Karon Liu visited Centennial College Story Arts Centre last month to speak with journalism students about his career in food writing. He is a food writer and recipe tester for the Toronto Star, who originated from Hong Kong.
Columnist and novelist Uzma Jalaluddin spoke with Centennial College journalism students about her success.
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader says the government has deceived the parents seeking medical treatment for their children dealing with autism.
During Question Period, on Thursday, PC leader Patrick Brown referred to an article published by The Toronto Star. In it, Brown said, the Star pointed that last spring Ontario’s Liberal government cut the funding for children (aged five and up) who were promised treatment for their autism.
The leader of the Progressive Conservative Opposition, has expressed his concern in the Ontario legislature over the new funding program for families of children with autism.
PC leader Patrick Brown referred to an article released in The Toronto Star in which the Liberals’ own expert advisory panel cautioned them about putting an age gap on autism services. This would mean that children above the age of five on the waiting list might not receive the intensive behavioral intervention (IBI) that the government had promised.
The price of the Saturday edition of the Toronto Star will rise from three dollars to three dollars and fifty cents on September 19.
At first, the racial slur his former boss made about him didn’t bother him. It had been 17 years since Hamlin Grange had worked with him at the Toronto Star. That’s when another working colleague, John Miller, told him about the derogatory remark.
“My wife knew something (had) changed inside me,” Grange said. “She said I looked vulnerable, as if I’d lost something. … She was right.”
This was a defining moment in Grange’s career. He went on to report and anchor on Global TV and CBC TV, and eventually to co-create DiversiPro Inc., a company dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion.
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Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford has achieved a new level of fame appearing in an ad for a well-known furniture store.
When Rob Ford was elected mayor in 2010, there was a drastic increase in voter turnout compared to previous mayoral elections in Toronto. According to the Toronto Elections website, voter turnout had stayed steady at around…
Sandy Krzyzanowski can’t see the Toronto Islands skyline without them. “It breaks my heart to even think that they would consider replacing them, because those ferries are incredibly beautiful,” she said. “You look at the lake and the horizon, and the city skyline through that space…I’ve lived here for 40 years, and I still think it’s one of the most beautiful things ever to look at.”