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Who doesn’t love a top j-books list? For journalists, it’s endless fun debating what books should have made it but didn’t, and what books did but shouldn’t have.

For its second annual Rethink issue, Maclean’s is all about innovation – even when it comes to the magazine itself.

Did you know the wily (seriously, try drawing it) ampersand is really the result of B.C.-era scribes working too fast while writing “e” and “t”?

When it comes to the Rob Ford/22 Minutes sideshow the CBC failed big time, writes Mark Bourrie in the Torontoist.  

Toronto mayor Rob Ford may pride himself of being accessible to every regular Joe who phones him, but he's spent his first year in office freezing out selected media. Now, the motion to address the slights in the public arena, and get the mayor talking, has flopped. Rhiannon Russell has more.

In the growing list of funny things Americans do during the race for their party's presidential nomination, you can add Herman Cain singing out his news conference.

Texas governor, and Republican presidential hopeful, doesn’t get The Globe and Mail’s satire. Or, at least, it would seem that way after he recently took a jab at the Occupy movement by referencing a quote from a satirical Globe piece about Occupy Toronto.

Huffington Post Canada has been taken over by zombies.

Increasingly, print doesn’t matter anymore, writes Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno – and that’s a bad thing.

Mike Holme’s magazine, the appropriately-named Holmes, will cease publication after its December issue.