Meet the service that could become your best PAL
Community
If you’re reading the print version of this issue of Leaside Life, it might not occur to you that for reasons such as blindness, low vision, mobility or learning disabilities, others are missing out. But ...more
Leaside Rotary is busy at work
Community
Many people ask: just what does a Rotarian do? Simple. We work for the local community and raise funds for large scale international projects (eradicating polio across the world, helping to ensure safe water in ...more
Why we took the road to Rally for Rehab
Community
Leaside Life has been encouraging Leasiders to learn about the UHN’s cardiac, spinal and neural rehab centres, right here in Leaside, and encouraging everyone to join the UHN’s Rally for Rehab presented by BMO by ...more
Bayview Art Tour takes it to the street
Community
There’s a special treat in store for local art connoisseurs: the fall edition of the Bayview Art Tour and Sale on Sat. and Sun., Sept. 21 and 22, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. As ...more
Leaside’s Cassie Lee flew high at the Paris Olympics
Sports
As Canada took to the world stage this past July at the Paris Olympics, one local athlete flew high as a competitor with the women’s artistic gymnastics team. Eighteen-year-old Leasider Cassie Lee was one of ...more
Leaside’s own Zach Edey powers into the NBA
Sports
Look out, Memphis Grizzlies! You’ve just signed a Leaside powerhouse. From M4G to 38103, Zach Edey has leaped, jumped, and scored through several postal and zip codes to end up where he is today ...more
Stop that station wagon!
Terry Fallis
Back to school. That was pretty well the only thing on my mind in those long, lazy days of August. In September, we’d be back at school. I know that’s not a particularly insightful comment ...more
What’s next for 1837-1845 Bayview?
Development
When we left off in the August issue of Leaside Life, the Committee of Adjustment (CofA) had just approved the amended application for minor variance of three storeys (amounting to 33 units). The options left ...more
Alan Redway changed the course of raccoon history
Stories
The Museum of Toronto’s latest exhibit, Toronto Gone Wild, has an interesting reference to Alan Redway, former East York Mayor and Leaside resident. Extended to November 2nd, due to popular demand, the exhibit devotes a ...more
Get ready to Rally for Rehab!
Editor's Welcome
I’ll be there. How about you? On Sun., Sept. 8, hundreds of participants will be turning up for the Rally for Rehab, at Toronto Rehab’s Rumsey Centre, at 347 Rumsey Rd., to show their support ...more
Leaside traffic: the joke that’s no laughing matter
Business
I wanted to kick off this month’s column with a joke about road construction in Leaside, but I’m still working on it ☺… No matter how hard I try, the topic of traffic in Leaside ...more
Iva Mazar’s pivot from engineering to Pilates
Business
If you’ve never tried Pilates or are looking for a new class, allow me to make a personal recommendation. Pilates is one of those “anyone can do it,” low impact-big results types of programs that ...more
Gardening in Garden Court – Neighbours bring back the plants
Gardening
Leaside is an ideal neighbourhood for gardeners. Although named after a railway junction, it developed in the early 20th century as a model garden suburb with generous curving streets and spacious lawns and boulevards. Within ...more
Beware the dog-strangling vine invader!
Gardening
Dog-strangling vine (DSV) does not strangle dogs, but it does strangle plants and trees and can quickly overtake native plants to become the dominant plant in any ecosystem. Native to Eurasia, DSV is a member ...more
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Before staging, bully offers and virtual tours were commonplace in the housing market, there was Ferguson Real Estate. And in the Leaside of the ’50s and ’60s its president, Ernest J. Ferguson, was the only ...more
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Welcome back from your summer, whether or not you were away. Autumn approaches. It always feels as if September (not January) is really the start of a new year, with schools reopening, activities starting up, ...more
