Black Book

Toronto is the biggest Face­booking city in North America—bigger than New York and Los Angeles combined—which could indicate a slack work ethic (city employees have been banned from logging on during office hours) or might just mean we’re more interested in snooping on old high school crushes.

Whatever the case, Facebook is a good tool for taking the city’s pulse: 1,626 of us think George Stroumboulopoulos would make a great prime minister; 25 have joined a group devoted to hating Dalton McGuinty’s signature red tie; and there are 28 groups dedicated to Tie Domi (“I also had an affair with Tie Domi” has 70 members and counting).

Even Conrad Moffat Black, or likely someone posing as CMB, has a page. (Status: in a relationship. Political views: very conservative.) The exiled media baron has managed to amass some 104 “friends,” his son Jonathan among them. That’s not many compared to belle-of-the-ball Belinda Stronach’s 2,426 “supporters,” but probably more than Black actually has on either side of the Atlantic. Looming incarceration seems to have brought out the social butterfly in Black (or at least his imposter). But he may want to be careful whom he pokes—wouldn’t want any possible future cellmates to get the wrong idea.—Serena Trevis