Posts Filed Under: villain 2012
We began with 18 nominees; you whittled the list down to just four. Now, here are the finalists for Supervillain of 2012, as chosen by you.
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Torontoist
The worst of our city over the past 12 months.
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Torontoist
The one nominee who gets a category all his own is very lamentably the mayor of Toronto.
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Christopher Bird • Illustration by Brian McLachlan
Nominated for: undermining Pride Toronto, and Toronto's commitment to diversity.
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Hamutal Dotan • Illustration by Chloe Cushman
Nominated for: homophobic slurs and frustrating non-apologies.
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Carly Maga • Illustration by Matthew Daley
Nominated for: treating her colleagues like wayward schoolchildren.
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Desmond Cole • Illustration by Matthew Daley
Nominated for: using her position to reinforce divisions.
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Terri Coles • Illustration by Jeremy Kai
Nominated for: an astonishingly tone-deaf response to a tragic death.
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Carly Maga • Illustration by Kyra Kendall
Nominated for: using race as an indicator of crime.
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Desmond Cole • Illustration by Matthew Daley
Nominated for: forcing the venerable institution to sacrifice local distribution in order to save future productions.
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Angelo Muredda • Illustration by Jeremy Kai
Nominated for: checking out even before he left the team.
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Terri Coles • Illustration by Chloe Cushman
Nominated for: taking hockey away from us.
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Kevin Scott • Illustration by Brian McLachlan
Nominated for: losing their community's trust.
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Steve Fisher • Illustration by Brett Lamb
Nominated for: weakening one of our national institutions.
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Carly Maga • Illustration by Matthew Daley
Nominated for: his role in the untimely death of the Toronto Underground Cinema.
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David Demchuk • Illustration by Brett Lamb
Nominated for: plagiarism, and laziness of epic proportions.
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Natalie Zina Walschots • Illustration by Jeremy Kai
The people, places, things, and ideas that are undermining the texture of the city—our neighbourhoods, transportation, and sense of place.
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Torontoist
Nominated for: vacancy rates that make renting hopeless.
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Sarah-Joyce Battersby • Illustration by Brett Lamb
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