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Atkinson's influence Ītkinson was the Star 's editor from 1899 until his death in 1948.

The supporters included Senator George Cox, William Mulock, Peter Charles Larkin and Timothy Eaton. "Holy Joe" Atkinson, backed by funds raised by supporters of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, bought the paper.

Sheppard and Frederic Thomas Nicholls, moved the entire Star operation into the same building used by the magazine Saturday Night. Hocken sold out within the year, and several owners followed in succession until railway entrepreneur William Mackenzie bought it in 1896. The paper did poorly in its first few years. After an extensive fundraising campaign among the Star staff, Maclean agreed to sell his interest to Hocken. That arrangement only lasted for two months, during which time it was rumoured that William Findlay "Billy" Maclean, The World 's proprietor, was considering selling the Star to the Riordon family. The Star was first printed on Toronto World presses, and at its formation, The World owned a 51 percent interest in it as a silent partner. The Star (originally known as the Evening Star and then the Toronto Daily Star) was created in 1892 by striking Toronto News printers and writers, led by future Mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocken, who became the newspaper's founder, along with another future mayor, Jimmy Simpson.

Horatio Clarence Hocken, founder of the Star Formation On July 31, 2020, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice rejected an appeal against the plan. In July 2020, Torstar agreed to sell the company to NordStar Capital LP. The Toronto Star is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands division. As of 2015, it was Canada's highest-circulation newspaper in overall weekly circulation: although a close second to The Globe and Mail in daily circulation on weekdays, it overtakes the Globe in weekly circulation because the Globe does not publish a Sunday edition.

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. (subsidiary of Torstar)ġ892 129 years ago ( 1892) (as Evening Star) The front page of the January 23, 2013, edition of the Toronto Star