The highly-respected British science journal Nature has called the Harper government's record on science and the environment "dismal." The PM was unavailable for comment yesterday, as he was in an emergency cabinet meeting called after Wednesday night's lunar eclipse to determine why the moon had disappeared. An independent panel of experts has come up with a number of recommendations to put Toronto on firmer fiscal ground, including tolls on highways, higher residential property taxes,......

Really not much on in terms of Christmas films this week. The Bloor is showing National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (which is about as far away from a Christmas classic as we can imagine without being a film about aliens from another galaxy that have never heard of Christmas) and White Christmas. We’re still happy to recommend Enchanted (we just saw it, and it was absolutely lovely), but for those of you who want to......

Onward with the hottest public officials of the summer, it's... 4. Peter Mackay, Conservative, Central Nova Mackay's fall from grace is well documented: First he was all "smitten," then he was crying at some farm with some dog that wasn't even his. Regardless of whether he was taking orders from Steven Harper ("hey Pete, pretend you're sad to win support!") or was actually heartbroken, Peter Mackay is still a giant-sized cheeseball. What Mackay doesn't realize,......