The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands division. The newspaper's offices are located at One Yonge Street in the Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto.
The Bank of Montreal is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company.
John Robert Stobo Prichard, is a Canadian lawyer, economist, and academic. He is the past president and chief executive officer and former director of Torstar Corporation. He is now the chairman of the Bank of Montreal.
Frank Iacobucci is a former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 until his retirement from the bench in 2004. He was the first Italian-Canadian, allophone judge on the court. Iacobucci was also the first judge on the Supreme Court to have been born, raised and educated in British Columbia. Iacobucci has had a distinguished career in private practice, academia, the civil service and the judiciary.
Torstar Corporation is a Canadian mass media company which primarily publishes daily and community newspapers. In addition to the Toronto Star, its flagship and namesake, Torstar also publishes daily newspapers in Hamilton, Peterborough, Niagara Region, and Waterloo Region. The corporation was initially established in 1958 to take over operations of the Star from the Atkinson Foundation after a provincial law banned charitable organizations from owning for-profit entities. From 1958 to 2020, the class A shares of Torstar were held by the families of the original Atkinson Foundation trustees. The private investment firm NordStar Capital LP, owned by Jordan Bitove and Paul Rivett, officially acquired Torstar on August 5, 2020.
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE) is a professional sports and commercial real estate company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With assets that include franchises in four of the six major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, it is the largest sports and entertainment company in Canada, and one of the largest in North America.
Eva Lee Kwok is a Malaysian-born Canadian business executive and investor. She is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She spent her early life in Penang, where she attended St. George's Girls' School.
BMO Field is an outdoor stadium located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which is home to Toronto FC of Major League Soccer and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Constructed on the site of the former Exhibition Stadium and first opened in 2007, it is owned by the City of Toronto, and managed by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. The stadium's naming rights are held by the Bank of Montreal, which is commonly branded as "BMO".
Kevin G. Lynch is a Canadian economist and former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Canada's most senior civil servant.
F. Anthony Comper, known as Tony Comper, is a Canadian banker. He served as president and chief executive officer of Bank of Montreal, which currently operates under the brand BMO Financial Group, and retired from that position on March 1, 2007.
William A. Downe CM is a Canadian banker, who was chief executive officer of Bank of Montreal from March 1, 2007 to October 31, 2017.
Larry Heisey, was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was president and chairman of Harlequin Enterprises Limited.
J. Spencer Lanthier is a chartered accountant and corporate director.
Richard Arthur Northwood "Dick" Bonnycastle is a Canadian businessman who is the former owner and publisher of Harlequin Enterprises, the world's largest publisher of romantic fiction, as well as an owner of Thoroughbred racehorses Harlequin Ranches. He is part of the Bonnycastle family founded in Canada by British military officer, Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle.
L. Jacques Ménard, was President Emeritus of BMO Financial Group, Quebec. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Ménard held the position of President Quebec, BMO Financial Group and oversaw the activities of Bank of Montreal and its subsidiaries in Quebec. He also acted as the Chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns. was the chancellor of Concordia University from 2011 to 2014.
Bruce H. Mitchell is a Canadian business executive. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Permian Industries Limited, a Toronto-based management and holding company with interests in the North American food processing, technology and water purification industries. Permian's wholly owned subsidiaries include Ajax Precision Manufacturing Ltd., a manufacturer of metal stampings and assemblies for the North American automobile industry; Trophy Foods, Inc., one of Canada's largest processors and distributors of edible nuts and related products; and Integrated Solutions Groups, Inc., a technology services and computer hardware provider operating in the U.S. Midwest. In total, Permian employs approximately 1,000 people at its 15 locations in North America.
Robert M. Astley, a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, was the chairman of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
J Robert Verdun is an activist shareholder-rights Canadian advocate, an author and a former editor of a weekly paper. He was also a defendant in an important defamation lawsuit.
Astley v Verdun, 2011 ONSC 3651, is a leading defamation decision released by Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The case was publicized for the amount of damages awarded to the plaintiff, and the permanent injunction ordered against the defendant.
Blake Charles Goldring, is a Canadian business leader, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He is Executive Chairman of AGF Management Limited, an independent Canadian-based investment management firm serving retail and institutional investors since 1957. Under Goldring's leadership, AGF has grown its assets to approximately $36 billion in 2018.
