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

The Audit An appraisal of the month in money

$27,500

Selling price of Prince’s rare Toronto-made Black Album, which surfaced at a Los Angeles memorabilia company. It was one of 500,000 copies the late musical icon ordered to have destroyed before its planned release in 1987.

$350,000

Amount awarded by a judge to Toronto Symphony Orchestra–appointed clarinettist Eric Abramovitz, whose girlfriend effectively stunted his musical career by hacking his email and deleting his acceptance notice to a prestigious Los Angeles music school, leading him to believe he had been rejected.

$481,250

Auction price of a forgotten Tom Thomson painting that had been given to its owner as a gag gift and was gathering dust in her basement.

$527,100

Average price of a condo in Toronto—a record high, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board, and a 10 per cent increase from last year.

$1,000,000

Estimated compensation paid to Toronto police Constable Ioan-Florin Floria over his 11 years (and counting) on suspension. He was finally convicted of four counts of professional misconduct—two for discreditable behaviour, one for insubordination and one for breach of confidence—in June and axed, but he’s appealing, so still on payroll.

$140,000,000

Total cost of these fancy new electric buses ordered by the TTC as part of a plan to make the city’s transit emission-free by 2040.

$6,000,000,000

Savings from unidentified “efficiency gains” promised by Doug Ford during the provincial election.

$6,080,000,000

Estimated cost of Premier Ford’s proposed transit plan, mentioned off the cuff and never broached on the campaign trail, to extend the subway line to Pickering.