My parents never ever subscribed to the Star. It was always The Telegram. I am sure that they never voted Liberal in elections had something to do their subscription choices.

So that means Kypreos would have been 8 when Nixon resigned. I find it hard to believe an 8 year old would be interested in politics. I was 7 when the Kennedy/Nixon debate happened. My parents watched it. [There were actually four of them but most people only remember the first one] To me it was just two old guys blathering on about stuff I didn't care about. Plus the debate preempted tv shows I did care about.

Our family was similar to Mace's.  We were Toronto Telegram readers until they went out of business.  We became Star readers after the Tely folded but didn't like it at all.  Once we got used to the Star's format and features we enjoyed it a bit better.  But it was no Telegram.  Our family never got into buying the Sun.

Kypreos line about waking up to newsprint spread out over the kitchen counter could be accurate.  Remember a lot of teenagers 13 and 14 don't get up until 12 noon or 1pm on weekends or summer holidays.  The Star published many editions throughout the day prior to being a morning paper, so it is possible the papers were spread out over the counter when a teenage Nick got out of bed. And the big Saturday Star was traditionally delivered earlier than the rest of the week if his parents subscribed to the paper.  

I was born in 1960 and first became interested in politics with the 1968 Liberal leadership convention, which was held shortly after I turned eight. I remember my older sister discussing it with me as we looked at a Star article discussing the contenders. Later that year I became interested in American politics as well, and I remember clipping out a map from the Star that showed the results of the presidential election because we were discussing it in school.