Uh-oh, Santa was trading friendship bracelets at a Taylor Swift show in Toronto when he dropped the Christmas wish list he'd been working on for Ontario. We found it. Let's see what's on it . . . Yup, an early election next year, for a premier too shy to say he wants it  . . . An Ottawa deep freeze, so slush-free skating can return to the Rideau Canal . . . An end to the war on bike lanes in Toronto, for our two-wheeled friends . . . The rest of the list was so covered in glitter and lip balm, we couldn't make it out. That's where you come in. Put on your thinking cap, tell us what should be on an Ontario wish list to Santa and email us at postedontario@postmedia.com. We'll publish your best picks. I'm Greg Van Moorsel, your digest curator. 

His first love was music, but it was in medicine where Ronald Weiss made his mark -- helping the equivalent of a small city of men (nearly 60,000) get through the dreaded "snip." Pioneering a no-scalpel approach to that surgery in Canada, the late Ottawa doctor became known as "the Wayne Gretzky of vasectomies." 

Foreign travel. High-end hotel retreats, including where the Toronto Blue Jays play. A premier who's had enough. Ontario school boards have been read the riot act about pricey trips on the taxpayer's dime, a rash of which by school districts in the province's southwest has thrust the issue under a harsh public spotlight.

"We were not specialists in art security before, but we are now.”
-- Genevieve Dumas, general manager of the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa, where an iconic photograph of Winston Churchill has been returned after it was snatched off a wall and replaced with a fake in a brazen theft. 

 Side hustles. Bankruptcy. Renting forever. It's all there -- and more -- in the affordability crisis in Canada's largest city, home to $1-million average home-selling prices and sky-high rents. Rosemary Counter takes you into the mega-city's dream-drowning reality through the eyes of five struggling residents.

If you ride in a motorcycle gang called the Outlaws, you likely have an idea what kind of public reception to expect no matter where you go. Fair to say the club didn't expect things to turn out as they did at Sarnia's Remembrance Day ceremony.

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