Lowering Refugee Levels by Howard Adelman

“… In the Toronto Star of October 6, 1982, your advisor on immigration, Ian Rankin, suggests that Canada's refugee intake will be reduced in response to financial constraints of the federal government. …”
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Social media attacks against female Canadian journalists by Ahmed Al-Rawi

“…I used purposive sampling to focus on three journalists: Rachel Gilmore (formerly with Global News), Erica Iffil (freelance with The Hill Times), and Saba Eitizaz (Toronto Star). I employed a mixed method approach to conduct this study by collecting all the available Twitter replies to these three journalists (n = 402,821) posted by 84,962 unique users. …”
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The fate of bitumen: an exploratory study of national newspaper coverage of Alberta’s bitumen industry during the COVID-19 pandemic by Sibo Chen

“…Abstract This exploratory study examines how three major Canadian newspapers—the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Toronto Star—reported on Alberta’s bitumen industry throughout 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic introduced significant market volatility. …”
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#WelcomeRefugees: a critical discourse analysis of the refugee resettlement initiative in Canadian news by Manar Mustafa, Zahariah Pilus

“…This study examines a total of 31 articles selected from three of the most visited Canadian news sites, namely, the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun, and the National Post. …”
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Contact, cognates, and the Dictionary of Canadianisms Online by Fee, M, Dollinger, S

“…Evidence on these differences for about 30 cognates will come from the English-language Montreal daily, the <em>Gazette</em>, with control data from <em>The Toronto Star</em>. The newspaper corpus will be supplemented with correctness / acceptibility judgements by Vancouver and Montreal speakers. …”

The Study Area by Donya Ahmadi, Tuna Tasan-Kok

“…Moreover, supported by the economic crisis, the Harper government implemented budget cutbacks, which had a direct impact on policy priorities for communities or neighbourhoods at the city level (Toronto Star, 2013). In summary, prior to the 1960s, immigrant admissions were regulated on the basis of national origin and immigrants’ rights to sponsor family members to enter Canada were hardly addressed by policy. …”
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