The Newspaper, published by non-profit corporation Planet Publications Inc., is the largest independent student-run campus newspaper in Canada with circulation on the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

 campus. It began publishing in 1978 and was briefly operated as The Independent Weekly. The Newspaper has been financially self-supporting for its entire history and has survived despite competing against many student-fee-supported campus newspapers. The Newspaper is officially recognized by the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

 under the campus media policy of its Governing Council, a unique policy protecting the rights of independent publishers on the University of Toronto campus.

Film director Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan

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, novelists Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry

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 and Ray Robertson

Ray Robertson

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, and television public affairs host Steve Paikin

Steve Paikin

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 all worked for The Newspaper as students while attending the University of Toronto.

In The Newspaper's first year of publication, prominent professors at the University of Toronto contributed articles, including Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom

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, Denis Duffy, and Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

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. The founding editors of the newspaper were Steven Petranik, Thomas Simpson and Ken Whitehurst. The Newspaper's offices are Located at 1 Spadina Crescent

1 Spadina Crescent

1 Spadina Crescent is an academic building of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated in the centre of a roundabout of Spadina Avenue, north of College Street. Its location provides a picturesque vista looking north up Spadina Avenue; it is an axial view terminus for Spadina...

in Toronto, Ontario. Currently the paper distributes on Thursdays, with 17,000 issues printed each week.