Shawn Star Archive

  • News, education, columns and websites lauded by Ontario Community Newspapers Association judges Valentine’s Day turned out lovely for Toronto Today as we received word we’re finalists for...

    Toronto Today team up for six OCNA awards

    News, education, columns and websites lauded by Ontario Community Newspapers Association judges Valentine’s Day turned out lovely for Toronto Today as we received word we’re finalists for...

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  • ACROSS 1. Fruct- and gluc- suffixes 5. Average grade 8. Common pasta sauce 12. Gun contents 13. Kids’ sport 15. Mine entrance 16. Spinning toys 17....

    Crossword: Let’s Talk Summer

    ACROSS 1. Fruct- and gluc- suffixes 5. Average grade 8. Common pasta sauce 12. Gun contents 13. Kids’ sport 15. Mine entrance 16. Spinning toys 17....

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  • Two reporters race each other along midtown’s premier crossstreets — one on St. Clair’s new streetcar line, the other on Eglinton oldstyle — following parallel routes....

    Dragging the lines: Eglinton vs. St. Clair

    Two reporters race each other along midtown’s premier crossstreets — one on St. Clair’s new streetcar line, the other on Eglinton oldstyle — following parallel routes....

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  • To many, Leaside is recognizable by its winding rows of 1940s-era homes. But what many people don’t realize is nestled among them are a few that...

    Homes of Leaside’s past

    To many, Leaside is recognizable by its winding rows of 1940s-era homes. But what many people don’t realize is nestled among them are a few that...

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  • Richard Byford remembers when he and his young family moved into Leaside in the late 1970s. “We’d walk our little babies down the block and say...

    Midtown neighbourhoods still popular

    Richard Byford remembers when he and his young family moved into Leaside in the late 1970s. “We’d walk our little babies down the block and say...

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  • Staff of Toronto Today and its sister publications the Town Crier and Vaughan Today received a wonderful Valentine’s Day treat as they were informed they had...

    Toronto Today one of Ontario’s top newspapers

    Staff of Toronto Today and its sister publications the Town Crier and Vaughan Today received a wonderful Valentine’s Day treat as they were informed they had...

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  • Police unit keeps watch of most violent offenders It’s nine o’clock on a Wednesday night, and police constables Dave Smith and Crispin Barnes of 51 Division...

    On bail

    Police unit keeps watch of most violent offenders It’s nine o’clock on a Wednesday night, and police constables Dave Smith and Crispin Barnes of 51 Division...

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  • Were I to subscribe to any one McLuhan idea then it would be the one about all things global being all things village (in whatever order you wish to position “global” and “village”). It is particularly poignant now that Toronto Today has taken up residence with its own address on the Internet — that most global of village-centric media.

    Delivery of the message requires various media

    Were I to subscribe to any one McLuhan idea then it would be the one about all things global being all things village (in whatever order you wish to position “global” and “village”). It is particularly poignant now that Toronto Today has taken up residence with its own address on the Internet — that most global of village-centric media.

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