Who ya gonna call? Leaside’s best kept secret.
Business
While there are many joys and benefits to owning a property, home ownership can also be fraught with issues that cause problems and prompt owners to ask the classic Ghostbusters question, “Who ya gonna call?” ...more
Leasiders go hog-wild at Lola & Miguel
Business
Did you ever imagine that acorn nuts could transform something ordinary into something extraordinary? With the zealous consumption of mature fallen acorns, from October to January, heritage Iberian pigs create a ham that when dry-cured ...more
Bayview’s main street retail marches north
Business
Bayview Avenue has long been an important hub of the neighbourhood. Need a quick coffee? Head to Bayview. How about a mani-pedi, delicious meal or snack, a grocery shop, perhaps that gift you can’t find ...more
Beck Taxi hails its Leaside connection
Business
In 1967, Jim Beck, the owner of a small fleet of taxis driving for a large taxi company, by happenstance ended up as a passenger in a cab driven by someone else at the company. ...more
The Leaside Garden Society Garden Tour 2022 – June 18th
Community
PRESS RELEASE – Leaside Garden Society – April 2022 EXCITING NEWS FOR GARDENERS!! Announcing that The Leaside Garden Society Garden Tour 2022 will take place June 18th as an in-person event. The hours are 11AM ...more
Leasider Catherine Wiseman-Hakes launches The Compassionate Justice Fund
Community
As many as 80 per cent of adults and more than 50 per cent of youth in the criminal justice system have a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Concussions and other severe brain injuries ...more
Good times at Leaside’s wilderness parks
Terry Fallis
I have such fond childhood memories of time spent with family and friends at Wilket Creek Park and Serena Gundy Park, not to mention Sunnybrook Park and Ernest Thompson Seton Park. All four parks linked ...more
Look who’s coming to Leaside? Hyde Park
Development
You know it now as the home of Staples, HomeSense, Marshall’s, 2001 Audio Video, and Robert Lowrey, piano experts, but the Hyde Park Plaza site at the southeast corner of Eglinton Avenue and Brentcliffe Road ...more
Editor: Ready, set, vote!
Editor's Welcome
Have you heard? There’s an election coming up in a few short weeks. June 2nd, to be precise. And in Don Valley West (that’s you, Leaside!), where it’s set to be a real scorcher, with ...more
Savouring good times on Bayview
Business
Chen Cho, his wife Diana and sons Sydney and Kevin are the heartbeat of Passion Fruits and Savory Thymes. They enjoy being part of the Leaside neighbourhood, and the neighbours return the compliment. As I ...more
Can you dig it? Leaside gardeners are connecting to nature in new ways
Gardening
“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Native American proverb Though I’ve used this quote once before, it’s so profound I feel it’s worth repeating. Our First ...more
Could a Neighbourhood Bikeway work here?
Cycling
The cycling column is back and I will pick up where I left off last October – Leaside is indeed in a sweet spot for cycling thanks to progress on several cycling projects. The Yonge ...more
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If you’re like many Leasiders, you may not know about the Canada Wire and Cable company’s water tower. Like other bygone Leaside landmarks – from the Bayview Ghost apartment building and the old CP train ...more
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Unlike Kermit the Frog, Meera Jain, a Grade 4 and 5 teacher at Bessborough Elementary and Middle School, finds it easy to be green. She says that for years she considered herself eco-friendly because she ...more
