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Martingrove enters Reach for the Top national finals as reigning champs

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Title holders practice daily at lunch TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Martingrove Collegiate is not only the reigning Reach for the Top national champions, but also the recent Ontario winners going into this weekend’s national finals. So how is the team coping with the pressure of being Canada’s reigning best? “It feels great because Ontario is a really tough regional competition,”

said team captain Isaac Thiessen, 17, of the more than 200 high schools across Ontario that compete. “Winning Ontario is a pretty big confidence booster going into the nationals.” Reach for the Top is a Canadian academic quiz competition for high school students. It began in the 1960s as a CBC national television show. Etobicoke-based Vincent Massey >>>WE, page 18

Annual Mimico Tulip Festival fights back against bullying CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Local students involved with this year’s Mimico Tulip Festival are joining forces with a swarm of celebrities to take a stand against bullying. Festival co-ordinator Maria Shaw

said for this year’s 13th annual Tulip Fest – which the Mimico Village BIA hosts on Tuesday, May 26 from 4 to 8 p.m. along Royal York Road, from Evans Avenue to Newcastle Street – organizers have forged a partnership with the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness (CCAA), which >>>TULIP, page 37

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EXHIBITION PLAY: Martingrove White Sox midgets' Alex Roopnaring leaps to catch a high throw to second as Team Canada's Becky Hartley slides into the base safely during exhibition baseball action at the Roger's Centre on Sunday. The women's national team, tuning up for next month's Pan Am Games, went on to win the game.

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