The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail has outsold the National Post throughout the so-called "national newspaper war" and has begun to regain some of the lost ground as the Post's new owner, CanWest, has been reluctant to invest in expansion. Inspired by a joke on The Simpsons, there is now a Scottish version called the Scotchtoberfest. Needham. Many other places have beer festivals, but the name "Oktoberfest" is generally reserved for the Munich event. Other satirical nicknames for the paper include Mop and Pail or Grope and Flail, both of which were coined by longtime Globe and Mail humour columnist Richard J. Some of them go on later into the night than the Oktoberfest. For this reason, critics sometimes refer to the paper as the Toronto Globe and Mail or as Toronto's National Newspaper. Smaller beer festivals similar to the Oktoberfest are common in Germany and take place throughout the year in most bigger German cities.

(A similar criticism is sometimes applied to The New York Times). Not called "Oktoberfest", but very similar in character, is the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart which starts one week later and is the second largest fair in the world. As such it is sometimes popularly ridiculed as being too focused on the GTA, which could be seen as part of a wider humourous notion of Torontonians sometimes being blind to the wider concerns of the nation. People who purchase the souvenir mugs are considered to be "soft". Though promoted as a national paper and sold throughout Canada, The Globe and Mail also serves as a Toronto metropolitan paper, publishing several special sections in its Toronto edition which are not included in the national edition. They are a valued trophy in Antipodean culture. Possibly due to this competition the paper has made other changes such as the introduction of colour photographs and the creation of the Review section on arts, entertainment and culture. Stealing mugs from the Oktoberfest is a popular pursuit for young Australian and New Zealand travelers.

In the 2006 Canadian election, the Globe and Mail endorsed the Conservative Party, endorsing a different party for the first time since 1988. Often when police catch someone stealing a beer mug, they are fined 50 euros. Following the tenure of chief editor Edward Greenspon in 2002, The Globe and Mail has been criticized for returning to its conservative tradition; its editorial cartoonist Brian Gable has mocked it as sensationalistic, and its columnist Lawrence Martin has called for the creation of a new national newspaper [1]. Visitors are warned to keep the receipt, because the police actively look for stolen mugs even away from the fest area. Since the 1998 launch of rival conservative paper the National Post, the Globe has been seen as increasingly centrist or even liberal; however, no media studies have yet examined whether the editorial thrust of the paper has actually changed (as opposed to the zeitgeist changing around it) and recent anecdotal observations are typically made in comparison to the Post. It is strictly forbidden to steal beer mugs, although they can be purchased in the tents as souvenirs. After 1993, the paper moved its electoral support to the Liberals. In the past price hikes have been a very contentious issue.

The paper was an ardent supporter of the now defunct Progressive Conservative party, being most pronounced in its many pro-free trade editorials during the election in 1988. Last year (2005) the official range is between €6.80 and €7.25, as opposed to €6.65 and €7.10 the year before. Editorially, The Globe and Mail has historically been seen as a conservative and business-oriented paper. One of the biggest talking points among citizens of Munich in the lead up to the Oktoberfest each year is how much a litre of beer will cost. The network and paper are now owned by Bell Globemedia, of which the Thomson Corporation is the majority shareholder with 40%, while Bell, Torstar and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan control 20% each. Roast chickens: 459,279. Long owned by Kenneth Thomson and his family, in 2001 control of the paper was sold to BCE Inc., also owners of the CTV network. Sausages: 219,443 pairs.

Report on Business Magazine, published by and carried in the newspaper, would follow, as would the specialty channel Report on Business Television. Roasted oxen: 88. In 1962, the paper added its popular Report on Business section. Beer: 5.7 million litres (1.5 million gallons). As The Globe and Mail lost ground to the Star locally, the newspaper began to circulate nationally in search of subscribers, adopting the masthead slogan "Canada's National Newspaper" in the process. Number of visitors: 6-7 million. Macdonald), the Globe became The Globe and Mail. The beer (or wine) served in each is in brackets after the tent name:.

In 1936, after a merger with The Mail and Empire (ironically, the Mail was the paper of Brown's arch-rival, Sir John A. The tents themselves are semi-permanent structures which are only occupied during the festival. Through the late 19th and early 20th centuries the newspaper was strictly a Toronto-oriented daily, competing with the Toronto Star in a heated newspaper war. There are currently 14 main tents at the Oktoberfest. Brown selected as the motto for the editorial page a quotation from Junius, "The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures." The quotation is carried on the editorial page daily to this day. It has been related to Gladio, NATO's secret paramilitary organizations. The paper was founded as The Globe in 1844 by George Brown, who was later a Father of Confederation. The bomb had been placed by a 21-year-old Neo-Nazi who died at the scene.

. On September 26, 1980, a bomb explosion near the entrance killed 13 visitors and injured 200 more. It bills itself as the newspaper of record in Canada. Largely due to coincidence, the festival now ends on or near October 3, which became the German national holiday in the early 1990s. The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. The dates were changed to take advantage of better summer weather which made the fair even more popular. Ken Wiwa. Ironically, the modern Oktoberfest runs mostly during the month of September.

Jan Wong. Horse races ended in 1960. Hugh Winsor. The celebration had to be cancelled 24 times due to war, disease or other problems. Margaret Wente. Because of its success, it was repeated annually, later also with an agricultural fair, dance, music and amusement rides. Bob Weeks. The first Oktoberfest, held from October 12–October 17, 1810 in Munich, was to celebrate the occasion of the wedding of Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Sachsen-Hildburghausen, and was ended with a horse race.

William Thorsell. Visitors also consume large quantities of food, most of it traditional hearty fare such as sausage, hendl (chicken), käsespätzle (cheese noodles), and sauerkraut, along with such Bavarian delicacies as roast ox tails. Norman Spector. Only six Munich breweries are allowed to serve beer at Oktoberfest – Löwenbräu, Spaten, Augustiner, Hofbräu, Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr. Russell Smith. Only local Munich breweries are allowed to serve this beer in a Bierzelt (beer tent) which is large enough for thousands (see below). Jeffrey Simpson. It is served in a one-liter-tankard called Maß (IPA: [mass]).

Rick Salutin. A special Oktoberfest beer is brewed for the occasion (see also Märzen), which is slightly darker and stronger, in both taste and alcohol. Lorne Rubenstein. Beer plays a central role in the fair, with every festival beginning with a keg of beer tapped by the Mayor of Munich who declares "O'zapft is!" (Bavarian for "It's tapped!"). Eric Reguly. The event takes place during the 16 days before the first Sunday in October (unless the 3rd of October "Tag der deutschen Einheit" - the German national day is a Monday or Tuesday) on an area named the "Theresienwiese", often called "d' Wiesn" ("the meadow" in Bavarian dialect) for short. Rex Murphy. .

Leah McLaren. Other cities across the world also hold fairs, modeled after the Munich event, called Oktoberfest. Heather Mallick. It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year. Lawrence Martin. October Festival) is a two-week festival held each year in Munich (München), Bavaria, Germany, during late September and early October. John Ibbitson. Oktoberfest (lit.