

The Toronto Star newspaper reported that she gave a concise speech laying out her ideas on various issues.

Matthew Halton

He briefly returned to Canada in 1931, but then returned to Europe as a correspondent for the Toronto Star.

Mickey Mahler

In reflecting on his career as a journeyman, Mahler told the Toronto Star in 1986: "It's not a pleasant way to spend a career, but the memories will be incredible. I've played with Reggie Jackson and Rod Carew and Dale Murphy, I've learned from Tom House and (Johnny) Sain, the two best pitching coaches in the business. I've been around, seen the best. It's not so bad a life."

Ralph L. Thomas

He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 and began to write for the entertainment pages of the Toronto Star a year later.

Randy Starkman

Randy Starkman (1960 – April 16, 2012) was a Canadian sports journalist who reported on amateur sports and athletes for the Toronto Star newspaper.

Reed Johnson

In a Toronto Star article, Johnson was quoted as saying, "I train so that I can play every day. I don't train to be a fourth outfielder, or there would be a lot less training. I wouldn't be waking up as early. I wouldn't be trying to be in the shape that I'm in. I know my body can take the pounding of an everyday season".

Ricky Lawless

"Bulldogs lasso foes to climb to the top of Calgary circuit." The Toronto Star.

The Toronto Star, claimed the murder had been committed by "former tag team partner" Vladimir Koloff.

Ruth Morris

Todd, "Group Seeks to Help Most Dreaded Criminals", Toronto Star, 22 Jun 1990, p.

Sparkle Hayter

At the time of the Afghan civil war, she moved to Pakistan and then went along with the Mujahedin to Afghanistan, reporting for the Toronto Star.

Swiss Family Guy Robinson

"Amazing! Bountiful laughs. Impeccable impressions. Wonderfully lunatic comedy. Highly recommended." – Richard Ouzounian: The Toronto Star

Then They Came for Me

“Then They Came for Me is a gripping story that weaves his family’s history of incarceration by Iranian rulers with his own.” – Leslie Scrivener, The Toronto Star.

Toronto International Teen Movie Festival

ITMF past sponsors included Levis, Grand and Toy, Guess, The Gulf Islands Film & Television School, Indie Access.ca, MTV Canada (now called Razer), MuchMusic, Toronto Star, Trebas Institute, Warner Brothers Pictures.

Val Sears

Widely recognized of one of the most important political journalists of his day, he has long experience as reporter, editor, Ottawa Bureau Chief and foreign correspondent in London, England and Washington, D.C. for the Toronto Star.

Wilfrid Eggleston

Before World War II, Eggleston worked as a journalist for the Toronto Star, Time Magazine, and many other publications.

Year Zero Remixed

The Toronto Star, making note of the remix artists, stated "Year Zero Remixed enlists a commendably eclectic assortment of artists", further commenting "The results are an intriguingly cerebral hodgepodge" with the largest selling point being the bonus DVD-ROM disc.


1931–32 Toronto Maple Leafs season

W. A. Hewitt, sports editor of the Toronto Star, was hired as general manager to oversee all events other than professional hockey.

Abílio Diniz

However, two Canadian investigative journalists, Isabel Vincent of the Globe and Mail and Caroline Mallan of the Toronto Star, wrote books concluding that Lamont and Spencer were likely guilty, and they were being treated well by Brazilian authorities.

Ahcene Zemiri

On July 27, 2008 Michelle Shephard, writing in the Toronto Star, reported that Canadian security officials had interviewed Zemiri and two others at Guantanamo in addition to Khadr.

Brunswick Four

The arrest and subsequent trial received coverage in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and a number of smaller community papers and magazines.

Coconut doughnut

Coconut doughnuts are not usually filled, but there is an unrelated coconut doughnut that uses a coconut cream filling (like a boston cream doughnut or jelly doughnuts), which Conan O'Brien reportedly had a "life-altering experience with" during a three-day visit to Toronto in 2004: "it blew my mind," O'Brien was quoted in the Toronto Star.

Concert Companion

Feature articles about the Concert Companion appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Boston Globe, The Times, Toronto Star and other national and international publications; feature segments aired on National Public Radio (All Things Considered), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

Diane Flacks

In 2007, Flacks became a featured columnist with the Toronto Star, and is a regular contributor for the CBC Radio show Definitely Not the Opera.

Disappearance of Brandon Crisp

Toronto-based outlets such as The Toronto Star, Citytv, CP24, and others covered the story, and national outlets such as the National Post, CTV and CBC soon picked it up as well.

Djamel Ameziane

On July 27 Michelle Shephard, writing in the Toronto Star, reported that other Canadian security officials had interviewed Ahcene Zemiri, Djamel Ameziane and Mohamedou Ould Slahi, three Guantanamo captives who had lived in Canada.

In 2008 Michelle Shephard, writing in the Toronto Star speculated that Ameziane might be transferred to Canada.

Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario

At a meeting of the Canadian Arab Federation on the day after the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal heard the complaint, Hall served on a panel along with Khurrum Awan, one of the student lawyers who helped file the complaint who testified at the BC Human Rights Tribunal against Maclean's, and Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star.

Iason Athanasiadis

A graduate of Oxford University, Iason has written for the Christian Science Monitor, the Financial Times, theInternational Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, the Toronto Star, the Spectator, Newsweek, theWashington Times, the Athens News, and Australia's leading current affairs magazine The Diplomat.

Jaclyn Kenyon

Kenyon was named by Toronto Star music critic Ben Rayner as one of twelve "people to watch" in the Toronto area in 2012.

Milan Chvostek

Chvostek's photos have appeared in the Toronto Star, Good Times Magazine, the National Post, Forever Young, Tandem, Tourist and in Florida, Eh? as well as in-flight magazines, Atmosphere (Canada 3000) and Airborn (Skyservice).

Nasser al-Bahri

During a September 2009 interview with the reporter Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star, Al Bahri said that he was no longer a member of al Qaeda, but that he supported the organization for some of its beliefs.

Ron Hextall

Frank Orr, a columnist in the Toronto Star, suggested that Hextall's aggressive nature, which resulted in three suspensions of six or more games during his NHL career, was an intentional part of his game designed to protect him.

Salim Muwakkil

Other publications in which Muwakkil's work has appeared include The Washington Post, ″The New York Times Book Review″, The Chicago Reader, The Progressive, Newsday, Cineaste, The Baltimore Sun, Z Magazine, Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Utne Reader.

Shelburne Red Wings

In December 2010, the Red Wings and the Town of Shelburne became the centre of attention due to a pair of articles written by the Toronto Star's Robert Cribb.

Stevie Cameron

After a year at Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris in 1975, she began working as a food writer and in 1977 became the food editor of the Toronto Star; a year later she moved to the Ottawa Journal as Lifestyles editor.

Toronto Huskies

Attendance quickly dwindled and the Toronto Star published an estimate that team owners Eric Cradock (co-owner of the Montreal Alouettes football team) and Harold Shannon lost $100,000 in one season of operations.

Yemeni jihadist rehabilitation program

According to Michelle Shephard, reporting for the Toronto Star in September 2009, Yemen had been an innovator in jihadist rehabilitation, with an effort led by the judge Hamoud al-Hitar, called the "Committee for Religious Dialogue".

York, Ontario

During this time, American novelist Ernest Hemingway resided in the Humewood–Cedarvale community, writing for The Toronto Star.