By GENE DOMAGALA Many times, people have asked me about the Danforth. There have been many articles written about Danforth Avenue, but I think the book The Danforth in Pictures: A Brief History of the Danforth by Barbara Myrvold is the best and most historically comprehensive I have seen. Many other names have been attributed […]
By ANN BROKELMAN If a COVID-19 quarantine wasn’t a factor, how many of you normally love the summer for its sunbathing, swimming, going to cottages, and other hot weather activities? Not me! I can’t stand the summer heat and humidity. I, generally speaking, would prefer to just hibernate and wait till the late fall. Thankfully, […]
By SHEILA BLINOFF In March when Michael Garron Hospital sent out a plea to home sewers to supply 1,000 face masks a week, I found my niche. COVID-19 was spreading, and I would make sure that the faces of family, friends and neighbours were covered too. At that time masks were almost impossible to find […]
By DESMOND BROWN The Beach Metro News is the heart and soul of our community. It’s a newspaper we are all proud of and can call our own. Since 1972 we have covered stories that are important to our neighbourhoods and affect our lives. There’s something special about reading stories and seeing photos of people […]
By MIMI LILIEFELDT Welcome to Black Lives Here, a space created to get to know our Black community members and business owners. In light of the very real and important civil rights movement that is happening around the world, it felt timely to take this opportunity to open the conversation right here in our neighbourhood. […]
By REV. LUCY REID The most counter-intuitive task I’ve ever had to do in almost 40 years as a minister was locking our church doors in mid-March and putting up a sign saying we were closed and services were cancelled indefinitely. The pandemic has forced us to stay away from each other and cease our […]
By MARY FRAN McQUADE Sometimes gardeners seem to speak a foreign language. “Deadhead the salvia. Be sure to cut it back to a leaf node,” someone tells you. Wait – what? Usually nobody’s trying to use fancy words, but like other special activities, gardening has terms that pack a lot of meaning into one or […]
By JACQUELINE CORRIGAN Canada. Our home and native land. And what a land it is! We live in the second largest country on the planet. We have the longest coastline in the world. There are only two landlocked provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan. All the rest border on the three oceans, the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic. […]
By ANN BROKELMAN While many people have been struggling with having to stay home during the COVID-19 outbreak, and I really sympathize with those people, I’ve been able to use my birding opportunities to help me appreciate the small benefits of the quarantine. I truly hope that the sharing of my pictures and stories has […]
By JAN MAIN Canada Day on July 1 is just around the corner. It marks Canada’s birthday, the beginning of holidays, the beginning of an array of festivities including a parade of just picked crops-strawberries, raspberries, asparagus, peas, beans, melons, plums, peaches – abundance of all sorts. Canada Day deserves a special menu to celebrate […]
