As of April 2010, companies in Toronto wishing to erect signs will be presented with a bill of their own. Councillors voted 29-12 last Monday to approve the proposed tax on billboards, along with an additional bylaw designed to target illegal advertising.
The U.S. secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, will meet the British opposition’s foreign secretary, William Hague, today. Clinton is expected to raise the Conservative party’s alliance with far-right, allegedly anti-semitic members of the EU.