The Temperature
The big winners and even bigger losers of 2008
You know you’re on top when your company name becomes a verb (“I’m Portering to Manhattan”).
We’re not advocating drowning your sorrows, but the fact that beer sales are on the rise speaks for itself.
Burb is the word: funny boys Russell Peters and Michael Cera got us wondering if the path to stardom begins in Brampton.
Oglers everywhere rejoiced at the proliferation of how-low-can- you-go V-neck tees. American Apparel, we’re looking at you.
Enviro-crusaders have been cursing SUVs for years, but it was cash, not conscience, that killed the mega-car.
While new home owners debated food vs. shelter, smug renters did the “I told you so” dance.
After collecting an estimated $2.5 mil for a little ditty about hockey, 81‑year-old Dolores Claman redefined the phrase “golden years.”
Our own Alice Glass— elfin Crystal Castles front femme—was named coolest person on the planet by Brit music mag of record NME.
Leave Frappuccinos to the masses. At tea rooms all over the city, Toronto’s hippest sippers bowed at the altar of Earl Grey.
Roger this: the economy was imploding, but a certain communications giant (and its Canadian iPhone monopoly) was still swimming in profits.
Susur left, and with him our appetite for fancy, finicky and overpriced nibbles. Comfort food owned the menus of ’08.
Employing the rehab-bound starlet’s standard mea culpa, Robin Kay blamed exhaustion for her drunken fashion week debacle.
Photographs: Condo from Toronto Star; Claman from CP; Cera from WireImage; Tea from iStockphoto; Kay by Air’leth Aodhfin; Plate by Christopher Stevenson; Lawn signs from Toronto Star
More from our 2008: Year in Review
• Man of the Year: Richard Florida
• Drop Zone: Toronto the crunched
• Deja View: Fashion fiends in familiar duds
• Bad Boys: Local lads land in infamy
• Party: A year of boozy bashes
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