The ''Toronto Standard'' newspaper was published in

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before

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. It is listed among Toronto's early newspapers as the ''Toronto Standard and General Advertiser''. It was a weekly conservative newspaper, published by James Northey, that advocated for

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. Founded in 1848, it closed in 1849.

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