| What you loved and loathed last month
Trudeaumania
Multiple shots were fired at Toronto Life for putting the prime minister at the top of the 2016 power list. Objections ranged from reasonable (“How does a Montrealer make number one?”) to ridiculous (“What a joke, this nobody”) to…
“Thank you for printing a fullpage picture of Justin Trudeau’s face on page 47 of the December issue. It came in handy. I used it to line the bottom of my cat box.”
—Michael McCartney
This guy got it…
“Doesn’t matter if the prime minister doesn’t live in Toronto; he’s the perfect choice because of his government’s influence on our city. Cheers!”
—Barry Dennison, Facebook who was responsible and what constitutes public interest.
“She explicitly requested that her death be dealt with privately. I don’t understand the merit in publishing a story like this; the affair wasn’t particularly unique or uncommon. This is so grossly invasive for everyone involved.”
—oreduar
“In a case where public interest would trump a suicide victim’s request for no publicity, I would disagree with you. But there is literally no public interest here.”
—Sleemz_D
“Except, of course, that the public is interested.” —TatuTattoo
“She wanted to go out with a bang and intertwined her suicide with her revenge of outing the other side of this romantic triangle. She made it a public issue. You can’t separate her death from the sex scandal she outed.” —skomes99
“She seemed kind of ambivalent about whether she wanted the story told. It’s as if, on the one hand, she wanted to tell it and get a supportive reaction from people, but, on the other hand, she knew she probably wouldn’t get that support, so she could not figure out whether to speak. Her suicide note carries the same ambivalence. She’s silenced in death and yet still wanting to talk.”
—semiconductingself
“Conservative leader wannabe Kellie Leitch states that she wants to screen immigrants for ‘anti-Canadian values.’ Who is the keeper of those values? Not Ms. Leitch, I hope, as she embraces a Trumpian style of politics, appealing to the worst of humankind. She also confirms she is against abortion because, as a pediatric surgeon, she looks after injured kids. Wow. I don’t think Toronto Life should be