Evergreen’s Winter Village: Dec10 to Jan 8. From Davisville station, take the 28 Bayview eastbound to Evergreen Brick Works.
— TTC Customer Service (@TTChelps) December 10, 2016
North Leaside neighbours hear details of Sunnybrook deal
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There is a meeting scheduled for today (Saturday, December 10, 2016) between north Leaside neighbours of Sunnybrook Plaza and members of the Leaside Property Owners Association about the still-confidential deal as to what Sunnybrook Plaza will look like after its redevelopment. The eagerly-awaited (and possibly feared) results of this negotiation at the Ontario Municipal Board will establish the height of towers previously proposed at 13 and 19 floors. The City was a party to this deal as was the LPOA. Just what has been done, no one knows, but the details are expected to be released by or on Monday. As this goes on, retailers in the plaza will be waiting for notice of just what time remains for them in locations that many have had for decades. In particular, area residents will want to know where they will be banking at the CIBC, where the Rexall Pharma Plus will go and what on earth they will do for a good neighbourhood hardware store.
Manor Road United Pancake Breakfast a happy morning
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Cook likes new church kitchen
Heather Fogarty and Michael Schneider
Here’s what it’s all about
The Manor Road United Church Pancake Breakfast was a happy and tasty event Saturday. The church is celebrating its renovation and re-opening this weekend. There is a Christmas concert and carolling Saturday night and worship celebration Sunday at 10.30 a.m. followed by an open house at 11.45 a.nm.
Police incidents in Toronto overnight Friday-Saturday
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A woman drove into the rear of a taxi on the Gardiner at the Spadina ramp early Saturday morning. Police say they suspect impaired driving. The cab flipped over but the occupants all survived with minor injuries. And .two men in their 20s have non-life threatening injuries after a stabbing encounter on Pembroke Street at around 1:15 a.m.
Police partner on “boot drive” Sunday at Fairview Mall
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The Toronto Police Service Divisional Policing Support Unit, in partnership with community group, Heroz 4 The Homeless, is holding a used/new clothing and footwear drive on Sunday in the south parking lot of Fairview Mall. Donations from the initiative will be distributed to shelters in Toronto for the homeless. Officers and community members will be collecting donations from 9 to 10:30 a.m. For information, contact Constable Patty Retsinas at 416-808-0126 or email patty.retsinas@torontopolice.on.ca.
Kringlewood III as tradition grows on Moore Park street
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Three brothers
Where’s that chimney?
Kringlewood parade
The whimsical decision of two neighbours in 2013 to place a couple of 14-foot inflatable Santas on their front lawn has grown into a grand tradition for residents of Inglewood Drive in Moore Park. The Canadian Tire Santas ($250 each) line the lawns (with few houses not participating) from Mt. Pleasant Road to Rosedale Heights Drive. This weekend neighbours will have a street gathering with hot chocolate and such. Those attending are asked to bring a food donation for the Daily Bread food Bank. Organizer Amy Westin says the neighbors have a goal of 500 lbs of food.
Oh deer! Collision slows rush hour at Lawrence & Leslie
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Collision: Lawrence Ave E/ Leslie St.. vehicle has struck a deer. Deer is on the roadway blocking a lane. Units are otw. #2184541.^adc
— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) December 9, 2016
Mt. Pleasant Dollarama will open on Tuesday, December 13
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Mt. Pleasant Dollamara preparing to open
The Dollarama store at 732 Mt. Pleasant is buzzing with preparations for the opening on Tuesday, December 13, 2016.
New turn prohibitions at Bayview and Soudan/Parkhurst
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BREAKING
This week brand new signs were installed that reflect new turn prohibitions that were recommended by Transportation Services in a Report for Action back in September. Area residents have been concerned about the safety of this intersection for years, let us all hope these new rules increase safety. (Photos below provided by Ian Smith)
The new signs:
- prohibit eastbound left turns from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, at Bayview Avenue and Parkhurst Boulevard/Soudan Avenue
- prohibit eastbound through traffic movements from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, at Bayview Avenue and Parkhurst Boulevard/Soudan Avenue
- prohibit westbound left turns from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, at Bayview Avenue and Parkhurst Boulevard/Soudan Avenue
- prohibit westbound through traffic movements from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, at Bayview Avenue and Parkhurst Boulevard/Soudan Avenue.
Bayview Avenue, facing east from corner of Soudan
Bayview Avenue, facing west from corner of Parkhurst
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Things that will be going on around here on Saturday
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Saturday December 10 will see the re-opening of Manor Road United Church after its renovations. There is the annual pancake breakfast Saturday and special services Sunday. Also Saturday, horse drawn carriage rides will be operating on Bayview Ave. for shoppers and the kids. And the Winter Village is underway at Evergreen Brickworks.
LEASIDE MATTERS
The Leaside Community group Leaside Matters will be selling T-shirts outside of the LIT coffee shop on Bayview. The shirts show a map of the town and sell for $20. There are also maps and a cultural heritage of Leaside pamphlet to be had.
Here’s a nice incentive to park for a while on Bayview
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https://twitter.com/LeasideBIA/status/807281389339049985
Biden says world needs Canada “very, very badly”
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Outgoing U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hailed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as genuine leaders during a time when they are in short supply at a state dinner in his honor in Canada on Thursday night. Biden said he’s never since Europeans engaged in as much self-doubt as they are now and said there are more challenges to the liberal international order in any time since the end of World War II. “The world is going to spend a lot of time looking to you Mr. Prime Minister,” Biden told a crowd of Canadian dignitaries. “Viva la Canada because we need you very, very badly.”
PARK IMPEACHED
The South Korean parliament has voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye. It is a stunning and swift fall for the country’s first female leader amid protests that she had permitted a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to extort money from business. Soon-sil and two other former presidential aides were accused of bullying large companies into providing tens of millions of dollars and favours to foundations and businesses Choi controlled, and enabling Choi to interfere with state affairs.
RUSSIAN DOPING
And more than 1,000 Russian competitors across more than 30 sports were involved in an institutional conspiracy to conceal positive doping tests as Moscow ‘hijacked international sport’, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) SAYS. Canadian sports lawyer Richard McLaren provided exhaustive evidence of an elaborate state-sponsored doping scheme operated by Russia’s Sports Ministry.
Putin with discredited athletes