Slideshow: The Rob Ford graffiti movement
Emma Teitel on countless acts of random caricature
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is determined to clean up Toronto. “Everywhere there is graffiti,” he observed earlier this summer.
“I will guarantee that we will be removing it.”
Exhibit A:
[tweet id="362627276279517184" url="https://twitter.com/CBCToronto/statuses/362627276279517184"]
As this narrated slideshow reveals, the mayor is the subject of countless acts of random caricature:
Emma Teitel is a National Magazine Award-winning columnist who writes frequently about women’s issues and popular culture. She gets a lot of hate mail, mostly from Burnaby, British Columbia.
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