Trashy sketches

We arrived back in Toronto to find the city in the throes of a municipal workers’ strike. This included thousands of workers, from secretaries to ambulance drivers. But for most people, it was a “Garbage Strike”.

Toronto on strike was depressingly not much different than Toronto usually is. If anything, the place was a bit cleaner, because shopkeepers and homeowners weren’t waiting for the City to come along and clean messes up (which seldom happens). But as the weeks piled on, it was hard to deny the city was getting stankier. The whole sorry strike is over now, but the smell lingers.

Here’s some sketches I did over the past few weeks. (RE)