TORONTO – A Toronto based designer has created cards to help build a happier – and more polite – city.
The “etiquette cards,” are part of a the Toronto Etiquette Project created by Christopher Rouleau.
The cards are broken down into five categories: transit user, Torontonian, cell phone user, pedestrian and human being. Each card contains offensive acts, including: spitting, cutting nails, sharing private conversations, swearing in front of children and smoking too close to doorways.
He hopes people will print them out from his website and give them to offending people.
Rouleau, originally from “a small town” in Saskatchewan, first visited – and “fell in love with” – Toronto in 2007, before permanently moving to the city in 2009. According to a blog post Rouleau wrote about the Toronto Etiquette Project, soon after he moved to Toronto he “started to notice that some of the stereotypes that Western Canadians purport about Toronto were kind of true; depending on the day, Toronto could be quite fast-paced, impersonal, and, well, rude.”
Rouleau has one simple goal for the Toronto Etiquette Project, writing on his blog, "Let's make Toronto Greater. Together."
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