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If you took a stroll past the lamp posts and utility poles around Nathan Phillips Square this fall, you might have discovered a little known piece of history. Posters plastered up in the area entitled Lost Chinatown tell the story of where Toronto's first Chinatown used to exist � before Nathan Phillips Square and the new City Hall replaced it. They were produced as part of The Missing Plaque Project, with the goal of bringing forgotten or ignored pieces of Toronto's history to light. Tim Groves, who initiated the project, hopes it will inspire people to go out and explore other ...

Toronto City Council is trying to enact a by-law that would drastically limit postering in Toronto. Public pressure forced a re-examination of the proposal, the results of which are due in early 2004. For postering advocates, though, this temporary reprieve falls far short of what they're after: recognition and respect for their right to free expression. I made my first poster when I was eight years old. It was the day of the block-wide yard sale. All of my neighbours turned their storage spaces inside-out, and the small-town Saturday bargain hunters busied themselves trying to find two matching plates or lamps ...