Some beautiful yet simple street art we’ve seen recently.

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It’s that time again ponies! We’ve done posts on graffiti, on signs, and even on burlap sacks – there is artwork to be seen everywhere in Toronto, you just need to be looking out for it. Today, we’d like to focus on some of the positive messages we’ve seen as of late – ones that make us smile as we pass by.

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Toronto has banned kite flying in Milliken Park, and we’re bucking mad.

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Councillor Chin Lee has single-handedly banned kite flying from Milliken Park (Scarborough) – apparently because of kite string litter. Anyone who breaks this law will now pay a fine of $100. Call us crazy, but aren’t there slightly more cigarette butts, gum packets, and plastic wrappers polluting our streets than kite strings? After nearly protesting by blanketing the park with tampon strings, we instead decided to take a deep breath and turn to our trusty steed. After all, the pony is mightier than the sword.

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Altered street signs in Toronto make us stop and think.

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The Cowgirls just love stumbling across gems like this in Toronto. Call it graffiti, call it whatever you want, but we love it. We saw the sign and it opened up our eyes.

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Mad et Lil brings us the simple things that make us smile.

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Most blogs exist as an outlet for expressing one’s opinion (or ranting) about what’s going on in the world. Mad et Lil, thankfully, is not one of them. Although new to the Toronto blog scene, Madison Makepeace and Lily Antflick have excelled at providing us with daily images of contemporary design, guerilla street art, innovative recipes, and breathtaking photographs. Why? So we can daydream of course.

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