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station. thanks for watching me. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. this is i don't need to be with them. when you look at me when you put them to me, i just need to. i need you to whom and ya today. and we're going to give you what we said as well, the people, cuz i'm a lot of money out of the book. if you're the one i don't want

me shooting off the edge of the how and why did become so obsessed with this law. we were giving them a tool to hold corrupt individuals and human rights abusers accountable. they're gonna rip this deal apart if they take the white house in point 25. what is the world hearing when we're talking about buy american today? we can take on us politics and society, that's the bottom line. a companies have access to radio ads and tv ads and the online newspapers that the one space that is supposed to be sacred li hours

belonging to the public for the public by the public is as the name implies, public space. there's something about them that has always seemed grotesque to me and just so out of place, i don't think that billboards have any appropriate function in a public space in this, in the corner here we're here. we're on burnside drive right now. a beautiful side street in toronto, and this, believe it or not is number 25, burnside. but then you've got these are so big. they're just so big. it's like i like the way donald trump tweets in all caps. going to go up on one. i think this can be turned into a little cafe up here. it's really, really nice meeting there be

a conveyor belt. will talk with this company right here. you know, full view. i actually took the time to ask the city if these billboards even had proper permits, like are they allowed to be there? and the city wrote back and said no, these billboards aren't supposed to be there. we're going to have them removed. this is a mistake that was 15 years ago with a if these billboards don't have proper permits, then technically they're actually pieces of corporate garbage just lying round. in which case, i think it's our duty as citizens to clean up that garbage. ah, me in i started doing political activism in my

late teens. i have a lot of archives down here from like, decades of activists projects rank valid campaign. this is a b c referendum on voting reform. city i'm all this is, this is original trauma, public space committee, stuff from 20 years ago. here we go. this is 15 years ago. i think it's such an important issue. and i think the way we communicate with each other visually in our own neighborhoods really affects people, sense of belonging and importance and empowerment. but for people who get involved with politics and activism, and you've got poverty, and you've got a pandemic happening and you've got housing issues and you've got issues around race inequality. it's unlikely that the issue around billboards will go to the top of anyone's agenda. but i think it should be there. i think it affects all those other issues. you know, you can say it's sad to look back and realize we're still fighting the same fights

we were in the ninety's. that's life, that's politics. these fights never end. and clearly, i hoard things with this is the monthly meeting of the toronto public space committee chair. thank you . i'm always curious if the billboard company is really showing up at these meetings. so i'm just looking at the names that i don't know to see what might be watching performance and then i had a billboard company send enough people to a meeting to out vote me and they put forward a motion to cancel our campaign against them. move on to an update from dave on the bill board. i have 2 questions to ask you guys right now. one is that there's some

locations where we need to actually go on the ground and do triangulation and figure out who is property. it's on any just hands up if anyone's interested in. oh, i see a i see a thumbs up from eagle. mm. mm. this parking lot is private property right here. this is part of a green outline on the map that is part of the hydro, right? of way, and as far as i can tell, the billboard literally crosses the line we look for property markers just anywhere, anything i mean, if anything like, essentially, everywhere here didn't bring a machete right out on the mountain. i've never felt so attacked by nature.

i mean the in the city should be doing this work anyways, so i could ask the city like, can you guys figure this out? i'll regret this tomorrow. that slows things down. it's better if we can show them evidence that we've already figured it out in spectrum. as one is not impressed with what i'm saying. so i was hoping we could say it's on this property. is there a permit or not? i, i really can't tell. but i would bet this was put up without any permanent matter proving it. and then convincing staff to enforce the rules. why don't we put some signs on them like the notice of investors as the gate open? why would that be that, that scares people? i'm definitely putting a sign up here. these billboards are now under investigation by the front of explains committee dan.

aside from asking city staff to look into the 20 year, so billboards that we're looking at. i also filed a freedom of information request and any citizen can file one of these and it's a way to get information from the government that usually wouldn't be able to get. that's not our website. it's not in a flyer, but, but it's technically public information. i applied a few weeks ago, i said, does the city have a list of all the billboards and any cross reference data about whether they have permits or not? so i got a response. the decision is, access is granted in full to the records provided for review. i have to pay a $10.00 fee for a usb stick. wasn't expecting that the records of the wreck, the records will be mailed to you after we receive a check or money order left for the government makes it as hard as possible. i can

do this by pay power. i can do by e transfer either send them a check or a money order. it's so frustrating. the government is like so committed to being stuck in the dark ages. with great one there. you are. the heart of activism doesn't pay the bill a new side get going with my kids were fabricated, install in like racks. so people can lock that bicycles in front of the house. you don't have to make the beeping found. k go other way. or a tidy left, a lucy little more and stop.

