Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is Canada's largest-circulation daily newspaper, founded in 1892 and published by Torstar. Long guided by the progressive Atkinson Principles of its former publisher, it is widely characterized as centre-left and rated Lean Left by AllSides. Its coverage spans Canadian politics, the Greater Toronto Area, business and investigative reporting.
Toronto Star at a glance
- Country
- Canada
- Region
- North America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1892
- Owner
- Torstar
- Published from
- Toronto
- Website
- thestar.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups Toronto Star
Crosswire groups Toronto Star as Left-leaning for comparisons within Canada's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Canada, The Globe and Mail and CTV News are listed as Centrist, while National Post is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Toronto Star beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Toronto Star sits in Canada's press
Toronto Star was founded in 1892, is published from Toronto and is owned by Torstar. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Canada, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being The Globe and Mail and National Post. By outlets tracked, Canada ranks third of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 85 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Toronto Star outside Canada, starting with North America, are El Salvador (El Salvador), La Prensa (Honduras), La Prensa (Nicaragua) and La Nación (CR) (Costa Rica). Opening one of them beside Toronto Star is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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