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North Toronto Daily Updates

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Streeter staff affordable housing, assault, automated speed enforcement, Avenue Road, bakery, Barry Sherman, bike lanes, bus, café, candy, cannabis, car crash, car thefts, carbon monoxide, child care, child pornography, COVID-19, development, dog poop, Don Valley Golf Course, fire, fire truck, Fraserwood Avenue, gun control, gunshots, hate crime, homicide, Honey Sherman, knife, Lawrence Avenue East, libraries, Little Jamaica, Loblaws, map, McSorley's Saloon and Grill, Metro, motorcyclist, Mt. Pleasant Road, North Toronto Collegiate, North Toronto Hockey Association, North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, overdoses, parking permits, patios, Playa Cabana Bar Esquina, pollinator gardens, power outage, rents, Rob Oliphant, SafeTO, schools, shooting, Shoppers Drug Mart, snow clearing, Sobeys, Starbucks, Stephanie Bowman, subway, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto Transit Commission, vaccinations, vaccine, Valentine's Day, vigil, Yonge Eglinton, Yonge Eglinton Centre, Yonge Street

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DAILY UPDATES

Leaside Daily Updates

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 Streeter staff ActiveTO, Agnes Macphail Award, arrests, assault, automated speed enforcement, bands, Bayview Avenue, BikeMatch, break and enter, break-ins, CampTO, cannabis, car thefts, Christmas tree, collision, coronavirus, COVID-19, crane, dog poop, first-degree murder, flooding, Food Basics, gun control, gunshots, Islamic Society of Toronto, Jaye Robinson, Leaside Heritage Preservation Society, Leaside Hockey Association, libraries, Loblaw Companies, Loblaws, logo, maps, Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, McSorley’s, Metro, New Year's, outdoor recreation, Overlea Boulevard, parking permits, patios, pedestrian, Phamilyeats, pollinator gardens, poppies, power outage, raccoons, ravines, recycling, Redway Road, road closure, road work, Rob Oliphant, robbery, SafeTO, sexual assault, shooting, Shop and Vax, speed bumps, speeding, stabbing, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, testing, Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Organization, Thorncliffe Park Community Hub, Thorncliffe Park Drive, Thorncliffe Park Public School, Toronto District School Board, toy drive, Traffic Services, vaccination rate, vaccine, Valu-Mart, washrooms, wind, Youth Leaders of East York

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York Mills Daily Updates

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 Streeter staff Armour Heights Library, assault, automated speed enforcement, Avenue Road, Barry Sherman, COVID-19, Don Valley Golf Course, fire, Honey Sherman, libraries, Longo's, Marco Mendicino, murder, North York Knights, Old Colony Road, outdoor recreation, parking permits, Rob Oliphant, SafeTO, school closures, subway, Toronto District School Board, Toronto Transit Commission, vaccine, York Mills Station

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*FEATURED NEWS

Midtown is still painted red after Liberal election sweep

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 Rodger Burnside Carolyn Bennett, Don Valley West, Eglinton-Lawrence, federal election, Marco Mendicino, Rob Oliphant, Toronto-St. Paul's

After another close and hard-fought federal election, the same Liberal candidates won all the midtown races as in the previous two elections.

Carolyn Bennett with Oliphant and Matlow

Column VIEWS

We will soon be together again

March 14, 2021March 30, 2021 Carolyn Bennett Carolyn Bennett, COVID-19, Josh Matlow, pandemic, Rob Oliphant, Toronto-St. Paul's

MP Bennett reflects on the past year since March 13, 2020 when she arrived home after Parliament was shut down due to COVID-19.

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Jaye Robinson being treated for breast cancer

October 29, 2019October 29, 2019 Rodger Burnside Breast cancer, Don Valley West, Doug Ford, Jaye Robinson, John Tory, Rob Oliphant

Don Valley West councillor Jaye Robinson has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is undergoing an “extensive treatment plan,” she announced this morning.

