Ego Meter What’s making and shaking the city’s self- image

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After performing with Choir! Choir! Choir!, ’80s pop star Rick Astley challenges the Foo Fighters to collaborate with Toronto’s biggest glee club—and the band accepts.

Chinatown restaurant Hong Shing makes international headlines after the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal orders it to pay $10,000 to a black customer who was asked to prepay for his meal. Toronto is dubbed “LeBronto” after King James and the Cavs sweep the Raptors in the NBA playoffs, resulting in the firing of Raps coach Dwane Casey. Toronto tops the first-ever ranking of Canada’s most youth-friendly cities… The Weeknd lands the cover of Time magazine’s Next Generation Leaders issue. Activist Susan Gapka becomes the first trans person to receive the key to the city. Appearances from David Furnish, Ben and Jessica Mulroney, and the cast of Suits make Harry and Meghan’s nuptials the Most Torontonian Royal Wedding Ever.

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Five days later, Casey is shortlisted for coach of the year. Toronto tech gets a double boost when the Silicon Valley Bank announces plans to set up shop in Canada, while the Collision conference names us its host city for 2019 to 2021.

…despite StatsCan reporting that millennials are leaving the city en masse in search of more affordable real estate.

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Anthony Bourdain gets angry at the Globe and Mail for reporting that he got angry at the National Post for its coverage of the nowinfamous Newfoundland episode of Parts Unknown.

Toronto drops from first to ninth on Christie’s list of hottest luxury housing markets in the world, while last year’s No. 2, Victoria, takes the top spot.

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