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I’m off on vacation, so this blog will go dormant until after Labour Day, at which time I’ll be sinking my teeth into the...

It’s one of those numbers buried in a spreadsheet that, read the right way, opens a rich vein of permutation and implication. A...

Last evening I received a note from Andrew Clark, the New York correspondent for The Guardian . Headed simply “The Final...

… a premier from a have-not province . Acts like one too. Maybe he is.

Updated: Old news : Mayor Miller asked Brian Ashton for his resignation and got it. Not so old news: even though Councillor Gord...

The press’s late summer hibernation from Conrad Black—following what could be his last real effort to return home before...

I wonder if Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty is spending his summer wishing he hadn’t implemented fixed election...

What with Amy St. Eve having, for the moment, put paid to Lord Black’s shortterm travel plans while she contemplates his longer...

Lots of developments in the WQW Triangle file the last two weeks. The most recent development is that the city is being given a...

It’s been a slow week, but this is news to shake up the Toronto sports-media scene: AM640 is going to turn their Leafs Lunch...

My conversation with Alan Gold is now on. Please read it here . UPDATE: Our conversation has now concluded. The transcript...

Apologies—my conversation with Alan Gold has been delayed until 3:30 p.m. today. Thanks for your patience.

Today in Room 1241, things were more or less as we left them last time we met. In the morning, there was a guy in shackles and an...

Please join me live tomorrow, August 2, at 2 p.m. ET as Alan Gold and I discuss the current legal fallout.

Well, the plot thickens. After yesterday’s steamy love letter from Greenspan to Mark Steyn, this morning finds Andrew Harris of...

John Tory has cashed in years of political capital in his bid to become premier. But there’s more at stake than his personal ambition. He may be Progressive Conservatism’s last hope

Ever since he lost that vote on the vehicle-registration and land-transfer taxes, mayor David Miller has been saying all the right...

Last Friday, we reported on Mark Steyn’s assertion, published in Maclean’s , that the Eddies had asked Lord Black for an...

While we await what will surely be the last public act of the post-trial period (before sentencing, that is), I offer the...

However optimistic Lord Black may feel now that he’s settled on A-list appellate lawyer Andrew Frey to carry on his fight at the...

As the long days in Room 1241 stretch out behind him, and the immediacy of the trial gives way to the ambiguities of appeal and...

Funny thing happened back when the city was still mulling over its many new revenue-taxing power-tools. One of the powers under...

… can be found here . To sum up the week’s events in provincial politics, then: McGuinty apologizes after a member of cabinet...

In reading Black’s staunchest media allies you get the feeling they’re still fighting the last battle, while the war has moved...