Glad Hand is Torontoist’s political cartoon, created by Brett Lamb and appearing here every Friday.

Photo by Amanda Large from Torontoist’s Flickr Pool. WHERE: Part of the stretch of the 401 that was, in 2007, renamed the Highway of Heroes, viewed from Harwood Avenue in Ajax. WHEN: September 2 at 4:52 p.m. WHAT: The body of Brian Pinksen, the Newfoundland soldier killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, is [...]

Onlookers line Wellesley Street. As Torontonians hurried home after work on a grey and muggy Friday evening, those whose path took them along Wellesley Street found it closed to traffic. Unlike past weeks when streets were closed for the G20 and related protests, Toronto Police closed Wellesley in order to allow the unimpeded progress of [...]

Photo by Reza Vaziri. Think about what an average day for Stephen Harper must be like. You wake up, you pet your kitties, you pull on your sweater vest, then you jauntily leave 24 Sussex for another national dress-down—from Parliament, from the lib’rul media, from your own foreign service—and then it’s back home to cry [...]

“Stop the torture—end the war,” read one colourful placard at Queen’s Park. “End the siege of Gaza,” read another. Voicing solid opposition against the war in Afghanistan and the occupation of Iraq, immense columns of demonstrators took over Queen’s Park and Bloor Street on Saturday. “From Iraq to Palestine,” they shouted, “occupation is a crime!” [...]

NDP charges Liberals “deceptive” over nuclear energy plans. Apparently the nuclear energy commitments the provincial government has made require almost four times the nuclear energy generation capability that their promised plant could deliver, unless the plant itself was four times larger than the Darlington plant. This is all part of the current clever government plan [...]

Plagued by complaints, the City of Toronto has finally gotten around to ticketing some homeowners who don’t clear the snow in front of their property. A city spokesperson said they prefer not to send out inspectors in the winter because it’s so difficult to get around. Anxious to cement a reputation for self-serving indifference to [...]

Toronto Zoo to go green. The Zoo will now focus on biodiversity and sustainability while presenting animals from around the world in small, depressing, joke-like habitats that offer a crude mockery of how the animals would prefer to live, focusing on the fact that while their lives in the zoo might suck, at least nobody [...]

Provincial Conservative leader John Tory, battling to stay employed in the face of disaffected fellow partiers who want to hold a leadership review next month, says in a letter on his website that he has travelled the province listening to members and coming up with ideas to address their concerns. The Tories are lucky; a [...]

Canada wins the Spengler Cup. If you are like us, your first reaction to this news was, “What the hell is the Spengler Cup?” It very probably has nothing to do with famed Ghostbuster Egon Spengler (played by great expat Canadian Harold Ramis), so it can’t be that good. Give us a moment while we [...]