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Globe and Mail:
"Wielding a high-powered pressure washer and a gleeful smile, Mayor Rob Ford got his hands seriously dirty and seriously wet in launching the city's graffiti eradication initiative in an alley behind St. Clair Avenue West last Thursday. But the final results of the mayor's efforts suggest his city-wide spray-paint purge leaves something to be desired.
A spokeswoman for the mayor's office said the wall will eventually be covered with a mural."
CityNews:
" 'It just depreciates the value of everyone's property, it turns it into a ghetto, and that's not the kind of city I want to represent ... We're gonna go brick by brick right across the city, and we're gonna get it cleaned up and that's the bottom line,' said Ford."
So, when the mural was done I paid a visit:
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And then this random wall made the news again:
Torontoist: Scene: Rob Ford returns to graffiti wall... as graffiti
"Unfortunately, it seems Ford doesn't grasp the psychology of graffiti especially well; immediately upon his return from the neighbourhood, everyone was taking bets on how soon some Ford-themed graffiti would appear on this wall. Answer: we can't say exactly, but it was no more than a matter of weeks."
Toronto Sun: Graffiti artist targets Ford
"A cheeky graffiti artist recently painted a picture of a devious looking Ford on the wall, just off Earlscourt Ave. and St. Clair Ave W. ... Someone has defaced the mural with an illustration of the mayor's face in a frame.
Palacio, the chairman of the licensing and standards committee, shrugged it off as 'part of the (graffiti) culture.' ... 'They could have done something worse,' he said. 'I can live with it.' "
CityNews: Street artists take aim at Ford [video]