CBC-TV is resurrecting its campy competition series Battle of the Blades. The public broadcaster says eight rugged hockey players and eight figure skating stars will shimmy their way through ice dancing contests as part of the upcoming 2013-14 broadcast lineup. The popular elimination-style series had been previously benched amid federal budget cuts. CBC executives outlined [...]
NEW YORK—At some point the Blue Jays are going to stop “tipping their cap” to another solid start by a Yankees pitcher and start saying New York is simply playing better baseball right now. Of all the tough luck the Jays have had — with injuries to pitchers, a poor start, the last-place standing — [...]
OTTAWA—Canadian consumer prices rose at the slowest rate since October 2009 last month, as the annual inflation rate dipped six-tenths of a point to 0.4 per cent. Statistics Canada says there was also an outward decline month-to-month, with prices dropping 0.4 per cent from March. While many consumer items saw an outright decline in prices [...]
Home sales slipped by more than three per cent in April over a year earlier, but prices are holding steady, according to monthly figures from the Canadian Real Estate Association. The national average price of a home rose 1.3 per cent year over year, although the MLS house price index — a benchmark of average [...]
Toronto will have a second Africentric high school this September, located in the city’s northwest-end at Downsview Secondary School. The board will post an announcement about the new high school on its website on Monday and hold an information night at the school Tuesday. The first Africentric high school opened in Scarborough last fall, at [...]
Toronto’s condo boom took a big breather in the first quarter of this year. Sales plummeted by 55 per cent in the first three months of 2013 over the same period last year, as developers held back new project launches and took a wait-and-see approach in the face of a softening market and climbing inventory [...]
BOSTON—It was a worrisome affliction that started to become noticeable in the final weeks of the NHL regular season. Now, it’s become the question du jour for many Toronto supporters: Why in the world can’t the Leafs get out of their own zone? Ever since an April 18 home loss to the New York Islanders, [...]
MONTREAL—The trial of accused killer Luka Magnotta will begin late next year — on Sept. 15, 2014. He will also face a pretrial conference this coming fall, on Sept. 3. Magnotta was in court in Montreal on Monday to have a date set for his first-degree murder trial. He faces five charges in connection with [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Shares of Apple Inc. fell yesterday after the iPhone maker reported its first profit drop in a decade and Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook dashed expectations that a new handset might arrive as early as June. The shares of Cupertino, California-based Apple fell almost 4 per cent to 7.97 early in the [...]
For 7 1/2 innings on Saturday afternoon, the Blue Jays were not a fun team to watch — as they haven’t been for most of this young season. Their bats were cold, their defence sloppy. They were testing the patience of the sold-out Rogers Centre crowd and wasting a solid outing from starter Mark Buehrle. [...]
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