Weeds are an annoying fact of life in a city and province where pesticides are banned, but there’s a limit to what we’ll put up with. Bushy weeds next to utility boxes on the west side of Brimley Rd., north of St. Clair Ave., are so tall that a reader says her young sons are able to hide in them. ( Toronto Star / Jack Lakey )The ban was enacted in 2009 due to well-documented health concerns about toxicity. Jessica Bergeron emailed us a photo of weeds surrounding utility boxes on a boulevard on the west side of Brimley Rd., just south of Anson Ave., near St. Clair Ave. Another of her boys is standing behind the weeds, with just the top of his baseball cap poking up above them.

Source: thestar September 16, 2018 21:22 UTC