First-time Toronto-Danforth council candidate Dave Andre has chosen a distinctive colour for his election signs - black. “I did have some sense of what the incumbent’s colours would be, so I wanted to … contrast,” Andre said. “Black wasn’t a colour that was used often from a political perspective, so it just seemed to really stand out.”

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