It is said that “ravines are to Toronto what canals are to Venice.” Ravine lots tend to be large, with extensive tree cover, even providing opportunities for exciting wildlife encounters! No surprise that ravine lots …more
Seems to me that wooden fences are sprouting in Leaside where open mesh chain link fences once prevailed. Presumably it’s about privacy, but shouldn’t it be about community safety as well? Sight lines can be …more
Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, has a different vision for Leaside from the City’s. In announcing his changes (all 194 of them) to the Midtown in Focus secondary plan approved by the …more
It’s been a long time, six years in fact, since this column featured Kelvingrove, Glen Leven and Strathavon (1325, 1351 and 1365 Bayview Ave.), the red brick, green roof apartments built in Georgian Revival style …more
What a pleasant surprise, Leaside is about to gain a new park! Actually, it’s not really new, there is a landlocked space hidden away behind the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens that’s about to get a …more
Post Second World War Leaside was a “small town in Toronto” (to quote a former prime minister who grew up here around that time), a mature community, with good jobs, and modest but well cared …more
The last time Leasider Gordon Champion visited North Toronto Treatment Plant (NTTP) was after Hurricane Hazel in 1954. He went there as a service engineer with the Montreal engineering firm that was the agent for …more
North Leaside has lots of groundwater; the trouble is some of it ends up on the sidewalk. And at this time of year that means you end up with a skating rink. This is what …more
Remember former education minister John Snobelen’s famous injunction: “Let’s create a crisis”? New claims of crisis whether in education, healthcare, child care, housing, or planning are being used to justify changes that are being proposed …more
Two new projects proposed for the Leaside Business Park appear to reflect quite different visions for its future. One Leaside Business Park becomes an innovation centre where innovative knowledge workers, working in flexible modern workspaces, …more
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