Toronto's municipal candidates took a small step this week to claim more of the city's landscape.
It became legal on Tuesday, July 27, 90 days from the Oct. 25 election, to place campaign signs on the outside of their campaign offices.Lawn signs and other fixed candidate billboards won't be permitted until Sept. 30. Rocco Rossi was one of the first to take advantage, with a 10 by 30 feet billboard visible to southbound drivers on Avenue Road and a smaller sign above the front of his headquarters."The campaign starts to really get into people's consciousness at this point," said Patricia Best, a Rossi spokesperson.Red, white and blue Rob Ford signs appeared in the windows of his Dixon Road headquarters in Etobicoke. "We don't have the big, big banner overhead but I think that's coming," said Ford's spokesperson, Adrienne Batra.Staff on the Sarah Thomson and Joe Pantalone campaigns said signs outside their respective downtown offices will be up shortly.