The Audit

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

$1,730

Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Barrie in July, putting the city third on the list of Canada’s most expensive places to rent and finishing one spot higher than Toronto ($1,710 a month).

$11,910

Price for a seat in right field at the Blue Jays’ mid-season home opener at Rogers Centre, listed on reseller site StubHub. Pre-pandemic, tickets in the same section went for $65.

$630,000

Total compensation paid out to former Toronto police officer Ralph Thistle after a decades-long battle with Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. Thistle, who retired from the force in 2007 because of PTSD, lived without running water in a small cabin in rural Ontario, waiting for the payments to arrive.

$6,300,000

Maximum estimated cost for the city to remove signage and landmarks referencing Henry Dundas, an 18th-century Scottish politician who delayed the abolition of the slave trade.

$11,000,000

Cost of the non-police crisis response pilot launching in early 2022. As part of the initiative, nurses, harm-reduction workers and others trained in de-escalation will respond to mental health calls instead of police officers.

$37,310,000

Total compensation in 2020 for Patrick Dovigi, head of Torontobased waste management company GFL Environmental Inc., putting him atop the Globe’s list of Canada’s highest-paid CEOs.

$270,500,000

Federal loan granted to Porter Airlines to aid its post-pandemic rebound. Roughly $20 million from the loan will be used to refund passengers whose flights were cancelled because of Covid.

$4,400,000,000

Estimated construction cost of a new high-frequency rail line proposed for the Toronto–Quebec City corridor. If it’s approved and completed, trains will travel up to 200 kilometres an hour, whisking passengers to Montreal in just under four hours.