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Polling Booth: Renovating Maple Leaf Gardens

With the ink drying on the deal between Loblaw Companies Ltd. and Ryerson University to share a rejigged Maple Leaf Gardens, it’s great to see something finally being done to the place. Standing virtually empty since the Toronto Rock held their final training camp in 2001, Loblaws only recently started unlocking the arena for Doors [...]

Loblaw’s Tests S-Less Stores

Have you asked yourself recently “Hey, what happened to the “s” in my local Loblaw’s sign?” If so, you probably live in Toronto or Collingwood and are curiously attentive to detail. The missing “s” comes as Loblaw Corporation, parent company of Loblaw’s grocery chain, tries out a rebrand at three of their stores. Two of [...]

Maple Leaf Gardens: 76 Years and Counting…

Last week, Maple Leaf Gardens quietly turned 76. When the Gardens was sold to Loblaw in 2004, it appeared that the grocery store chain would fast-track the historic building into a supermarket. Now the projected summer 2007 construction date has come and gone, and nothing has changed since Torontoist covered the Gardens' 75th anniversary. We worried that the Gardens would be neglected while Loblaw dealt with its financial woes and ailing restructuring of existing...