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

An appraisal of the month in money

$0

Amount that two 26-year-old friends from Mississauga say they spent travelling from St. John’s to Tofino, on a month-long trip designed to prove Canadians’ kindness. The pair received free food, lodging, haircuts and even flights.

$0.67

Cost of a McDonald’s hamburger on August 16, to mark the Golden Arches’ 50th anniversary in Canada. The fast-food joint sold more than four million hamburgers across the country that day.

$11.02

Cost of one fraudulent CNE ticket—$8 less than the price of regular adult admission—sold on gogroupdeals.com, a website that collected personal information but failed to deliver any tickets.

$610

Amount CIBC staff and customers raised in 24 hours to buy a new ride and a lock for an 83-year-old client whose bike was stolen from outside an Ajax branch.

$8,700

Value of a giant, 11-kilo crystal stolen off a novelty engagement ring outside Louro and Sons Jewellers in Yorkville. The shop is offering a $1,000 reward for its return.

$500,000

Amount that the residents of the Spire luxury condo paid to clean up their private parkette, which had been contaminated by years of canine dwellers’ doodie.

$1,600,000

Estimated annual cost to operate three safe-injection sites in Toronto. The city’s first sanctioned facility, a temporary one next to YongeDundas Square that opened in mid-August, will be replaced by three permanent spaces this fall.

$130,000,000

Value of drugs smuggled between Canada and the U.S. in a trafficking ring busted in 2014. Brampton resident Harinder Dhaliwal was sentenced to 20 years in an American prison for helping transport cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana inside trucks he owned.