TORONTO ADVERTISING HALL OF SHAME | PEOPLE FOR A CLEAN CITY
The Toronto Advertising Hall of Shame's (TAHS) only purpose is to focus community, government, and advertising industry awareness on the growing decay of our city environment by thoughtless businesses using our streets, traffic signs, utility poles, and transit shelters for advertising, making Toronto appear like a third-world city. The TAHS is not affiliated with any government agency, industry group, or other special interest. |
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TAHS, Painted in Etobicoke Dear Painted, This is an American company doing business in Canada without telling anyone on their signs that are red, white, and blue and sticking your neighbourhood with junk signs. Your city councillor is Gloria Lindsay Luby, 100 Queen Street West, Suite B38.
Toronto, ON M5H 2N2 Help by removing some of these signs yourself. Ville |
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TAHS, I tried calling this Bin King place on the number. It's a cell phone I think. Indisposed. _______________ Dear Indisposed, Could this business be unlisted, unlicensed, untaxed? Ville |
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How in the world can these guys sleep at night? They stuck almost every traffic sign and street light on my block. I hate this! Makes my house and my block (East Mall) look cheap and dirty. I've been pooped! __________________ Dear Pooped, You've got to call them and complain and call your councillor, and remove the ones you can. These guys simply don't give a crap! Ville |
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TAHS, I've been reading your blog stuff and thought I'd ask if this sign I found on my lawn this week is from that same Avenue Road Advertising place you keep mentioning? Nobody asked me if they could put their Annoyed in Etobicoke __________________ Dear Annoyed, We don't know if it's the same company. It's interesting their signs look very much like those of one of the city's worst junk sign polluters, Alpine Roofing. Maybe you can find out and let us know. Meanwhile tell your city councillor. |
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Hey Ville, You an man or a woman? Either way you got a big set, if you know what I mean. Who are these creepy people slopping up our city? I pay taxes to put up street lights and traffic lights not places for these miserable people to put their advertising. How come those guys at City Hall don't get off their duffs and help us out here. (anonymous) _______________ Dear Anon, Thanks for the compliment... I think. Your local polluter is Splash WC, Inc., They live in a postal box. P.O.Box 421 Station T, Toronto M6B 4A3. 416-652-3074. Your city councillor needs to hear this from you. Meanwhile, join us in taking some of their signs down. Ville |
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TAHS, I keep seeing more and more landscaping signs around nailed to trees and high up on street light and utility poles. Some of them are like 15 feet off the ground. How do they get away with it? High on the East Mall __________ Dear High, They often have someone stand on the top of a truck and fix the signs to street light, traffic light and utility poles. The one to the left has been on the pole for more than a year. No one in Etobicoke seems to care. Call your city councillor and take down the roles you are able to handle. Ville |
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TAHS, My daughter pulled this sign out of the ground at Silvercreek Park Waterford Drive. Those junkie signs are ruining our park and whoever puts them there doesn't have the concern, respect, or common sense of my 10-year-old daughter. Up a creek __________________ Dear Creek. Your daughter needs to run for city councillor from your ward. Your present one doesn't see the problem. Ville |
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Free wire snips to remove those pesky, polluting junk signs strapped to traffic lights, traffic signs, and utility poles with wire or plastic straps. Removing these junk signs is easy. Just snip the wire or plastic strap and dispose of the sign properly. Need a pair of snips? We'll send you one free. Just send your postal information using the contact email. Your information is never shared |
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TAHS, I've seen what must be 50 signs for this stucco company in my neighbourhood all around Lloyd Manor. Me and a buddy have removed some and plan to get more later this week. They're all over the place. Stuck in Etobicoke _____________ Dear Stuckee, Thanks for helping to clean your neighbourhood. You're dealing with Maple Stucco Ltd., 416 832- 4647. FAX: 416-785-8975. 606 Roberts Avenue, Toronto M6E 4R7. maplewallsystem@hotmail.com. Call your city councillor to complain. Does Maple Stucco think their junk signs look as nice as their stucco craftsmanship? Ville |
TO: TAHS buddy, you have too much time on your hands to worry about other peoples business and wasting time on a cheap website. statistics canada show that these signs posted on the poles is a great source advertisment. better than the newspaper! these signs are only illegal in the city of vaughan. what you really have to do is find a real job. maybe call one of those companies and apply! me_1010@live.com (sic) _________________ Dear me_1010@live.com, Society is all about watching out for the best interests of the community, not about junk sign effectiveness. Legal or not, junk sign advertising pollutes our neighbourhoods without regard for those who live there. It's typical, self-centered, I- can-make-a-loonie-this-way, so-mind-your- business. Society is not about personal attacks on the citizenship of others; too many wars have been fought over that idea. So, like UN Peacekeepers, local residents will have to protect their own neighbourhoods the best they can by making our elected officials more aware of polluters' activities and removing, as best they can, signs in their own neighbourhood until Toronto figures out what Vaughn is doing right. TAHS |
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TAHS I just read the jerky note from the me_1010@live.com guy. It burns me. This is just the kind of person who thinks it OK to put advertising in schools and playgrounds and sell high-caffeine drinks in vending machines in schools to kids because he can and because he can't sell cigarettes there anymore, regardless of what it does to our kids. It comes under the category of "I'll do what I damn well please as long as I can get away with it!" It's exactly what my teenage son says to me. By the way, my son's been grounded for two weeks. Father of the grounded. _______________ Dear Father of the Grounded, Well said. TAHS |
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| Do city councillors receive campaign donations and other cash for pet projects from junk sign advertisers? | |
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TAHS, My son and daughter and I takes walks now on weekends starting today (April 6, 2008) and we are taking wire snips with us to take those junk signs down from of traffic lights and traffic signs. I was surprised how many there were for "Security Cameras" all along Eglinton, East mall, Renforth, all the way to Kipling. We took some down Today but we'll do more this week. I don't think my city Councillor cares as much about it as my kids do. Signee in Etbocike. |
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Councillor Lindsay Luby Dear Garcia: |
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TAHS, My wife and I removed 11 junk signs for a moving company called imovecanada. How much do you think those signs cost? Moved in TO TAHS |