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

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

Two Toronto-area women face witchcraft-related charges in the same month, prompting American media coverage about the spooky, Salemesque happenings in Canada.

Oblivious thieves break into a Westdale car and take off with a cardboard box of human bones that archeologists had dug up at a church construction site in North York.

York and U of T professors discredit a claim made by Harvard researchers about a mysterious object intentionally sent to earth by aliens.

During an episode of ESPN’s The Jump, American host Rachel Nichols tries to point out the Raptors’ hometown on a geographically mangled map, which places Hamilton near Windsor and Oshawa near Kingston.

A video of a man “surfing” on top of a moving TTC bus near Dawes Road and Danforth goes viral on Facebook.

Speaking of complete idiots: an Ontario court judge calls a Toronto cop a complete idiot for eating cannabis chocolate seized during a dispensary raid.

A hungry mouse becomes Twitter famous after finding its way into a package of bread at a Hamilton No Frills.

Shawn Mendes outshines Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars at the People’s Choice Awards, winning male artist of the year.

In true Canadian fashion, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin stop by a Toronto Tim Hortons and pose for a selfie with the entire staff.

Amazon brushes Toronto aside in its quest to find a city for its new headquarters, opting for New York City and Arlington, Virginia, instead.

A comic book writer launches a lawsuit against The Weeknd for allegedly stealing “Starboy” from a rap-themed comic he conceptualized in 2014.