Bayview merchants have planned a must-attend shopping event for the weekend of November 27 and 28. From noon until 4 p.m. both days this street occasion will offer free warm beverages from select retailers, a free reusable shopping bag, a take-home gift wrapping package, and a free photo booth all while being serenaded on the street by carolers and Santa handing out candy canes. C-19 safety protocols will apply.
The Bulldog is ready to shop.
This dramatic shot from Twitter photographer Celadon Kate shows new LRT train during testing as well as the transformed view looking west up Eglinton from Leslie Street.
A tree on Mt. Pleasant Rd. split in half during Monday supper hour creating blockage on the road. The tree is a few feet north of Belsize Drive. Police had northbound traffic narrowed as they waited for City Works to remove the obstruction.
Leaside United Church has its venerable Awesome Sale online again this year. Lots of interesting items but of course not as much fun as lining up around the corner and then staring down other buyers for your favorite find.
Toronto’s weather remains relatively warm for mid-November although freezing temps and snow cannot be far off.
This great shot is posted Sunday morning to remind area residents that the Leaside Little Helpers are selling brownies at the corner of Divadale and Don Avon Drives until noon. Love it.
A woman is dead and a man was seriously injured after their car smashed into a utility pole on the Queensway near the Humber River Saturday night. The car was said by police to have “split in half” on impact with the pole.
Child critically hurt in crash into tree
A child is in critical condition and a woman has serious injuries after a car they were in drove into a tree on Renforth Drive north of Rathburn Rd Saturday night.
The history of Canada’s most recent grocery store success is told Saturday in the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, a Postmedia newspaper. As South Bayview shoppers will know, the most recent Farm Boy opened this year in the Art Shoppe Lofts on Yonge St at Soudan Ave. The firm was purchased by Empire Inc (Sobeys) in 2018.
A lottery player somewhere in Quebec won Friday’s whopping $50 million Lotto Max jackpot. There were also two Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, but neither was claimed. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Nov. 16 will be an estimated $12 million.
Members and friends of the Leaside Garden Society will learn about unique and ancient-looking Scottish gardens at the group’s January 13 meeting. The speaker will be Sheridan College horticulture teacher Heinke Thiessen. Her address will take those present to four gardens in Edinburgh before heading north to an adventure in seven amazing gardens found in the Caithness and Sutherland region of the Scottish Highlands. Sounds like fun. Arrange to join the Zoom meeting by visiting either www.leasidegardensociety.org or email leaside@gardenontario.org
Sunnybrook Veterans Centre is dressed for remembrance this Thursday. Canadian flags decorate the laws of the residences. This year’s service was pre-recorded and can be seen below.
The General Motors assembly plant has begun operations again this week after a three-year closure which seemed to augur the end of the auto industry in Oshawa. But in a surprising move, the company announced it would reopen amid growing demand for GM pickup trucks. The plant created 1,800 new jobs, supporting two production shifts. Unifor, the union representing the workers, says a third will be added in the future. Trucks produced in Oshawa will start being shipped to dealers in December. The first vehicle off the line has a patriotic paint job and will be donated to a children’s charity.
