David Zancai: Difference between revisions

'''David Zancai''' (born May 7, 1968<ref name=Clause>{{cite news|title=The Zanta Clause |last=Israel |first=Samantha |url=http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/artslife/torontomag/story.html?id=37d4c929-11f0-4ca0-bb0f-56747144134a&p=1 |work=The National Post |date=2007-02-17 |accessdate=2007-03-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929121534/http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/artslife/torontomag/story.html?id=37d4c929-11f0-4ca0-bb0f-56747144134a&p=1 |archivedate=2007-09-29 }}</ref><ref name="G&M">{{cite news | first = Leah | last = McLaren | authorlink = Leah McLaren | title = Who is that capped man? Meet Zanta Ho Ho. | url = http://www.angelfire.com/planet/zanta/2005_04_30_Globe_and_Mail.htm | work = The Globe and Mail | page = M1 | date = 2005-04-30 | accessdate = 2006-12-06 | archive-date = 2008-01-04 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104023814/http://www.angelfire.com/planet/zanta/2005_04_30_Globe_and_Mail.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name=np/>) is a [[Mental disorder|mentally ill]] [[busking|street entertainer]] from [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada. Zancai is known for his character '''Zanta''': a modified [[Santa Claus]] who travels the streets of [[downtown Toronto]] doing [[pushups]] and shouting "yes yes yes" and "Merry Christmess".<ref name=np/> His costume consists of nothing but shorts, boots, and a red-and-white [[Santa hat]], even during Toronto's winters. He claims to perform this routine every day of the year except [[Christmas Day]], and estimates he does 2,000 to 3,000 pushups per day.<ref name=G&M/> In 2000, Zancai fell 25 feet onto a staircase while working as a painter. He entered treatment for [[schizophrenia]] at [[St. Joseph's Health Centre|St. Joseph's hospital]], having been diagnosed with schizophrenia and [[bipolar disorder]] earlier in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 12, 2012 |url=http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/401969/whatever-happened-to-torontos-zanta/ |title=What ever happened to Toronto's Santa-hat wearing shirtless Zanta? |publisher=The [[Toronto Star]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624043455/http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/401969/whatever-happened-to-torontos-zanta/ |archivedate=June 24, 2015}}</ref> Zancai has received mixed responses to his Zanta character, and has been banned from several public areas around Toronto, including the [[Toronto Transit Commission]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvo.org/article/wheres-the-line-between-mental-illness-and-sexual-harassment|title=Where’sWhere's the line between mental illness and sexual harassment?|website=TVO.org}}</ref>