On first glance, the above shot could be a generic photo pulled from our Flickr pool to accompany any article about pedestrianism/cycling/active transportation/Toronto. But look at it for another moment, and you may notice that there’s something amiss about the City’s topiary logo alongside the Gardiner… That’s right! Pedestrianism and cycling are of only tertiary [...]

Top photo by Martin Reis. Bottom photo (and before-shot inset) by Lisa Logan. At 7:46 Monday morning, Torontoist received a release from press@ttc.ca, headed “TTC launches the ‘WARM WELCOME’ campaign”: The Toronto Transit Commission announces it’s new bike-friendly attitude for Toronto two-wheelers with the ‘Warm Welcome’ campaign. Shame about the grammar mistake, but otherwise fuck [...]

Street artist and former Torontoist contributor Fauxreel (which, contrary to what The Globe and Mail says, is not his real name; it’s Dan Bergeron) received both a considerable amount of disdain and a considerable amount of cash recently (as well as some praise), when he designed and helped execute a nationwide corporate vandalism campaign on [...]

Kleercut WARNING! Contains clearcut ancient forests www.kleercut.net When CBS Outdoor wrapped St. George station in vinyl ads promoting a certain brand of facial tissue, Greenpeace’s Kleercut campaign decided to tackle the omnipresent sales pitch by generously sprinkling the premises with doses of perspective, reminding subway riders that the softness of Kimberly-Clark’s products comes at the [...]

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“Read a Book” The words, it should be noted, were not written on the outer glass, but rather on the interior panel of the ad caisson. Photo of the shelter on the south side of Queen at Ossington taken by Jonathan Goldsbie.