Articles by Staff

Councillor John Parker went back to his old geology books last month when the constuction company building the new Leaside Gardens arena found a two-metre-long boulder nearby. It’s smooth, resembles a baked potato and looks …more

RioCan has now bought itself another chunk of the Leaside Life area, the former Brennan Pontiac Buick site on Bayview at Broadway, where a Whole Foods store will be built. RioCan also owns Sunnybrook Plaza …more

William “Bill” Valliere, who co-founded the The Endangered Animal Sanctuary on Millwood Rd.,  died aged 73 on Feb. 15 in Grafton, near Cobourg, where the sanctuary had moved.  Lorna Krawchuk, at the time an East …more

MP John Carmichael says he is “continuing to work… finding a solution” to night airplane noise “… but I am not optimistic that there is (one) that will please everyone”. He met Feb. 18 with …more

The Leaside Novice Synchronized Skating Team came in second at Skate Canada’s national competition in Calgary earlier this year, ensuring that the annual event was not another sweep by teams from Quebec, as has been …more

KABOOM is the clever name of the fireworks store at the corner of Laird and Parkhurst. For my family the name is part of our history. Our family connection with Leaside goes back to Sir …more

There has been strong reaction in the community against the offer from SmartCentre of a Section 37 community benefit payment of $500,000 towards the Leaside arena expansion. Councillor John Parker replied to a letter from a Leaside …more

His complaints about the TTC dead zone in south Leaside led Councillor John Parker to invite Michael Bell (incorrectly called George Bell in our last issue) to his office last month for a meeting with …more