Brian Baker Archive

  • The World Ball Hockey Championships are seven months away. Three members of a masters-level community team, Withrow Park Knights, sit in plush chairs around a fireplace....

    Withrow’s on the ball

    The World Ball Hockey Championships are seven months away. Three members of a masters-level community team, Withrow Park Knights, sit in plush chairs around a fireplace....

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  • Staff of Toronto Today and its sister publications the Town Crier and Vaughan Today received a wonderful Valentine’s Day treat as they were informed they had...

    Toronto Today one of Ontario’s top newspapers

    Staff of Toronto Today and its sister publications the Town Crier and Vaughan Today received a wonderful Valentine’s Day treat as they were informed they had...

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  • “Do you ever do bad stories?” It was an interesting question posed to me by a phys. ed. teacher from North York. In a previous conversation,...

    Off to the gulag with students

    “Do you ever do bad stories?” It was an interesting question posed to me by a phys. ed. teacher from North York. In a previous conversation,...

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  • Every morning I see the bright crest of red pop from the new turf at North Toronto CI as I walk by. It makes me smile....

    New field a TD for Norsemen

    Every morning I see the bright crest of red pop from the new turf at North Toronto CI as I walk by. It makes me smile....

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  • Changing schools can be a tough ordeal for some students. It doesn’t help matters when they are not allowed to join sports teams during the regular...

    Transfer student blues

    Changing schools can be a tough ordeal for some students. It doesn’t help matters when they are not allowed to join sports teams during the regular...

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  • Toronto finishes second in standings, ousted in semis By BRIAN BAKER Christie Pits sits silent after another season of Toronto Maple Leafs baseball, one that saw...

    Intercounty be-leafing

    Toronto finishes second in standings, ousted in semis By BRIAN BAKER Christie Pits sits silent after another season of Toronto Maple Leafs baseball, one that saw...

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  • A previously ubiquitous presence will be missing from the fields, stands and courts of Northern Secondary School this year. For the past two years whenever I...

    Best of luck, Wendy

    A previously ubiquitous presence will be missing from the fields, stands and courts of Northern Secondary School this year. For the past two years whenever I...

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  • Hockey in trouble without infrastructure funding: Burke By BRIAN BAKER The dim glow of magnesium adds a blue hue to an iceless hockey pad at Leaside...

    ‘Our game’ needs money

    Hockey in trouble without infrastructure funding: Burke By BRIAN BAKER The dim glow of magnesium adds a blue hue to an iceless hockey pad at Leaside...

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  • These days I will flip through the Toronto dailies and notice a complete absence of high school athletics being reported. Somehow in the reconstruction of print...

    Important stories are told here

    These days I will flip through the Toronto dailies and notice a complete absence of high school athletics being reported. Somehow in the reconstruction of print...

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  • Were I to subscribe to any one McLuhan idea then it would be the one about all things global being all things village (in whatever order you wish to position “global” and “village”). It is particularly poignant now that Toronto Today has taken up residence with its own address on the Internet — that most global of village-centric media.

    Delivery of the message requires various media

    Were I to subscribe to any one McLuhan idea then it would be the one about all things global being all things village (in whatever order you wish to position “global” and “village”). It is particularly poignant now that Toronto Today has taken up residence with its own address on the Internet — that most global of village-centric media.

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