Torstar Corporation (TSX: TS.B) is an independently-owned Canadian broadly based media company that is named after its principal holding, the Toronto Star daily newspaper.
Its core businesses includes publishing daily and community newspapers, speciality publications, digital properties, Syndicate content, as well as women’s fiction and a 20% stake in CTVglobemedia.
Torstar was founded after the Ontario government passed a law barring the provisi...
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Torstar Corporation (TSX: TS.B) is an independently-owned Canadian broadly based media company that is named after its principal holding, the Toronto Star daily newspaper.
Its core businesses includes publishing daily and community newspapers, speciality publications, digital properties, Syndicate content, as well as women’s fiction and a 20% stake in CTVglobemedia.
Torstar was founded after the Ontario government passed a law barring the provisions of late-Toronto Star owner Joseph Atkinson's will from being enacted. Atkinson had bequeathed the newspaper to a charitable organization he had founded. The Conservative provincial government of George Drew (a long time enemy of the Liberal-oriented Star) passed a law banning charitable organizations from operating profitable entities such as newspapers. Rather than sell the newspaper, the trustees of the Atkinson Foundation bought out the Star privately and founded Torstar as a private corporation.
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