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Positively Shady

The glamorous activism of M.A.C Cosmetics

Muslim Pride

A timely LGBTQ memoir

Minor Hockey as Big Business

The disturbing shift from kids’ game to pricey investment

Mary Ormsby

Mary Ormsby covered sports for 25 years at the Toronto Star. She is now a member of the Star’s Investigations Team.

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How the NHL Grew Up

From fractious near-insolvency to profitable peace March 2014
Gary Bettman and I were comparing fitness notes one day in Toronto in the early 1990s, just after he had been picked as the National Hockey League’s first commissioner. I told him I ran about an hour a day, maybe four times a week. “With hills?” he asked, eyes alight, hoping for the correct answer.…