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a companies have access to radio ads and tv ads and online newspapers. with the one space that is supposed to be sacred li, ours 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. this is 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 as number 25,

burnside. but then you've got these. they're so big. they're just so big. it's like i like the way donald trump tweets in all caps. when i go up on one, i think this can be turned into a little cafe. up here, there's something really nice meeting there be a conveyor belt. coffee with this company right here. beautiful 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 permit,

then technically there are actually pieces of corporate garbage just like around, in which case i think its hard duty as citizens to clean up that garbage. ah, ah ah, i started doing elliptical activism in my late teens. i have a lot of archives down here from like, decades of activist projects rank valid campaign. this is a b c referendum on voting reform. city i had 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 and equality. 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. fair. thank you . i'm always curious if the billboard company is really showing up at these meetings, summers looking at the names that i don't know to see what you 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. we'll move on to an update from dave on the billboards. i have 2 questions to ask you guys right now. one is that there is some locations where we need to actually go on the ground and do triangulation and figure out whose 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 hm. this parking lot is private property right here. this is part of the 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 like that in the email. i've never felt so attacked by nature. i mean the in the city should be doing this work anyways, so i can just 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 lynn 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? but i, i really can't tell. but i would bet this was put up without any permit to matter, proving it. and then convincing staff to enforce the rules. why don't we put some

signs on them? like notice of it? i think the game will come alive about losing stuff that scares people. i'm definitely putting a sign up here. the boards are now under investigation for the turn up on the claims committee. me 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 accessed is granted in full to the records

provided for review. i have to pay a $10.00 fee for a usb stick. with an x like the that the records, the rec, the records will be mailed to you after we receive a check or money order. i love the government makes it as hard as possible. i can do this by paper how i can do by e transfer. i had to 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. ah, with great 150. you are the hard left with. activism doesn't pay the bills. a new side get going with your kid. we're fabricating

installing bike racks. so people can lock bicycles in front of their house. you don't have to make the beeping found. k go other way. radiate id left 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. ah, and are it concrete, some serious mental health issues? so i've gone through a few major depressive episodes related to burn out and

depression a fit 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, 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 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 took her me. i knew you was a full time activist. he lived and breathed 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. migraine, 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 tech. ah,

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 list it. yeah, they did a good job. i think the big. okay. i'm opening it. invoice dates. ah, it's done by the tax amount. so it's $1570.00. what is almost 10000000 annually. so we're up against where does the part about where's the part about permits?

i don't see anything here about permits. 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 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 amateur assistant today. what madame? are you have your table are you will go over to the grass, i guess. yeah. they won't bring any flowers. these are, these are earth worms. there is no reason to be intimidated by me whatsoever. i guarantee you ok. you're the one actually with the power rate, you're asking me questions, so i don't know what's coming. 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's sudden in the middle of all these trees things. 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 there was something new information rich. not none of us were really sure what it was. you just heard that there was a 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, early, focused and creative, productive, and just mellow. i met 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 at a want to be funded. i want it to be abi, 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. look at us in our matching hoodies with a squad man, billboard squad. so look at, 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 is that or be different? it's a nice usb 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, mr. the numbers, permit numbers. no science permit number. nice. i'm just scrolling down and when you get to like a 100, there's a bunch that say no 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. ha, so the mailing so

what do we do now with all this? this is amazing. mary sheet, you're gonna say according to your records, it seems like these don't have her wrong. can you confirm right? either have them removed or have them get permit or call. alright. bye. everyone have a great weekend. thanks for helping out with me. i some ways we revere the most famous activists in history and martin luther king. gandhi, everyone loves a good activist, but no one wants our 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. and never had anyone to turn to. and 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 an, 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 the show you're at the meeting. so i did a freedom of information request. so 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 in it. i think that be really powerful to, to be able to say in these 47 pages, you sent us the word term. it doesn't appear once me i just

want to thinking 1st, getting out of school a little bit early for this. you know, i didn't even, i don't even have a culture now. okay. you're, you're welcome. so just what you learned so long in the short of it is, is that the advice that i'm getting from the city staff is that they, they are convinced that they have. busy the tools they need and 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 are you, i'm good, i'm willing to try. they don't know it's so they're a, they're graduating that they're avoiding or trying even trying to defend their own by law out of the year of a lot of losing. it wouldn't have me like not playing

a baseball game because you might know when i said the exactly verbatim i it 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 8 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 a 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 bach it's always like walking 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 brain and focused on activism. it kept me thinking, inspired, interested, and alive. but are 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 come in. i think i've been in a place that was as dark as he was that day. 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 so that being the particular was missing and 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 hm. he wouldn't want us crying over him and he'd be like, sorry guys, you know, sorry i had to do that. but like, don't that distract you from your activism. you gotta go see the world 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 in the 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 travel with. we've been pretty lucky with rain so far. okay. and 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. no, i mean uniform. absolutely gorgeous.

i love the human species has improved. it fell through millions of tiny vectoring people in their own way at their own pace, trying to make a difference in all these changes happen. not because of anyone here. it's because thousands and thousands of galani gang company that was wrong and i'm a part of in i'm tired and i need a milk shake. a

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