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Month: March 2022

Stories

Editor’s Welcome March 2022

March 1, 2022 Jane Auster

Heroes are all around us – thank you! Two years ago, at the start of the pandemic, Leaside Life columnist Susan Scandiffio interviewed local heroes on the Covid frontlines. Not just healthcare workers but also …more

History

Broadway tower not North Leaside’s 
first community protest

March 1, 2022 Geoff Kettel

The application for a 25-storey tower at Bayview and Broadway I wrote about in last month’s Leaside Life is not in fact the first development proposal on the block between Craig and Broadway to meet …more

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Letters to the Editor March 2022

March 1, 2022 Guest Contributor

An important letter re: proposed Bayview tower In his January article on the 25-storey residential tower proposed for the southeast corner of Bayview and Broadview, my friend Geoff Kettel is uncharacteristically understated in expressing the …more

Business

Do you have an “aging navigation” plan?

March 1, 2022 Suzanne Park

The Scottish poet Robbie Burns in 1785 wrote, possibly from personal experience, that even the best laid plans can go awry. His exact wording was “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft …more

Traffic in Leaside. Staff photo.
Leaside Residents Association

Did the Leaside traffic management town hall deliver?

March 1, 2022 Carol Burtin Fripp

The much-anticipated virtual Town Hall meeting focusing on Leaside’s traffic issues took place on February 9th. Sponsored by Councillor Jaye Robinson, well chaired by the manager of the City’s Public Consultation Unit, it had been …more

Terry Fallis

Retirement? Not really, just switching jobs.

March 1, 2022 Terry Fallis

Thirty-nine years. That’s how long I’ve been getting up in the morning, working a full-time job, and coming home again. Thirty-nine years. I know what you’re thinking. When you gaze at my photo that usually …more

Covid-19 Heroes of Leaside.
Community

On the frontlines. We can do anything, we could be heroes

March 1, 2022 Susan Scandiffio

In 2020, Leaside Life recognized a number of our residents who were on the frontlines battling, and keeping us safe from, Covid. The physical, emotional, and economic strains in every corner of the globe persist …more

History

A Leaside beauty queen from a bygone era

March 1, 2022 Guest Contributor

Beauty pageants may seem outdated now. But they were a big deal in the previous century, especially in the years immediately before and after World War II. In Ontario alone, dozens of contests took place …more

Business

Stanley Janacek meets cute 
at White House Meats

March 1, 2022 Lorna Krawchuk

Once upon a time, Eugene Whitehouse was a butcher in Windsor, Ont. Then, in the 1970s, he set himself up at the St. Lawrence Market where Stanley Janacek’s brother-in-law was one of Eugene’s butchers. In …more

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Road safety and the City’s snow storm response

March 1, 2022 Jaye Robinson

On January 17, Toronto received a record-setting 55cm of snowfall in just 15 hours. While I understand that responding to a snowfall of this magnitude is a complex undertaking, it is clear that the City …more

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Agnes Macphail Award 
seeking nominations

by Staff in Community

Agnes Campbell Macphail was once described as “the most important woman in public life that Canada has produced in the 20th century.”  In 1921 she blazed a trail for women with her election to the ...more
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