Ottawa police continue to investigate today after two packages containing severed body parts made their way through the city's mail system — one going all the way to the Conservative party's headquarters. BLOG POSTS | Joshua Ostroff: How do You Like it Now, Boomers? You're to Blame for the Quebec Protests Canada's baby boomer-run media has been pretending that Quebec's student protests are only about tuition, when that's merely symbolic of the boot the older generation is placing upon the necks of their kids. Democracy has broken down because the unsympathetic and unprecedented Boomer voting block has made the young feel disenfranchised, driving them to demonstrate in numbers not seen since, well, the 60s. | | Andrew Weaver: Tories War on Science Hurts Us All I was shocked by this week's news that the Harper Tories were closing Environment Canada's Experimental Lakes Area, cutting a smokestack emissions research group and a Department of Fisheries and Oceans contaminants program. Where are the real Tories willing to put the word "conserve" back into the Conservative Party of Canada? | | Tim Knight: Part 2: Queen Elizabeth, Out of Touch Queen Elizabeth grew up pampered, coddled, confident, regal and very aware of her royal blood. When she enters the room everyone stands. Men bow, women curtsey and the band plays her very own song, "God Save The Queen." All her life she's lived in a fantasyland -- a prisoner of her wealth. | | Diane Francis: Why Facebook Never Got Into My Wallet I bought Google in its early days because I figured out the business model, and that it was simply a ubiquitous newspaper with a gargantuan circulation that would make billions by selling ads around its content. But I didn't buy Facebook because I have never understood it. But here's another angle that bothered me. | | Michael Raine: Tim Thomas Makes the Puck Political Less than a year ago the thought of Tim Thomas donning a Leafs jersey would have implanted a CN Tower-sized grin across my face. But then he went from Tim Thomas, hockey god, to Tim Thomas, Tea Partier. This kicks down the mental door that separates two of my unwavering, and usually frustrating, passions; hockey and politics. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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