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

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In the wake of Trump’s “idiotic behaviour,” #ThanksCanada trends as Tweeters south of the border salute Drake, SCTV, ketchup chips and other Canuck staples. Alo squeaks onto the World’s Best Restaurants list at number 94—the first time a Canadian kitchen has landed a spot since Montreal’s Joe Beef in 2015.

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DeMar DeRozan becomes the second Raptor to win the NBA’s Magic Johnson Award for his mad skills (the first was Chris Bosh in 2010). Robert De Niro visits Toronto to break ground on the Nobu condo-hotel development and apologizes for “the idiotic behaviour of my president.” Drake gets the whole Degrassi gang back together for his new “I’m Upset” video—except for Ryan Cooley (a.k.a. J. T.), who thought the invite was a scam.

The world’s largest Banksy exhibit makes its North American debut in Toronto... Scarborough’s Domee Shi, the first female director of a Pixar short, releases Bao— a film about a ChineseCanadian empty nester who gets another chance at motherhood when one of her steamed dumplings comes to life.

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Canada, Mexico and the U.S. win a joint bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2026. The city’s non-footie fans have eight years to plan vacations far away from BMO Field.

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A few days before the Canadian Grand Prix, Ferrari confuses Toronto’s skyline for Montreal in a video posted to social media. Twitter goes wild. ...just in time for the artist’s “Trolley Hunters” print—worth $45K—to be stolen.

This woman repeatedly smashes a barbell onto a treadmill at a Liberty Village GoodLife after staff tell her she needs a membership to work out. A video of the tantrum goes viral (of course). Toronto is deemed the fifth-most unaffordable housing market in the world, behind London, L.A., Sydney and Hong Kong. According to one Bloomberg article, Toronto makes New York look cheap. After a slew of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities (93 in the past two years), former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat calls for the city to declare a state of emergency. Former Jays third baseman Kelly Gruber is pulled from a Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame event after allegedly showing up drunk and disorderly to a Pitch Talks panel.