30,000 flags greeted Canadian vets as they awoke Friday

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Sunnybrook is home to 475 veterans from the Second World War and Korean War. On Remembrance Day, veterans woke up to a field of 30,000 Canadian flags that had been planted in their honour through Operation Raise a Flag.

Leaside Facebook buy and sell for those who live outside?

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There is lively discussion on the Facebook page Leaside Community about just who should be permitted to engage in buying and selling on the account. Leasider Sue Barrett writes that she did not care for the position of another Leaside member who told an outsider that the page was for Leaside people only. She wrote: “As I do most mornings I got the kids out the door and before getting on with my day I grab my phone to check the weather, news, Facebook, etc. There was a “for sale” post. The first comment was; “Do you live in Leaside?” The seller responded saying no, but that she was willing to meet up. The Leasider then told her that this page is only for people who live in Leaside. Then went on to post a second post telling her she wasn’t allowed to be in the Leaside Moms Buy/Sell FB group either. The seller responded okay”  Barrett say she asked the Leasider what made her do this. Her response was that she has seen the seller in a few other buy and sell groups and that she lived at Eglington & Oakwood. Barrett called this “just being a bully.” What’s your view.  Leaside Community

 

Memorial for Leonard Cohen planned for Los Angeles

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Longos sponsors free family skate Sunday at Leaside arena

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Flags will be planted at Sunnybrook Veterans Centre tonight

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CGS Remembers

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Students at Children’s Garden School marked Remembrance Day today with an Assembly hosted by their Grade 1 class. The CGS Student Government welcomed guests and distributed poppies. The children have been focusing on Remembrance all week long. Activities included a visit to the Sunnybrook Cenotaph, writing letters to veterans and lining the halls with lovely homemade poppies.

VIDEO: 939 Eglinton Ave E. – Community Consultation

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Here is a video of the Community Consultation meeting held on Oct 13th, 2016, hosted by Jon Burnside, regarding the development proposal at 939 Eglinton Avenue East.

Lea Room meeting hears about downsized 939 Eglinton E.

Leaside Property Owners’ AGM Tuesday, Nov 22, 2016

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The Leaside Property Owners’ Association is hosting their Annual General Meeting at Trace Manes Community Centre (110 Rumsey Road) on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:00pm.  Scheduled topics of discussion include:

  • Round Table Discussion on Committee of Adjustment
    Will Johnston (Acting Chief Building Official, City of Toronto) • Al Kivi (SERRA) • Joe Nanos (Director Community Planning North York District) • Moderator: Brian Athey
  • LPOA Traffic Committee Update & Consultant Report
  • LPOA Business
  • Councillor Jon Burnside, Premier Kathleen Wynne and MP Rob Oliphant have been invited to attend

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Crane towered over Bayview/Millwood Thursday morning

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One lane of Millwood Road, east of Bayview was blocked by a rather large crane.  It was delivering what appears to be a new HVAC unit to the roof of the TD Canada Trust branch on the south-east corner.  Easy does it!

Premier, mayor at Northlea School talking photo radar

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Premier Wynne, Mayor Tory and others were at Northlea Elementary and Middle School on Rumsey Rd. Thursday morning to announce and promote the photo radar legislation which is now part of the government’s agenda. More pictures on Twitter from school.

Council votes 26-13 to stay with red, white and blue cars

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City Council has voted to ask Chief Saunders if it was really necessary to change the colour of police cars. Especially to gray.  The vote was 26-13 on Wednesday and there was a lot of feeling that the old colour scheme is just fine. And Thursday, Chief Saunders said that he will stop the rollout of the new colour cars pending consultation with the public on their dark-grey-and-white design. The motion came from Michael Thompson (Ward 37) asking that the current white, red and blue colour scheme remain pending a further review and to explain why the change was made. He says the colour scheme — grey with white lettering — makes police harder to approach and undermines the service’s efforts to improve community relations. “What I actually see in terms of the policing particularly in these cars is that we’re actually approaching an American model of policing where it’s becoming more militaristic,” Thompson said. Police chief’s statement 

Praying for a miracle in China as rescuers dig for boy

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Dozens of rescuers in China are trying to reach a five-year-old boy who has been trapped deep down an abandoned well in Baoding, Hebei province since Sunday. .Some 60 excavators and 100 dump trucks are being used in the search.  They boy had been helping harvest vegetables, his father told Chinese media. His condition is unknown. Oxygen, food and water have been supplied but the 30cm-diameter well is too narrow for an adult to enter. The well had been left unused for five years and there were no warning signs. Visual imagery has so far failed to locate the boy.