The Audit A penny-by penny reckoning of the month in money

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The Audit An appraisal of the month in money

$10

New surcharge applied to parking tickets that are mailed to car owners who drive away before the officer can place the dreaded yellow slip on their windshield.

$235

Amount of each fine issued by the TTC to those two accordionwielding outlaws who’ve been subjecting unsuspecting subway riders to their squeeze-box rendition of “Despacito.” (Heads up: they’ve since added Camila Cabello’s “Havana” to their repertoire.)

$48,000

Salary a Torontonian must earn in order to comfortably afford the average rent of $1,242 in the city, according to a recent study by the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario. The same study noted that nearly half of Toronto renters earn less than $40,000 per year.

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$330,037

Average price of a house last year in London, Ontario, where, a CMHC report confirms, nearly 10 per cent of homes were sold to buyers fleeing Toronto. (The average price in 2016 was $283,778.)

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$875,000

Asking and eventual sale price of a three-bedroom Upper Beach semi that was reserved for “a deserving young family who will benefit from the neighbourhood and preserve and enrich the community.” Bidders were required to make their case by submitting a short essay.

$3,800,000

List price for 4 Birchmount Road, a 12,000-square-foot lakefront house with a basement basketball court and enough space for 16 cars. At the time of this writing, it was also dilapidated, full of mould and infested with wild animals.

$577,000,000

Unpaid fines currently owed to the city for infractions ranging from speeding to trespassing to bylaw violations.

$3,200,000,000

Amount that Aurora Cannabis is shelling out to scoop up its biggest rival, Markham-based pot grower MedReleaf Corp.