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Heroes and Villains 2007: Superheroes and Supervillains
Your votes––1,300 of them total––are in. We picked the forty-eight candidates for Heroes and Villains, and you’ve chosen the winners and, better yet, the losers. It’s democracy at its very best.
These are, according to you, Toronto’s Superheroes and Supervillains of 2007.
TTC Automated Announcements
78 VOTES (12.3%)
The ROM Crystal Exterior
76 VOTES (12.0%)
Toronto Small Press Book Fair
57 VOTES (9.0%)
The Loonie
55 VOTES (8.7%)
The Horseshoe Tavern, Jeff Cohen, and Craig Laskey
45 VOTES (7.1%)
Bryan Colangelo37 VOTES (5.8%) Hazel McCallion29 VOTES (4.6%) Tim Bourgette and the Revue Film Society27 VOTES (4.3%) Breakfast Television26 VOTES (4.1%) Tre Smith24 VOTES (3.8%) Artscape24 VOTES (3.8%) Toronto Climate Commission22 VOTES (3.5%) Kathleen Wynne22 VOTES (3.5%) The Toronto Comic Arts Festival21 VOTES (3.3%) Justin Lafontaine19 VOTES (3.0%) |
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee16 VOTES (2.5%) Friends in Bellwoods14 VOTES (2.2%) Made You Look10 VOTES (1.6%) Michael Redhill9 VOTES (1.4%) Urbana Coffee8 VOTES (1.3%) Walnut Hall4 VOTES (0.6%) The Labyrinth4 VOTES (0.6%) Murray Klippenstein4 VOTES (0.6%) Marlene Schiff2 VOTES (0.3%) |


Stephen Harper, Jim Flaherty, et al.
167 VOTES (26.5%)
The TTC Budget Crisis
88 VOTES (14.0%)
Condo Development
49 VOTES (7.8%)
John Baird
36 VOTES (5.7%)
Rob Ford
36 VOTES (5.7%)
Cigarette Butts33 VOTES (5.2%) Bohemian Embassy26 VOTES (4.1%) Hate25 VOTES (4.0%) The ROM Crystal (Interior)21 VOTES (3.3%) Restaurant Makeover20 VOTES (3.2%) Chapters, Indigo, Coles, Smithbooks, etc.20 VOTES (3.2%) Taste of the Danforth20 VOTES (3.2%) Eye‘s Online Movie Listings11 VOTES (1.7%) Jet Fuel Coffee Shop11 VOTES (1.7%) John Tory10 VOTES (1.6%) |
Unsafe Toys9 VOTES (1.4%) Scarborough Rapid Transit9 VOTES (1.4%) Pee-Pee7 VOTES (1.1%) The Credit Crisis7 VOTES (1.1%) Television Commercials6 VOTES (1.0%) Cheap Retailers6 VOTES (1.0%) Tre Smith5 VOTES (0.8%) North by Northeast4 VOTES (0.6%) Peter Gatien4 VOTES (0.6%) |
Photos: TTC Automated Announcement by Miles Storey; ROM Crystal Exterior by Dave Macintyre; Toronto Small Press Book Fair from its website; Loonie by merlinprincesse; Horsehoe Tavern by Frank Yang; Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty from the Daryn Wolk Blog; TTC subway car by votreceinture; condo development by Miles Storey; John Baird by Jenny P.; Rob Ford illustration by Marc Lostracco. All photos and images are Creative Commons–licensed, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool, used with permission, or made exclusively for Torontoist.