Here's an breif article I wrote.
Zanta Claus is Coming to Town
Dennis Marciniak
Take the S flip it backwards and what do you have? Zanta.
While on a quiet trip home on Toronto’s subway systems, a character lurks. It’s Zanta to spread the word of his Christmas cheer.
Zanta plans to hold his own parade and claims that he is the new Santa Claus in town.
“Santa’s fat, I’m strong; he wears a shirt, I don’t; and when I make millions, I’ll give it to the people of Toronto rather than give them toys.” The cheery man does several pushups in a row, even at other parades.
The locally famous Zanta says that he’s the next big thing. He claims that he wants to go worldwide, and it all starts in Toronto.
Recently, Zanta was banned from the downtown core for appearing in many of City TV’s shots. Before this took place, City TV had to shoot shorts such as weather and sports no longer on the streets, but in the parking lot instead.
In the subways though, he screams ‘Merry Christmas!’ out the doors at everystop while doing pushups between stops. Everyone stops what they are doing to watch the Zantification.
Zanta claims that he fell while working on a construction site that left him with a back that would no longer be able to do heavy lifting. He says he was told that he would never be physically active again.
“Zanta’s proven the doctors wrong. Feel these muscles, they’re hard like rocks.” he says at a very rapid pace.
Although it’s January and Santa is long gone, at least Toronto has Zanta to continue to spread the Christmas cheer.
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