Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2010—Toronto’s very best and very worst people, places, and things over the past twelve months. At the midpoint of our week of Villains: the power-trippers—those given power, those trusted with it, or those who took it for themselves, all with one thing in common: the mess they left behind.
The suburbs, who flexed their muscles and pushed a man named Rob Ford into City Hall.
The Black Bloc, whose mindless destruction gave G20 protesters a bad name, and police an excuse to smash back.
The University of Toronto, who learned the hard way with their proposed—and felled—School of Languages and Literatures that scholars don’t much like sneakiness.
Officer Bubbles, collector of “human garbage,” and chief G20 bubble-burster.
