Will Toronto Trade In a Ford for a Benz?

A Nikki Benz, to be precise. She's the porn "star" who has thrown her, um, push-up bra and crotchless panties into the ring. (OT: why is everyone in porn a "star"? Why is no one ever a character actor or a bit--or bits--player?)

The Toronto Sun's Mike Strobel writes that Nikki's porn career has equipped her with sterling credentials to be mayor because it too "involves screwing people while huffing and puffing and pretending to smile."

As for her platform--it's a bona fide crowd pleaser:

Ms Benz proposes making National Masturbation Day a civic holiday. I know, I know, I hear you, every day should be National Masturbation Day, but Benz sees it as a way to soothe Toronto’s chronic angst. 

Also, since we’re already Hollywood North, Nikki would make us Debbie Does Dallas North. 

“My industry is one of the biggest in the world,” she says. “It could do for Toronto what it’s done for L.A. in jobs, business and taxes.”

No doubt Nikki would consider that "a happy ending" (something the late Jack Layton's missus, who's also in the running, knows all about).