The new Ontario government has nailed its populist laundry list to the wall of the Legislature with Thursday’s Speech from the Throne. City News chronicles the Ford Nation promises. In the US, a promotion by the Build-A-Bear toy chain has caused bedlam as supplies ran out in a promotion where the goods could be purchased in dollars for the age of your child in years. Below that, a frightening accident in which an 800-pound boulder rolled off the back of a truck killing a mother and daughter. Finally, the CBC tries to capture the mystique of Toronto native Drake, concluding by some calculations that he is more popular than the Beatles. How do you measure that?
