Best: Canada’s top music talents—everyone from Jim Cuddy to Jully Black to Justin Bieber—give K’naan’s “Wavin’ Flag” the We Are the World treatment to raise mega-money for Haiti earthquake relief.
Worst: “I survived Toronto earthquake 2010” T-shirts. Up next: “I survived a slight gust of wind” hats.
As we look back at 2010, we can’t help bit see a year of tackiness and beauty, of tragedy and banality. Here, we examine two sides of the same ideas, marking the moments we’ll always remember—and the crap we wish we could forget.
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Courtney Shea is a freelance journalist in Toronto. She started her career as an intern at Toronto Life and continues to contribute frequently to the publication, including her 2022 National Magazine Award–winning feature, “The Death Cheaters,” her regular Q&As and her recent investigation into whether Taylor Swift hung out at a Toronto dive bar (she did not). Courtney was a producer and writer on the 2022 documentary The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, based on her 2014 Toronto Life magazine feature “The Yorkville Swindler.”