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Lavash is open for takeout and delivery. Masks are mandatory and hand sanitizer is at the entrance and counter.
Lavash restaurant serves up Armenian and Middle Eastern cuisine including a selection of hot and cold mezzeh, meat skewers and kebab, and other signature dishes like manti.
The space occupied by Lavash used to be a house before it was home to a number of different restaurants, the most previous being a Chinese restaurant.
Co-owners and close family friends, Armen Jakjakian and Shant Ghazarian have made the space their own with meaningful decor. The custom-made plaque on the wall features the Armenian alphabet in the tricolours of the flag.
UK teams storm Toronto Winter Stations contest
1/5 ARc de Blob by Aleksandra Belitskaja, Ben James and Shaun McCallum, Austria/UK
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4/5 The Epitonium by M. Yengiabad - Shahed M. Yengiabad, Elaheh M. Yengiabad, Alemeh M. Yengiabad and Mojtaba Anoosha, Iran
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5/5 Sheridan College winner: Embrace by Colin Laplante, Grace Im, Ziyu Li, Brayden Popke, Nicole Ruiz, Reem Yunis, Bachelor of Craft and Design Program, Sheridan College
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Two UK teams are among the winners of an international design competition for a series of C$15,000 (£9,000) temporary winter installations on Toronto’s beaches
ARc de Blob by UK and Austria-based Aleksandra Belitskaja, Ben James and Shaun McCallum of mixed-reality design studio’ iheartblob, and From Small Beginnings, by UK-based brothers Jack Leather and Charlie Leather – who both studied architecture and now work in set design and at Asif Kahn Studio respectively – have been selected as winners in the contes
Posted: Jan 14, 2021 9:32 PM ET | Last Updated: January 15
Twenty-seven candidates are running in a municipal byelection on Friday in Scarborough-Agincourt. Community groups led by Scarborough Civic Action Network interviewed candidates by Zoom and put the interviews on YouTube. Fourteen candidates took part.(Submitted by Anna Kim)
The city is urging residents in Ward 22 to get out and vote in the Scarborough-Agincourt byelection on Friday despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friday s byelection is being held to replace Jim Karygiannis, who was removed as city councillor last year due to a campaign spending violation in the 2018 municipal election.
Twenty-seven candidates are running for municipal office. There are 65,793 people eligible to vote.
Posted: Jan 11, 2021 7:38 AM ET | Last Updated: January 11
Twenty-seven candidates are running to replace Jim Karygiannis, who was removed as city councillor in September 2020 due to a campaign spending violation in the 2018 municipal election. Community groups led by Scarborough Civic Action Network interviewed candidates by Zoom and put the interviews on YouTube. Fourteen candidates took part.(Submitted by Anna Kim)
TORONTO The families of residents at a Scarborough long-term care centre where a recent outbreak of COVID-19 has led to the death of at least 62 residents shared their stories about their ordeal at a town hall meeting on Sunday evening. The ‘Save our Seniors’ town hall provided several families an opportunity to talk about their experiences and the challenges they faced as they scrambled to get information about their loved ones after an outbreak was declared at Tendercare Living Centre. It was hosted by Scarborough-Southwest NDP MPP Doly Begum and Vivian Stamatopoulos, a long-term care home advocate and social science professor at Ontario Tech University.