DAILY UPDATES

Leaside Daily Updates: June–August 2019

August 31, 2019October 30, 2019 Streeter staff Bayview Avenue, Bennington Heights Day Care, Bennington Heights Drive, Bennington Heights Elementary School, bomb scare, Canadian Automobile Association, diabetes, Edna Beange, Edna Beange Lane, Eglinton Avenue East, InsideOut Studio, Jaye Robinson, John Tory, Kathleen Wynne, Laird Drive, Leaside High School, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Rob Oliphant, shooting, Spring Into Action, Sunnybrook Park, Sutherland Drive, Toronto Police

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North Toronto Daily Updates: June-July 2019

July 1, 2019August 21, 2020 Streeter staff assault, Avenue Road, Bathurst Street, Beth Sholom Synagogue, Canada Day, Canadian Automobile Association, Columbus Centre, Dufferin Street, Eglinton Avenue West, Flemington Road, Jewish Music Week, Jill Andrew, John Tory, Kathleen Wynne, Lawrence Avenue West, Mike Colle, Moore Park Ravine, North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, Rob Oliphant, robbery, Sonshine and Broccoli, St. Clair Avenue West, St. Monica's Catholic School, Toronto Police, Toronto-St. Paul's

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*FEATURED NEWS

Lane naming reflects Edna Beange’s life of activism

June 29, 2019October 9, 2019 Rodger Burnside Bayview Avenue, Edna Beange, Jaye Robinson, Rob Oliphant

The new had better be kept clean and accessible, Don Valley West MP Rob Oliphant warned. “Edna is watching,” he said.

DAILY UPDATES

Leaside Daily Updates: May 2019

June 1, 2019July 11, 2019 Streeter staff Bayview Avenue, Bennington Heights Day Care, Bennington Heights Drive, Bennington Heights Elementary School, bomb scare, Canadian Automobile Association, diabetes, Edna Beange, Edna Beange Lane, Eglinton Avenue East, InsideOut Studio, Jaye Robinson, John Tory, Kathleen Wynne, Laird Drive, Leaside High School, Rob Oliphant, shooting, Spring Into Action, Sunnybrook Park, Sutherland Drive, Toronto Police

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NEWS

Volunteer work keeps marginalized from becoming victims: Macphail winner

March 29, 2019March 30, 2019 Rodger Burnside Agnes Macphail, Agnes Macphail Award, Brad Bradford, Carol Burtin Fripp, Coxwell Avenue, East York Civic Centre, Jennifer Story, John Tory, Karen Fraser, Kathleen Wynne, Paula Fletcher, Peter Tabuns, Rima Berns-McGown, Rob Oliphant

Volunteer work gave her training to help get through the disaster that hit her life a year ago, Karen Fraser said in accepting the Agnes Macphail Award.

Column VIEWS

Vigil held for those lost in New Zealand mosque shootings

March 19, 2019October 16, 2019 Rob Oliphant Rob Oliphant, St. Cuthbert’s Church, vigil

On March 17, a vigil was held at St. Cuthbert’s to ommemorate the lives of those lost during the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.

NEWS

Leaside community activist eulogized in Parliament

February 5, 2019February 15, 2019 Rodger Burnside Agnes Macphail Award, Edna Beange, Leaside Garden Society, Rob Oliphant

Leaside and East York lost one of their most prominent citizens with the death of Edna Beange, 98, on Jan 7.

*FEATURED NEWS

Former trustee Gershon presented with citizenship award

January 23, 2019January 25, 2019 Rodger Burnside Gerri Gershon, Kathleen Wynne, Lawrence Avenue West, Rob Oliphant, Toronto Botanical Garden, York Mills Collegiate

Gerri Gershon, who served as public school trustee for 33 years, received the Award for Citizenship at Don Valley West’s New Year’s Levee.

*FEATURED NEWS

Carolyn Bennett kicks off campaign for ‘tough’ election

September 13, 2018June 27, 2019 Brian Baker Bob Rae, Carolyn Bennett, federal election, Josh Matlow, Liberal Party, Rob Oliphant

Tucked in a booth at the Midtown Gastro Hub in Deer Park on Sept. 6, Toronto-St. Paul’s MP Carolyn Bennett admitted this federal election is going to be a tough one.

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