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Leafs drop the Wild 4-1!
Nazem Kadri sprints out onto the ice as the Toronto Maple Leafs play the Minnesota Wild at Air Canada Centre.
Steve Russell - Staff Photographer - @RussellPhotos
Leafs drop the Wild 4-1!
Nazem Kadri sprints out onto the ice as the Toronto Maple Leafs play the Minnesota Wild at Air Canada Centre.
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STEVE RUSSELL - Jonathan Bernier and the Leafs get ready to take to the ice.
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STEVE RUSSELL - Rose and Amin Ghaemi hang upside down on the apex of the Bonsai ride during the final weekend of the Canadian National Exhibition.
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Andrew Francis Wallace, @awallacethestar & Steve Russell, @RussellPhotos - Staff Photographers
Less than 24 hours after an Ultimate Fighting Championship octagon had been dismantled at centre ice after UFC 165 it seemed that the blood letting had not finished.
An otherwise uneventful, well, boring game erupted in the third period to a series of bloody brawls that climaxed in a goalie fight.
ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE - Aquired in the off season Jonathan Bernier stretches prior to Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres NHL pre-season game at Air Canada Centre.
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Retired Toronto Star photographer Boris Spremo, his career spanned four decades,will be inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame in October.
Here is just a very small sample of his images over the years.
We included a couple from Boris' favourite subjects, Trudeau and the CN Tower!
Also Chris So interviewed Boris after the announcement, see it here.
Boris Spremo with his 1959 Cadillac outside Queen's Park Monday afternoon. - David Cooper
Private David Juliusson cleans his Liverpool Musket at Fort York. Juliusson is dressed in the 8th Regiment uniform from the 1813 Battle of York.
Boris loved to get the high angle, construction of the Toronto Dominion Centre.
Angelo Tramonti polishes the statue of Queen Victoria, the nine bronze statues at Queens Park get an annual cleanup.
Snow Birds fly over Niagara Falls.
Sir John A. Macdonald monument in Queen's Park.
In an emotional outpouring of joy that even heavy rain could not dampen, Toronto fans went wild at the return home of Team Canada after winning the Summit Series in 1972. Here, as they festoon themselves along the concrete arcs over City Hall pool in Nathan Phillips Square last night, they cheered themselves hoarse for their hockey heroes, who beat Soviet national team by four games to three after a disastrous start to the eight-game series that made many experts fear possible defeat and humiliation.
Johnny Bower. September 11, 1968.
Harold Ballard on ice, March 29, 1984.
Harold Ballard and wife Yolanda, June 27, 1989.
Harry Rosen flashes a new line of coats at his Bloor Street location.
Stompin' Tom Conners in procession on his way to Convocation Hall to be hooded.
Alfred Hitchcock. July 9, 1970.
Garth Drabinsky back at centre stage -``I've been involved in the varied facets of the arts for the last 25 years, and I expect to be involved for at least the next 25,'' Former LIVENT boss Garth Drabinsky tells very few media representatives at the Bluma Appel Theatre. Drabinsky confirmed he will mount Athol Fugard's "The Island".
Robbie Robertson, December 3, 1987.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Press Conference at the Ontario Science Centre. December 17, 1969.
Alice Cooper at Varsity Stadium September 2, 1972.
Toronto Star photographer Boris Spremo's NNA award winning picture of John Diefenbaker in Barbados. Diefenbaker is pictured in silhouette reading in a lounge chair during this period when he was writing his memoirs.
Mel Lastman debates at Metro Council, March 29, 1988.
Mel Lastman dresses as a Matador for the running of the moose on Bay Street.
David Crombie on the Polson Street Pier.
Trudeau
Margaret Trudeau balances trays of sandwiches as she hops a fence, April 12, 1977. She was staying at her sister's house in Winchester, a suburb of Boston.
Trudeaumania: During his first term as Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau draws a crowd as he approaches Toronto City Hall for a rally.
The young Princess of Wales was charming and glamorous at a state dinner in Halifax hosted by the Prime Minister. She and Prince Charles were making their first official visit as a couple in 1983.
Pierre Trudeau hams it up with media on an airplane.
Spremo got knocked over and his pants ripped in the riot.
Sam Kank studies the sculpture "Draped Reclining Figure" made by Henry Moore-1953, at the Henry Moore sculpture centre at Art Gallery of Ontario.
Spremo and the Pope, or as the Pope.
Pope John Paul II - Quebec City: Sept. 10, 1984 - The Pope kisses a young boy on the forehead during a walkabout.
A quick story about Boris on this Papal tour...
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World Youth Day Cross, entrusted to the young people of Canada by Pope John Paul II made the journey across the Canada in preparation for World Youth Day which will was held in Toronto.
George Chuvalo. Spremo and the Champ were quite close. Boris even gave the heaveyweight some lessons and George loved to take pictures.
George Chuvalo fights Muhammad Ali at Maple Leaf Gardens.
Boris and the CN Tower.
Perched 440 meters above Toronto and 9 meters out from the growing CN Tower iron worker Larry Porter pulls at the hook of giant crane as he installs the outriggers that will be used to lift the restaurant.
CN Tower construction with the Flatiron in the foreground.
Spremo on assignment May 1965.
Other Retired Toronto Star Photographers
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RICK MADONIK - Mick Jagger, of The Rolling Stones, on tour in their 50th year of playing as a band. More on the Rolling Stones!
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Rick Madonik, Steve Russell & Vince Talotta
STEVE RUSSELL - Boston Bruins' fans begin to show up for the game 7 in their first round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs series versus the Toronto Maple Leafs at the TD Garden.
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David Cooper, Lucas Oleniuk, Carlos Osorio, Rick Madonik & Steve Russell
CARLOS OSORIO - David Brown cheers on the runners and the Toronto Maple Leafs on the Key Gardner Beltline just south of Davisvile Avenue. Runners lace up their sneakers and hit the pavement for the 17th annual Sporting Life Run on Mother's Day.
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Wow! What a game!
And double Wow for James Reimer! He stole the game!
Bruins fans arrive at the TD Garden hoping to see the home team close out the series.
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Rene Johnston, Rick Madonik, Carlos Osorio & Steve Russell
Leafs play a great game but drop a heartbreaker in overtime.
RICK MADONIK - Mike Agati, 19, of Toronto, flashes his toothless grin as Maple Leaf fans gather in Maple Leaf Square prior to start of Game 4.
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