Tara De Boer

1 week ago | nowtoronto.com | Tara De Boer

Thousands of pillows are expected to be flying in Nathan Phillips Square this weekend at the city’s fourth annual organized pillow fight.  The Giant Pillow Fight mock festival and “renowned mass pillow fight” will take place on April 12, 2025. The event is in celebration of International Pillow Fight Day and takes place in cities across the world including New York, London, Madrid, Berlin, and Vienna. The festivities will begin around 2 p.m. and will last a whole hour.

1 week ago | nowtoronto.com | Tara De Boer

A new Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) campaign is marketing transit vehicles as a place to make connections and it’s causing a stir amongst Torontonians online. The campaign, called Between Stations, includes a four-part video series where four females are captured forming friendships with one another on transit. New campaign posters are also hanging in transit vehicles, some of which feature an animated photo of a man and a woman posing with hearts on the transit vehicle behind them.

1 week ago | nowtoronto.com | Tara De Boer

Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds is expressing his support for an Ontario town to rename a facility in honour of a late  nine-year-old girl. The Vancouver-born actor appeared virtually this week at a committee meeting in Cobourg, ON, to push for a local arena to be renamed after Grace Bowen, a young girl who died of cancer in early 2015. In the appearance, Reynolds said that Bowen changed his life when he met her over ten years ago through Toronto’s SickKids Foundation.

3 weeks ago | cbc.ca | Tara De Boer

SportsAs the business of women’s sports continues to grow, the ability for players to express themselves on and off the field of play has closely followed.

1 month ago | cbc.ca | Tara De Boer

The top Canadian ski cross athletes are set to chase the podium at the freestyle ski world championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland this week. The FIS snowboard, freestyle and freeski world championships, which began Wednesday and run through to Sunday, March 30 includes the ski cross events. The ski cross athletes begin their competition on Thursday, with the finals set for Saturday and Sunday. The competition will be live streamed on CBC Sports, and also available on CBC Gem.