Tony Clement is our favourite Cabinet Minister. He’s unashamedly geek-chic like a Judd Apatow character, he’s thoroughly unwilling to take any of your shit, he’s not a loony-bin Reform righty, he shows up on radio talk shows to make poop and weiner jokes, and he rocks Twitter so hard it made Ashton Kutcher jealous. But [...]

Regular readers (HI MOM) will notice we haven’t posted in about seventeen years (all figures approx.) There’s a good reason for this, Your Editor has been busy like a beaver moving into a new place, a fleabag Toronto bachelor apartment that hadn’t gotten an internet connection. I suppose that’s not really busy like a beaver, [...]

It’s been a couple weeks of protests, earthquakes, tornadoes, royalty and a dead hockey goon. Here’s some brewing news stories that might’ve slipped through the cracks!

> Oh wow, hey, there’s a new Governor General? I’d just planned on mailing in a News In Briefs today, but the changing of our head of state’s official representative [...]

Here’s me with a handsome, barrel-chested moustachioed man I met at the Pride Parade.
Also of political note: George Smitherman’s campaign booth was surrounded by dancing drag queens, and Rocco Rossi’s booth was flanked by booths who hate Rocco Rossi (the Toronto Gay Hockey League, I believe), and who put up their own George Smitherman signs [...]

It’s Canada Day! On Canada day, people generally drink beer and then blow their fingers off with fireworks, preferably off of a dock, with the Tragically Hip playing. It’s how we celebrate our freedom!
To the south, Americans have their Independence Day this weekend, which celebrates the time aliens blew up the White House and Will [...]