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Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee win the Iowa Democratic and Republican caucuses. The caucuses, which are the first real test for any American presidential candidate, delivered powerful margins of victory for both candidates. However, Iowa alone does not guarantee you the nomination—just ask 1992 Iowa caucus winner Tom Harkin.

Peter Gatien was, at one time, the undisputed king of nightlife in New York City. After being driven out of the United States by a government crackdown on nightclubs led by former New York mayor and current American presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani, Gatien made Toronto his home, and is now opening CiRCA in the former Playdium/Lucid location on John Street.

A whirlwind tour of 50 cities in 50 nights makes its Toronto stop Saturday night. The good folks over at Wave Books have put together the self-proclaimed “biggest literary event of 2006”, The Poetry Bus. The bus is a 40ft. bio-diesel MCI touring coach that sleeps 38 poets (that’s a lot of angst) and probably doesn’t look a whole lot like the bus pictured. Over 200 poets will be participating; getting off and on the bus at various stops across the continent. There will be one past presidential candidate participating along with one Pulitzer Prize winner.

Toronto Raptor forward and Green Mountain state native Matt Bonner wasn't the only Vermonter in Toronto over the weekend. Newly acclaimed chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean was in the city to promote his party to members of the Democrats Abroad on Saturday. Besides calling Republicans "brain dead" (what anti-conservative rhetoric!), the former Democratic presidential candidate supposedly made an appearance the Duke of York pub, meeting and greeting Democratic faithful. The rumour, according to somewhat reliable sources, is that Dean attended the Democrats Abroad party after his speech at the InterContinental Toronto Hotel, putting back a few darker-hued beer (possibly Kilkenny?).

Is it possible that John Kerry's election could actually have a negative impact for Torontonians?