Graffiti in Toronto

One blogger remarked that pieces on Toronto buildings, walls and overpasses embrace the culture of New York City.

Mural work also serves as a platform to create and link communities, document history and tradition, and to facilitate purpose and voice to its collaborators.

By-laws governing legitimate and illegitimate instances of graffiti are found in the City of Toronto Municipal Code.

"[12] The Council of the City of Toronto has adopted a graffiti bylaw in 2005 (revised in 2011) that lists definitions, prohibitions, and the cost of the offence.

[16] Chair of the BIA, Spencer Sutherland, initiated this movement to protect property owners who did not wish to remove the graffiti street art and were being ticketed.

In September 2015, Vogue Magazine cited Queen West as the second coolest neighbourhood in the world, crediting the area's trendsetting "street style" to Graffiti Alley.

[38] Artists and writers that have a background in graffiti that is registered in the StART program include ARTCHILD, Getso, Jessey Pacho, Li-Hill, MEDIAH, Nando Zevê, Peru 143, Shalak Attack, shayne rivet, SPH, Style Over Status, and Takeo Ten.

This segment was originally on another CBC Television show This Hour Has 22 Minutes before Rick Mercer Report was spun off.

Graffiti in Toronto
Graffiti in a Toronto alley in 2005.
A request for art , or an act of vandalism ? The question if graffiti constitutes one or the other has become a topic of debate in Toronto.
A person painting over graffiti in Toronto
"Graffiti Alley" (Rush Lane), [ 15 ] the laneway south of Queen Street West from John Street to Bathurst Street was named an area of municipal significance in 2011, with programs later created to nurture legal street art.