Archive for category: Leslieville

The Free City of Leslieville

The Cheese Snob’s Dictionary    (2006.05.07)

As go venti lattes, so goes fromage. Michael Simpson’s business plan for the Leslieville Cheese Market (see its early, terrible site) was unaccountably published in the Globe and states:

This neighborhood is exploding…. Cheese-loving customers are moving to the neighborhood.

In other words, none of the poor people who were already here love cheese.

The local socio-demographic [sic] is evolving. What used to be a primarily white and extremely-low-SES population is shifting to families who can afford to buy a house and renovate. In order to do this, they need to have confidence in their surroundings. At some point in the last few years, critical mass has been attained: Quality middle-class people with comfortable finances have arrived and settled [emphasis added].

As opposed to those of us who were already here. I’ve never had my quality called into dispute before. Have you? (Honest to God, the first thing that came to mind was “Treblinka.” Am I going to be frogmarched out of the neighbourhood because my quality isn’t up to snuff?) (more…)

Starbucks: What, me worry?    (2006.05.07)

There’s a Starbucks opening at Queen and Logan. Relax, people!

A Star bucks in Leslieville    (2006.04.24)

It appears the adjoining storefronts at Queen and Logan, suddenly gutted and boarded over this week, really are going to be a Starbucks

Spacer-style activities    (2006.03.12)

Here’s what I’ve done in 3½ months as attestations of my interest in the city and neighbourhood I live in

Little Leslieville, happy at last    (2006.01.28)

The Free City of Leslieville covered in today’s Globe and Mail (Toronto edition, page M5, 2006.01.28)

The Free City of Leslieville    (2006.01.09)

My new site about Leslieville, my neighbourhood in Toronto, launches today

Muir    (2005.08.20)

Schoolchildren drew this Muiral.