Rugby Canada names women's U20 National Team coach
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Rugby Canada announced the appointment of Sandro Fiorino as Head Coach of the Womens U20 National Team. The association says, "Sandro brings a wealth of experience to the program through his previous involvement working with age grade athletes through to provincial senior women and most recent...
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Rugby's top world coaches help out
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For the second straight evening, Canadas rugby family on Dec. 5, 2012 got face-to-face with Rugby World Cup-winning All Blacks Coach Graham Henry, this time at Torontos Varsity Stadium as part of a coaching clinic organized by Rugby Canada and Rugby Ontario.Over 170 coaches representing schools to...
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Argo's defensive back Ahmad Carroll retires a champ
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Just days removed from the Toronto Argonauts’ 100th Grey Cup Victory Parade in Downtown Toronto, Argonauts’ DB Ahmad Carroll has retired from professional football. Carroll joined the Argonauts in time for 2012 training camp and played in 13 regular season games. He started both playoff games, as we...
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100th Grey Cup game augurs well for CFL
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Riding the momentum generated by the 100th Grey Cup and years of steady growth, the Canadian Football League is poised for a bright future, says Commissioner Mark Cohon."In this year of the 100th Grey Cup, we have strived to not only honour our history, but also build our future," Cohon to...
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Calgary and their horse are headed Downtown
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During the Grey Cup Festivities in 1948 a group of fanatic Calgary Stampeder fans devised a scheme to ride a horse into the lobby of The Royal York Hotel in Toronto. This event launched the Calgary Grey Cup Committee, and we are going back to Toronto for the 100th Grey Cup to do it all over again, m...
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Grey Cup Festival Adrenaline Zone
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The 100th Grey Cup Festival is excited to unveil details of the mbna Adrenaline Zone, built for the risk taker in all of us. Opening at Nathan Phillips Square on Sunday, November 18 at 11:00 AM, the Adrenaline Zone is action-packed with activities right through to Saturday, November 24. Anchoring t...
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Argonauts Practice Sched through Nov. 18
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The following is the updated Toronto Argonauts’ media availability and practice schedule from November 12 – November 18 in preparation for the club’s Eastern Final date this Sunday, November 18 at 1:00 p.m. at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Note that practices and media availability from Tuesday to Fr...
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Hockey league seeks prizes
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The Moss Park Hockey League, playing out of Moss Park arena at Queen and Sherbourne, is full and is getting ready to kick-off the 2012-2013 season this month.The league is free for inner-city youth, with all ice time donated by the arena and the remainder of costs covered by sponsors and donations o...
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Soccer kick-off
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The Cherry Beach Soccer Club will run an indoor house league from Oct. 28 to May 5 at Monarch Park stadium. Visit www.cherrybeachsoccer.com.
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Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon route change
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Last month major new changes were announced to the Scotiabank Toronto
Waterfront Marathon that will pass through more downtown and waterfront
communities on Sunday October 14.
“These are blockbuster course improvements that we believe will take the
event to the next level — more neighbourho...
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Globetrotters shoot from the ship
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Pupils from Downtown schools including St. Michael School gathered at Sugar Beach April 5 to watch a pair of Harlem Globetrotters shoot at a basket from the deck of a riverboat. At least one of the shots, using non-regulation balls at a non-regulation net, managed to score.The idea was a promotion f...
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Maxam v. World
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Downtown now has its very own Karate Kid.His name is Scott Maxam, he lives in the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood, and he is just nine years old.On June 12, Maxam won a gold medal for musical forms (the performance of karate set to music) in a local competition.He had originally been training to fight in...
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Old salt returns to the sea
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On June 23, a 73 year old Toronto resident departed from the west coast of Florida and relive the first great experience of his life. For the last twenty years, Richard Reinert has yearned to go back to sea and sail across the Atlantic under canvas.Reinert took his first sea voyage in 1954 to Bermud...
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Donations save Jarvis C.I. pool
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Swimmers can stop holding their breath: the pool at Jarvis Collegiate will not be drained on Dec. 31. Cabbagetown group Community Matters (CMT) has been working very closely with the Aquatics Working Group (AWG) to raise all of the approximately $69,000 of funding needed to keep the swimming pool op...
