Leaside’s Andy Elder, proprietor of Grilltime on Laird is camped out at Leaside Memorial Gardens this weekend serving some fantastic arena fare. If “healthy” is your thing, the salad seen below will be available all weekend at the Leaside Select Hockey Tournament along with their Glazed Back Bacon Sandwiches and Grilltime Chili. Drop in for a snack and catch a game or two.
Here’s the schedule: SCHEDULE: Leaside Select Invitational Hockey Tournament
Today is #Time4Change Day, where 600 students and volunteers are taking over 27 of Toronto’s TTC stations, PATH locations and high-traffic urban areas to raise $101,000 for Youth Without Shelter (YWS), an emergency residence and support house serving 1,000 homeless youth in the GTA annually.
From 7 am to 7 pm, the 12-hour, Toronto-wide student art activism event will see students and volunteers collecting spare change and TTC fare to support transportation costs and essential programming at YWS. Students will perform theatre, dance, visual arts, music and spoken word to convey the staggering realities of the youth homelessness crisis. (Youth between the ages of 13 and 24 make up a shocking 20% of the homeless population in Canada.)
If you’re not going to be at any of their locations today, you can text CHANGE to 45678 to donate $10 to Youth Without Shelter.
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Millwood Road southbound at Laird is open after a 4 day closure to repair a water main break. Woohoo!
An early snowfall is all in the game for Toronto. Remembrance Day flags at Sunnybrook’s Veterans Centre and a lonely pumpkin outside de la mer seafood on Bayview Ave. remind us that we must adjust. This gallery also contains pretty shots taken during a Thursday evening walk in South Bayview and a welcoming snow-covered trail at Downsview Park.
The Bulldog has been contacted by four grade eleven students from Leaside High School to let us know that they have teamed up to organize a school walkout on Friday, September 21st, at 1 p.m. on the back field of Leaside High School (Howard Talbot Park, 635 Eglinton Ave E). It is the same time and day over 40 schools across Ontario are participating in their own individual walkouts. This walkout is to protest the reverting of the newly updated sex-ed curriculum (2015) to the one taught in 1998. In the 1998 curriculum, students were not taught about modern sex ed topics such as LGBTQ+ issues within sexual education, consent and safe sexting. The walkout will also protest the lack of priority given to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which will halt the effort to incorporate Indigenous knowledge and teachings in Ontario classrooms. Finally, the walkout will address the $100 million budget cut to school repair funds that Doug Ford issued under his government rule for Ontario public schools.
The Toronto Hydro outage that lay across Davisville Village and South Leaside was repaired by dinnertime Monday as shown on the firm’s blackout map online. There remains at posting time a small outage which seems to be centred in the west side of Summerhill off Macpherson Ave. and Roxborough St. West.
iPhones, Apple Watches, Apple announcements — Apple’s big fall hardware event showing off phones, smartwatches, accessories, and software updates for its suite of products. More on The Verge
@SBayview The #AppleEvent is about to start. Tap below to watch live on Twitter. Reply #stop to opt out.https://t.co/oNC3CTeA2n
— Apple (@Apple) September 12, 2018
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will use the notwithstanding clause to override a judge’s decision on slashing the size of Toronto City Council. Ford cited the constitutional provision dating from Confederation which makes municipalities the creatures of the provinces. Toronto, he said, is a creation of the Legislature. He said legal experts of all parties agreed that Bill 5 was “completely constitutional.” He said he found today’s decision by Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba “deeply concerning” in law. CBC
NDP leader Andrea Horwath will hold a news conference after the Premier’s. Staffer tells us they’ll wait as long as needed to let reporters move between one event and the other. @680NEWS
— Mark Douglas (@DouglasCityNews) September 10, 2018
Three vehicles collided at Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Merton St. Thursday injuring at least one driver and snarling traffic in the neighborhood. It was widely believed at the scene that a southbound car and a car heading east on Merton hit each other. It seems somebody misjudged or ignored traffic lights. The southbound car, a Ford, then struck a northbound pickup truck and flipped onto its side. Witnesses said the driver of the car on Merton was being treated in the ambulance seen in photos above. The driver of the flipped car, once out, walked into the residential building on the southwest corner and rested courtesy of someone there. Traffic was diverted on Mt. Pleasant at Belsize and St. Clair. The knock-on effect of this, as it always is, was very heavy traffic on Welland, Moore and Bayview Aves. as drivers looked for another route.
England will face Colombia in the World Cup last 16 after a 1-0 loss to Belgium meant they finished second in Group G. Adnan Januzaj scored the winner with a brilliantly curled effort in the second half, with both sides fielding much-changed XIs from their previous games — BBC
It's almost time for England v Belgium at the #WorldCup #ENGBEL
If England win they play Japan in the next round. If England lose, they play Colombia.
If you want to watch the next round in Russia, here's everything you need to know: https://t.co/mTD78f2nWR pic.twitter.com/JhDN5J4XTH
— ITV News (@itvnews) June 28, 2018
BBC’s MATCH FACTS
The most impactful news during this World Cup, may just be the C02 shortage burdening pubs in Europe. Oh my.
Sweltering Europe loses its fizz as C02 shortage hits drinkers https://t.co/zFH6UfTPTz
— CTV News (@CTVNews) June 27, 2018
The 100th anniversary of Canada’s first air mail flight was Sunday and local enthusiasts have planned a flyby over the Leaside Pub at McRae Drive and Laird Drive for Saturday (June 30) at about 3 p.m. It is part of a celebration called Wings Over Leaside which includes a display of old photos at the pub. The Leaside Aerodrome was key to air mail in those days. The exhibit at the pub is up and the orgnaizers say there is a rumour that a propeller from an actual Curtiss JN-4 Canuck from Camp Leaside might make an appearance on June 30. Sounds like fun. Air Mail. We forget how important it was. Below is mid-century air mail pop culture.
Elaine Benes, the “Seinfeld” character played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus hashed out the idea in a Seinfeld episode back on May 8, 1997. Everyone agreed that the muffin top is the only valuable part of the breakfast staple. Her quandary was what to do with the boring part of the muffin below the glorious top, she named the “stump”. McDonald’s has taken on the challenge and has been trying out the muffin top idea in parts of the US since last year.
McDonald's is taking an idea from #Seinfeld and just selling the #muffintop for breakfast … https://t.co/asePblqoRO pic.twitter.com/afycu5G1A3
— Mick Ross (@mickster) June 27, 2018
