While Leaside Village has started filling up with stores and lots of cars shopping at the new Longo’s grocery, the Amsterdam Brewery is also busy getting ready to relocate its brew pub into the Leaside …more
When Leaside musician Cynda Fleming agreed to lead a community jazz band to give kids an opportunity to play music together, she didn’t realize how difficult it would be to find music that fit all …more
More tasty treats on Bayview. Yeh! Frozen Yogurt opened this summer at 1617 Bayview. That makes four ‘ice cream’ shops on Bayview between Belsize and Manor Rd.-Fleming: Baskin and Robbins at the south corner of …more
If you live in Leaside or Bennington Heights, you know that your federal riding is Don Valley West. If the recommendations made by the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario under Chair Mr. Justice …more
The geese came over to visit me I was driving home one night through the Brentcliffe / Eglinton industrial area when a gray wolf ran across the road and into the ravine on the other …more
When communities such as ours have been faced with the threat of redevelopment or with local but nevertheless important neighbourhood problems, the residents have frequently banded together to establish a ratepayer association. These organizations have …more
What’s in our name? John Lea and his wife Mary were the first of the Lea generations in this part of what was the Township of York. In 1820 they purchased a farm with a …more
Saving old Leaside The news earlier this summer that Nick Kypreos’ house at 33 Heather Rd. was up for sale raised some excitement in Leaside. Can a house here really be worth almost $3.5 million? …more
Marilyn Sherman: Leasider, avid gardener, former occupational health nurse manager, wife, mother… and now a stroke thriver blogger with almost 40,000 hits from around the world. In fact her blogs are the top of the …more
Most of us are familiar with the Leaside Property Owners’ Association’s recent successful battle to save the Talbot apartments from the redevelopment plans of the present owner, the Manitoba Teachers’ Pension Fund. But do you …more
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