The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Torstar Corporation, previously a publicly traded company from 1958 until it was acquired by private investme
Front page of the January 23, 2013, edition of the Toronto Star
Joseph E. Atkinson, c. 1910s. The Star became Toronto's largest newspaper under his leadership.
Front page of the Star in 1922, covering Frederick Banting's accomplishments with insulin
A Canada Post mailbox next to an empty Toronto Star vending box
Social liberalism or progressive liberalism is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political
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…Toronto Daily Star in 1900 under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson significantly influenced the paper's editorial stance, with the publication reflecting his social liberal principles even after his death in 1948. His son-in-law, Harry C. Hindmarsh, continued these principles as the paper's longtime managing editor while…
Leonard Hobhouse was one of the originators of social liberalism, notably through his book Liberalism, published in 1911.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, whose New Deal domestic policies defined American liberalism for the middle third of the 20th century
David Lloyd George, who became closely associated with this new liberalism and vigorously supported expanding social welfare