City of Toronto + Graffiti

The city of Toronto talks about “wiping out” graffiti on its website, but they also offer an alternative for local graffiti artists. Erase graffiti and create murals! The Graffiti Transformation Program in Toronto is a way for the city to solve several problems at once. Unemployed youth are given the job of removing graffiti and replacing it with colourful murals. Neighborhoods are improved with beautiful art! Would Edmonton benefit from a program like this? As I traveled through Edmonton searching for graffiti I saw a lot of bad cover-ups. Edmonton’s policy creates a patchwork of mismatched paint makes the graffiti problem more obvious. The City of Edmonton becomes like a bad graffiti artist itself! Toronto seems to understand that eradication alone cannot solve the graffiti problem…