Things were shoulder to shoulder and cell phone to cell phone at the launch for The Rick Mercer Report: The Book (Doubleday Canada) at Crush wine bar in downtown Toronto on Sept. 25.

The crush at Crush.

Random House of Canada’s director of online sales and marketing chats with the Dominion Institute’s Rudyard Griffiths.

A bookseller from Book City checks to see what all the fuss is about.

CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi (left) and CTV’s Seamus O’Reagan (right), along with club-owner Michael King (centre), perform a short vignette on the state of communication in the 21st century.

Soon-to-be ex-MP Belinda Stronach. (It’s called poise, people.)

Lisa Tousignant and Linden MacIntyre.

Comedy writer Luciano Casimiri and actor Dan Lett.

A smiling Mercer with a smiling Bryn Gray, lawyer and political advisor.