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Leaside's Green Heart Heroes 2020
Leaside Green

Meet Leaside’s Green Heart heroes

April 1, 2020 Debora Kuchme and Cheryl Vanderburg

Nature offers us so many shades of green to enjoy: emerald, olive, lime and seafoam, to name a few. And Leaside offers us so many shades of green living to celebrate, including cycling, solar power, …more

Shop Green Logo.
Leaside Green

It’s easy shopping green in Leaside

March 1, 2020 Debora Kuchme and Cheryl Vanderburg

Leaside has more businesses that cater to our green living needs than any other neighbourhood in Toronto. …At least that’s what we think from our own research. And with such a tremendous variety of products …more

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Shop Green Here Leaside Participants

March 1, 2020 Debora Kuchme and Cheryl Vanderburg

Shop Green Here participants in Leaside   Alex Farm Products (organic cheese and bring your own container), 1578 Bayview Ave. Aireon TV (television and audio equipment sales, service and installation), 410 Moore Ave E.  Badali’s …more

Green heart awards.
Leaside Green

Leaside Green: Introducing the Leaside Green Heart Awards!

February 1, 2020 Debora Kuchme and Cheryl Vanderburg

There isn’t a day that goes by without our being drawn into the growing focus on green living – the idea of leading a sustainable lifestyle that works with nature and tries to bring into …more

Amin of We the Roots. Photo Debora Kuchme.
Leaside Green

Leaside Green: We the Roots – a new way to bring agriculture back

January 1, 2020 Debora Kuchme and Cheryl Vanderburg

This area that we call Leaside was once home to the Laurentian people, who grew corn, beans and squash and gathered the abundance of local nuts and berries to sustain their community. Later, the Lea …more

Some Green Christmas ideas. Photo Cheryl Vanderburg.
Leaside Green

Leaside Green: We’re dreaming of a green Christmas

December 1, 2019 Debora Kuchme and Cheryl Vanderburg

Ah, the holidays, that magical time of year when we bring warmth and light to the cold darkness, love and joy to our family and friends along with hope and wishes for peace and goodwill …more

Sharrows (pictured here) indicate where cyclists should ride. For motorists, they are a reminder to share the road. Photo City of Toronto.
Leaside Green

Leaside Green

November 1, 2019 Debora Kuchme and Cheryl Vanderburg

Kids say the darndest things. Over breakfast with my son one morning, he piped up: “I just read an article in a scientific journal that said the earth could be uninhabitable by 2050.” Ouch! That …more

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Trace Manes Park on a snowy day
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Agnes Macphail Award 
seeking nominations

by Staff in Community

Agnes Campbell Macphail was once described as “the most important woman in public life that Canada has produced in the 20th century.”  In 1921 she blazed a trail for women with her election to the ...more
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  • Our very own Trustee Rachel Chernos Lin is the new chair of the TDSB
  • Getting pickled in Leaside
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  • Bread, baby, bread
  • Get fit, be fit, stay fit with Leaside trainer Tom Toth
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  • Editor’s Welcome – January 2023
  • The Curious Idler – January 2023
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  • The Video-ettes: Leaside’s husband-and-wife novelty musical team
  • Different Ford, similar issues
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