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Local MPP and MP to host New Year’s Levee this Sunday BEACHES-EAST YORK residents are invited to meet with their local MP and MPP at a New Year’s Levee planned for the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 11. Hosted by Beaches-East York MPP Mary-Margaret McMahon and Beaches-East York MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the levee is free to attend and will take place at the Naval Club of Toronto, 1910 Gerrard St. E., just west of Woodbine Avenue. Sunday’s levee takes place from 2 to 5 p.m. Residents are invited to drop by to chat with their provincial and federal representatives, and fellow neighbours, enjoy some refreshments and welcome 2026. McMahon has been the Liberal MPP for Beaches-East York since first being elected to the position in 2022. She also served as city councillor for the Ward 32 Beaches-East York riding as a member of Toronto Council from 2010 to 2018. Erskine-Smith has been the Liberal MP for Beaches-East York since first being elected to the seat in the 2015 federal election.
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Polar bear dippers welcome 2026 at Woodbine Beach
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Participants head into Lake Ontario at Woodbine Beach on New Year’s Day for the Community Cold Plunge presented by the Unbounded organization. The polar bear dip helped raise funds for Jack.org which provides youth mental health programs across Canada. More than 2,000 people took part in last Thursday’s dip.
Many residents, councillor disappointed with Reversal of Ted Reeve board’s city deal on building near Glen Stewart Ravine decision on summer ice to be sought at January meeting By Matthew Stephens
THE ONCE confidential settlement reached between Toronto Council and Gabriele Homes Ltd. for a mixed-use residential building development by the north end of Glen Stewart Ravine, which has now been made public, has sparked disappointment amongst a number of local residents and Beaches-East York Councillor Brad Bradford. “The citizens of Toronto are passionate about this ravine and vigorously opposed the proposal’s height as well as its neglect of required setbacks and other environmental safeguards,” said Sheila Dunn, a conservationist with the
Friends of the Glen Stewart Ravine advocacy group. “This Mediation Agreement ignores our many voices and sends a signal that the city will not protect Environmentally Significant Areas from overdevelopment that threatens them. So, we are sad and we are angry.” On Wednesday, Dec. 17, following a “confidential” agreement approved by Toronto Council, details of the developer’s new plans for the building at 847-855 Kingston Rd. were made available to the public. Council voted 17-6 in favour of the settlement agreement between the developer and city. Bradford voted against accepting the settle-
ment. Key changes to the development proposal, which had earlier been for an 11-storey building with zero setback from the ravine’s stable slope, include shrinking the building’s footprint to ensure a 10-metre setback, increasing the building’s height to 13 storeys, and an agreement which will see the land owner give approximately 25 per cent of the site’s land to the city. That land donation is in order to adhere to a Ravine Stewardship Plan (at the owner’s expense), which will be designated as “parks and open space” and used by the city to grow the size of the Glen Continued on Page 2
By Alan Shackleton
THE BEACHES Lacrosse Club has filed a complaint with Toronto’s Office of the Integrity Commissioner regarding a decision made by the Ted Reeve Community Arena Board of Directors last month to keep the ice in on the main rink during the summer. Late last month, Beach Metro Community News reached out to the Office of the Integrity Commissioner to confirm it has formally received the complaint by the Beaches Lacrosse Club. “Our Office does not typically
confirm or deny whether we have received a complaint or are investigating someone’s conduct,” said the Office of the Integrity Commissioner in response to the request for confirmation of the complaint. “At the intake stage, this affords complainants privacy and, if an investigation is started, protects the reputations of respondents as no findings have yet been made.” The Beaches Lacrosse Club has been playing box lacrosse at Ted Reeve Arena during May, June and July for the last 30 years, using both the main rink and the bubble, Continued on Page 7