Leaside’s outstanding graduates of 2020!
Schools
Leaside High School’s Class of 2020 impressed Denise Wilson, the retiring head of guidance, with their hopeful, positive and mature attitude while dealing with a difficult end to their graduating year. This closeknit group supported ...more
All the right notes: Stephen Stanley turned music into his life
Schools
With Leaside High School’s 75th anniversary being celebrated this year, Leaside Life is profiling a number of notable members of the school in various positions, as students, teachers, and more, to mark the milestone. If ...more
From masonry to piggery – Ernie Wilkens pivots to his next career
People
The Wilkens family knows how to stay together – even when they’re apart. More than 40 years ago, Otto Wilkens and his younger brother, Ernie, worked together as masons. They realized that, while they could ...more
BLM: A Leasider shares his awakening
People
As much of the world’s attention focused on the Black Lives Matter movement, I initially said little in person and over social media about it. To be honest, I felt like I didn’t have something ...more
The “new” Committee of Adjustment: Virtual but not virtuous?
Development
Neighbours of a proposed rebuild on Glenvale Boulevard waited in vain to have their say at the Committee of Adjustment on June 23rd. Struggling to manage under COVID-19, most City services are not operating as ...more
I’m still waiting for the runners’ high
Terry Fallis
I mentioned in my May missive that being marooned in our own home during this lockdown seemed to make it easier to pack on a few extra pounds. Yes, COVID-19 has given me something of ...more
The kids are all right!
Editor's Welcome
If we think the pandemic has wrought havoc in our lives, how about the kids of all ages, who have had to adjust to an entirely new way of life and education? In June, signs ...more
Are we there yet?
Editor's Welcome
What parent hasn’t heard this familiar question from a child wondering when a car trip will ever, ever end? But now, it seems we’re all asking this question. Are we there yet? In late May ...more
A self-guided walking tour of Leaside Part 3 – Bayview Institutional Lands
History
The third guided walking tour of Leaside deals with the institutional lands accessed from Kilgour Rd. This is north of Glenvale and south of Burke Brook. But is this Leaside? The historical boundary of the ...more
A (solo guided) walking tour. Part 2: North Leaside
History
The second solo guided walking tour of Leaside takes us to North Leaside. Where does North Leaside in fact start? Typically, we think of North Leaside as that part north of Eglinton. If you look ...more
Leaside balconies – what’s on yours?
Gardening
Like a backyard in the sky, a balcony can offer apartment and condo residents the opportunity to create a personal patch of paradise. A place to escape the confinements of indoor living, sip a morning ...more
Grow your own food? You can do it!
Gardening
Food gardening has been an important trend over the last few years thanks to rising health consciousness and environmental awareness. COVID-19 has turned this trend into something more akin to the Victory Gardens of the ...more
Leaside’s Coulter Woodmansey gets the call from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Sports
At 6’5” and 325 pounds, Coulter Woodmansey might not be someone you’d want to run into in a dark alley. But I would. Woodmansey may be imposing, but he’s a truly kind and gentle person. ...more
Leaside golf wiz can now beat his dad
Sports
Eloquent. Humble. Confident. Focused. Ambitious. Golfer Ty Stansfield is all of these and more. The Grade 11 student from Crescent School had an incredibly successful 2019 season, which saw him climb the golf ranks at ...more
