The source for local news about Toronto’s Beach and surrounding areas.
A rock snake along Kew Beach is growing in popularity, literally. The rock snake was the idea of seven-year-old resident Lucas Walker, who started making it parallel to the Boardwalk near the plaque for the Leuty Lifestation last week. Since then it has started to increase in length with others contributing their own painted rocks […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON For almost 20 years, Bernie Fletcher has been writing with insight and humour about the movies, the people in them, the people who make them and the places in and around East Toronto where they are filmed. He does that in his Reel Beach column for Beach Metro News. As the paper […]
A Beach resident is hoping the community can help her find the owners of of a box home movies that she came into possession of. The local resident inherited the box of 16 reels of eight-millimetre home movies, but when she went to look at them discovered eight of the reels belonged to another family. […]
Ken Davidson sent the letter below to Beach Metro News late last month. He found it among the papers of his late father William Davidson who served with the Canadian Army in the Second World War and took part in the liberation of Holland. The liberation is celebrated in the Netherlands on May 5. This […]
The Social Gardener Cafe on Gerrard Street East is holding a fundraiser for the Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre. The event sees the cafe selling Mother’s Day gift boxes, with all proceeds going to the centre. Descriptions of the gift boxes can be found on the cafe’s website at www.riverdalehub.ca. The final day for online orders […]
A 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an investigation into an alleged sexual assault in the Queen Street East and Jones Avenue area earlier this month. According to Toronto police, a woman was on a TTC streetcar on Queen Street East on Saturday, May 1, 2021, when a man she did not know […]
By ALEXANDRA McDIARMID I felt this article was fitting since Earth Day took place recently. I was inspired to make milk-bag mats while attending Bethany’s Baptist Church (East York) where I was volunteering between 2017 to 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic began. The Arts and Craft Circle run by Veta Riley constructed the mats with […]
By ALI RAZA, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Ginger Robertson and her husband know a thing or two about restaurants. The industrious couple owns and operates The Edmund Burke, a popular gastropub on Danforth Avenue, and it’s been their bread and butter for five years. After a successful run with their first restaurant they chose to […]
As part of the celebrations surrounding Beach Metro Community News’ 50th year in the community, CBC News Toronto recently did a story on our newspaper. CBC reporter Talia Ricci interviewed former Beach Metro News general manager, and current special advisor on the volunteer board, Sheila Blinoff, long-time cartoonist Bill Suddick, and reporter Ali Raza on […]
By ALI RAZA, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A three-storey building designed for individuals exiting homelessness planned for East Toronto has been a hot issue for local residents who have expressed several concerns about the future occupants. Residents are once again invited to a virtual community engagement session on Monday, May 3, with Beaches-East York Councillor […]
