Michael Ignatieff has one, Olivia Chow has one—what if Stephen Harper had a Facebook account? Kagan McLeod and Steve Murray of the National Post created a photoshopped speculation of such an occurrence for Posted this morning. Stephen is "just an ordinary dude that loves leading you!" He's a fan of Battlestar Galactica, Choclair, and petting awesome kittens. Check out the full version here.......

The Tories are taking a chainsaw to Status of Women Canada, closing three-quarters of the organization's regional offices, including Toronto's. Heritage Minister Bev Oda insisted that the budget cuts and office closings will streamline the department and make it more efficient. Just like a business! Because government should be run like a business! In other comedy news, the Liberal leadership convention started yesterday. Given the choice between Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, Gerard Kennedy and......

Windy enough for ya? Those heavy gusts that left you scrambling for your scarves yesterday also knocked out power to some of Toronto's east end, and much of Atlantic Canada and Quebec. Michael Ignatieff isn't the only local politician using the internet to reach younger voters. Mayoral candidates David Miller, Jane Pitfield and Stephen LeDrew are hoping to YouTube themselves into City Hall by releasing campaign videos on the popular website. How are the candidates......

Michael Ignatieff is a popular guy. He has 171 friends in Toronto, 66 at Queen's and 60 at McGill. His favourite music is by Glenn Gould and his favourite movie is The Godfather Part I. He's married, interested in women, and looking for friendship. Online friendship - on Facebook, the ever-expanding online social network. In daily human contact, social networking has replaced awkward introductions the way that instant messaging replaced casual phonecalls, and obviously......

Claws were out at Sunday's Liberal leadership debate. Bob Rae accused Michael Ignatieff of waffling on foreign policy. Stephane Dion compared Rae, former NDP premier, to spendthrift icon Rich Uncle Pennybags ''giving monopoly money to the people''. Ken Dryden compared politics to his hockey career and drew applause. But all agreed one thing: "Liberals, we need to get back to power as soon as possible." Toronto's famous entertainment promoter, Gino Empry, died this weekend at......

In a bizarre and tragic scene yesterday, former Toronto Blue Jay (and current New York Yankee) pitcher Cory Lidle perished after flying his plane into an apartment building in New York. The United States heads to the United Nations hoping for a UN resolution that will impose sanctions on North Korea. And North Korea threatens retaliation if Japan goes ahead and imposes sanctions in response to last weekend’s nuclear test. And George W. Bush denies......

Yes we know it's awfully presumptous of us to assume that Ignatieff could not just win the Liberal leadership but lead the party back into 24 Sussex Drive. But if Tyler Clark Burke can sell off Peaches' thong to try to buy a house then it's ok for Ignatieff to clean out his closet of Liberal merch and put 'em up for auction. We agree with Optimus Crime and think these John Turner earrings are......

The province is giving the Toronto District School Board some more time to deliver a balanced budget. A team appointed by the ministry will work with school trustees and hopefully deliver a balanced budget. Is Queen's Park haunted? Staffers in the office of the Lt. Governor think so. The Star has a meeting with Michael Ignatieff and learns that Iggy might not run in the next election if he loses his bid for leadership of......

Last Friday, when excerpts from Michael Ignatieff's Blood & Belonging were posted, Torontoist thought it to be rather old news. Instead, it cause a minor comment fury from Liberal supporters, and included this harrassing email: Quoting Danielle : > What kind of an idiot are you? Did you not take the time to read the whole > chapter, much less the book. You should be embarrassed. In choosing this > completely out of context quote......

Following J Kelly's assertion that the now-infamous Michael Ignatieff book, Blood & Belonging, was a hard to find, Torontoist felt the urge to prove Mr. Nestruck wrong. So we walked into the first public library we came across, did a little dance with the Dewey Decimal system, and came out with the book. Hard to find? Hardly. In addition to our taking blog-general supreme J Kelly to task, we also took note of the sections......

Barring any last minute grovelling from Paul Martin we'll be waking up to an election campaign tommorow. Like last time the GTA is going to be a major battleground and the Liberals and the NDP are already bringing out their heavy hitters. Michael Ignatieff will be running in Etobicoke-Lakeshore despite some complaints amongst the riding association about his acclaimation. Will the third time be the charm for Olivia Chow? She lost a little over a......