Upwards of 1,500 protesters from Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, and Hamilton marched on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday to protest the arrival of U.S. President George W. Bush. Bush will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Montebello, Quebec on the two-year-old Security and Prosperity Partnership. The agenda is to include emergency planning for an avian-flu pandemic, the recall of Chinese-made toys, and border security. Demonstrators......

Dollar rises to 29-year high. At 91.58 cents U.S., it hasn't been this high since 1978. Also hasn't been this high since 1978: Gene Simmons, who totally found himself some amazingly killer bud last week. The CRTC permits television networks to air more commercials per hour. Because you know who's totally victimized in this country? Television networks—the guys who make a fortune airing TV shows the Americans make and slapping their own commercials on 'em.......

Damn it, Arcade Fire, why do you keep teasing us? Beginning at the end of this month (in support of their soon-to-be-released new album, Neon Bible) the band is playing five consecutive nights in three big cities -- and not one of them comes from the Iroquois word for "place where trees stand in the water" (that is, they're starting in London, then in Montreal, and ending in New York). Tickets for all fifteen shows......

Nadine Giguere's bad luck with Tim Horton's devilishly addictive contest, which she commented on a couple of days ago, is enough to make front page news in today's Ottawa Citizen! Former TOist editor Joshua Errett, who's never far from our hearts, wrote the piece that's teased on the top right hand corner. The headline reads "2 Years of Rolling Up the Rim - And Nothing." Sadly it's not online.......

Le TOist vous offre un petit update sur les relations entre les provinces canadiennes. John Manley veut un leader libéral qui n'est pas de provenance du Québec. « Je crois qu'il est important de constater que nous avons eu des dirigeants en provenance du Québec pendant pas mal de temps, et vous savez, cela fait peut-être partie du jeu d'alternance », déclare-t-il lors d'une entrevue faite avec le Ottawa Citizen la semaine dernière. Comme l'affirme......