Warmia's is no more. Some upscale-sounding outfit named Mabel's is moving into the space.

It's to be expected. It isn't Polish people moving into the Roncesvalles area these days, it's affluent yuppies. Kubasa and perogies are hardly diet staples for those people. :)

And Karl's deli space still sits unleased after being forced out of business last year.

Czehoski's, while not on Roncesvalles, is another dead-and-gone East European deli whose passing is still greatly lamented.

Jonathan Dube is now the soon-to-be-ex-director of digital media for CBC.ca and the new vice-president of ABCNews.com. He's leaving after three years on the job.

This caught my eye today (from CP via CTV.ca):

Information about a mutated fish caught downstream from Alberta's oilsands region will be sent to a joint government-industry group that monitors the health of rivers and lakes.

The 2.5-kilogram goldeye caught last week in Lake Athabasca has two mouths, one beneath the other.

Two boys pointed the deformed fish out to Stuart Macmillan, Parks Canada's manager of resource conservation at Wood Buffalo National Park, who studied it before handing it over to the Mikesew First Nation.

"We had just pulled up to the dock and some kids came over and said, 'Hey, we've got a fish over here with two mouths," Macmillan said Tuesday.

"It was really unusual. The fish has an obvious abnormality. I had never seen anything like that myself before. I can't speculate on what might have caused it." 

The headline is a nod to the classic Simpsons episode Two Cars In Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish.

Watch it here.

From CP via CTV.ca:

The Thetford Chicken Massacre, with its hatchets, booze and bloody headless fowl, has ruffled the feathers of animal welfare activists.

Animal rights groups are condemning the summer ritual, where partygoers lop the heads off chickens and turkeys, toss the birds in the air and wager on where their convulsing bodies will come to a dead stop (pun intended? - BD).

Participants close out the annual rural Quebec celebration with fireworks and a poultry feast on the grill.

Here ya go: Many ways to cook up a federal vote: experts

These archival stories may also be of interest:

March 30, 2008 - Parliament to resume with more Liberal threats

Oct. 5, 2007 - Tories get war room ready for possible election

March 16, 2007 - Tory memo says election could start 'within a week'

Feb. 15, 2007 - Tories set campaign wheels in motion: report

And who can forget these stirring words, uttered by one S. Dion on the evening of Dec. 2, 2006?

"The most exciting race in the history of our party is over. Let's get ready for the election!''

We've been to the precipice before but didn't tip over, is all I'm saying. While news organizations would be well-advised to do some election coverage planning, personally, I'll get excited when I see Mr. Harper moseying over to the GG's place for a little chat.

Addendum

Canada's political conundrum in a nutshell: I overheard two guys in the Roncesvalles area discussing politics. Their consensus: Dion looks weak but Harper's a knob. :)