In February 2009, Toronto and East York Community Council approved Clear Channel’s variance application [PDF] to maintain their illegal fascia sign at Yonge and Dundas West.
After the variance was approved we wrote: Clear Channel Gets Variance for 595 Bay Street, But Will it Get A Permit? suggesting that the approved sign could not be made [...]

We’re going to have to amend Street Study: Dupont Street.
Strategic Media, the billboard company that claimed that it would declare bankruptcy and fire all its staff if it lost the court case that it lost, is in fact firing on all six cylinders these days.
This is Strategic Media’s just-built illegal billboard at 950 Dupont Street:

The [...]

Toronto’s latest illegal billboard is this Strategic Media sign located at 700 College Street:

The signs was displayed for the first time over the weekend but we foreshadowed the building of this sign in “The 113 Locations Leased by Strategic Media” where we showed you all of the locations the Strategic Media has leased as part [...]

Danny Starnino can’t stop breaking the law.
The Tippet-Richardson sign, at Richmond East and the DVP, was somewhat of a landmark. This is what it used to look like:

Third-party signage has been prohibited within 45 metres of the DVP since the late 1950s; this building was built and the roof sign was permitted after those [...]

IMA Outdoor plans on building an illegal billboard at 82 Spadina Avenue.  Check out this page from the company’s web site:

That’s 82 Spadina. Problem is, unlike most outdoor companies, IMA Outdoor has never posted a sign location on their web site that they didn’t eventually build. This is what 82 Spadina looks like today:

The existing [...]