Month: May 2015

A long-time resident of Leaside, I have been in the Toronto music industry as a drummer/percussionist since 1960, beginning with the dance bands of the day (Frank Evans, Benny Louis, Chicho Valle). My interest in …more

The Business Improvement Area (BIA) for Bayview, to be called Bayview Leaside, is one step closer after a meeting April 8 presided over by the city’s economic development department. BIA members approved the $190,000 annual …more

In 1944, when Shirley Giles became a teller for the Bank of Nova Scotia (now known as Scotiabank), an assistant accountant said, “That’s as high as you’ll ever go.” “Why do you say that?” Shirley …more

For an engineering and high-technology company that was started in the basement of their Donegall Dr. home in Leaside in 1998, Miriam and John Tuerk’s Clear Blue Technologies has come a long way – and …more

After 32 years of teaching (30 of them at Northlea School), I am now living through a year of transition to a new phase of life. My life is still focused on music—but in a …more

As teacher Alice Malach summed it up: “A very successful Kiwanis season”. If you were wondering what happened with choral singing at Northlea after Mitch Bondy retired, here is what happened at this year’s Kiwanis …more

How do you know if high praise of dining critics is for real? Well, would they go back, and if so how soon? No doubt about that with Mt. Everest Restaurant at 804 Eglinton, west …more