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The Toronto of 2020 will be a different, but recognizable place. Between now and 2020, immigration will have made the world’s most multicultural city even more diverse, new building projects will have altered the city’s landscape, and Transit City will have broken down many of the city’s spatial barriers.

      

The hoarding enclosing the Toronto Community Housing building under construction at the corner of Carlton and Mutual Streets is not that much unlike other projects like it around the city: covered with advertising posters for Fido, Toronto Stories, and The National Ballet of Canada, in spite of the "Post No Bills" signs those posters recently buried, it's a mostly unremarkable site. Still, someone's had just about enough: they've ripped down some of the posters to reveal the "Post No Bills" signs underneath and done some postering of their own, with signs that either re-affirm the rule or suggest that their reader "ask these companies why, when they get a generous tax benefit for advertising from Canadians, that they poster where they have been asked not to." The homemade 8 1/2 x 11" posters plastered onto the walls were caught this week by two members of Torontoist's Flickr Pool, Loozrboy and (former Torontoist editor) Marc Lostracco.

The McGuinty government is preparing legislation to combat "driver distraction," which will likely mean no more hand-held cell phones, Blackberries, Gameboys, iPods, or other "electronic distractions" while you're at the wheel. So much for the Torontoist mobile Wii tennis tournament.

          

The wheatpaste of Fathima Fahmy was the first to go up just over a month ago. Two stories tall, it stands on the side of a newly-vacant apartment building slated for demolition in the heart of Regent Park. Since then, ten other larger-than-life portraits of other residents like her—those living in the fleet of low-rise buildings that are to be torn down and built on top of as part of Toronto Community Housing's $1 billion Regent Park Revitalization project—have been installed, all eleven of them photographed, constructed, and put up by Dan Bergeron (Fauxreel).