**UPDATE: The St. Augustine refugee family arrived January 15. The St. Anselm family was to arrive January 21. The Church of St. Augustine, on Bayview, has partnered with St. Matthew’s Church, in Riverdale, and knew …more
The red-brick apartments on the east side of Bayview between McRae and Sutherland were in the news six years ago when the owners originally had thoughts of evicting tenants and doing a complete re-build. After …more
I’ll wager not too many of you have been down to the far end of Canvarco Rd., unless you were trying to find a way to loop around the back of what was the Leaside …more
In my column in Leaside Life’s May issue, the topic was local support for bringing refugees into Canada. Since the photo of the body of Alan Kurdi on a beach in Turkey highlighted the plight …more
What are the odds that the ministers of two of our local churches would arrive within months of each other, and leave, eight plus years later, within a month of each other? Rev. John Smith …more
We’ve all been past Four Seasons Auto Collision on the northeast corner of Laird and Wicksteed, where it cozies up to the SmartCentre north site. Some of us have been clients over the years. We’re …more
The sparkling white building with the black trim on Wicksteed, opposite Lincoln Electric, announces itself as MacKinnon & Bowes. That’s all. What is the business being run from this building? It’s a funeral-related business, and …more
It isn’t a good omen when you and your husband come back from a honeymoon and get fired. But it couldn’t have turned out better for Christine Manning and James Houston, and for Leaside. The …more
In 1979 our family was part of a small group sponsoring a 20-year-old Vietnamese man, one of the thousands of Boat People fleeing Vietnam. All these years later, our young man is still employed at …more
Midge Sandiland should be awarded the Saint of the Year Award says Jim Garvie, a Leacrest Rd. resident for 55 years. Garvie, now in his 80s, says Sandiland goes out of her way to help …more
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