How the rest of the world felt about Toronto last month
Queens Quay joyriders, Oscar wins and everything else that's making and shaking the city's self-image
Ego Bruise
Gategate, part 1: the TTC vows to block off the Queens Quay streetcar tunnel after a new batch of joyriders get stuck in the tracks.
Photo Credit: Toronto Police Service
Gategate, part 2: the TTC stops installing Presto gates two years into their rollout, because the things don’t actually open and close properly.
Photo Credit: TTC
American research firm Mercer ranks Toronto the 16th most livable city in the world, which feels like a slight now that we’re used to the top 10.
Satellite images reveal a vaguely penis-shaped island in the Women’s College Hospital parking lot, and the Internet reacts pretty much how you’d expect.
Saturday Night Live mocks proverbial Canuck politeness in a sketch about the “Canadian Harvey Weinstein.”
The New York Times lampoons Ontario’s wannabe premier Doug Ford as a “tin-pot northern Trump.”
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Donald Trump says “brutal” Canada has outsmarted American politicians for decades, which we’ll take as a compliment, thank you very much.
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In sweeter transit news, a viral video catches a couple waltzing to pass the time during a subway delay on St. Patrick’s Day.
A record-breaking 628,000 people tune in to watch Drake play the survival shooter game Fortnite on the streaming service Twitch.
Toronto indie band Alvvays get a few new fans when Selena Gomez (Instagram followers: 135 million) posts a video set to one of their songs.
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DeMar DeRozan’s 42-point game against the Pistons triggers “MVP” chants—in Detroit.
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The Shape of Water wins four Oscars, prompting a cheeky Photoshop whiz to tweet a “Welcome to Toronto” sign with the tagline “We Made That Fish Sex Movie!”
Photo Credit: @Danseljak/Twitter
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