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When I checked it out over the weekend, I asked a salesperson if their Canadian website was fully operational...the salesperson asked their manager and told me it by would be by "next year"

Instead of celebrating the fall harvest, people in Toronto's east end are saying a fond farewell to a weekly farmer's market they say is being pushed out by a pending condo development...

I always wonder how people can say a new store's staff were so "amazing and helpful". Its up to the staff member themselves to be that way. What is the "training" they get that is so different than the last retail job they worked at Holt Renfrew, The Bay or whatever?

Don't know if these two recent tidbits qualify for this thread, but they are an annoying hazard which someone should take care of https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/the_fixer/2016/09/18/tripping-hazard-at-ttc-stop-lies-in-wait-for-passengers-the-fixer.html...

By David RiderCity Hall Bureau Chief Thu., Sept. 15, 2016 Leslieville’s famed mural is dead. Long live Leslieville’s famed mural. Residents, merchants, and business leaders of the downtown east-end neighbourhood gathered Thursday to applaud the new street art on the wall of a shop at the...

Not entirely on Leslieville but a good read https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/09/13/the-hidden-pockets-in-toronto-where-gentrification-is-really-happening.html

The board currently has restrictions on Riverdale Collegiate Institute due to over-enrolled “to help keep enrolment in check and to ensure the school had sufficient space,” McGroarty said. Only students who attended an area school for Grade 8 can enter into Grade 9 at Riverdale Collegiate and...

The board currently has restrictions on Riverdale Collegiate Institute due to over-enrolled “to help keep enrolment in check and to ensure the school had sufficient space,” McGroarty said. Only students who attended an area school for Grade 8 can enter into Grade 9 at Riverdale Collegiate and...

Good news! The girl has been located https://twitter.com/TPSOperations/status/770705241641721859

A candlelight vigil was held Monday night to remember a 61-year-old grandmother gunned down in a Riverdale alleyway over the weekend. Peggy Ann Smith was visiting her daughter and two grandchildren in the Dundas and Munro streets area when she was fatally shot at around 6:15 p.m. Saturday...

Does Simons advertise much? I have not seen/heard one ad for them in any form (print/tv/radio/online) in Toronto yet

Woman in her 60s shot dead in the Dundas St E & Munro St area http://www.cp24.com/news/woman-in-her-60s-shot-dead-in-riverdale-paramedics-1.3047253

Absolute Bakery & Cafe at Danforth & Carlaw has closed and the space is now for rent..it lasted less than a year

Pop-up shops transform a stretch of Danforth's commercial strip From a 17% vacancy rate to 6%, this Toronto's commercial strip is buzzing By Priscilla Hwang, CBC News Posted: Aug 23, 2016 2:27 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 24, 2016 9:35 AM ET It's an idea that sounded good to AnitaSchretlen, one of...

Hundreds of people came out to Riverdale Park West on Monday evening to mark five years since the passing of Jack Layton and to pay tribute to the late NDP leader's legacy. http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/6820542-hundreds-join-olivia-chow-mike-layton-in-honouring-late-ndp-leader-jack-layton/

There used to be a lot of music-based subcultures in the 80/90's such as "Goths", "Mods", "Ravers", "Rockers", "Housers", "Skaters" and "Preps" etc. that were perhaps not entirely Toronto-based but they were easily recognizable by seeing them together in school or on the street. When Hip-Hop was...

More than 30 years after it opened its first store in Vancouver's Oakridge Shopping Centre, fashion retailer Aritzia has decided to convert from a privately held company to a public one. The retailer has filed a preliminary prospectus with regulators — the first paperwork in a journey to seeing...

"But for Nick Shcherban, who lives in the house next door, the activities of the crew are more of a horror show than the movie itself. Shcherban says film crews "trespassed on our property ... smoke in front of our house, they litter, (there's) excessive noise from generators."...

Also forgot to mention that Pizzaiolo will be opening up in the old Wong's Camera at Broadview and Danforth...kinda sad that nobody mentioned that Wong's which closed last year had been at that location for over 30 years before closing last summer....even more sad that there are fewer and fewer...

Ah, thanks for the info...wondering if they'll use any neighbourhood outdoor street shots too Oh, also Sugar Mountain at Danforth and Carlaw recently closed as well