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So happy to be back/Morgan Livingstone

The Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade returned live and in person to Queen St E Sunday and the sight of so many kids and adults having fun has thrilled the City. It’s been two years since the parade took place. The route ran along Queen from Monroe Park Ave. in the east and travelled west to Woodbine Ave., lasting about two hours. Writing in the Sun, Veronica Henri said that organizers did not have the same amount of time to prepare as they would have had pre-pandemic. “Still, the event was successful with 50 floats, numerous marching bands, and local clubs, with participants showing everything from gymnastics to kickboxing and ballet dancers. It ended with the main attraction, the Easter Bunny”. Pictures abound on Twitter.

Standing tall

Star of the parade

Here comes the band

Do you like my ears

York Lions Steel Band

Captivated kids/Toronto Star

Leaside Heritage Preservation Society board members with Rob Oliphant: l to r Patrick Rocca, Ann Brown, Mr Oliphant, Susan Parr and Ted DeWelles/LHPS

Dos and Don’ts at Sunnybrook Dog Park

Ruffle me good/Colin Mcconnell

Join friends at The Pub

Who do you think deserves the honour?

Members and friends of the Leaside Heritage Preservation Society met on April 10 at the Leaside Pub to celebrate life in this happy corner of the world. Of special note was the newly-created Leaside Heritage Lager from Amsterdam Brewery. Then at the upper right is a signboard with the many dos and don’ts for visitors to Sunnybrook Dog Park.  It’s getting a lot of ridicule on Twitter. But we know why every single one of them was written, don’t we? And in the end, it’s all about us. Below that are reminders about the great turkey dinner available today and tomorrow at The Pub and a nudge to get busy finding candidates for the Leaside Sports Hall of Fame. At the lower left is Leslieville master nature lensman Colin Mcconnell’s recent shot of a very ruffled night hooter. Or as they say in Quebec, couche-tard.

Korry’s Clothiers to Gentleman will close the doors at 569 Danforth Ave for good after 70 years of business. The son of the founder is Shawn Korman. “It’s been a great ride but it’s time to say farewell,” he told City News. He said that following the death of his father, Saul, last year, he started casually looking at retirement. But the realities of on-and-off closures during the pandemic forced him to expedite those plans.

Russia has warned the US that continued arms shipment to Ukraine will have “unpredictable consequences”. This occurred before President Biden ordered even more deliveries to the embattled land and that has led to a belief that the US thinks Vladimir Putin is making desperate threats because his options are so limited. Also in this CNN interview segment, news that the US now feels the Ukraine-Russia fight could last until next year.

Canada wants to ship gas and oil but it has no pipeline

Canada will ship gas and oil to Europe to help wean our NATO allies off Russian fuel. But it would have been a lot easier if there were a pipeline.

Work resumes on pipeline from Norway to Poland

And here’s a pipeline that is being built. It runs from oil and gas-rich Norway to Poland. The Poles would love to have an alternative to Russian fuel.

Smoke rolls out of 615 College/Voxomia Reddit

A stubborn fire has driven out occupants of an older three-storey commercial and residential building at 615 College St. early Friday. Four alarms were rung. The Fire Marshal will investigate. No one was hurt.

Ukraine says it sank the Russian battleship Moscova with a missile attack but the Kremlin is saying the ship was lost to an explosion of munitions on board the vessel. Either way, the sinking comes as yet another unexpected blow to Russian morale in a war Vladimir Putin thought he would win in a waltz.

What? Another billionaire act of whimsy from Mr. Electric Car and as heard on CNN above he doesn’t believe Twitter is “free” enough, whatever that means.

A harrowing attempt at vehicle theft has been captured on surveillance video in Brampton. The brazen daylight crime took place with an infant child in the SUV. The dad drove off the thief as he held a second child in his arms. Peel Police say that just before 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, the man loaded his 10-month-old baby into the SUV parked in his driveway, and went back into his home to fetch his second child. Watch it unfold above.

Calum and granddad Yousef

Baseball and Princess Cassandra

Will Popfly prevail?

A Leaside boy, Calum Paulsen, 12, has written a 148-page mystery paperback that seems likely to appeal to many kids his age. And here’s a lovely family twist. The book is illustrated by Calum’s granddad Yousef Tadros, a commercial architect. Here’s how Calum summarizes the plot.

When superstar MLB player and five star amateur detective Neil “Popfly” Gibson becomes tangled in a mysterious case targeting baseball players, he must figure out what the attacks have to do with an ancient Greek princess named Cassandra. Neil races against the clock, determined not to let another MLB player get hurt. But can he solve the mystery in time, or will he wind up just another victim?

Such fun and reason for plenty of family pride. Calum and Yousef hope to publish another book soon. Here’s the Amazon page where The Princess Cassandra Mystery can be purchased for $10.16

Toronto will see a few warm days this week beginning Wednesday with a predicted high of 18º Celsius. Heading into the weekend it will be wet with a predicted 10 mm of rain on Friday and another 5 mm on Saturday. Weather Network

SEDRA, the South Eglinton Davisville Residents Association, has emailed members about what is known Expanding Housing Option in Neighbourhoods. It is said to propose as many as five housing units per lot. It seems fair to call the notion radical. City Council, as presently formed, has many ideas to increase density (or add homes) to the City of Toronto. Like the Garden Suites concept, now a legal option available to any homeowner, it seems to challenge fundamentally the present makeup of single-family neighbourhoods (ie one lot, one house, one family). This historic concept is apparently considered not viable and perhaps old-fashioned. You may well have your own view. And SEDRA is asking homeowners to attend a Webex meeting scheduled for Wednesday at which this will be discussed.

Need to modify Garden Suite legislation

And the Leaside Residents Association is asking members to send mail to Councillor Robinson about the need to modify the Garden Suites legislation as it presently exists. Below is a video of “investors” talking last year about how Garden Suites as an investment will soon “sweep across Ontario”. One might say that if it doesn’t scare you, nothing will.