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Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.

In the 2004 movie Resident Evil:Apocalypse, Toronto stood in for the fictional zombie-infested Raccoon City. While the location decision was likely driven by cost considerations rather than nomenclature, the name is pretty accurate. Toronto has one of the largest raccoon populations of any city in North America, and with summer over, they’re looking to move into attics, sheds, chimneys, and anywhere else they can find a warm, dry space. They’re smart, resourceful, and with those adorable bandit mask faces, arguably the cutest of the disease-bearing urban rodents. However, even the most live and let live city-dwellers generally prefer not to have their wiring gnawed through by sharp little raccoon teeth, or their garbage and green bin stuff strewn up and down the street every trash collection day.