The source for local news about Toronto’s Beach and surrounding areas.
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
