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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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Coutts twins and cross country team
Sports 

Leaside girls run for silver at cross country championship

December 18, 2018December 24, 2018 Brian Baker Chloe Coutts, Leaside High School, OFSAA, Sophie Coutts, TDSB, Toronto District School Board

Leaside’s Coutts twins, Sophie and Chloe, admit that they were were caught a little off guard by the OFSAA Cross Country course at Christie Lake Recreational Area in Dundas, Ont. in early November.

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Sports 

John Polanyi archers string together three-peat

June 6, 2016December 22, 2018 Brian Baker Archery, John Polanyi Collegiate Institute, OFSAA, TDSB

There’s a changing of the guard within the John Polanyi CI archery team, even though they officially completed the provincial

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Sports 

Lawrence Park’s girls hockey the best in the province

March 22, 2016March 29, 2016 Brian Baker hockey, Lawrence Park Collegiate, OFSAA, TDSB

In the moments leading up to Lawrence Park’s gold medal game against Centennial CVI of Guelph, head coach Karen Daigle

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Sports 

Lawrence Park freshman earns bronze at OFSAA

November 23, 2015November 24, 2015 Brian Baker Cross-country, Lawrence Park CI, swimming, Sydney Winokur, TDSB

The Winokur family is always running and swimming. Which explains why Lawrence Park CI freshman, Sydney Winokur, snagged bronze at

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Bannockburn land
NEWS 

Bannockburn land approved for sale

September 8, 2015July 25, 2017 Shawn Star Bannockburn School, Ontario Municipal Board, TDSB

The plot of land at the centre of a tug-of-war between the school board and the community for more than two years will now be up for sale, after the Ontario Municipal Board ruled in favour of allowing the school board to sell the land.

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NEWS 

Meeting on TDSB governance poorly attended

April 15, 2015April 16, 2015 Shawn Star advisory panel, Barbara Hall, public consultation, school board, TDSB

The first of 16 public meetings put on by a provincial task force looking into how the Toronto District School Board might do a better job of running itself saw a little more than 30 people turn out at North Toronto Community Centre on Monday night.

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NEWS 

Teacher cuts won’t affect St. Paul’s schools

March 16, 2015 Shawn Star Shelley Laskin, St. Paul's, TDSB

Cuts to teaching staff won’t be affecting schools in the St. Paul’s area, trustee Shelley Laskin says.

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NEWS 

Forest Hill CI not in danger of closing

February 24, 2015 Shawn Star Forest Hill Collegiate, school closures, Shelley Laskin, TDSB, Vaughan Road Academy

Despite being on the Toronto District School Board’s list of schools possibly facing closure, Forest Hill Collegiate is not at risk of closing, says trustee Shelley Laskin.

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NEWS 

City unlikely to buy Bannockburn School greenspace

February 4, 2015February 10, 2015 Shawn Star Bannockburn School, Christin Carmichael Greb, Jennifer Arp, Ontario Municipal Board, Save Bannockburn Green Space, TDSB

The greenspace at Bannockburn School is unlikely to be purchased by the city, according to Ward 16 councillor Christin Carmichael Greb.

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NEWS 

Bannockburn OMB hearing held over until May

January 12, 2015February 10, 2015 Shawn Star Bannockburn School, Greenspace, Ontario Municipal Board, TDSB

The OMB hearing for the proposed severance of land at Bannockburn School has been adjourned until mid-May to allow time for the city and school board to discuss a possible deal for the city to buy the greenspace.

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VIEWS 

Greenspace can be saved if city acts

November 25, 2014November 25, 2014 Shawn Star Bannockburn School, Shawn Star, TDSB

The greenspace at Bannockburn School in North Toronto can be saved if the city acts quickly in the new council term.

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Howard Goodman, Donna Quan
NEWS 

TDSB quarrel casts doubt on Goodman case

November 24, 2014November 24, 2014 Shawn Star Donna Quan, Howard Goodman, Irene Atkinson, TDSB

New allegations have come to light suggesting Donna Quan, director of education for Toronto District School Board, may have threatened to “get” outgoing Eglinton-Lawrence trustee Howard Goodman two weeks before he was charged with criminal harassment.

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NEWS 

Lawyer alleges Goodman arrest politically motivated

November 12, 2014November 13, 2014 Shawn Star Howard Goodman, TDSB, Toronto Police

Outgoing trustee Howard Goodman who was arrested Wednesday morning on criminal harassment charges is proclaiming his innocence and alleging his arrest is “political” and the justice system is being “misused.”

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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 Eric McMillan

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
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

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

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

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

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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