bonus features: "we are confident that victory is in sight"
This post offers supplementary material for a Torontoist post I wrote several months ago , which I am revisiting in light of the passing of Nelson Mandela. Front page, the Toronto Star , February 11, 1990. Click on image for larger version. Note that amid the history-making headlines about Mandela's release from prison, a Toronto buffoon made his way to the front page. In this case, it's Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard, who would pass away two months after this edition. Advertisement, Now , May 29, 1986. The Toronto Arts Against Apartheid Festival proved controversial during its organizational stages. When the United Way announced the event in November 1985, it gained support from local business leaders. "Here's the time for this city to show where it stands," noted Xerox Canada president David McCamus. Yet there were criticisms that such an event over-politicized the United Way, stretching its mandate beyond distributing funding to organizations wi...