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Author: Brian Baker

Leaside's three winning cross country teams
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Leaside runner unfazed by shoe loss as cross country team wins gold

November 16, 2019November 20, 2019 Brian Baker Central Toronto Athletics Club, Cross-country, Leaside High School, OFSAA, TDSB, Toronto District School Board

The loss of one shoe wasn’t going to keep Chloe Coutts from earning her Leaside girls’ cross country team a gold medal at OFSAA.

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Carolyn Bennett with supporters
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Carolyn Bennett back in Toronto-St. Paul’s after divisive federal election

October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 Brian Baker Alok Mukherjee, Carolyn Bennett, federal election, Jae Truesdell, Liberal Party, St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto-St. Paul's, Yonge Street

Liberal Carolyn Bennett, who has held Toronto–St. Paul’s since 1997, increased her margin of victory but was concerned about the divisive campaign.

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Mentalist Jaymes White leads seance
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Seance at George Brown House left skeptical journalist shaking

October 11, 2019October 17, 2019 Brian Baker George Brown house, Halloween, Jaymes White, Seance

Guided by lantern, we walked over to the three-storey, mansard-roofed George Brown House as we heard its story. We were about to attend a seance.

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From growing up on a Depression dairy farm to playing for the TSO

September 11, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Dorothy White, Flautist, Harpist, Toronto Symphony Orchestra

I learned my neighbour Dorothy White, 91, had been second harpist for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra — having grown up in Springfield, Missouri.

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Comedian Chris Locke
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Chris Locke credits weird chats with his dad on boardwalk for his comedy

August 19, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Absolute Comedy, boardwalk, Chris Locke, comedian, Sirius XM Top Comic

Stand-up comedian Chris Locke remembers fondly the days he spent along the Beach boardwalk learning about life from his dad.

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Ballerina Jacqueline Sugianto
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Don Mills ballerina competing at national competition

August 19, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker ballet, Genée International Ballet Competition, Jacqueline Sugianto, Karen Kain, National Ballet of Canada, Royal Academy of Dance

Don Mills resident Jacqueline Sugianto, 15, is taking her ballet skills to the next level as she takes part in the Genée International Ballet Competition.

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Leaside High girls team
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Leaside High sends 26 to OFSAA track, earns eight medals

June 27, 2019July 9, 2019 Brian Baker Chloe Coutts, Leaside High School, OFSAA, Sophie Coutts, track and field

It was the individual stories that helped the Leaside High School track team excel at this year’s OFSAA meet in

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Lawrence Park Collegiate tennis team
Sports 

Lawrence Park continues tennis tradition, four medals at OFSAA

June 25, 2019July 11, 2019 Brian Baker Lawrence Park Collegiate, Lindsey Wong, OFSAA, tennis

It would not be a fault to compare junior tennis player Hilary Kent to comic book hero Wolverine. They have the uncanny ability to heal very quickly.

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Lytton Park chanteuse ready to bring Ella (and Louis) to jazz festival

June 15, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Barbra Lica, jazz, music, TD Toronto Jazz Festival, University Of Toronto

Barbra Lica is ramping up for a performance at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival on June 22 at Home Smith Bar inside the Old Mill.

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Emilie-Claire Barlow to celebrate 20-year career at jazz festival

June 14, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Emilie-Claire Barlow, jazz, music, Steve Webster, TD Toronto Jazz Festival

This year’s Emilie-Claire Barlow show at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival is 20 years in the making. It’s been that

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Plenty of options in midtown for young ballet fans

June 5, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Avenue Road, ballet, Brookdale Avenue, Crescent School, Eifman Ballet, Martha Hicks School of Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Show One Productions, Sony Centre For The Performing Arts

My five-year-old daughter has opened me up to ballet. Ever since she saw the film Ballerina she has been enthralled by the fluid poetry on toes.

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Fire truck shown at spring bazaar
NEWS 

Scenes from St. Monica’s fundraising bazaar

June 1, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Babuni, bazaar, fundraiser, St. Monica's Catholic School, VRTU Muay Thai

North Toronto’s St. Monica’s Catholic School held its annual Spring Bazaar on May 25, providing the neighbourhood with entertainment galore.

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Leaside’s Howard Birnie inducted into Toronto Sport Hall of Honour

May 15, 2019May 22, 2019 Brian Baker baseball, Howard Birnie, Leaside Baseball Association, Toronto Sport Hall of Honour

The City of Toronto inducted Howard Birnie, 81, into the Toronto Sport Hall of Honour, under the category of Community Sport Volunteers, on April 5.

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Barbara Gowdy and Whitney Smith
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Barbara Gowdy follows her new passion with second choir show

May 4, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker B-Xalted!, Barbara Gowdy, choir, Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Margaret Atwood, St. Paul’s Bloor Street, Whitney Smith

The B-Xalted choir was founded by Barbara Gowdy and Whitney Smith last winter, and after a sold-out show in December s returning for its sophomore show.

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ROM collection of extinct birds
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ROM has the last remaining mounts of extinct birds

May 3, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Doug Ford, great auk, passenger pigeon, puffin, Royal Ontario Museum

The ROM has many extinct species in its collection, including the passenger pigeon, the ivory-billed woodpecker, the Labrador duck, and the great auk.

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Brian Baker

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
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Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Brian Baker
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Brian Baker
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Brian Baker

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