Year: 2013

Another Ontario Municipal Board hearing coming up. Toronto city council last month denied Aspen Ridge permission to add 98 units to its planned third tower at 160 Vanderhoof, the Scenic on Eglinton. Aspen Ridge had …more

About 35 Bennington Heights residents banded together last month to form committees, fundraise and keep putting up lawn signs in preparation for the Ontario Municipal Board hearing late in October (after our deadline). More than …more

Bennington Heights and Leaside are still joined together in holy political union, at least federally. Earlier plans to move Bennington Heights out of Don Valley West riding and pair it with Rosedale have been dropped …more

Manuel is an orphan who now lives at the El Hogar mission in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. On Saturday, Nov. 16 Manuel will “ride” in a car – or at least his framed picture will— as part …more

The Leaside Property Owners’ Association annual general meeting will be on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 7:30 p.m. in the William Lea Room at Leaside Memorial Gardens. Special guest Toronto Star columnist Royson James will speak about …more

The Leaside Garden Society is looking for attractive and interesting gardens for the June 2014 Magical Gardens of Leaside Tour. leasidegardensociety.org or 416-481-8919

Police Division 53 Staff Sergeant Matthew Moyer says that when it comes to crime Leaside is in “pretty good shape” even though residents have been hit lately with more than the usual number of daytime …more

The LCBO almost doubled its space when it opened its new store last month at the SmartCentre. Are we drinking that much more? We will be. The population of the area is expected to increase …more

The official ribbon cutting for the new Leaside rink was done the right way on Oct. 5, with the future in mind. Four-year-old Jake Lambe, representing the Leaside Hockey Association, six-year-old Emilia Calabrese, representing the …more