City Cracks Down On Maple Leafs Sidewalk Ads

By News Staff

Posted November 26, 2009 7:21 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment hopes you’ve noticed the messages and logos it hired an ad company to spray on sidewalks. The city definitely took notice and gave MLSE 48 hours to remove the markings, according to a published report.

The ads that read “Leafs Nation, Spirit Is Everything” started appearing on sidewalks in October. This week officials at City Hall contacted MLSE to inform the company it had two days to remove the markings, or else the city would do it and send them the bill, the Toronto Sun report states.

MLSE said the ad company it hired claimed it secured the right to spray sidewalks with paint.

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