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Letters of the Toronto Star sign at One Yonge Street are removed from the building in late December. Melissa Tait/Tausi Insider Shortly after Jordan Bitove and Paul Rivett bought the Toronto Star two years ago, they moved into an office at the newspaper’s headquarters that provided a view of Lake Ontario below. It had once been occupied by John Honderich, the bow-tied former editor and publisher, who died this year at age 75. The newsroom was deserted owing to the pandemic, but Mr. Bitove and Mr. Rivett shared the space and installed two standing desks. The act was symbolic, intentional or not. Here stood two captains of a storied newspaper, charting a new course, shoulder to shoulder. At a virtual town hall, the company’s then vice-chair, David Peterson, couldn’t help but remark on it. “There aren’t many people who could be in the same office for four months and not fight,” he said. Earlier this year, Mr. Rivett moved out. He decamped to the newsroom, visible for all to see peering ...

The real estate photography firm that posted the tour of Moffy Yu’s apartment online did not respond to an email. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press The professional photographs posted on a property tour website last year show Moffy Yu’s condo in downtown Toronto, a light-filled two-bedroom home with floor-to-ceiling windows framing sweeping views from the tallest residential tower in Canada. Documents provided by Yu show the home was listed for $978,000 last May 11, then sold for $970,000 nine days later, near the height of the pandemic property boom. Ontario land title documents show ownership was transferred for that sum on June 15 to a new buyer who took out a mortgage with the Bank of Montreal. But Yu, a former international student who now lives in China’s Hubei province, said she never put her home in the Aura skyscraper on Yonge Street up for sale. Instead, she said, it was stolen. The property was listed by an impersonator who gained access to the vacant home, staged the photo sh...