What would Canadian Idol be without the genial, excitable, preternaturally tanned Ben Mulroney as host? Would the CTV karaoke juggernaut be any different with another host, perhaps one wearing a black tee, a nose ring and an equally expensive, but far more tousled, haircut? What if George Stroumboulopoulos was running the show? In an interview with fan site The Stroumboulopouli, the host of The Hour and CBC poster boy Stroumboulopoulos reflected on his career......

Lush" src="http://www.torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_marcl/taraspencernairn.jpg" width="640" height="340"> Corner Gas may not be everybody's cup of Ruby coffee, but we've always been big fans of Tara Spencer-Nairn, better known to Canadians these days as Officer Karen Pelly. Though "Karen" has a large stable of drooling fans with cop kinks, the spring issue of Lush brings us Spencer-Nairn out of uniform and as fashion-hot as a smoking Glock 22. The shoot was photographed by Paul Wright, who also captured Hilary......

Nixon had Checkers, Clinton had Socks, and now Stephen Harper has Cheddar. Kind of strange to see the man with the cold dead stare snuggled up with a fuzzy friend, no? According to the official Prime Minister of Canada website, Harper has been fostering cats for years through the Ottawa Humane Society and recently adopted Cheddar the Cat into the family. Not a bad charity to be associated with for a politician frequently accused of......

It was some kind of shadenfreude when Torontoist came upon the Globe's piece on decreasing ratings for CBC's ill-intentioned Greatest Canadians series. We hated the idea from the minute the corpse started soliciting submissions. Don't we have enough hierarchies in the world without a state-sponsored grudge match between Trudeau and whomever would come close enough to conquer? Things only got worse for our opinions of this ratings-grab of a show when there was nary a......