{"id":3672,"date":"2008-10-06T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T16:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/10\/06\/election-2008-no-campaign-signs-in-public-spaces\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:49:00","slug":"election-2008-no-campaign-signs-in-public-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/06\/election-2008-no-campaign-signs-in-public-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION 2008: Campaign signs in public spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/122\/266367859_84eb050a25.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Green Party candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electellen.ca\/\">Ellen Michelson<\/a> has decided not to put up campaign signs in public spaces throughout her riding of Toronto Centre. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Public space is everyone&#8217;s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, she says, and she feels uncomfortable altering that space without any kind of agreement process. Instead she thinks that campaign volunteers who go door-to-door get the Green message across, along with information that can be found on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Rami Tabello of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illegalsigns.ca\">illegalsigns.ca<\/a> (who was profiled in the Summer\/Fall issue of <em>Spacing<\/em>) disagrees completely with Michelson, however, calling her &#8220;completely misguided.&#8221; Tabello says the system for placing signs on the public road allowance is an important part of Toronto&#8217;s democracy and suggests that perhaps the Toronto Centre candidate just can&#8217;t afford the signs. Michelson says not placing signs on public property is part of the Green Party&#8217;s philosophy of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153building consensus about our community.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Under the Toronto Municipal Code, election signs on public property can be posted as long as the person posting the signs pays a refundable $250 deposit to the city. This, partnered with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/legdocs\/municode\/1184_693.pdf\">very specific rules<\/a> [PDF] on the placement of the signs, is already far too strict according to Tabello.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Signs need monitoring,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Michelson counters. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People who post signs in public places can&#8217;t always monitor their condition.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Campaign signs placed on private property, also known as &#8220;bag signs&#8221;, are completely recyclable. Michelson even mentioned a case of carrying items to her campaign office in the upside-down bag of her own sign. And the wire part, she says, can be used for gardening.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/loneprimate\/266367859\/\">Lone Primate<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Party candidate Ellen Michelson has decided not to put up campaign signs in public spaces throughout her riding of Toronto Centre. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Public space is everyone&#8217;s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, she says, and she feels uncomfortable altering that space without any kind of agreement process. Instead she thinks that campaign volunteers who go door-to-door get the Green message across,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/06\/election-2008-no-campaign-signs-in-public-spaces\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;ELECTION 2008: Campaign signs in public spaces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21757,21759,2],"tags":[11,2396,31,10497,1289,416,16,2951,10496,19,5320,391],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-features","category-politics","tag-ad-creep","tag-candidate","tag-election","tag-ellen-michelson","tag-green-party","tag-pdf","tag-posters","tag-rami-tabello","tag-summerfall","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-centre","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ELECTION 2008: Campaign signs in public spaces - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/06\/election-2008-no-campaign-signs-in-public-spaces\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ELECTION 2008: Campaign signs in public spaces - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Green Party candidate Ellen Michelson has decided not to put up campaign signs in public spaces throughout her riding of Toronto Centre. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Public space is everyone&#8217;s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, she says, and she feels uncomfortable altering that space without any kind of agreement process. 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