We have succeeded in having an illegal Pattison 10′x20′ ground sign removed from the Public Storage facility at Ossington and Dupont Street. We took a look at this property and others on Dupont Street in Street Study: Dupont Street. There used to be two billboards along the Ossington Street frontage. This is what they looked [...]

This is what 1881 Queen Street East used to look like: That’s a Strategic Media fascia sign facing south at Queen E. and Woodbine. This is what it looks like today: According to Municipal Licensing and Standards, a mural permit for a billboard sign painted directly on the face of the south wall of the [...]

Welcome back to our before and after section, where we show you our handiwork. This is what 260 Spadina used to look like: Astral Media’s tri-vision was illegal and was installed without a permit. Much better. Back in 1993, Cieslok Outdoor obtained this variance [PDF] to build a large vinyl sign on this wall. The [...]

This is what happens to your billboard when you squat on your landlord’s property without paying rent: Rick Taddeo, aka The Pizza Man, is apparently under a lot of pressure.  The property owner at 185 Yorkland Boulevard got so sick of Taddeo not paying his contract-mandated lease payments that he simply removed Taddeo’s sign and [...]

We first covered this issue in Ad Nauseam: Billboards that Obscure and Crowd-Out First Party Signage. Since then, Re/Max has successfully threatened to sue Rick Taddeo (aka the Pizza Man) for building an illegal billboard that blocked the view of the legal 401 sign advertising their office at 1855 Wilson Avenue. The threat caused Taddeo [...]