Toronto Life – December 2018

photographs: bar raval by

daniel neuhaus;

goat, house

and gavel by

istock;

drake by

getty images

38 toronto life December 2018

Ego Meter

What’s making and shaking

the city’s self-image

it happened last month: a loose chronology

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A new poll finds

that 94 per

cent of GTA

millennials are

concerned

about being too

poor to buy

a home in the

future.

A thrill-seeking man

goes skinny dipping in

the Ripley’s Aquarium

shark tank and flees

the scene. The entire

ordeal is, of course,

captured on video and

goes viral.

A North York

sinkhole

swallows an

unsuspecting

driver, who

manages

to escape

without

injury.

...but all the

excitement

creates product

shortages as

demand far

outweighs

supply.

Elton John stops

by The Senator

during his Toronto

visit and dubs their

burger the world’s

best on Instagram.

During a concert in

Mexico City, The Weeknd

narrowly escapes death

when a piece of stage

equipment smashes

down mere feet away

from him.

Drake breaks the record

for most top 10 hits in

a calendar year—a title

formerly held by The Beatles.

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Toronto musician Scott

Cushnie, who played

with Aerosmith and

Ronnie Hawkins,

mysteriously vanishes,

but the case is solved

when authorities learn

he died and was

accidentally buried

under a different name.

Bar Raval ranks

70th on the World’s

Best Bars list—

the sole Canadian

watering hole to

be included.

U of T students start

their Monday morning

with a literal bang

when their professor

accidentally screens

porn in a psychology

lecture.

When a rogue

goat is spotted

on the DVP,

a slew of baa’d

puns flood the

Twitterverse.

Former TTC boss

Andy Byford appears

on 60 Minutes to talk

up his plans for

N.Y.C.’s Metropolitan

Transportation

Authority.

Canada

becomes the

second country

in the world

to legalize

recreational

cannabis

(Uruguay was

the first)...

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