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Month: September 2024

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Stories

Alan Redway changed the course of raccoon history

September 1, 2024 Geoff Kettel

The Museum of Toronto’s latest exhibit, Toronto Gone Wild, has an interesting reference to Alan Redway, former East York Mayor and Leaside resident. Extended to November 2nd, due to popular demand, the exhibit devotes a …more

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Leaside Residents Association

New Year’s in September?

September 1, 2024 Carol Burtin Fripp

Welcome back from your summer, whether or not you were away. Autumn approaches. It always feels as if September (not January) is really the start of a new year, with schools reopening, activities starting up, …more

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Editor's Welcome

Get ready to Rally for Rehab!

September 1, 2024 Jane Auster

I’ll be there. How about you? On Sun., Sept. 8, hundreds of participants will be turning up for the Rally for Rehab, at Toronto Rehab’s Rumsey Centre, at 347 Rumsey Rd., to show their support …more

New plant bed made with relocated species and new additions, August 2024. Photo by René Fan.
Gardening

Gardening in Garden Court – Neighbours bring back the plants

September 1, 2024 Guest Contributor

Leaside is an ideal neighbourhood for gardeners. Although named after a railway junction, it developed in the early 20th century as a model garden suburb with generous curving streets and spacious lawns and boulevards. Within …more

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Business

Leaside traffic: the joke that’s no laughing matter

September 1, 2024 Glenn Asano

I wanted to kick off this month’s column with a joke about road construction in Leaside, but I’m still working on it ☺… No matter how hard I try, the topic of traffic in Leaside …more

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Business

Iva Mazar’s pivot from engineering to Pilates

September 1, 2024 Susan Scandiffio

If you’ve never tried Pilates or are looking for a new class, allow me to make a personal recommendation. Pilates is one of those “anyone can do it,” low impact-big results types of programs that …more

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Meet the service that could become your best PAL

September 1, 2024 Lorna Krawchuk

If you’re reading the print version of this issue of Leaside Life, it might not occur to you that for reasons such as blindness, low vision, mobility or learning disabilities, others are missing out. But …more

PAL narrator Heather Goode. Photo Mark Fielding.
History

The man whose dad “sold” Leaside

September 1, 2024 Mitch Bubulj

Before staging, bully offers and virtual tours were commonplace in the housing market, there was Ferguson Real Estate. And in the Leaside of the ’50s and ’60s its president, Ernest J. Ferguson, was the only …more

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Gardening

Beware the dog-strangling vine invader!

September 1, 2024 Debora Kuchme

Dog-strangling vine (DSV) does not strangle dogs, but it does strangle plants and trees and can quickly overtake native plants to become the dominant plant in any ecosystem. Native to Eurasia, DSV is a member …more

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Letters to the Editor September 2024

September 1, 2024 Staff

Traffic enforcement Re Carol Burtin Fripp’s July column, “Where’s the enforcement?!” I’d like to grumpily ask the same thing and to encourage more articles like this one, in hopes of stirring up community participation to …more

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It pays to be Disagreeable for these Leasiders

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With statements ranging from, “It’s OK to take your shoes off on an airplane” to, “I could survive a zombie apocalypse,” Disagreeable A Party Game for The Opinionated is sure to arouse heated debates and ...more
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