Canadian Art, January 17, 2013.
Many arts activists were buoyed in Toronto this week as a 12-year campaign to tax billboards in order to generate more funding for arts and culture finally came to fruition.
Toronto City Council approved a four-year plan to increase Toronto’s yearly arts investment by $17.5 million—boosting arts and culture funding to a $25 per-capita commitment. (Prior to this move, it was in the realm of $14 to $19 per capita.)
