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ActiveTO is coming to midtown on Yonge!

May 1, 2021 Holly Reid

Last July, writing in Leaside Life about the lack of ActiveTO installations in midtown, I asked, “If active transportation makes sense on Bloor and Danforth, why not in midtown on Yonge Street, the busiest transit …more

Share your #15minutecityLeaside photos with the hashtag on Instagram.
Cycling

Could Leaside be a 15-minute city?

October 1, 2020 Holly Reid

The 15-minute city is an idea currently getting more than its 15 minutes of fame. Paris is planning to be one, Ottawa has made it part of its new official plan and C40 Cities are …more

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.
History

A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Leaside: Part 3 – Bayview Institutional Lands 

August 7, 2020 Geoff Kettel

 A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Leaside Part 3 – Bayview Institutional Lands  Preface  The Kilgour Estate  In the early 1900’s it became fashionable for Toronto’s wealthy elite to have a country estate on the northern edge …more

Northlea United. Staff Photo.
History

A self-guided walking tour. 
Part 2: North Leaside

June 1, 2020 Geoff Kettel

The second self-guided walking tour of Leaside takes us to North Leaside. Where does North Leaside in fact start? Typically, we think of North Leaside as that part north of Eglinton. If you look at …more

A view inside Garden Court.
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A self-guided walking tour. 
Part 1: Central Leaside

May 1, 2020 Geoff Kettel

Background I remind you of what I believe to be an essential background context to all the walks: Leaside as a designed cultural heritage landscape – features that make Leaside Leaside – the Todd town …more

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  • Who ya gonna call? Leaside’s best kept secret.
  • Leasiders go hog-wild at Lola & Miguel
  • On your mark, get set, VOTE!
  • Leasider Catherine Wiseman-Hakes launches The Compassionate Justice Fund
  • Whatever happened to the Canada Wire Water Tower?
  • Can you dig it? Leaside gardeners are connecting to nature in new ways
  • Combating vehicle theft in Toronto
  • Editor: Ready, set, vote!
  • Q&A with Kathleen Wynne
  • Curious Idler – May 2022
  • Good times at Leaside’s wilderness parks
  • Could a Neighbourhood Bikeway work here?
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