| Another 3,800 civil servants were told Monday that their jobs are on the line. Parks Canada took the biggest hit in the government's third wave of notifications, with over 1,000 people told their jobs are at risk. BLOG POSTS  | Elizabeth Kantor: HBO's "Girls" -- Is it Really Less Humiliating Now Than it Was in the '50s?
The publicity material for Girls, the HBO series that claims to be "a pop culture mirror" reflecting the real lives of 20-somethings in New York. It shows how we've banished submission, obedience, and rules from our relationships. Nobody promises to obey their husbands any more. But now girls explain online how it turns them on when their boyfriends hit them in the face. Surely the most benighted pre-liberation '50-style womanhood couldn't be any more humiliating than the conditions that liberated modern women routinely tolerate today. |  | Chris Weigant: The Marijuana Vote
Kimmel is right about one thing. Pot smokers vote. He's also right that, sometimes, they just stay home and don't bother... but it's not because they're too stoned to remember what day it is. President Obama needs to realize this. |  | Douglas Anthony Cooper: Sneak Peak at "The Avengers": Nerds of the World Unite!
Because I live in Mexico, I get to see The Avengers before you do. The jingoism is pitch-perfect. The nerd-bonding between Tony Stark and Bruce Banner will, I suspect, give rise to a tsunami of nerd-bonding around the world. |  | Dr. Marty Klein: Want to Undermine Science in Public Policy? Start With Sex
The facts about sexuality should not be trivialized into a matter of opinion. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but everyone is NOT entitled to their own facts. |  | Peter Worthington: Canada Should Make an Example out of Jeffrey Delisle
Accused of spying for Russia, Canadian RCN Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle's next court appearance is May 8. The charges against Delisle are the first since the Information Security Act came into effect after 9/11. If guilty, Delisle is treasonous and deserves whatever sentence he may get. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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