TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 15, 2014) -

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PATTISON Outdoor Advertising and Spacing Magazine launch the 2^nd annual Dear City Canada, an innovative cross-country, public art project and dialogue about the cities we inhabit from July 14 to August 10, 2014. Dear City Canada is part of PATTISON's ongoing Art in Transit programme.

For the next 4 weeks selected urban love letters in the form of tweets from people across Canada will be shared on PATTISON Outdoor's digital billboards coast to coast. Over 40 different tweets will be appearing on billboards in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax; one billboard per city. Each billboard displays the best urban love letters tweeted to the city where it is located.

In addition, over 100 urban love letters from across the country will be playing on many of the PATTISON Onestop digital screen networks, including office and residential buildings across the country, over 300 shopping malls across Canada, as well as screens in the Calgary International Airport, the Edmonton Transit System and the Toronto Transit Commission.

It's not too late! Tweet a love letter about your city to @DearCityCanada and it can still appear on screens across Canada. You can start with "Dear [name of your city] …".

• Dear Calgary, I love how grown-up and confident you are. Much more than a rodeo, you make room at the table for all newcomers. @YYCfrancophile
  
  
• Dear Winnipeg, my love for you is like my love for my sister. I can make fun of you, but no one else can. @BTjeremyjohn
  
  
• Dear Toronto, I'm finally back in your arms after a long search for what I thought I wanted. It was you I was looking for. @MsKMScott
  
  
• Your roads ravaged by groundhogs, your metro where time stops, your bridges vanishing... Aren't you magical, dear Montreal. @SoniaAlice_sAm
  
  

Dear City Canada is co-produced by PATTISON Onestop and Spacing Magazine.

For more information on Dear City Canada including billboard and screen locations visit www.artintransit.ca.

About Spacing Magazine - www.spacing.ca

Spacing is an award-winning print and web magazine that uncovers the joys, obstacles, and politics of Canadian urbanism. Spacing was launched in the fall of 2003 by a group of young journalists and public space advocates. Spacing is published four times a year and can be bought on newsstands or delivered directly to your home. Two Toronto-centric issues and two nationally-focused editions are published each year. Spacing is also the publisher of a wide array of digital media, including a network of blogs in Canadian cities.

About PATTISON Outdoor Advertising - www.pattisonoutdoor.com

PATTISON Outdoor Advertising, a division of The Jim Pattison Group, is Canada's largest Out-of-Home advertising company. Since 1908, PATTISON has been providing innovative solutions for Out-of-Home advertising opportunities with products ranging from traditional billboards and posters to transit, digital, airports, mall, residential, office, and street furniture. PATTISON also offers Canada's largest portfolio of Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) advertising properties, through PATTISON Onestop, a world-leader in the design, operation, and advancement of digital advertising networks for the office, transportation, mall, sports retail, and residential environments. PATTISON Outdoor Advertising is the exclusive supplier for advertising on the Toronto Transit Commission's (TTC) transit system.

Art in Transit - www.artintransit.ca - @ArtTransit

Art in Transit represents PATTISON Onestop's ongoing arts and culture programme, presenting thought-provoking projects that enhance our shared environment and transport commuters, shoppers and city-dwellers, if only momentarily, out of their daily routines.

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