i started doing like political activism in my late teens. there is an addictive nature to it. the pressures and expectations of being seen as a leader can be a really heavy weight. and, and it can create some serious mental health issues. so i've gone through a few major depressive episodes related to burn out and depression. for me, every breakdown i had triggered an identity crisis. you put everything into a campaign. all you've got for months. and when you lose, it can just, you can just feel like such an idiot like a failure. i was worried that my activism was killing me. and the only way i could

survive was to drop politics and activism entirely. but i also knew that political work is so embedded in my dna, and that's a part of who i am. i really struggle with trying to understand where my life was going. what is it 20 year old activists turn into? and then i met euchre. me. i, i knew he was a full time activist. he lived and breathed the activism. it wasn't like something he did. it was something he, he was he was smart, he was clever. he knew how to take an issue and get on the front page like theater and gramma and agree and humor. to put forward ideas about what are the year 2010 is to share that nobody goes bad. my re let everybody has

a roof above their head. i don't remember to current any context other than activism, so i don't really have memories of him just as a friend. i want to be like him. but i'm also, i don't wanna i want to diverge from his journey. took him me the i oh i ok. so essentially i did a freedom of information request to the city saying, what have you guys got in terms of a database of existing signs and whether or not you have permits and will know

right away hopefully which which sites have permits. okay, check your mouse. don't open that yet. you ready? yeah, you're ready. you ready? big with it. yeah, they did a good job. big. okay. i'm opening it. invoice dates. it's done by the tax amount. so it's $1570.00. what is almost 10000000 annually. why? we're up against where does the part about where is the part of our permit? i don't see anything here about permit. so i think we need to follow up. this does not have the data i asked for me when it comes to advocacy. we're up against these companies who have a multi $1000000.00 budget. they can hire the best lobbyist, the best p, r people. so we need to try every tactic we can use. i missed your

assistant today. what, madame? or you have your table are you will go over to the grass, i guess. yeah. they won't bring any flowers. this. these are, these are earth warm. there is no reason to be intimidated by me whatsoever. i guarantee you, okay. you're the one actually with the power rate, you're asking me questions, so i don't know what's a good point. yeah. the billboards. burns, i, billboard, they've been there for quite a while, and they're, they could be distracting as just a lot of drivers near there. and not only just because it's an ad or billboard, but because it so sudden in the middle of all these trees, what am i looking at? it's just, i think they're turning the billboards from quite a while ago. this is dated 2006. it said something of the new information rich. not none of us were really sure of what it was. she just heard that there was new

information that ended up having them remain, but they never divulged what that was. yeah. how would you like to work together to look into if they're allowed to be there? and let's follow up and have a discussion. sure, thank you. me . really strong or leave focused and creative, productive, and just mellow. i wrote this last year on an airplane in the middle of burn out. so it says you are here. and then it's got all these paths forward of different projects i could be working on. so this is the billboard thing i decided and this is a hobby. it will never be funded. i don't want it to be funded. i want it to be a hobby. it's when you start getting really hyper excited about the work. and when

you're being fueled on adrenalin, that you risk burning out here, sylvia looked at us in our matching hoodies with a squad man, billboard squad. so could i have it might be exciting. it might be nothing either they've, they're just sending us the same garbage again or they caved and sent us what i know they have. ok here with that or be different. it's a nice u. s. b of the cities logo on it. ok, i'm scared to look at it. you look at it on what you see. i want permits. i want something. give us something. if they gave us a 2nd, this is the numbers. permit numbers being signed permit number. nice.

i'm just scrolling down and when you get to like a 100, there's a bunch that say, you know, her records have been locating there are 662 entries that say no permit records have been located. this is great. this is the 1st time i've ever seen this data. 25 burnside, no permit. records have been located. ah, so the mailing get everything given. what do we do now with all this? this is amazing. mary. she give them a lesson, say, credit to your records. it seems like these dont have permit can you confirm right? either have them removed or have them get permit or can call me all right. bye. everyone have a great weekend. thanks for helping out with me. ah

