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He controls one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in this world.

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And in 1972, he decided to bring Godspell to Toronto.

On March 3, 1972, the Toronto Star reported, Ed Murvish has booked Godspell, the hit Broadway rock musical based on the gospel according to St. Matthew, for six weeks with options that could take it right through the summer.

It was slated to open in May 1972 and stage at the Royal Alex, which would become home to a ragtag group of young actors that would go on to make history.

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But not everyone was

enamored, and not all reviews were positive.

The Toronto Star wrote...

In general, the hoopla was more amusing than the hosanna.

Over the past 10 days, the Canadian gaming industry has faced scrutiny for two stories around research into gambling harm.

First, thanks to reporting by Brendan Kennedy of the Toronto Star, revealed iGaming Ontario tried to keep quiet a study to track rates of problem gambling in the province since the opening of the regulated sports bank and iGaming market in April 2022.

The second, with reporting by CBC journalists Dave Seglins, Andreas Wesley, and Saloni Bougra, highlighted new research by the Alberta Gambling Research Institute that showed nearly 130,000 Ontarians with signs of struggling with their gambling compared to approximately 43,000 in 2018.

That's far and away the largest number of problem gamblers of any Canadian province.

He has been a frequent panelist at conferences organized by Griot Evidence Insights and the Alberta Gambling Research Institute.

And he is a member of the Institute on Sports Wagering and Gaming at San Diego State University.

We interviewed him for our coverage of the Toronto Star investigation in last week's newsletter.

And today he joins us on the podcast.

Yep.

Toronto Star in 1989, critics reflected on the albums they had reviewed in the past 10 years ago in order to create a list judging them on the basis of commercial impact to social import.

And Thriller was placed at number one on that list, where it was referred to as Michael Jackson's masterwork and the critics of success has been since overshadowed.

Commercial success has since overshadowed Jackson's artistic accomplishments on Thriller and that's a pity as it was a record for the times.

His name is Peter Goddard.

And he was a great music writer and film critic for the Toronto Star.

And he was one of the first Pauls I made because he had an article.

I'm going to spoil.

He was just 46.

The Toronto Star says the cause of death was hypertensive cardiovascular disease.

Recently, he starred in Coyote vs. Acme.

That just came out in August.

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Coming up next in the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, we have the Toronto Star at 9 o'clock.

We have The Economist in at 10 o'clock.

we have episode number five of Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth.

The house will resume tomorrow when Premier Doug Ford is promising a busy fall session.

The Toronto Star says Ford's plans include supporting tariff-impacted workers and businesses and fortifying Ontario's industrial base.

Canada-U.S. trade talks are heating up ahead of the U.S. midterm election.

CTV News says the White House has shown much more interest in striking a deal as voting day gets closer.