Missing sidewalks in school zone called a safety issue
Toronto council has in place a standing order to add sidewalks to all Toronto streets that currently don’t have them. I’m not going to hold my breath on that one.
Read MoreToronto council has in place a standing order to add sidewalks to all Toronto streets that currently don’t have them. I’m not going to hold my breath on that one.
Read MoreWho knew? It was mid-week morning rush hour. I’d just been standing at the east-side bus stop for the Bayview 11 bus heading north. I had bet myself that the horrible, no-traffic-lights, Parkhurst-Soudan intersection just south of the Parkhurst Dry cleaner would generate at least one near-accident before my bus arrived.
Read MoreYou can’t go home again, wrote novelist Thomas Wolfe. But Leasider Larry Hurd proves him wrong.
Read MoreAm I the only denizen of Bayview Avenue keeping track of every McDonald’s sign that keeps going up across from the Second Cup?
Read MoreAs many Leasiders are aware, there is now another gigantic crater in town—the one excavated at Laird and Wicksteed’s northeast corner, behind the autobody shop that refused to sell out to developers. We missed golden opportunities to better exploit prior craters that became filled…
Read MoreThough Ray Ratchford lived on Balliol Street for the past 29 years, his presence among us didn’t really register until Ray got his motorized scooter.
Read MoreFor me, The Toronto Hapkido Academy (THA) on Bayview Avenue has always had a mystique to it. We had all
Read MoreThe filbert nut tree was the final stop on Jeff McMann’s guided tour of the east side of Mount Pleasant
Read MoreI just found this out: the ravine trail south off Moore Avenue is officially deemed part of the Kay Gardner Belt Line.
Read MoreAniko Szocs and Stephen D’Amico run the Millwood Melt, bringing the grilled-cheese revolution to Leaside.
Read MoreI wondered whether drivers have been taking the right-turn prohibition on red at McRae Drive and Millwood Road seriously.
Read MoreWhy is a Leaside columnist involving himself in the Beltline cleanup from the west side of Mount Pleasant to the Allen Expressway?
Read MoreFrank and Nora of Rosie’s Diner on Bayview work so hard that my fantasy is for some regulars to sit the couple down one day and cook them lunch.
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