Joey Pants: ‘I Talk to the Trees!’

By Sarah Lazarovic

When you’re the Deputy Mayor you get to award yourself all sorts of extra titles. Like ‘Tree Advocate.’ While TOist commends Mr. Pants for his tree advocacy, we think he should have called himself the Arbor Ambassador, or the Planting Plenipotentiary, though he says he’ll settle for “tree guy.” That said, Tree Advocate Pants has been doing wonders as our urban planter, from sending out two-colour, cardstock newsletters to planting a cherry tree in his own backyard (“so my kids will grow up knowing and valuing the wonderful (and delicious!) bounty that grows on trees”).
Hooray for the Plant Plenipotentiary! Let’s hope he restores our urban canopy to its fern gully glory.
The one cool thing TOist gleaned from our ridiculously fancy, four-page tree newsletter is that the city will plant a free tree on the city portion of your front yard. Call 416-338-8733 for details.