• Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Leaside Life
  • Leaside Local
  • Community
    • Churches
    • Cycling
    • History
    • Nature
    • People
    • Schools
    • Letters
  • Culture
    • Arts
    • Food
    • Gardening
  • Sport
  • Local
    • Local Politics
    • City Councillor
    • Development
    • Leaside Residents Association
    • Real Estate
  • Business
  • Features
    • Editor’s Welcome
    • Leaside Green
    • Terry Fallis
    • Leaside Litterati
    • Curious Idler
  • Archive
    • Past Issues By Date
      • June 2022
      • 2022
        • May 2022
        • April 2022
        • March 2022
        • February 2022
        • January 2022
      • 2021
        • December 2021
        • November 2021
        • October 2021
        • September 2021
        • August 2021
        • July 2021
        • June 2021
        • May 2021
        • April 2021
        • March 2021
        • February 2021
        • Jan. 2021
      • 2020
        • December 2020
        • November 2020
        • October 2020
        • September 2020
        • August 2020
        • July 2020
        • June 2020
        • May 2020
        • April 2020
        • March 2020
        • Feb. 2020
        • Jan. 2020
      • 2019
        • Dec. 2019
        • Nov 2019
        • Oct 2019
        • September 2019
        • August 2019
        • July 2019
        • June 2019
        • May 2019
        • April 2019
        • March 2019
        • Feb 2019
        • Jan 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
    • By Author
      • Alan Redway
      • Allan Williams
      • Carol Burtin Fripp
      • Cheryl Vanderburg
      • Daniel Girard
      • Debora Kuchme
      • Geoff Kettel
      • Gerri Gershon
      • Glenn Asano
      • Hailey Eisen
      • Holly Reid
      • Jane Auster
      • Janis Fertuck
      • Jeanne Hopkins
      • Karli Vezina
      • Ken Mallett
      • Lorna Krawchuk
      • Jon Burnside
      • Michael Bliss
      • Robin Dickie
      • Susan Scandiffio
      • Suzanne Park
      • Terry Fallis
      • Vicki Hall
      • Will Ashworth
      • Coming Soon
  • Contact
  • Events
Recent Stories
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] How Leaside helped win World War II History
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Leaside High sets up its own swap shop Schools
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] I finally made it to Florida! Terry Fallis
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Curious Idler – June 2022 Curious Idler
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] When our local merchants thrive, Leaside thrives Business
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Do you take your life in your hands at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery? Leaside Residents Association
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] These Leaside dads got grit! Business
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] The Don Valley through an Indigenous lens Community
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Enhancing Leaside’s green space 
one park and tree at a time City Councillor
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Illuminating Leaside’s Indigenous history. Who lived here before you? Community
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Editor: Who needs a handyman? Editor's Welcome
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] The buzzy month of June just got buzzier! Gardening
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Final hockey season at Leaside is bittersweet Sports
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] “Bully application” meets a community united Development
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Good things come in small packages at Trupti Business
  • [ June 1, 2022 ] Revisiting Reimagine Overlea – Part 2 Development
  • [ May 14, 2022 ] The Leaside Garden Society Garden Tour 2022 – June 18th Community
  • [ May 1, 2022 ] Who ya gonna call? Leaside’s best kept secret. Business
  • [ May 1, 2022 ] Leasiders go hog-wild at Lola & Miguel Business
  • [ May 1, 2022 ] On your mark, get set, VOTE! Local Politics
Home2015December

Month: December 2015

Paddy Duncan
Stories

The lady behind those Leaside websites

December 1, 2015 Staff

She’s the lady behind the Leaside Property Owners’ Association website. Also the Leaside Life website. And websites in Vermont and the Bahamas. And lots of others. Pretty good for a graduate of landscape architecture. But …more

Stories

Armstrong: Never disappointed in Leaside

December 1, 2015 Staff

For the 55 years that George Armstrong, the captain during the Stanley Cup years of the Toronto Maple Leafs and known as The Chief, lived in Leaside he did a lot of community coaching, but …more

