For those of you not yet in the know, this blog “Preville on Politics” goes dormant as of this post. From this point forward, you can find my scribblings at “City State,” an expanded Toronto Life blog that, I am glad to announce, features some beautiful graphic banner by Evan Munday in lieu of a smirking me in the right-hand column. (Never liked that photo.) Henceforth, all smirking will be done exclusively through prose. Come join the newly-rebranded hijinx over here.”

This blog doesn’t cover national politics. For that there is Paul Wells’ generally excellent and witty blog at Macleans.ca. Yesterday he wrote a killer post about two completely unrelated but very intriguing issues: why U.S.-based weeklies are already outdated by the time they hit Canadian shelves, and what Stephen Harper is really up to.

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… but it’s not really a prize at all. Sunday’s Bells on Bloor parade will likely take on the feel of a wake as a result, but that’s just an even bigger reason to attend. What a way to kick off Bike Week. “

Let’s play a game of You Be the Editor. Here’s the deal: the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration forces a local airline to shut down one of its seven return flights each weekday between Toronto and Newark, N.J. News? Yes. Front-page news? Of course not—unless you’re the Globe and Mail. No one has it in for Porter Airlines like the Globe. Ditto for Porter’s landlord, the Toronto Port Authority, a piddling public sector organization that, like the Freemasons, is assumed to nefariously wield much more power and influence than it does and, all told, takes up far more space and time in the city’s public imagination than it deserves.

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This will never happen to you. “