J. K. Rowling to come to Toronto on her reading tour. It's her only Canadian stop, so expect an audience that is 30 percent younger readers and 70 percent aging, obsessive fanboys and fangirls, most desperately wanting an explanation as to why Sirius Black and Remus Lupin were not revealed to be secret gay lovers. By-elections happen, Liberals get trounced big-time. The NDP won Outremont—their second seat ever in Quebec, and the first time the......

United Church Minister Cheri DiNovo and the NDP have taken Parkdale-High Park away from Sylvia Watson and the Liberals. The NDP won the riding with 41% of the vote, despite the Liberals summoning 11 cabinet ministers and high profile members like Bob Rae and Gerard Kennedy to campaign with former city councillor Sylvia Watson. 20,000 or so names are going to be taken off the city's voting list because the city has been unable to......

Paramedics dispatched to a house fire in west Toronto ended up on the Danforth because of a duplicate street name. Even worse, the fire may have resulted in the death of a 65-year old woman. This begs raises the question: why hasn't the city fixed the problem? The Star reminds us that the city has actually done a study about this problem (there are about 100 or so duplications around the megacity) and done nothing.......

No big surprise here but former Councillor and executive director of Greenpeace Peter Tabuns hangs on to the provincial riding of Toronto-Danforth. The NDP has held the riding since the 1960s. Torontoist is watching Jack read out more thankyous than an Oscar acceptance speech. Fortunately there's no orchestra playing telling him to get off the stage. Despite some talk of former broadcaster Ben Chin giving Tabuns a run for his money it's pretty clear to......

When PM Paul Martin pondered joining the Americans in their flailing ballistic missile defense plan last summer, he faced a chorus of concerned Canadians opposing such a decision. The NDP launched a fierce campaign; with Rabble.ca none too impressed either. But now that PM PM has completely sassed the Americans, where did all those concerned voices go? At least some are coming to the defense of our overly likeable PM - albeit not with the......