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Metrolinx wants to allow eight new giant electronic billboards—right along the 401 and 427. How is an agency that's supposed to make travel better issuing such an absurd proposal?
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Dave Meslin (Guest Opinion)
Astral Media wants to bring digital advertising to Toronto's streets.
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Steve Kupferman
A new retail affiliate program gives TPL a cut of book sales made through its website.
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Steve Kupferman
Beer industry insiders say big breweries spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year trying to influence what your bartender decides to put in the fridge.
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Ben Johnson (Guest Contributor)
Nominated for: taking Toronto's sidewalks back.
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Rachel Lissner • Illustration by Matthew Daley
Fans lined up for hours in advance of the opening of a pop-up store that sells boy-band merchandise.
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Natalie Zina Walschots • Photos by Christopher Drost
In a 3–0 decision, judges find that the City of Toronto was within its authority to create the tax, and extend the City's scope of application.
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Hamutal Dotan
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Steve Kupferman
Why that's a bad idea.
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Steve Kupferman
Movie posters removed on day of premiere due to extreme puritanism. Why do we hate some ads more than others?
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Emma Woolley (Guest Contributor)
Astral Media's blocky advertisements get schooled—literally—by annoyed civilians.
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Kyle Bachan
Small steps in the fight against the too-large, too-bright additions to our streets.
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Hamutal Dotan
Nominated for: taking up a lot of space to tell us very little.
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Steve Fisher • Illustration by Sasha Plotnikova
Why the City's new "InfoToGo" pillars contain no actual info.
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Steve Kupferman
TIFF means many great things for Toronto, and also brings in some of the most irritating PR stunts around. Here was yesterday's, to mark the opening of the festival.
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Hamutal Dotan • Photo by Christopher Drost
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Hamutal Dotan
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Carly Maga
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Hamutal Dotan
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