. some ways we revere the most famous activists in history. you know, martin luther king gandhi. everyone loves a good activist, but no one wants their kids to go down that route. so when i was in my twenties, everyone i grew up with was in university, launching careers, and i'm marching the streets with artists. i never had anyone to turn to in the one guy who i did jumped off of bridge is our my pass code does my pass inevitably lead to taking my own life? and this is the place you were before i'd been there before. i've been there 3 times now. each time i felt like i probably wasn't going to come out of it. i might have had stress like anyone does. but i was coping. and then suddenly i'm just crying like a baby for months. and i started to fear myself more than anything. i feel like

it's all coming back to sucker now because that was the 1st time that you had that burnout was after he died. one of the question my head was like, can you be in an activist in your thirty's forty's? and the only answer i could find really was to her when he stepped off the bridge, this anchor that i had emotionally attached myself to suddenly was gone. and it put everything i had done in question me in. so you read to me last time. so i did a freedom of information request. this includes the burnside information that they've had for like 15 years and would never thought they should share. they

didn't get a notice of violation saying that you've never had assign permit and nothing in here suggest otherwise. feel like they're throwing everything. they cannot get something to stag because they never have the fact that they've done all this digging and haven't found anything with the word permit. and i think that be really powerful to be able to say in these 47 pages, you sent us the word term. it doesn't appear once me the want to thinking 1st getting out of school a little bit early for this year. i didn't even, i don't even have a culture now. okay. you're welcome. so just what you learned. so the long and short of it is, is that the advice that i'm getting from the city staff is that they,

they aren't convinced that they have. busy the tools they need the toolbox to effectively get rid of the signs, so to say very plainly, whatever, whatever the city or i would do, they see it ending up in court where they are not convinced that the company would be unsuccessful. and i'm not, i'm willing to try, they don't know it's, so they're a, they're the only thing that they're avoiding trying even trying to defend their own by law, out of fear of a lot of losing. it wouldn't have to be like not playing a baseball game because you might now when i said the exactly verbatim, i was funny i, i used the exact same example. it's pathetic. i don't buy it and i don't buy it. um that's reasonable. i find it kind of sad that the city's own lawyers are caving on this. you have not seen any information that would lead you to believe that

a that a permit exists for the sites? no. okay. me. it's easy to get really emotionally attach. i've, i've done that like your campaign becomes like, like a child, and then when you lose that campaign, it's like it's so crushing me now we usually lose campaigns because of the stupidest reasons just because someone's trying to make a block it's always like walk in a fine line you want to play by the rules, but you have to be prepared to push the envelope of all a letter that you wrote. dear activist,

it's another strange day for me. i lived breathing and focused on activism. it kept me thinking, inspired, interested, and alive, but also allowed me to ignore other things in life that now suddenly i realize i never developed. and now i find myself in a dark and confusing labyrinth trying to feel my way back to sanity and told me i think i've been in a place that was as dark as he was that day. me the scariest thing for me was worrying that i would make the same mistake. took her to me. i was able to maintain enough faith to believe that the nightmare with me and took her didn't get back from that space. the particular was missing in the

part that i've learned how to do really well. i think at this point is just loving my and not feeling bad about that. mm. he wouldn't want crying over him and he'd be like, sorry guys, no, sorry, i had to do that. but like, don't that distract you from your activism, you gotta go see the world. and for at the end of the day for me it's all about power. why don't we have power and i'm not thrilled with how the city has acted. i feel like there's a bit of negligence on their part to regular work day for the trauma, public space committee by law citizen enforcement unit, someone's gotta do it. and this city bureaucracy will never be a leader in reform. there's always going to be

a private interest that interferes with the needs of the community. and the community doesn't stand up for themselves. they'll get trembled. and we've been pretty lucky with rain so far with it. if we're going to be a little hard, this is really when you're ready to go. inspired me by making me realize that sometimes you have to be a little theatrical was uniform. absolutely gorgeous. i love the human species has improved that fell through millions of tiny vectoring people in their own way at their own pace and trying to make a difference in all these changes happen. not because of anyone here.

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