[Northern Light]

From Ok_Island6801 on Reddit.

Terribly disrespectful to Love Park and Claude Cormier.

cc: @AlexBozikovic @Northern Light

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1kg8sfq/ads_in_parks

I'm bringing the pic forward as the Reddit doesn't load automatically in UT for me:

No way is this ok...........

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...oh wait, there's a Wendy's down there?

 

[Northern Light]

I'm bringing the pic forward as the Reddit doesn't load automatically in UT for me:

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No way is this ok...........

I'm looking into enforcement action options on this......... while I do........

Can someone here on 'X' / Twitter @ Wendys and ask them if they have permission from the City to advertise in a park? If not maybe they want to remove the signs before by-law enforcement shows up.

 

[hawc]

That kind of signage is illegal. Just walk by and pull it all out. Or better yet complain HERE. They take this stuff seriously and will follow up with Wendy's.

 

[interchange42]

Hey Wendy's, would you like fines with that?

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[hawc]

Complaint submitted.

 

[GenerationLee]

What, is there a ghost kitchen nearby?
The only Wendys I know of anywhere near downtown is in the east, at Leslie and Lake Shore.....or Parkdale I guess.

 

[bearcat]

What, is there a ghost kitchen nearby?
The only Wendys I know of anywhere near downtown is in the east, at Leslie and Lake Shore.....or Parkdale I guess.

New one opened I think last year at King & Peter.

Edit: also based on a Google search there is one at a food court by Union Station (

https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodToronto/comments/17w0mhz/jbc_gang_rare_discovery_of_a_new_downtown_wendys

)

that would actually be the closest one

 

[Rascacielo]

That's a cause to beef about about where the beef is.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...so they need to stick signs all over a public park that's several blocks from this?

 

[GenerationLee]

That's a cause to beef about about where the beef is.

Too bad it's not an Arby's :/

 

[evandyk]

Anyone been by to see if the signs are still there? I put a complaint in to 311.

There was a Wendy's in a food court on the west side of the Path (55 University, I think), but it closed for renovations. Maybe they're about to reopen and that's what the ads are related to.

 

[rdaner]

Wisteria watch! Looks like this may be the year of a lot of climbing! Taken 16 May.

 

[Skyhighzz]

Love Park is cool, gorgeous & chic on a global universal level designed by the excellent Claude Cormier. So glad it was built. Toronto absolutely needed the cool aesthetic upgrade w LP & Berczy. This park should be full of people & no doubt it will be. But more beautiful parks like this one also need to take up space in busy, high pedestrian areas downtown, so a lot more people can hang out & fill the space- on & near major streets, areas. Important & impressive well designed green & urban spaces in the city are scarce & insufficient comparatively to almost every big wealthy global city.
And it seems Toronto’s “good enough” leaders have no desire or ambition to change that. More built housing is a good thing but if it’s not surrounded by dynamic lively outdoor spaces, places, parks then that would be disastrous, ruinous & set T.O. back another few decades. Toronto should demand more downtown parks.
Toronto Parks Czar?
Find the space (empty lots, parking, abandoned buildings & structures) & then find the funding. Good philanthropic community helps.

 

[Northern Light]

Wisteria watch! Looks like this may be the year of a lot of climbing! Taken 16 May.

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I've taken the top of your photo above to illustrate the pruning issue I discussed a few weeks back, by zooming in.

See all the whispy thin bits of Wisteria, with no buds on them? These sections should have pruned last winter to promote flowering and growth.