The record shows, that “the game of ‘Monopoly’ was first played from 1920 to 1932 on various college campuses by a small group of individuals, many of whom were related by blood or marriage.
It is true that Darrow, in his correspondence with Parker Brothers, claimed to have invented the game and offered to sign an [...]
How fitting. We have discovered that the Out of Home Marketing Association is using illegal billboards to promote CityBillboardTax.ca.
For example, take this Titan Outdoor vinyl fascia sign at 76 Church Street:
We filed a complaint against this sign in late 2003. In June 2006, this permit to paint a mural sign was issued to 76 Church [...]
A Staff Report presented to City Council in support of the proposed Billboard Tax and Signs By-Law states that Toronto’s billboard industry submitted false information with respect to its revenues during the extensive by-law creation process.
The report [PDF] takes direct aim at the Out of Home Marketing Association when it states, on page 19:
The data [...]
The results were just released by BeautifulCity.ca [PDF].
The City of Toronto has released an independent economic analysis of the proposed Billboard Tax, conducted by Professor David Amborski of Ryerson University.
The economic analysis concludes that the proposed billboard tax represents “less than 7% (on average) of estimated annual gross revenue” for Toronto’s billboard industry.
That comes from page 9 of this report [PDF]:
The most [...]
IllegalSigns.ca is a team of volunteers who fight illegal billboards and this is our blog. Half the billboards in Toronto are illegal - help us bring the vast, unlawful privatization of our public visual environment to an end.
