According to Astral Media’s Street Furniture contract [heavily-redacted PDF] with the City of Toronto for the provision of advertising on transit shelters, Astral Media is required to “review all advertising prior to its installation on the [street furniture] to identify any advertising” that is not “in accordance with good taste.”
Apparently, Astral Media thinks it’s [...]

The Toronto Star has written this article concerning the billboard that is the subject of this post.

The TTC is advertising its Transit City initiative on CBS Outdoor billboards around Toronto, as well as in the 905. (There are currently two pretty impressive-looking 14′x48′ Transit City billboards along Eglinton East in Mississauga.)
The signs usually appear on [...]

We received a complaint from the operator of this sign. Apparently he thinks we’re picking on him, but we’re not the ones that filed a complaint against this illegal sign. The video screen at 2387 Weston Road, which is being operated by a chump company we’ve never heard of, is discombobulating TTC bus drivers according [...]

On August 30, 2007 we wrote A Massive Pattison Outdoor Expressway Billboard at 14 Roncesvalles is Illegal Because it is in Violation of a 1957 By-Law. We then discovered that the sign was encroaching upon a TTC right-of-way and that the encroachment agreement has expired and wrote about it in Adverse Possession and 14 [...]

We have obtained a copy of CBS Outdoor’s contract with the TTC for advertising and have discovered that CBS is operating illegal advertising on streetcars and buses. Here is the contract:

Here are the schedules: Schedule A, Schedules B to H.
Article 8.4 of the contract states:
Daylight Operation Restriction: Buses and/or streetcars used for whole vehicle advertising [...]