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  • Toronto’s 420 event set for Saturday at Woodbine Park April 19, 2019
  • Artist John Kuna selected to create new Beach mural on Foodland store wall April 19, 2019
  • Women entrepreneurs celebrated at Danforth Avenue event April 18, 2019
  • Fundraiser in the Beach slated to help family of local six-year-old boy battling cancer April 18, 2019
  • Toronto East Bridge Club is launched in the Beach April 18, 2019

Toronto’s 420 event set for Saturday at Woodbine Park

April 19, 2019

Toronto’s annual 4/20 event which celebrates cannabis is being planned by organizers to take place this year in Woodbine Park. The event is set for Saturday, April 20 and is being billed on Facebook as a celebration of cannabis, and this year the event will also celebrate the legalization of cannabis in Canada. The celebration […]

Artist John Kuna selected to create new Beach mural on Foodland store wall

April 19, 2019

Artist John Kuna has been selected to create the new mural which will appear on the wall of the Foodland grocery store on Queen Street East at Lee Avenue in the Beach. Mural Routes and Foodland are partnering on the plan to produce the new mural which is intended to be unveiled on July 27 […]

Women entrepreneurs celebrated at Danforth Avenue event

April 18, 2019

By RASHIDA POWANKUMAR Amanda Munday is aware of the systemic barriers of being a woman in business, and that’s why she emailed women who own and operate businesses in the Danforth community to join her on Monday, April 15, to talk about entrepreneurial experiences and opportunities. They gathered at The Workaround space at 2080 Danforth […]

Fundraiser in the Beach slated to help family of local six-year-old boy battling cancer

April 18, 2019

By RASHIDA POWANKUMAR Members of the Beach community are coming together to help a six-year-old boy diagnosed with brain and spine cancer and his family. In January, Cindi Shoot’s son Ethan was diagnosed and it changed the lives of the Main Street and Danforth Avenue area family. Ethan and his mom Cindi are at St. […]

Toronto East Bridge Club is launched in the Beach

April 18, 2019

By ADA SPANJAARD It is a fact: the ACBL (American Contract Bridge League) has granted the sanction to start a brand-new duplicate bridge club in the Beach, the Toronto East Bridge Club, serving the Beach area and surroundings. You may be thinking: “Do we need another bridge club?” The answer is: Yes! Even though there […]

No injuries after fire in ninth-floor unit at Main Square Apartments

April 17, 2019

No one was injured in a fire in a ninth-floor apartment at a building in the Main Street and Danforth Avenue area last night. Toronto firefighters were called to a building at 2575 Danforth Ave., Main Square, just after 10 p.m. on April 16 for reports of a fire in an apartment. When firefighters arrived, […]

In My Opinion: Beach Village BIA working hard on strengthening economic development

April 17, 2019

By ANNA SEBERT Issues like storefront closures are universal concerns not unique to Toronto nor to the Beach Village. That being said, at the Beach Village BIA we’re not sitting idly by or overlooking this hotbed topic, but rather taking aggressive and proactive measures to continue to strengthen the economic development of the area. When […]

Good Friday Easter Egg Hunt to take place at Kew Gardens in the Beach on April 19

April 17, 2019

The second annual Good Friday Easter Egg Hunt will take place at Kew Gardens in the Beach on Friday, April 19 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The egg hunt is part of the festivities surrounding the annual Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade which is set for the afternoon of Sunday, April 21. The […]

Beaches-East York MPP Berns-McGown excited to be a member of NDP’s history making Black Caucus

April 16, 2019

By TRISHA SALES   Beaches-East York MPP Rima Berns-McGown is thrilled to be a member of the NDP’s history making Black Caucus.   The caucus is the first of its kind in Ontario and looks forward to tackling systemic anti-black racism in every area of public policy in Ontario.   McGown said this is something […]

Police respond to call about a man spotted with a gun near Main and Gerrard

April 16, 2019

There is a heavy police presence in the Main and Gerrard streets area as police respond to a call about a man with a gun. Police flooded into the area at about 1:45 p.m., with heavily armed officers searching streets to the west of Main Street along Gerrard including Enderby Road. The office of the […]

Beach Memories: Remembering a royal visit to the King’s Plate at Woodbine Race Course

April 16, 2019

By GENE DOMAGALA Eighty years ago in May of 1939, for one of the first times in Canada’s and Toronto’s history, a reigning monarch visited the city and the Beach area. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited over the Victoria Day holiday in May of that year. This was an unprecedented event which gave […]

Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade set for afternoon of Sunday, April 21

April 16, 2019

The Beach is getting ready to celebrate Easter in a big way, with the annual parade and an egg hunt all set for the next few days. This year’s Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade will feature 80 groups participating in what is considered the traditional start of spring not just in the Beach but […]

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