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The Toronto Star is probably a socialist-leaning newspaper (like a lot of American rags are). Therefore, GMMAC inserted "red" to create "Red Star," which is a communist symbol. From wikipedia:

The five-pointed red star (a pentagram without the inner pentagon) is a symbol of Communism and Socialism and represents the five fingers of the worker's hand, as well as the five continents (as traditionally counted). A lesser known suggestion is that the five points on the star were intended to represent the five social groups that would lead the nation to communism. In no particular order, they are: the youth (the future generations), the military (to protect and defend socialism), industrial workers (labourers), agricultural workers (peasantry), and the intelligentsia (to criticize and to improve the ideas and practices of life in order to attain communism). In general, it was the emblem, symbol, and signal that indicated the truth of the new order under the rule and guidance of the Communist Party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star

"The Toronto Star is probably a socialist-leaning newspaper"

To put it mildly.
The vile red Star is our largest circulation 'newspaper' - though like all old media that's now dropping nicely - based, not surprisingly, in Canada's largest & most 'diverse' urban area.

It's the de facto mouthpiece of the Trudeauite left wing of the Liberal Party & big labor but will quite often come out in support of the openly socialist NDP ... although generally only between elections.
It's relentlessly politically correct & stridently pro feminist to such a degree that, if it weren't for it's obsessive lunch-bucket-oriented sports coverage - likely few, if any, white heterosexual males would still read the damned thing.

Picture the NY Slimes ... and then some.
As example, back in the 1930's, it dutifully re-printed all of the Slimes' infamous Walter Duranty's 'stories' praising Joe Stalin & outright denying the very real genocide then on-going in communist-occupied Ukraine.