Articles by Carol Burtin Fripp

Last year, our Premier gave a whole new meaning to the term “speed control” when he labelled municipal automatic speed enforcement cameras a “cash grab.” You will recall the firestorm and confusion that this provoked. …more

If you ever doubted Leasiders’ concern about our community’s traffic woes, you had only to attend Ward 15 Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin’s November 25 town hall meeting. Held in Leaside Gardens’ William Lea Room, the …more

Over the course of 2025, the Leaside Residents Association has heard from many of you regarding our neighbourhood’s local planning and traffic issues. I’ve recently gone through the year’s notes, and thought I would report, …more

The Eglinton Crosstown must finally be getting closer to opening. Here’s a clue: although as of press time an LRT opening date hadn’t been officially released, we’ve begun to receive specific information about bus route …more

There’s an old saying, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”  And neither will Toronto’s housing shortage be solved in a big rush, despite frequent new pieces of legislation with dramatic names like “The Protect Ontario …more

As we move into the autumn, today’s column is all about transit. Specifically, surface transit. Buses. In the next little while, and especially once the Eglinton Crosstown LRT goes into service, we’ll all notice big …more

Things are not quiet on the Ontario Line construction front Residents of Thorncliffe Park made this very clear at a recent Don Valley West town hall focused on the Metrolinx Ontario Line project, hosted by …more

Leasiders hoping for information about the opening of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, finally, will have noticed, with all the public hoopla from the Premier, on down, that The Big Announcement, when it came, was long …more

Here we go again. Spring has definitely arrived, bringing with it a significant increase in commuter and recreational traffic. It’s also Toronto’s famed construction season, accompanied by a large number of heavy trucks on Leaside …more

As the proverb says, we live in interesting times. Have we ever had so many local by-elections (plus a provincial general election) in such a short period? I am writing this column in early March, …more