Toronto Life – December 2018

photographs: couch via

craigslist;

crystal ball

by

istock;

tavares by

Getty images

$300,000,000

Projected savings for the province as a result of pulling funding from three

post-secondary campus expansions in Brampton, Milton and Markham.

The Audit

An appraisal of the

month in money

$1,200,000,000

Projected cost of a massive new Etobicoke hospital approved by the province.

The facility, scheduled to open in 2023, is being constructed on an 11-hectare

site near the Humber River and will specialize in rehabilitative care.

$150

Asking price for a “Haunted IKEA Couch” on

Craigslist. The owner claims the loveseat has been

the cause of recurring nightmares and paranormal

occurances—like creaking during the early hours

of the morning and the seats compressing when no

one is sitting in them.

$631

Fee to apply for a pardon in Canada, which the government has vowed to waive

for those previously convicted of minor cannabis-related offences.

$67,250

Monetary value of 269 burial vases stolen from three Mississauga

cemeteries, which police suspect were resold for scrap metal.

$600,000

Amount paid to a Toronto “psychic” by a superstitious

67-year-old man who was conned into believing he needed

to sell his house and transfer the money to rid himself of evil

spirits. The fortune teller was eventually charged with

witchcraft and fraud.

$2,000,000

Estimated amount of a lawsuit against Metrolinx and the

city brought forward by a woman who was hit by a slab of

falling concrete at Union Station.

$3,600,000

Purchase price of the 6,000-square-foot High Park home

bought by newly acquired Leafs’ centreman John Tavares.

CHLOÉ

VERSACE

SALVATORE FERRAGAMO

SAINT LAURENT

MONCLER

MULBERRY

BURBERRY

BVLGARI

CANADA GOOSE

CARTIER

BOTTEGA VENETA

VALENTINO

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