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. According to a (relatively) recent National Post story, Hossain, a student at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, is currently under investigation by RCMP national security investigators. What could young Salman have done......

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. No federal politician this year was a bigger embarrassment to Canadians than Environment Minister John Baird, and in a......

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. Turkey explains how well its airstrikes in Kurdish Iraq have worked. Short answer: they worked really well, unless you count regional destabilization and the potential for all-out war in the Middle East as a minus,......

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! Electioneering party leaders promise to get tough on street racing. Most impressive: Howard Hampton's promise to bring back photo radar. Yes, Howard. That will get the NDP lots of votes. Peter Mackay calls Liberal MP's trip to Afghanistan a "stunt." However, when......

Dalton McGuinty will pledge to plant fifty million trees to help fight climate change. Now, some might say that this is a somewhat lackluster pledge, what with the small print of promising to print all the trees over thirteen years. But what they didn't 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......

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. A Missouri mother is desperately trying to keep her daughter from moving to Toronto to marry a serial bigamist. The real story here is that you should click on the link and look at this guy. He is 70......

Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death for war crimes, and may be hanged within the next few months. 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......

Toronto-St. Paul's Conservative candidate Peter Kent loves his press releases. He sends quite a lot of them out, and a lot of them seem to work. As reported in this week's eye, 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: Remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denying the......

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,......

Not only did Belinda Stronach leave the official opposition, but the millionaire politician also left her official main squeeze. After crossing over the party line earlier today, Stronach was asked by the press about her relationship with the once bitten, forever smitten Peter MacKay. The CBC story describes: Pressed on how her decision will affect her romantic relationship with Central Nova MP Peter MacKay, the deputy leader of the Conservatives, Stronach called that a "personal......

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......