nfitz
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Given in most of the old city, the City property goes almost to the edge of the houses, I'm sure you can put a fence on City property. If you can build your fence on City property, I can't see why you couldn't put an election sign.
I have a hard time believing the law would allow signs on city property in older parts of Toronto, but prohibit it in others.My ward is not in the "old city" it is in what was once North York where the street line almost without exception is 3' back of the sidewalk or 19' back of the curb. Fences on City property are extremely rare because people understand the limitations. Don't you think someone aspiring to public office should understand this too?
Today's only the first day for signs but in W19 I've seen mostly Sean McCormack signs. A few of Mike Layton signs coupled with Joe Pants were also around. No other Mayoral candidates signs were out around here. How's it looking in your ward?
^Same here, I have yet to see a single mayoral sign anywhere.
Can't say the same about Vaughan, though. I was there visiting there parents two times in the past few weeks and have been appalled by the amount of signage all over the place. You'll see 50+ signs at a given intersection, it's littering plain and simple.
I agree with Citylslikr and All Fired Up in the Big Smoke: there absolutely needs to be more council debates in bars. The Ward 19 debate last night at the Garrison was great. The Ossington Village blog is streaming the video here.
The best part of the evening was not actually about the council race, but about the TDSB trustee election race, since two school board candidates had also been invited to speak. Trustee candidate Michael Sims told the crowd that a principal had sent his opponent's campaign literature home with the kids on Monday, which would seem to violate ethics rules. The alleged campaign literature was for current trustee Chris Bolton, and the principal, incredibly, was Maria Pantalone, who is famous not only for being Joe Pantalone's sister, but for pleading guilty in 2007 of assaulting a student with human poop. Then Mike Layton had to answer an awkward question about why Chris Bolton's name is all over Layton's campaign signs, and did he ask permission before assuming that all of his supporters must also be supporting Bolton? Layton said he would cover over Bolton's name if asked.
Sims said "There's a very incestuous and problematic relationship here, with people named Pantalone, with people named Layton and with people named Bolton."
Then Mike Layton had to answer an awkward question about why Chris Bolton's name is all over Layton's campaign signs, and did he ask permission before assuming that all of his supporters must also be supporting Bolton? Layton said he would cover over Bolton's name if asked.
Though actually, there's a bit of an piggyback "NDP team" sign tradition around those parts...