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When your own mother calls you "foolish" and "an idiot," you know you're in serious trouble. However, if your name is Salman Hossain, it's likely that your mom's assessment of your intellectual abilities is the least of your concerns right now.

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.

It's Boxing Day! Go spend money! If you don't, Canada's economy will suffer and it will all be your fault! You probably don't even own all the seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD yet, do you? You slacker.

Stephen Harper pledges $40 million to polar research. Forty million dollars? That will buy an entire research station! By 2015, we will have turned drowned polar bears into a renewable energy source!

mention is that the trees are actually sentient and will come to your home to politely discuss with you the merits of public transit, and help you compost and reduce your energy use! And people say government can't do anything.

New allegations of insider trading involving a Toronto asset management firm leveled against Conrad Black. At this rate, in about two years it will turn out that Conrad Black's entire financial career was actually illegal.

What does the international community say? U.S. President George W. Bush calls the verdict "a milestone in the Iraqi people's effort to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law". The UN and European Union criticize the former Iraqi leader's death sentence. Vatican representative, Cardinal Renato Martino, calls the sentence "eye for an eye vengeance". Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay refused to comment.

, Mr Kent, if nothing else, is getting the conservative adgenda out there. By that, he must mean this, his latest press release. Here's the gist, in case you don't want to read his opening sentence:

Onward with the hottest public officials of the summer, it's...

But word from various Conservative insiders is that Stronach's tiger-like ruthlessness got the better of Mr Mackay, who is now nursing a fractured party and broken heart. So the Stronach-MacKay coalition is over - expect other Conservative MP's to take sides.

Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you, from doing all the things in life you'd like to. Just ask Peter Mackay. After he was named Sexiest Male MP for the last six years straight by political pundits at the Hill Times, his professional career took off and his love life has never been better. He's now dating power-suit pussycat Belinda Stronach, and most recently played a key role in covering up Conservative discontent at the last convention in Montreal. Now, in his unprecedented seventh straight year, the Hill Times has named Mackay the Sexiest Male Member of Parliament.