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Olympic torch relay travels down Yonge St.
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A euphoric crowd lined both sides of Yonge St. Dec. 17, as the Olympic torch relay made its way to festivities at Nathan Phillips Square this frosty evening.
The relay was thrown off schedule however, when about 100 anti-Olympic protesters blocked the street. Police made a detour and the ...
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Facilities for Pan Am athletes on display
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Local residents and visitors got a chance to the see the model of the Pan Am Athletes’ Village to be built in the West Don Lands for 2015. This came during a November 29 open house hosted by Toronto Centre MPP George Smitherman, expected soon to retire from Queen’s Park to run for Toronto Mayor.
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Viewpoint: Century of rowing down the drain
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This past July, the city went on strike. Being a 22-year employee and part of Local 79 union, I was rowing and on strike at the same time.Sadly, the ferry service was not operating to and from the Toronto Islands—and so we could not host the annual July 1 Canada Day regatta.In 1884, the Dominion Day...
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Hockey league makes room for Downtown kids
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It’s free and a super opportunity for children under 13. Every Saturday throughout the winter, Moss Park Arena echoes with the cheers of parents, the clang of hockey pucks on goal posts, and the sharp crack of hockey sticks against the ice. These sights and sounds are repeated across the GTA as youn...
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Blind runner goes the distance
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Delano Brown signed up for the 2009 Scotiabank Marathon the evening before the race and planned to run the course alone. Perhaps not an amazing feat in itself except that Brown is blind.Arriving near the starting point Brown was not prepared to find such a large number of strangers ready to help him...
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Soccer club scores in its first year
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The Cherry Beach Soccer Club (CBSC) hosted its inaugural season ending tournament on Sept. 16, marking the success of its opening season with trophies and medallions. In year one, the club built a membership base of over 550 players ages 5 to 18. That number is expected to more than double next year...
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Join the neighbourhood challenge
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We can feel the weather change, the Ex is over and the kids are returning to school. It’s autumn in Toronto and to many local runners, it means they can finally test their hard training, tune-up runs and sore muscles at several marathons, which make their way through Downtown communities.One of the ...
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Bikers peddle European tour for charity
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Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin will spend this summer on a 4,000 km two-wheel European odyssey that will take the 24-year-old Toronto resident through 10 countries raising money for charity.Lapierre-Fortin and fellow Toronto residents Robbie Brydon and Joanna Jack and Markham resident Jenika Wong will kic...
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Seniors’ tai chi no monkey business for rec centre
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St. Lawrence Community Recreation Centre is beginning a 9-week tai chi course for seniors on April 16.
The free course, led by 72-year-old Michael White, features a new style called monkey mountain tai chi which uses stuffed monkeys, a pony and some fish as teaching aids.
The course will be held...
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Hefford hopes for fourth Olympics in 2010
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After three Olympics, Jayna Hefford knows the day is coming when she will have to hang up her skates.
But hopefully not before the Niagara-Bathurst St. resident completes a golden hat-trick by helping the Canadian women's hockey team to victory next year at the Vancouver Winter Games.
A member of ...
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Skaters raise $10k for Moss Park hockey
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Each year The Lions Club of Toronto (Central) helps to organize a kids’ skate-a-thon at the Moss Park Arena for the purpose of raising funds for the 15-team Gord Summers Memorial Hockey League, which provides free hockey all winter to approximately 300 children in the Moss Park area.This year’s skat...
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Moss Park matchmaker hooks up teams
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Hockey has always been a part of Elizabeth Laratta’s life. Growing up in the Northwest Territories, she began playing at age 6 and continued to do so every day until she came to Toronto to attend UofT. in 2006.
Picking up where she left off, she joined an intramural team but found that it wasn’t w...
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Hand game winner takes home $10k prize
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Who’da thunk it? There were a couple of Downtown guys longing for the athletics of their university pub days and at the same time hoping to give their hometown a winning sports event for a change.