Stories

Streetscape photo winners

December 1, 2015 Staff

“My wife will be extremely happy as it was her that keeps telling me to submit pictures,” said Steve Nastos, of Eglinton East, winner of the Leaside Streetscape Photo Contest run by Leaside Matters, the …more

Christopher and Kimberly Lexovsky, Leslie MacIntosh and Emma Zivot
Food

First glances can be deceiving

December 1, 2015 Staff

Verdi Restaurant on Bayview, just north of Belsize, is not the place for teenagers at first glance. “Older, dated,” said Christopher Lexovsky, of Glenvale Blvd. He and teen neighbour Emma Zivot, who said the place …more

Smart Centre ceiling
Stories

Why is that roof still hanging there?

December 1, 2015 Staff

Many Leasiders have been asking the same question about the SmartCentre on Laird: What going on with the ceiling over the driveway connecting the south side of the main parking lot with Commercial Dr.? It’s …more

Leaside Life logo
Stories

Fund drive for tennis

December 1, 2015 Staff

A drive to repair the old tennis courts at Rolph Road school has been started by Leasiders Linda Carte and Stan Flemming, who are looking for $16,000. They hope to raise the funds from the …more

Stickney Way
Stories

Stickney gets his own street

December 1, 2015 Staff

Goodbye Markham Ave., hello Stickney Way. Good thing Markham Ave., a short street that runs from Airdrie to Laird, has no addresses on it, so no homes will be impacted. City Council approved the name …more

How 73 Donegall looked for over a year
Stories

OMB doesn’t care if developer ignores orders

December 1, 2015 Staff

One thing is clear from two recent Leaside cases before the Ontario Municipal Board, only one of which we won. The OMB is concerned only with planning metrics, with raw impact. It does not care …more

Leaside Life logo
City Councillor

Will we lose traffic lanes on Eglinton?

December 1, 2015 Jon Burnside

While most of us have heard the term Eglinton Connects, perhaps not everyone knows exactly what it means and the implications for Leaside. Eglinton Connects is the city’s plan for the future of Eglinton Ave. …more

939 Eglinton
Development

What is the impact of 1,500 new homes?

December 1, 2015 Geoff Kettel

Just another development that Leasiders oppose …same as always? Or is it “100 percent inappropriate” as Councillor Burnside stated in closing the Oct. 27 community meeting called to present and discuss the proposal, for 939 …more

Posts navigation

« 1 2 3 »

Digital Edition

Upcoming Events

There are no upcoming events at this time.

Error, no Advert ID set! Check your syntax!
The Don Valley West electoral district is set to be Ground Zero for some of the fiercest competition in the upcoming 2022 provincial election, on June 2. Candidates L-R: Mark Saunders, Conservative, Irwin Elman, NDP, Stephanie Bowman, Liberal, Sheena Sharp, Green.
In the Spotlight

On your mark, get set, VOTE!

by Guest Contributor in Local Politics

The Don Valley West electoral district is set to be Ground Zero for some of the fiercest competition in the upcoming 2022 provincial election, on June 2. Much has changed since DVW’s last provincial election ...more
Recent Posts
  • How Leaside helped win World War II
  • Leaside High sets up its own swap shop
  • I finally made it to Florida!
  • Curious Idler – June 2022
  • When our local merchants thrive, Leaside thrives
  • Do you take your life in your hands at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery?
  • These Leaside dads got grit!
  • The Don Valley through an Indigenous lens
  • Enhancing Leaside’s green space 
one park and tree at a time
  • Illuminating Leaside’s Indigenous history. Who lived here before you?
  • The buzzy month of June just got buzzier!
  • Editor: Who needs a handyman?
  • Final hockey season at Leaside is bittersweet
Follow on Facebook
Toy Drive Local
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDl0j5-stQE
Subscribe

Join the Leaside Life email list at: .

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

© Leaside Life 2011-2022