Blue Jays

: The decade kicked off with Robin Leach shooting a Toronto segment for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous that had journos scribbling and, no doubt, many water-cooler tongues wagging about our world-class status , while the Blue Jays’ back-to-back World Series wins stopped the nay side for a while, according to Globe and Mail. A victorious sports team is further proof, you see, and by 1996 one Vancouver-based Globe writer observed that Torontonians now dread hearing the term. There were more than 100 from 1980 to 1989, from then-mayor Art Eggleton offering it up during construction of the Metro Convention Centre, to the domed stadium debate of the mid-eighties, and, finally, Toronto late-eighties bid to host the 1996 Olympic Games. Yet, the stories kept coming: I found more than 130 entries for the 1990s, and about 160 for the first decade of the 2000s. To ensure this, I say: No touch-backs, infinity plus one! As any tag-player will attest, this means that, now, no one can ever write a think-piece debating Toronto status as world-class again. The good news, however, is that while I can’t access the entirety of our current decade, it looks as if the count will come in at less than 100 by 2019. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.