1. The idea people, designers and installers behind the 3-D TORONTO SIGN
2. Mayor JOHN TORY who is succesfully turning “a good city into a great one”
3. MARYAM MONSEF, former Afghan refugee, now Canada’s youngest and first Muslim federal cabinet minister
4,5,6 – DRAKE, THE WEEKND & JUSTIN BIEBER, Canada’s top of the pops music phenomena
7. – CBC television journalist ROSEMARY BARTON, who expects honest answers to straightforward questions and gets them
8. – The TORONTO BLUE JAYS, who lifted spirits city-wide & nearly made the World Series
9. – The TORONTO ZOO for delivering 2 giant panda cubs, 4 white lion cubs, and working 24/7 to save the life of Juno, a tiny polar bear
10. – Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship JOHN MCCALLUM, his staff & volunteers for working around the clock to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February
11. And of course Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU (shown here meeting The Queen), who is rapidly changing Canadian negativism into positivism both at home and internationally. “Happy New Year everyone – onward and upward!”
Is the 3D sign new this year?
The 3-D sign arrived in June as part of the city’s Pan Am Games celebration.