1:55 p.m. College St. and University Ave. Waiting for a west-bound streetcar to take me home after a fine Indian buffet lunch at Kama (Simcoe and King) with a buddy after an earlier chance encounter with two former co-workers.

And then there she was, in all her vice-regal splendor: Gov-Gen. Adrienne Clarkson!

Yo, anonymous, obnoxious, defamatory online trolls: Screw with someone bad enough and they will find you out.

James Ridgeway of the Village Voice muses about what tightening global oil supplies might eventually mean when you have two heavyweights, China and the U.S., after the same carbon-based economic elixir.

The passionate, road rage-prone French are being told to take a lesson in driving civility from their more self-disciplined and courteous Brit counterparts.

The NYT on why CNN president Jonathan Klein would like to see each viewer watch 30 seconds more of his station each month over the next 12 months.

Democracy Now! talks with a Spanish journalist and the brother of a Spanish TV cameraman who was killed in the April 8, 2003 attack on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by U.S. forces. They are in the U.S. to lobby for an independent investigation into the incident.