Here’s your quick morning update on news in the sign industry:

1. Over the past few months, the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) has rolled out a series of 19 dimensional ‘Canada 150’ signs across the country, as part of this year’s sesquicentennial celebrations.

2. Burt’s Bees Canada has created two outdoor public art installations to help raise awareness of the need to support the nation’s bee population, using hundreds of native perennial wildflowers to serve as habitats and encourage pollination.

3. The Digital Signage Expo (DSE) is now accepting proposals for educational seminars to be presented at its next conference and related events in March 2018. The application deadline is July 28, 2017.

4. A new bylaw prohibiting and regulating signs and their placement along highways and on buildings was recently approved for the city of London, Ont., and has now come into force and effect.

5. Bibby LaPerle, a division of Canada Pipe, has joined the celebrations of Canada’s 150^th anniversary by producing a commemorative sesquicentennial manhole cover at its foundry in Ste. Croix, Que.