{"id":10836,"date":"2010-04-27T17:33:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2010\/04\/27\/mammoliti-the-hypocrite-42710-edition\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:55:00","slug":"mammoliti-the-hypocrite-42710-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/04\/27\/mammoliti-the-hypocrite-42710-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoliti the Hypocrite (4\/27\/10 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Fascist” is not a word I throw around lightly. But it does tend to be the best one to describe Giorgio Mammoliti’s brand of big-government conservatism, which involves arming the state<\/a> to crack down on citizen expression. He loves<\/em> billboards<\/a> and hates<\/em> posters and graffiti.<\/p>\n

Parts of our city look atrocious because of all the graffiti and signs, he told the Toronto Sun<\/em><\/a> on Sunday. Ours is becoming a city filled with illegal posters….We have to expand the number of enforcement officers and give them some teeth.<\/p>\n

He suggested the penalty should be as high as $5000 per infraction because “people will stop painting graffiti or putting up posters if the fine is high enough. Both “young offenders” and their parents should be subject to community service, and fines should also be exacted from the “shows or events being listed on the illegal signs.”<\/p>\n

Well.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, March 31, Mammoliti held his ill-starred<\/a>, infamous<\/a> Rock Your Vote<\/a> fundraiser at Tattoo Rock Parlour (567 Queen West, just east of Portland). A few days before, I had been tipped off to these posters for the event, and I finally got around to photographing them on the afternoon of April 1st. All five that I found were on the south side of Queen between Spadina and Bathurst, in the vicinity of Tattoo Rock (though my radius of exploration didn’t extend far beyond that area).<\/p>\n

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Under the circa-1997 postering bylaw<\/a> adopted by the former City of Toronto, all of these posters would be legal, except for the one on the mail box. In the summer of 2006, however, the Council of the amalgamated city adopted, with amendments, a new harmonized postering bylaw [PDF<\/a>] that has still yet to be enacted<\/a> due to Astral Media’s foot-dragging on the installation of postering kiosks.<\/p>\n

Under the new bylaw, all or some of Mammoliti’s posters would be illegal for the following reasons:<\/p>\n