Lace up your skates! Toronto’s outdoor rink program is in full swing, offering a wide range of free leisure skate and shinny hockey programs for all ages.
For more information about Toronto’s outdoor artificial ice rinks, including a map of rink locations, schedules for each location, closures, learn-to-skate programs and helmet/equipment requirements, visit:
http://www.toronto.ca/parks/skating/outdoor-rinks.htm
The season premiere of Season 2 of CBC’s highly-rated “Battle of the Blades” will take place at 8pm on September 26, 2010 . Eight hockey players will be paired with eight figure skaters in this elimination-based reality skating competition.
Performance shows are one hour on Sundays from 8 to 9pm, and start October 3, while the [...]
The Battle of the Blades recently glided into top television ratings as CBC paired up former Olympic figure skaters with former NHL hockey players and pitted them against each other in a competition to raise money for charity. The participants’ highly competitive natures resulted in some incredible skating at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens and spectators [...]
Three-time Canadian Figure Skating Champion and 1988 Olympic Silver Medalist Elizabeth Manley has become the national spokesperson for the 2009 Winners Walk of Hope. Manley lost her mother to ovarian cancer last year.
Elizabeth Manley was the first Canadian female to successfully land a triple-double combination jump in competition, and has participated in two Olympic [...]
An online ad for Evian bottled water where chubby babies tear up a playgorund on little four-wheeled roller skates has received nearly 5 million hits internationally on YouTube in little more than a week. The babies dance to a remix of the 1979 Sugarhill Gang single “Rapper’s Delight.” Totally cute!
Toronto dancers were out in full force again this Victoria Day, May 18, 2009 at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre to compete for the title of “Canada’s Favourite Dancer” on the second season of CTV’s hit show “So You think You Can Dance Canada.”
