We have succeeded in getting two Pattison Pillars removed from the Port Credit Beer Store.
We wrote about these signs in Pattison Builds Three Illegal Pillars At Mississauga Beer Stores and filed a complaint with Mississauga with this letter [PDF].
This is what the two signs looked like in late December 2007:

After we filed the complaint, it [...]

We’ve written about the Pizza Man before. Rick Taddeo runs Gino’s Pizza. A few years back he decided to enter the billboard industry and built 7 illegal billboards — 6 in Toronto and 1 in Mississauga, under the auspices of his company SuperSign Outdoor. All six signs in Toronto are still there; in fact, Pattison Outdoor has [...]

A public meeting was held in St. Catharines on Monday to consider tough new restrictions on billboards.
We previously look at an illegal St. Catharines Pattison billboard: In St. Catharines, Inspector Mychaskiw Catches Grant Sign Service Red Handed.
The proposed new signs by-law would only permit billboards on vacant lots. When the property is re-developed the sign [...]

Why does the outdoor advertising industry attract such boneheads?
One of the most amusing outdoor advertising industry web sites is Graydon Outdoor’s, run by a man who doesn’t know how to spell “advertising.”
Edward Graydon called us a while back. “I have a monopoly on billboards in downtown Hamilton, Ontario,” he said. Eager to speak to Hamilton’s [...]

We took this post offline for a bit so we could flesh it out with more information. Here it is.
We’ve written about the Pizza Man before. Pizza Man is the guy who owns Gino’s Pizza. He decided that outdoor advertising was more glamorous than pizza and decided to build 6 illegal billboards along Toronto’s highways. [...]