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
One of the responsibilities of TDSB trustees, as laid out in the Education Act, is to pass an annual balanced budget. The last two budgets were fairly straightforward; they were status quo budgets, and as …more
Recently, I met a new Leaside family: Panagiotis Podaras, his wife Rania, and daughters Alexandra (7½) and Giolanta (4½). I spoke to Panagiotis about their path to Canada – and Leaside. Panagiotis was recruited to …more
I recently completed a Leaside High co-op course. For high school seniors, questions about your future linger in every corner. Where are you going to go for post-secondary? What are you going to study? Where …more
Long-time social justice leader (and one-time Leaside Life columnist) Karen Fraser has been named the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Agnes Macphail Award, which will be given at a ceremony on Sunday, March 24, 2019. …more
What happens when you come upon a cyclist on the road ahead? Do you slow down to assess the situation and then proceed with caution? Or do you dash ahead, accelerating to get past and …more
William Lindsay Malcolm (1884-1948) was a city engineer and planner in the early 1900s, serving overseas in World War I when Malcolm Road was built around the new town of Leaside and the railway tracks. …more
If you were a parent or student in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) in 2016-2017, you may recall having completed the Student and Parent Census during the course of that school year. All in …more
The blossoming career of a popular kindergarten teacher, who has been involved in the field of education for 16 of her 29 years, recently hit a temporary roadblock. Danielle Cummer, who started volunteering at Rolph …more
In late October, a Grade 10 student at Leaside High School was viciously assaulted by a former LHS student while a group of Grade 12 LHS boys surrounded him and watched. What provoked the older …more
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