In a sure sign the civic election campaign is hitting the homestretch, candidates were allowed to ramp up their advertising efforts beginning Saturday.
“It’s an exciting day,” said mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis. “We've been working steadfastly getting everything ready for this moment and so today is really the pinnacle of all of that hard work."
Brian Bowman had a dozen teams of volunteers out on Day One setting up hundreds of his blue and green "Elect Bowman for Mayor" signs.
"We will be putting them up and we've got to get our name out and let people know that we're in this race and we're in it to win,” said Bowman.
All candidates, including those running for council and school trustee positions, can put up signs, but they must come down no later than seven days after the election.
The city lists election sign regulations on its websites and encourages people to call 311 to report signage infractions.
City staff will confiscate and destroy illegally placed signs.
CTV News reached out to other mayoral candidates for this story. Robert-Falcon Ouellette said his signs are still being printed and other candidates did not respond.
