Leslieville

A woman has been taken to hospital and one man is under arrest following a two-vehicle crash in Leslieville on Sunday morning.

He has lived in the Beach and Leslieville and often tweets about local businesses with shout-outs to The Great Escape bookstore on Kingston Road (“fun and guided by love of books”) and the Fox (”I love repertory theatre”).

Scrutiny of these sites intensified following the shooting death of Caroline Huebner-Makurat, a 44-year-old mother who was struck by a stray bullet near a supervised consumption site near Queen Street and Carlaw Avenue in Leslieville last summer.

The Leslieville BIA asks those planning to attend the tree lighting at Leslie Grove Park to bring a non-perishable food item to help support local food banks.

Despite being the executive chef for a clutch of Leslieville restaurants—The Thirsty Duck, Pollyanna, Eastside Social—Stefan Skeene calls Mississauga home.

McDonald reported the plight of James Strachan, a 40-year-old Leslieville resident, who learned four years after the fact that his licence had been suspended since 2013.

Patrick McMurray of Leslieville's Ceili Cottage says he’s closing the Irish pub and looking for another location for a new restaurant.