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In 2021, Tom Cruise surprised locals of Pickering when he touched down in a helicopter to shoot scenes for Mission: Impossible at a heritage railway.

This year, stories have touched on the California wildfires, the upside-down plane crash in Toronto and President Trump visiting disaster zones.

The sizable check — made out to a small, unregistered charity overseen by a local politician — touched a nerve in a city on the watch for signs of foreign influence.

With a crowbar I could have reached down and touched them, felt the pulse of the world’s information traveling through my fingertips.

“I want to have him realize how many people he really influenced, how he touched lives.”