The Walker boys, Doug and Graham, washed down their disappointment with the Leafs, the Raps, the Argo...
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Toronto Argos’ Andre Talbot a double-blue Downtowner
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The Argonauts’ Andre Talbot is “a real Toronto boy,” his wife Melanie
says, but she didn’t know the full story about her football-star
husband until fairly recently.“Andre was actually born on Ontario Street,” says Melanie, co-owner of the Common Cloth fashion store on Queen Street West.“He
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Argos team up with TDSB to support high school football
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The Toronto Argonauts Football Club has teamed up with the Toronto District School Board in a multi-faceted effort to help support and grow grassroots football in the GTA.
The Toronto Argonauts will provide TDSB with an Athletic Therapy subsidy in order to ensure that an Athletic Therapist ...
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Godfrey quits as Blue Jays boss
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Paul Godfrey will step down from his position as president and CEO at the end of the year. “I have decided not to seek a new contract,” he said.“Now that the 2008 regular baseball season has come to an end, I believe it is appropriate to announce this decision in order to give ownership enough ...
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Toronto Waterfront Marathon best Canadian showing in years
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The events start and finish on September 28, 2008 in the heart of downtown, at City Hall, at Bay and Queen Streets, hosted by Mayor David Miller. They head out and back along the Lakeshore on a flat course that Boston hopefuls and first-timers love. Toronto Waterfront was one of only 4 sub-2:10...
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Argos welcome Mike Walker to coaching staff
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The Toronto Argonauts Football Club is pleased to welcome new Defensive Consultant Mike Walker to the coaching staff.
Head coach Rich Stubler remarked that "We're thrilled to have Mike Walker in Toronto. He played for me in the 1980s in Hamilton alongside Grover Covington and helped Grover ...
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Cabbagetown Boxing Club annual amateur boxing show
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The club held contests September 6, upstairs at 2 Lancaster above the Cabbagetown Youth Centre. The place gets packed and the matches are very competitive.
Annual prizes are given for best boxer, best cadet boxers, best senior boxers and more.
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Boxing program benefits women
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When life knocked her down, Janet Hackett (a.k.a. Fancy Pants) found her own way to fight back. The George Brown College alum, Regent Park resident, and mother of a teenage son suffered from a bout of depression that sidelined her career working with victims of violence. As part of her recovery, she...
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Prefontaine named CFL player of the week
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Argos K/P Noel Prefontaine has another reason to celebrate. In addition to his marriage on Saturday night to Tanya Lourenco, the Toronto Argonauts Football Club would like to congratulate Prefontaine for earning CFL Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance in the Labour Day Classic at H...
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Sailing champ lives medal ‘dream’
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Her time on the Traunsee was just what it should have been.Berkeley St. resident Nancy Harvey sailed the race of a lifetime on the “dream sea” in Ebensee, Austria, sharing fifth place with her captain and crewmate in the 2007 Shark World championship regatta.Harvey, who has lived in Cabbagetown for ...
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Soccer fields opened at The Ex
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The governments of Canada and Ontario and the City of Toronto officially opened the new BMO Field, the 20,000-seat soccer stadium at Exhibition Place, on May 11. The stadium will be the site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Men's Under-20 World Cup - Canada 2007, expec...
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51 Div football team accepted into league
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In response to what they felt was a need with the youth in their community, members of the 51 Division Community Response Unit have been accepted into the South Central Ontario Football League.One thing is always a constant with kids. They love sports and love to be part of a team.The CRU is working...
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Welcome to the Dark Side
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Will Hutcheson and Jen Fehr, both law students at the University of Toronto, were getting a bit bored of the humdrum student life. They were sitting at home one night and on a whim they decided to start their own ultimate frisbee team. They quickly phoned a few friends, and that night was the beginn...
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Cabbagetown athlete takes on Pan-American trials
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Ibrahim Kamal has called the Cabbagetown Boxing Club home for almost seven years. Now, his hard work and training is paying off with a trip to the Pan-American Boxing Trials in Buenos Aires in March.This 60 kg, steely-eyed and soft-spoken young gladiator is proud of his achievements. Having just tur...
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