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

An appraisal of the month in money

$5

Value of a voucher that Uber offered a student who filed a complaint after her driver allegedly reached 140 kilometres per hour on the Don Valley Parkway and blew through several stop signs near her house.

$60

Maximum amount of daily subsidies the Ford government will pay parents per child for child-care costs during teacher strikes.

$100

Price of a Toronto-based marketing agency’s penisscented candle, which they created as a gender-equal counterpart to Gwyneth Paltrow’s “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle.

$3,000

Cost of a micro-wedding on offer at the Freedom Factory gallery on Queen West. The price includes an officiant, a cake and a professional photographer.

$10,000

Amount that Hamilton’s Rejent Guay was charged for $70 worth of souvenirs—a vase and some clothing—at a mall in Jamaica. They should have cost $7,500 Jamaican, but the shopkeeper typed $7,500 U.S. into the debit machine.

$270,000

Alleged amount that the Ryerson Students’ Union spent on food, clothing, alcohol and club purchases, prompting Ryerson University to end their 34-year partnership with the union.

$200,000,000

Amount the federal government has pledged toward the development of mixed affordable housing on the former site of Honest Ed’s, as part of the Mirvish Village project.

$11,900,000,000

Cost of the TTC’s proposed 10-year transit capital plan. Part of the money would be earmarked for 1,600 new buses, 80 new subway trains and 60 new streetcars.