John Tory’s “Graffiti Blitz” Mistakenly Removes $400,000 Worth Of Government Funded Public Art

By Andrew Scott

Toronto - Recently re-elected Toronto Mayor John Tory announced Friday that his city-wide “graffiti blitz,” aimed at “cleaning up the city,” had inadvertently removed the Slate Asset Management commissioned, eight-storey “St. Clair Mural,” created by the Welsh-born “muralist” and street artist, Phlegm.

“I honestly had no idea it wasn’t graffiti,” acknowledges Tory, who admits that his artistic tastes: “begin and end with Robert Bateman.”

“Every time I would see that eyesore en route to the Badminton & Racquet club, I would vow to one day take it down.”

Fortunately, news of the mistake spread quickly enough to stop the Tory-dispatched teams slated to remove Nick Sweetman’s “Dallington Pollinators” at 18 Dallington Drive in the city’s north end.

Andrew Scott is a musician and writer who lives in Toronto in a house amongst children, antiquated technology of yesteryear and many, many instruments. Instagram, writing, poetry, more poetry.