An LCBO employee tests out the first self-serve liquor store in Metropolitan Toronto. The Telegram, February 22, 1969. The provincial government has recently mused about loosening Ontario’s liquor laws to allow greater mobility at outdoor festivals and other special events for those with a beverage in hand. We shouldn’t expect any rapid changes though—alterations to [...]

Source: the Weston Times and Guide, October 20, 1960. Despite the plethora of attractions the proprietors of Chester Drive-In Cleaners secured for the grand opening of their modern premises in the south end of Weston, it’s possible that terming the festivities as a “gala” may have been a last-minute decision. They might have needed an [...]

Dorothy Cornish, packing food for the food drive. With Christmas only a week away, the Salvation Army York Community Church in Weston is gearing up for its annual food and toy drives. Since November, the church has been collecting and packaging toys and food to meet the needs of the community’s less fortunate, and over [...]

One of several barber shops on the Mount Dennis stretch of Weston Road. If Toronto, the Greater, is a universe unto itself, then beyond the countless points of light and rapturous, flash-lit starlet nights, there must be, too, some dark matters: specifically, the unchecked growth of neglected living spaces across our metropolis. Neighbourhood decline begins [...]

Lucy, holding an additional letter she wrote for her dad. Yesterday, Torontoist visited the Learning Enrichment Foundation (LEF), a Weston-based community centre that caters to recent immigrants, for the Toronto launch of Canada Post’s letters to Santa program. The event, which was an offshoot of LEF’s regularly scheduled children’s arts program, equipped kids from the [...]

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. The [...]

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. Last [...]