Photo by Danielle Scott from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Earlier this week, the Annex Gleaner reported that the Bloor Annex Business Improvement Area intended to end the prolific postering of the stretch between Bathurst Street and Spadina Avenue with specially made light pole covers that are supposed to repel both tape and staples. Just like [...]

Top photo by ardenstreet from the Torontoist Flickr pool. Bottom photo by Jonathan Goldsbie/Torontoist. A staple of Toronto construction hoardings earlier this decade, to be found wherever citizens were admonished to “Post No Bills,” the dissident quartet of Cosby, Gates, Clinton, and Murray has returned. Since the end of December, the stencilled interventions have been [...]

On Monday morning, Astral Media unveiled prototypes of its new line of “street furniture” at City Hall. On Wednesday, we took a look at the garbage bins. On Thursday, the advertising pillars. Yesterday, the transit shelters. Today, everything else. (Also check out Karen von Hahn’s disparagement of the street furniture in the Globe.) A lot [...]

Photo by gbalogh from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The Star's Jack Lakey, aka The Fixer, is invaluable. There is no better way to elicit a favourable response from the City bureaucracy than by sicking him on a case of civic neglect. It really is the most consistent way to get things done in Toronto. (The TPSC got Viacom to fulfill their contractual obligation to put street names on transit shelters simply by getting him...