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Duly Quoted: Doug Holyday

"I know that when I’m downtown, sometimes you have to walk around these people, they’re right in the middle of the sidewalk and you’ll run over them if you don’t pay attention... And from the taxpayers standpoint we’re paying millions of dollars to try to help people that need it but we’re also paying for it another way, when visitors come to Toronto and they see these people on the street, they probably get the impression that we’re not doing anything or we don’t even care."

Hitting Rock Bottom

Good advertising is meant to stop you in your tracks, but a new ad campaign for local radio station CFRB might leave you frozen in disbelief. This month, CFRB contracted ad agency zig to create a witty series of guerilla-style street ads (read: illegal) meant to highlight polarizing issues of urban life. “Is advertising out [...]

OPP Gets Plane, Queen’s Park Angers God, Panhandlers To Get Badgered

Dalton McGuinty unveiled a new plane yesterday, which will be used by the OPP to deter dangerous drivers on Ontario highways. To encourage courteous motoring, the plane is armed with four Maverick air-to-ground missiles and a 30 mm cannon capable of piercing two inches of armour plate. Actually the plane just reports bad driving to [...]