Toronto Star Newspapers Limited: 82 books
by Jennifer Bain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Star's holiday cookie calendar is one of the most beloved features of the newspaper a march of daily cookie recipes during December. In the spirit of the festive season, Toronto Star food editor Jennifer Bain has pulled together 32 of her favourite recipes from the calendar's wildly popular first...
OMG! Justin!
My Time Among the Beliebers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He is the biggest pop star on the planet right now, a sweet-faced Canadian teen heartthrob with multi-platinum albums and legions of hysterically screaming fans. What is it about Justin Bieber that attracts such devotion? Is he a flash in the pan or the real deal? Can he make the treacherous transition...
Chris Spence
How Plagiarism Caught Up with Toronto’s Top Educator
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He was the darling of the media and his fellow educators a brilliant, charismatic, caring educator who was thought to have brought positive change in his role as director of Canada's largest school board. Then, just last week, Chris Spence was discovered to have plagiarized sections of an op ed piece...
Shelagh
The Beauty of an Ordinary Life One Year Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Even ordinary lives can be extraordinary. That was the animating idea last year when the Star sent a fleet of journalists to cover an unknown woman's funeral. By dedicating the kind of resources we might devote to a massive breaking news event, we hoped to interview every single person who attended the...
Unsolved
One Murder, Three Trials: Did Robert Badgerow Kill Diane?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Stories walk into the Toronto Star newsroom every day and that is the endlessly interesting river that feeds our ideas at Star Dispatches. This week's eRead of a cold-case murder awaiting a rare fourth trial is a story not generated in our own newsroom, but one that we feel is compelling and important....
Betrayed
My cousin’s wrongful conviction for the murder of her daughter, Aarushi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The double murder in a New Delhi suburb made headlines around the world. In May 2008, 13-year-old Aarushi Talwar was found dead in her room one morning with her throat slit. After a domestic servant who was the prime suspect was also found murdered, Aarushi's dentist parents, Rajesh and Nupur, were charged....
Marineland
Inside the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, the red eyes of a harbour seal named Larry stared out from behind bars on the front page of the Toronto Star, in the first story of the series Inside Marineland. Larry immediately went viral as readers worried about his welfare and that of other animals at the tourist attraction....
Carsick
Reclaiming Our Cities from the Automobile
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Increasingly, young people attach more cachet to their smartphone than their car -if they have one at all. And developers are finding a market for parking-free condominiums. As the Toronto Star's award-winning urban affairs columnist and architecture critic Christopher Hume writes in his new Star Dispatches...
Wounded at Birth?
My Struggle to Understand My Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On July 22, 1989, John and Gwyn Nursall adopted a baby girl at a Calgary hospital. While growing up, their daughter, Kim, now a reporter at the Toronto Star, didn't think much about her history. Then she began to explore her feelings, and two years ago, her biological father got in touch. In the candid,...
Shark School
Learning to Love the Ocean’s Top Predator
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sharks are the ocean's apex predators. And attacks on humans are increasing as we populate coastlines and encroach on their domain. Still, as Toronto Star feature writer Sandro Contenta points out in his new Star Dispatches ebook, Shark School: Learning to Love the Ocean's Top Predator, the creature...
The Francis Effect
How the Pope is Changing the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
No one expected the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to be elected pontiff last March. But in the months since, Pope Francis has become one of the most talked-about people in the world. As Toronto Star journalist and longtime Vatican watcher Sandro Contenta writes in his new...
Royal Babies
What Will and Kate Have Learned From the Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What does the future hold for Britain's new royal baby, child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate. It's impossible to say. But in her eRead Royal Babies: What Will and Kate Have Learned from the Past, veteran Toronto Star journalist Rosie DiManno a self-declared monarchist explores...
Niagara Falls
Seeing Canada Through a Window of Water
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ask a foreigner what he or she thinks about when Canada is mentioned, and the answer is likely to be Niagara Falls. It's the image that most defines us, for better or for worse, and no matter how inaccurately. But what does the place say about this country? Not all of the answers to that question are...
Leslie's Stamps
A Saga of the Holocaust and Escape to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He had an idyllic childhood in a small Hungarian town where, it seemed, there was no animosity between the Christian majority and Jews like him. But with the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Leslie Meisels ended up in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with his family. In Leslie's Stamps: A Saga of the Holocaust...