Dear Mr. Moscoe, Thank you for your email regarding our recent advertising campaign. I have just returned to the office and received your letter requesting a cease and desist of our guerrilla advertising campaign and you have my 100% assurance that this is complete. We have responded quickly and already removed all the chalk applications [...]
We took this photograph of Pattison Outdoor’s Bathurst and Dundas billboard in August 2007: Since then the large trees were entirely removed. We took this photograph today: Typical.
Jim Pattison is about five feet tall, but the sign that he built on Parliament Street, south of Queen Street East, is 35.7 feet tall, and that’s part of what makes it illegal: Now, let’s take a look at how this sign got built. In 2003, 167 Parliament Street was a surface parking lot. Take [...]
We’ve taken a look at illegal tree cutting in the past, but this is the first time we have caught the butchers in the act. On Saturday afternoon, CBS Outdoor destroyed over ten trees without any permits on Davenport Road, north of Dupont Street. These are the tree stumps that CBS Outdoor left behind: Here [...]
Around the 1900 block on Wilson. August 2007: September 2008:
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