Location: a lawn in Bloor West Village
Date photo taken: 30 October 2013
Torontonians it seems love to wear their hearts on their sleeves. Walk through any neighbourhood in the city and you will see at least a handful of lawn signs protesting or lending support for some proposal currently under consideration. Some of these are for issues anyone even minimally acquainted with local or provincial politics will recognize, while others deal with extremely localized issues pertinent to only a few square blocks. I find this phenomenon fascinating so I've started to collect them.
Porter Airline's push to introduce jets at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, better known as simply the Island Airport, has been going on for what feels like ever. No Jets T.O. is a citizen-based group working to maintain our waterfront as a mixed-used neighbourhood and recreational gem. They're not opposed to having an airport on the island, simply its expansion into something at odds with other aspects of the waterfront. They work to educate the public on the issue and to keep the debate balanced by countering the misinformation being pumped out by Porter and the Toronto Port Authority.
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