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Reading Habits: Jordan Himelfarb on chess, Diet Coke with Didion and reading "Watership Down" with his daughter
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (643+ words) The Toronto Star Opinion editor, whose new book is called "Interregnum," answers our author questionnaire. "This is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins," Jordan Himelfarb writes in "Interregnum" (House of Anansi), his book about the game....
Organizers of the Winter Games made clean energy a priority. Here's how they did it
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (301+ words) CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) " It takes an immense amount of energy to power venues and make snow for the Winter Olympics and, for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, organizers pledged that virtually all of the electricity would be clean....
Alpine into semis at Rock League after splitting mixed foursomes with Frontier
4+ week, 12+ hour ago (192+ words) TORONTO - Alpine Curling Club advanced to the Rock League semifinals after splitting a pair of mixed-fours matches with the Frontier Curling Club on Saturday. Alpine improved to 4. 5 points when their team skipped by Alina Paetz earned a 6-5 over Frontier's Danny…...
Alpine moves to top of the table after first-ever Rock League sweep
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (176+ words) TORONTO - Team Alpine completed the first-ever sweep in curling's Rock League with a 3-0 win over Team Northern in Wednesday's early match. Almida de Val and Oskar Eriksson clinched the sweep with an 8-7 extra-end win over Giulia Lacedelli and Rasmus Wrana…...
Ping pong is booming in Toronto, from warehouses to bars " but finding a table can be tough
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1045+ words) Membership is surging at local clubs as an appetite for social sports outpaces the city's supply of available tables. Ping Li plays a spirited match at the Canadian Community Table Tennis Association in Markham, which is the biggest table tennis…...
Excited Einarson opens "louder" world championship with 7-5 win over Sweden
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (13+ words) Toronto Star...
Winning moguls never gets old for World Cup record holder Mika'l Kingsbury. He's said that nearly 100 times
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (923+ words) Canadian will hit the century mark with his next World Cup victory " a staggering number in a sport where just getting that many races is considered an achievement. Canada's Mika'l Kingsbury is one World Cup victory away from reaching 100 for…...
The Star went undercover to expose how Ticketmaster colludes with scalpers. The probe is now at the heart of a major FTC lawsuit
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (831+ words) Toronto Star investigative reporter Rob Cribb, left, went undercover at a scalpers" convention in Las Vegas. Posing as a small-time scalper from Canada, Cribb talks to a representative from Ticketmaster"s resale arm. A Toronto Star/CBC investigation into Ticketmaster…...
Montreal's transit agency says too expensive to display "Go Habs Go!' before winter
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (183+ words) A bus is seen with the expression "Allez! Canadiens Allez!" in Montreal on Thursday, April 24, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi MONTREAL - Montreal's transit agency says city buses won't be able to flash the "Go! Canadiens Go!" NHL hockey slogan any…...
Quebec language watchdog backtracks on pub sign it deemed too English
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (151+ words) MONTREAL - Quebec's language watchdog has backed down after trying to get a well-known Montreal pub to change its sign. The language office had instructed Pub Burgundy Lion to add French language to its sign because "burgundy" is an English word....