Fashion royalty Ron White returns to his midtown roots
It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon, and mere hours after its late-May grand opening, Ron White Shoes on Bayview Avenue is
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Gamerama beats the rush for new Yonge-Eglinton digs
Gamerama is looking to level up when it moves into new digs at the beginning of May. The video game
Read MoreClosing time for Avenue Road cookware store
Since 1984, the Main Course has provided North Toronto residents with table linens, dishes, crockery and décor – the stuff
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Gettin’ cozy at Rosie’s Diner
Frank 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.
Read MoreGym celebrates 10 years in Leaside
Insideout Health & Fitness owner Barry H. Samuel and his staff celebrate the 10th anniversary of the gym on Laird Drive
Read MoreGlobal biz a family startup for Leasider
Team of three founded Clear Blue Technologies, specializing in controllers that allow solar and wind energy to power things like security systems and street lights, so they can run off-grid.
Read MoreMaegan aimed at revolutionizing how diners order
The way Cris Jucan saw it, he could use his cellphone to find a restaurant, plan dinner with his friends and order a taxi to bring him there, so why not use it as a menu too? Working from an office at Yonge Street and Davisville Avenue, the enterprising programmer and his business partner, midtown resident Brenda Crainic, developed an app they have called “maegan” to replace a restaurant’s paper-and-plastic menu with a user’s cellphone.
Read MoreBayview merchants say yea to BIA
Businesses along the stretch of Bayview from Soudan Avenue to Davisville Avenue voted 68-26 in favour of forming what is temporarily known as the Bayview Business Improvement Area. An official name will be chosen at the group’s first annual general meeting, which will be called after council puts its stamp of approval on the BIA this month.
Read MoreKeeping it in the family
David Zammit says he can still remember the day he decided to join the family business. It was a Saturday afternoon, and he was working a shift at Bernardi’s Antiques, then located on Hillsdale Avenue East. He was “19 or 21” and attending York University. He was frustrated because he wasn’t getting the courses he wanted. There were other reasons: a history buff in high school, Zammit, now 45 and co-owner of the family business, enjoyed discovering the stories behind the antiques his parents, Paul and Grace, appraised and sold.
Read MoreBell Jewellers to close its doors
Bell Jewellers, the longest running business on Bayview Avenue in Leaside, will be closing its doors at the end of January after 78 years in business.
Read MoreNew BIAs expected to get green light
Months of proposals, campaigning, meetings and votes are culminating in what appears certain to be the birth of two new business improvement areas in midtown early next year.
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Stay-at-home dad ‘kickstarts’ business idea
As a stay at home dad for the past 12 years, Tonis Tollasepp began finding unconventional ways to approach household chores.
Read MoreSobeys expands at Laird and Wicksteed
Store manager Joe Hastie cuts the ribbon to open the expanded Sobeys at 8 a.m. on Sept. 12.
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