50 Most Influential 2015

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #1, Drake

Today, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, Drake is Toronto

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #2, John Tory

John Tory has taken the first steps toward defining his legacy

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #3, Kathleen Wynne

It's been a rocky year for the premier

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #4, George Cope

Cope is the head of Canada’s largest telecommunications company

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #5, Gerald Butts

Butts is now the most powerful non-elected person on Parliament Hill

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #6, Guy Laurence

Laurence is now entering year three of his attempted turnaround of Rogers

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #7, Ian Black

Black is the regional head of a global corporate scofflaw

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #8, Jennifer Keesmaat

Keesmaat is Toronto's defiant, outspoken chief planner

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #9, Larry Tanenbaum

Tanenbaum is the city’s most powerful sports figure

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #10, Naomi Klein

Klein is one of the world's leading critics of capitalism

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #11, Katie Telford

Telford led Justin Trudeau's ground campaign

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #12, José Bautista

Bautista's three-run homer elevated him from star slugger to cult hero

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #13, Patrick Brown

Brown is the second most powerful ­person in Queen’s Park

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #14, Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey

Handling and Bailey rep the most important movie marketplace not named Cannes

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #15, Randy Lennox

Lennox has domain over Bell's original and in-house tele­vision productions