WSP Journalistsedition

All signals point to Bryan Colangelo staying with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment but in a role away from basketball.According to multiple sources, Colangelo will assume a senior management position within the conglomerate and the search for a new president... Read More

Mike Duffy is radioactive.The one-time Conservative cheerleader is now the poster boy for the filth which envelops the party brand.The man holed up on Friendly Lane in Cavendish, P.E.I., has brought down one of the most powerful men in Canada,... Read More

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper faces growing pressure to order an independent probe into the spending scandal that has cost him a high-profile senator and now his right-hand man.Nigel Wright, Harper’s chief of staff, quit his post early Sunday morning amid... Read More

In the midst of his recent testimony about the Ontario government’s gas-plant fiasco, Dalton McGuinty countered one opposition attack with the sort of axiom he favoured back when he was Premier Dad.“You shouldn’t try to outsmart the truth,” the former... Read More

OTTAWA—Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s right-hand man, has quit over his $90,000 payment to Sen. Mike Duffy.Harper made the announcement Sunday morning, saying he accepted Wright’s resignation with “great regret.“I accept that Nigel believed he was acting in the public interest,... Read More

Two questions were likely chewed over at a lot of cottage-openings, urban farmers’ markets and fun-runs or cycle-a-thons this Victoria Day weekend.How can Mayor Rob Ford’s base of supporters — despite mounting evidence of his personal troubles and spreading doubts... Read More

WINNIPEG—The Manitoba government says Elijah Harper’s body will lie in state in the province’s legislature.Harper, who as a member of the legislature blocked the Meech Lake constitutional accord in 1990, died Friday at age 64.The province says the public will... Read More

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA—Everyone in Mogadishu knew an attack was imminent. Double agents within Al Shabab had warned Somalia’s security services that something spectacular was coming. Shabab spies within Somalia’s security service were tracking the warnings. Spying and talking, talking and spying,... Read More

It was what Sherlock Holmes would have called a four-pipe problem. Whenever faced with a real puzzler, Sherlock would take the pipe from the mantelpiece, stuff it with shag tobacco, furrow that mighty brow, and smoke his way, all night... Read More

The British Columbia election on Tuesday had all the delightful ingredients of the upset that makes the solemnly self-important appear absurd and irrelevant. In the whole democratic process, few events are more agreeable than when the people surprise those who... Read More

The ex-boyfriend of a missing woman says the last call she made was to Dellen Millard, the man charged in the death of Tim Bosma. Toronto police are investigating the case of Laura Babcock, 23, in connection with Millard, CTV... Read More

Speak up Rob Ford.“Ridiculous” won’t cut it.Another sighing swipe at the Toronto Star won’t cut it.Lawyer, political allies, acolytes who usually have the mayor’s back in times of turbulence and scandal — Lord knows those have come fast and furious... Read More

The defenestration of Mike Duffy followed all of the rituals prescribed for such events. First, a party consigliere, in this case Tim Powers, is sent out in public to suggest the condemned man should do some “soul-searching,” and look at... Read More

OTTAWA—Stephen Harper’s Conservatives were hit with another political body blow Friday as Senator Pamela Wallin left caucus, the second high-profile senator in as many days to leave under a spending cloud.Wallin’s travel expenses have been under examination by outside auditors... Read More

Look – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is not venal, malevolent or a cheat. That said, just the sound of his name now makes me want to lie down with a cold cloth on my brow. It’s time for him to... Read More

The Senate is Canada’s dirty little secret. The institution is an anachronism imposed by Britain and perpetuated ever since without justification. The Senate remains in the DNA of Ottawa which is why, despite the current and previous scandals, absolutely nothing... Read More

It was unfolding perfectly for the visitors at Boston’s TD Garden on Monday. In the best-of-seven opening playoff round, the Leafs had won the previous two games; surviving late Boston flurries for consecutive 2-1 victories that forced a Game 7... Read More

Days before the body of Tim Bosma was discovered, Hamilton police speculated that he may have been murdered in a so-called thrill kill, a source has told the Star. The source, who is not involved in the investigation, said police... Read More

If you were of the opinion that politics is a filthy game played by dishonest people who spend their time conniving over ways to cheat the public, this would have been the week to confirm your suspicions. The biggest challenge... Read More

“Ridiculous” is how Mayor Rob Ford described allegations that he appears to smoke crack cocaine on a cellphone video.Ford emerged from his Etobicoke home at about 9:50 a.m. Friday and made his first public comments since two Toronto Star reporters... Read More